Multiverse Minutiae

It is never one utopia but many utopias. A minarcho-councilist society is the flourishing of many utopias. Many different experiments in living by individuals and communities.  Utopia is not a concrete destination but rather a direction. It is a process or method for shaping societies. Foucault wrote that utopias are not real. He instead wrote of heterotopias places that are nonhomogenous. Places that allow differences to thrive.  We live in an epoch of juxtaposition. That of an interconnected network that is dynamically changing. And so we have the celestial place in turn opposed to the terrestrial place. Foucault points to the Copernican-Galilean de-centering and the resulting paradigm shift. “We live inside a set of relations that delineates sites which are irreducible to one another and absolutely not superimposable on one another.” (Foucault, Of Other Spaces). Heterotopias are world’s within worlds that allow for diversity and pluralism. 

Technocratic minarchists, who would wish to achieved a logical progressive minarchist state would administer it so. One definition of technocracy is “the rule of the people made effective through the agency of their servants, the scientists and engineers" is the best way to define what, at its core, is the main idea of technocratic government. In this sense you would have a minarchy administered by scientific experts, this can be achieved with no departure from the theory of the minimal state.   What may be needed is a not a duty but a right to participate in science. Minarchy is designed to protect citizens rights. What if a social contract included the right to participate in science? This is the basis for a technocratic minarcho-state.  Gone are the days when John Rawls could persuasively ground an elaborate defense of the welfare state on the intuition that anyone uncertain about their place in society would prefer to live in one that promises to protect its members f...

A night-watchman state or minarchy is a model of a state that is limited and minimal, whose only functions are to act as an enforcer of the non-aggression principle providing citizens with the military, the police and courts, thereby protecting them from aggression, theft, breach of contract, fraud and enforcing property laws. Its proponents are called minarchists. This form of government is mainly associated with libertarianism in the United States, Objectivist, and right-libertarian political philosophy. However, minarchism has also been advocated by non-anarchist libertarian socialists and other left-libertarians. Some anarchists and left-libertarians have also proposed or supported a minimal welfare state on the grounds that social safety nets are short-term goals for the working class. Such minarchists seek to combine worker owned means of production with an "as minimal as ...

Techno-Pragmatism  Saint-Simon created a political and economic ideology that claimed that the needs of an  industrial class , which he also referred to as the working class, needed to be recognized and fulfilled to have an effective society and an efficient economy. Saint-Simon's late-18th century conception of this class included all people engaged in productive work that contributed to society such as businesspeople, managers, scientists and bankers, amongst others. He advocated a form of technocratic socialism, an arrangement whereby industrial class of scientific merit based experts should advance society. Saint-Simon stressed the need for recognition of the merit of the individual and the need for hierarchy of merit in society and in the economy such as society having hierarchical merit-based organizations of managers and scientists to be the decision-makers in government. Saint-Simon strongly criticized any expansion of government intervention into the economy beyond en...

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 patie...

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...

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 cons...