Cutline · Grade 8–9 · one of sixteen

P·A·I·R

The Shock Therapist

private · centralized · internationalist · rupture

Authoritarian fascism

Use the crisis. A market system can be imposed much faster than it can be argued for, and the moment when everyone is too disorganised to push back is exactly the moment to move.

What the four letters mean

P Ownershipprivatenot collective (C)
A Controlcentralizednot decentralized (L)
I Horizoninternationalistnot national (N)
R Methodrupturenot gradual (G)

Where this has shown up

HistoricallyChile under Pinochet, where economists rebuilt the economy under a dictatorship; Russia in 1992.

All sixteen

Columns: collective → private. Within each half, internationalist then national.

CAIRThe Permanent Revolutionary CANRThe Vanguard PAIRThe Shock Therapist PANRThe Strongman CAIGThe World Planner CANGThe Planner PAIGThe Technocrat PANGThe National Conservative CLIRThe Anarchist CLNRThe Syndicalist PLIRThe Exit Capitalist PLNRThe Secessionist CLIGThe Commoner CLNGThe Municipalist PLIGThe Free Trader PLNGThe Classical Liberal

Rows: centralized → decentralized. Within each half, rupture then gradual.

This page is not a diagnosis

The Shock Therapist is a box, and a box throws almost everything away. It keeps which side of each line you landed on and forgets how far. Two people in this box can be at opposite ends of it, and somebody two points the other side of a line has more in common with this type than with their own. The four axes are real. Where the lines were drawn across them is a decision a person made.

The point

Cutline tells you the margin it used to hand you each of your four letters — including when one of them was a coin toss. That is the part every other quiz leaves out. And you are fourteen. You are supposed to change.

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