Sunday, June 6, 2010

Transhumanism and Welfare: Facebook Letter

"transhumanism promises to turn the financially well-endowed into the most able among us!"
I find this perfectly acceptable. Without banksterism and regulation, wealth will be strictly aligned with reputation and productivity; people deserve the fruits of their labor, regardless of how much they exceed those of others.

"But what's an "intermediary, traditionalist and customary institution?" The church?"
Churches would be one example, but it includes families, friendly societies, and so forth.

I recommend reading the book "From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State". State 'services' simply subsidize sickness, poverty, etc. whereas the use of those funds in economic and mutual aid societies actually aleviates and provides solutions to these issues.

I also think that, without state interventionism, wealth, capital, technology and opportunities would extend to such a great extent that even mutual aid societies would become less and less necessary. Poverty is an artifact of the interventionist state and the cultural degeneration it causes. I think the welfare state is the prime reason for the iniquity of current American and European society.

Nation, State and Economy: Part 2

"How should we define group membership?"
The citizen is defined by his willingness to provide for himself, be responsible and take part in his community duties; and is to be judged by his local community. Thus anyone who wants to move into a community must have the consent of the local population, not merely formal 'democratic' consent but actual vouching, i.e. someone who is willing to employ him an give him a place to live.

"You're obviously a dedicated nationalist, but where would you fit in to a nationalist society?"
In my view nationalism does not entail racialism. That being said I am a believer in human biodiversity and race realism, I think there are (or, at least, can very plausibly be) important differences in genotypes and population groups; furthermore there are also important genomic differences among individuals. As a transhumanist I basically view that those of 'substandard' quality would simply be ostracized from the community, and genomic manipulation will allow the general improvement and perfection of the human being. As it stands I believe western Europeans and east-asians have the best claim to genomic as well as cultural dominance. I am in favor of a strong immigration policy, and a total end to any sort of politically allocated importation that we see in modern America and Europe. I evisage a platform much more along the Chinese model; the only people allowed to immigrate are those who are able to meet certain financial minima and demonstrate respect for the law and culture of the nation..

I really don't think the central state should provide any services, other that protection of the persons, laws and borders of the nation. Intermediary, traditionalist and customary institutions (in addition to markets) would provide the necessary services and resources for the development of the community.

Nation, State and Economy: From a Facebook Letter

My views have developed through highschool and my time in college around the notion of the nature of social organization as being composed of individuals attending to their own self-perceived ends, and the importance of ideology, culture and institutional norms on directing the development of individuals and the resulting social organization they make up. I have been strongly influenced by the writings of Otto Strasser, the classical economists, Aristotle, Adolf Hitler, Proudhon, Mussolini and more.

I am strongly anti-democracy and anti-egalitarian. I wish to see a Proudhonian federation of culturally-ethnically united states under a strong but strictly limited central government, which is to act as a guardian of their interests. There is to be a completely unregulated free exchange of private property, both at home and abroad. The State is no longer to concern itself with 'crimes' like prostitution and drug use, which are moral and social concerns, but instead with thugs, gangsters and con-men.
The state is a 'classless' state, not in the Marxian fashion which eliminates all who do not obey the Bolsheviks, but in the sense that it destroys the opportunity for the Brahmin-elite of WASP international banksterism and the regulatory interference and cultural degradation that produce the 'underclass'.
I am stridently in favor of the preservation and development of true civilization, culture and character and I believe this is best achieved under a strictly liberal, socially regulated and powerful state which can probably be best described as a 'middle-class' state.