My stretch goal is basically to reconcile LessWrongian high rationalism, hyper-individualistic social liberalism, socialism (or at least something that might be called that), degeneracy, and being really, really autistic into a stable totalizing* ideology, and then use it to overthrow the old world order, reeducate the normies, and hold off the dark forces of GNON until we can ascend to heaven.
Everyone needs a little hubris in their life.
*totalizing is not the same thing as totalitarian
It’s really interesting to see a list of all the things I used to idolise and now find eh, unpleasant, or horrifying all in one place like this.
It’s like imagining living in a utopia designed by a younger me and then immediately searching for a rope to hang myself.
I wouldn’t find a utopia designed by a younger me all that terrifying.
On the other hand, I’ve been getting more extreme over time, not less.
And now, since my political prescriptions vary by time, resources, technology level, and so on, the question of “what does my utopia look like?” depends on just which decade or century it’s proposed for, and for which country.
It’s funny, because I’m the opposite of OP on a number of these.
- Integration of intuition over purist high rationalism.
- Recreation of stabilizing and mutually-supporting communities over hyper-individualism, even if the borders of those communities are porous. Pragmatic social centrism oriented towards social welfare and economic production over radical social liberalism.
- Something most people would consider to be a variety of Capitalism, even if the nation-state is considered more important than capital, and even though it includes substantial welfare-type payments.
- The anti-incentivization of actually-degenerate behaviors. (”Being gay” doesn’t count. Cousin marriage does.)
- Increased respect for the viability of basic normie intuitions such as relationship jealousy as, while not being right 100% of the time, being right for most normies most of the time.
- The prevention of the emergence of a world government, and instead the instantiation of a new order of cooperating groups of Nationalists.
