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Progressive Bushido

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Progressives ought to think strategically about how to bring our values to the ideological battle. We ought to bring a fight that is carefully honed and thought out. This warrior mentality is balanced by a high regard for a code of values. In this code, we find the principles to uphold if we are truly serious about advancing the wellbeing of society as a whole as the samurai do so. These samurai values are ultimately not tied to ideological commitments but are pragmatic in their use for wielding power.  Eight Principles of Progressive Bushido  Justice: Justice is a core value of the Samurai. Incorporating the Bushido principle of justice into your life requires reflecting on what is fair and upholding the value of upstanding moral character.  Courage: Courage, like justice, entails deciphering what is right and wrong. Courage requires the strength not only to perceive but also to act.   Compassion: Compassion is the ability to manifest love and sympathy through patience. It also requir

Cosmocracy

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C osmocracy is the idea that all human beings are, or could or should be, members of a single community. Philosophical cosmocrats are moral universalists: they believe that all humans, and not merely compatriots or fellow-citizens, come under the same moral standards. The boundaries between nations, states, cultures or societies are therefore morally irrelevant.   Certain conditions have given rise to cosmocracy. These emerging objective and subjective conditions in the planetary phase include improved and affordable telecommunications; space travel and the first images of our fragile planet floating in the vastness of space; the emergence of climate change and other ecological threats to our collective existence.  Thus cosmocracy is the idea that one's identity transcends geography or political borders and that responsibilities or rights are derived from membership in a broader class: "humanity.” Cosmocracy, in some contexts, may refer to a brand of ethics or political philos

A Metaphysical Principle

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The quantum worldview has opened the immense potential to be derived from interconnectedness and dynamism. How exactly does the quantum worldview and it’s core principles bring about personal transformation? One word: possibility. The Possibilist Principle opens the window of possibilities in all areas of our lives.     The possibilist principle is this truth: possibility begets more and more possibility. The goal is to help you envision your world and yourself as you develop the insights to navigate your life without fear and with self-empowerment. It is time for each of us to experience new possibilities - possibilities we can apprehend when we let go of the past outlook that holds us back in so many areas of our lives.  Rethinking Reality  The multiverse is uncertain - one of the new findings of quantum based science is that the multiverse is awash in uncertainty. Uncertainty is the fabric of the quantum world. Welcoming uncertainty frees us from the severely constrained existence i

Order of the Samurai

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Utopia is described by H.G. Wells narrator in  A Modern Utopia , “I have no thought that my tenure of Utopia is a thing of the imagination that becomes more fragile with every added circumstance, that, like a soap-bubble, it is most brilliantly and variously colored at the very instant of its dissolution.” The recognition of the fragility of utopian visions is to the point of using imagination wisely. What then is there to look forward to in view of government by Samurai? Wells believed that the modern world required a ruling class of professional technocrats, economists, and intellectuals. This group would wisely advance our imaginations.  The novel “A Modern Utopia” is best known for its notion that a voluntary order of nobility known as the Order of the Samurai could effectively rule a "kinetic and not static" World State so as to solve the problem of combining progress with political stability. The Utopian system of economics entails that the world shares the same languag