UTOP!!A:

Presuppositions:

1.         Human Nature is inherently Good.

a.  Human beings are largely concerned with the well-being of Others.

b. Out of this primordial concern emerges the capacity for Moral Universals.

c. Moral Development is an Individual Quest to reach Universalism.

d. Moral Development may occur independently of economic and social development.

e. Empathy evidences that compassion is a prevalent human tendency, even transcending social and economic boundaries. It is also the primary motivator for relationship.

2.         However, Human Beings can become Morally Corrupted by Impersonal Forces imposed from outside themselves.

a.  Moral Development tends to plateau at a conventional level in most people because of the felt pressure to conform.

b. Groups develop by which the Individual might hope to preserve individual interests by making concessions to partisan interests and opinions.

c. Injury by narcissistic deviants, whose evil tendencies prevail under group thought, can produce cynicism in their altruistic victims.

d. Dominance hierarchies develop by which more narcissistic individuals exploit altruistic people by manipulating thought and action within a group.

e. Philosophers reject Universalism in favour of various forms of Pragmatism with the hopes of living a life which is less miserable, even if it is unhappy. The popularity of their ideas accord them a status, within their respective social hierarchy, which they grudgingly enjoy.

f.   In the process, Philosophers become narcissistic. Because they are clever, they project that same narcissism upon altruists, claiming Moral Development to be nothing more than another hierarchy of dominance, except one governed by unfounded claims instead of scientific facts.

g. Philosophy atrophies and becomes socially irrelevant under this regime, though a niche develops for consumers of these new “philosophies”.

h.The niche is marginalized by the General Populace as merely another preferential interest group.

i.   Idealism becomes a social order which is external instead of a psychological value.

j.   Psychological values are no longer considered sacred, by idealists and “realists” (unimaginative idealists) alike.

k. Psychological Moral Development is further morally impacted. Those few who are capable of genuine Universalism are marginalized as imitators of old heroes, and their economic and social mobility is compromised.

l.   Nihilism and absurd conflict prevail, especially in the forms of warfare, rape, and competition. Some of these evils are exalted as though they were virtues, while others are condemned as Universal Evils, based entirely upon the status and function of the evildoer in his or her respective interest group.

m.              Evil is presumed to be Universal to Human Beings, since there are so many Evils judged to be Universal based upon contempt for social deviance in a conformist society. With the suppression of all moral authority, this Universal Evil comes to overshadow Intrinsic Goodness.

n.As people begin to regard one another cynically, by default, as a prejudice, even towards those individuals who had done them no injury, Evil begins to transform from Potentiality to Actuality.

                                       i.    Good people are punished for having good intentions and for pursuing the common interest by traditionally Noble Means.

                                    ii.    The nostalgia Good People feel for solidarity is equated with mere self-entitlement, whereas all genuine entitlement is ascribed to those who accrue status.

                                  iii.    Good People turn Evil.

o.Humanity creates a cataclysmic catastrophe, but there is insufficient motivation, even among human beings, to prevent Human extinction, since the life of each Individual has been reduced to absurd struggle against Human Nature Itself.

3.         The Solution must appear Utopian by the Modern Standard.

a.  The motivation to prevent catastrophe must originate with the Hope of Living Better Today. It must thereby transcend Pragmatism.

b. Moral Development must be prioritized in Individuals.

                                       i.    Hierarchies must be rendered ineffective so that the Individual’s capacity for external action, reflecting his or her internal stage of development, might be put into practice.

                                    ii.    In order for mistakes made by underdeveloped individuals to be corrected, developed individuals must be ready to accept more responsibility for outcomes produced within a team. In turn, they might find an incentive in a new kind of superiority: Objectivity.

                                  iii.    Morality will cease to be regarded as a Dominance Hierarchy, since the principal evil has been eliminated: that of “superiors” bypassing the autonomy of their “subordinates”.

                                  iv.    As Moral Objectivity accrues rewards for those who attain it, the incentive to progress towards Universalism strengthens, so that eventually people meet as Equals at the Top, instead of Equals at the Bottom who must be shepherded by equally evil specialists.

c. In order to facilitate this change, philosophers must act again as moral role models.

                                       i.    Philosophers who are already popular must forego bourgeois cynicism.

                                    ii.    Idealists must refine their ideas of Goodness to include a disparate array of individual case histories.

                                  iii.    Nihilism must become unfashionable, as well as all human tendencies which reinforce the absurdities of competition.

                                  iv.    More and more so, intellectuals must influence the populace to elect intellectual leaders.

d. All forms of economy and government which were considered necessary evils, based upon a cynical outlook, must be abolished.

                                       i.    Some of these, like democracy, were arguably founded upon a healthy understanding of Human Nature, though their nature as an experiment created the same mob rule that reduced Equality to cynicism.

                                    ii.    Democracy must be abolished because it systematically marginalizes minorities by its very design.

1. Majority rule reinforces the conformist notion that that which is popular is right, hence people become evil in groups.

2. Minorities form groups as well, wherein even more oppressive majoritarianism emerges out of a felt necessity to preserve minority identity.

3. Minorities of minorities lose their autonomy under majoritarian rule.

4. Liberal regimes try to preserve minorities in bulk, AS groups, so they empower the leaders of these oppressive cults.

5. Minorities of minorities lose access to the General Populace owing to interference from both their representatives and the Government.

6. Conservative reactionaries try to seize power via democracy.

7. Met with the argument that democracy itself is evil, owing to its majoritarian nature, conservatives claim that democracy alone effectively protects the rights of minorities.

8. Liberals and conservatives share power based upon the manipulation of minority groups and the marginalization of unaffiliated, minoritarian Individuals.

                                  iii.    Capitalism must be abolished because it reinforces Dominance Hierarchies and Absurd Competition.

1. Capitalism incentivizes people towards “upward mobility”.

2. People sacrifice their allegiance to the interests of any position by seeking higher positions. They end up using their fellows as means towards ends, perpetuating cycles of abuse and bypassing autonomy with mere rank. Only those who are ruthless enough to perpetuate such a condition are capable of tolerating subservience without moral scruple. Their superiors promote only them.

3. The most important work is done only by those who are treated as though they were expendable, forced to answer to every colleague as though he or she were a superior, even though that colleague has no interest in the Reality of Their Condition.

4. While capitalism claims to produce wealth and thereby to mitigate misery, happiness can only be arrived at as the result of living altruistically and meaningfully, for that is most in accordance with Natural Human Nature.

5. Mitigating misery without offering genuine happiness leads to nihilism. Social deviance is incentivized by the felt need for Justice, experienced (and marginalized) as envy, in the absence of respected Moral Authorities and in defiance of corrupt social and economic leaders.

                                  iv.    Individuals ought to be encouraged to be Utopians.

1. Up until this point, the task of conquering Institutional Evil and liberating Human Goodness has been left to specialists.

2. Specialists ought only to be a stepping stone to Equality at the Top.

3. Cynicism, the archnemesis of Utopianism, was only ever a means by which an Individual, forced into egocentrism by an impersonal social order, sheltered one’s self against a Populace which that person perceived to be Hostile.

a.  The tendency to project the Hostility of actual abusers upon Human Nature has no foundation outside of personal egoism.

b. It was only as the result of this cynicism that people formed minoritarian groups.

4. Specialists, such as philosophers and enlightened politicians, ought to lure people away from cynicism and towards Moral Development.

a.  Everyone can recognize an “enlightened” politician, though cynicism precludes people from democratically electing such people.

b. It thus falls to philosophers, especially those who already enjoy a nonpartisan audience and who have not yet formed a cult of personality, to help convert people from cynicism.

c. Philosophers cling to cynicism because it helps them to preserve their standing. Yet this corruption of power for the purpose of preserving power is precisely the primary drive for these Individuals to remain cynical, after which they simply project their cynicism upon Human Nature.

d. Cynicism does not protect us from greater evils, and neither does optimism doom us to self-aggrandizing self-destruction.

                                                                                       i.    The former obscures the realities of our needs and justifies our abuses towards one another as both equals and nonequals.

                                                                                    ii.    The latter reaffirms the autonomy of each Individual within the context of a Moral Order.

                                                                                  iii.    This is irrespective of traditional boundaries.

5. As more and more people become Universalists in thought, several transformations emerge as expressions of latent potentialities.

a.  Commerce can become Marxist in scope without the necessity of Authoritarianism, since people will share resources based upon empathy, and they will produce resources based upon a rational consensus regarding the needs of Others. This will become Common Sense.

b. Social stratification is nullified.

c. Differences of opinion are resolved without partisan bias and also without the desperation underlying unrest within a minoritarian group.

d. Utopianism becomes a matter of common sense, no longer centralized to figures of authority. Individuals begin to think in terms of Common Goods, instead of personal gain in an Absurd and Fallen World. New leadership emerges based not upon Power but upon the virtues of Reason and Empathy.

e. That I can say no more on this proves that it passes the capacity of any one man. With the abolition of monarchical egoism, either as the Lord of One’s Own Life or the Lord of the Land, Human Beings will finally realize their truest Nature and evolve to the next step in Human Potential.

4.         The alternatives are unacceptable.

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