Straightism

 

The French Revolution liberated mankind from the monarchy and church. Princes and bishops no longer enslaved men’s bodies and minds. Or, at least, the revolution mostly achieved this.

But kings and popes were never fully replaced with libertarians and atheists. The philosophers and intellectuals of the new era were never fully rational and wise. They never discovered or invented pure liberalism.

Instead, they pieced together the tepid philosophies of Rightism and Leftism. These could also be referred to as pre-modernist, religious conservatism and post-modernist collectivist progressivism. The first belief-system mostly rejected reason and wanted men to self-sacrifice, and live in servitude to, an amorphous, non-existent, empty "god". The second belief-system mostly rejected reason and wanted men to self-sacrifice, and live in servitude to, an amorphous, non-existent, empty "collective".

Rightism and Leftism are deviant belief-systems. The term comes from the Latin words "de", as in from, and "via", as in road. Both ideologies are irrational fanaticisms which take the Holy Individual off the proper road. They lead him astray. By accepting either of these two erroneous and failed philosophies to guide themselves, people wander off the true path, and wind up in the ditch or lost in the woods.

Rightism and Leftism need to be replaced by Straightism. This means the philosophy of liberalism. The true path is one of reason and science, individualism and self-interest, liberty and justice. People need to follow the straight and narrow. They need to find and stick to the one true way. The path to enlightenment and wisdom, greatness and happiness, lies straight ahead.

Rightism and Leftism are deviant philosophies which seriously misdirect and harm mankind. Straightist liberalism is the road to follow.

Our World

This is a crazy world. Everyone has such irrational and crazy beliefs.

During the Greek and Roman eras, when reason and philosophy were invented, almost everyone followed one or more specific philosophies, such as Atomism, Aristotelianism, Epicureanism, Stoicism, Skepticism, Cynicism, Pythagoreanism, and Platonism. But in today’s world, or at least the Western part of it, virtually everybody follows one of only two general philosophies: Rightism or Leftism. These belief-systems can also be described as religious conservatism and collectivist progressivism. Altho' some people manage to combine the two, most folks adhere closely to one or the other, while pretty much passionately loathing the opposite faith and its followers.

Unfortunately, both major philosophies are highly irrational and foolish. Neither makes any sense. Rightists believe in the epistemology of dogma and faith, while Leftists believe in the epistemology of relativism and subjectivism. Both belief-systems largely reject the sound, solid, intellectual foundation of reason and science. Both largely oppose the ideas that Nature is all-powerful and that objective truth exists. Conservatives and progressives mostly reject the notion that everyone must fully respect and submit to the core values and standards of reason and science.

Hence Rightists and Leftists zealously command their followers to oppose and attack the Holy Individual. Instead, they are told to support and worship "the lord" or "the group". Conservatives and progressives want people to live for the sake of religion or the masses – not for themselves. They want you to self-sacrifice yourself and your precious life for these two abstract and unreal entities.

Rightists and Leftist don’t see you as an end in yourself, and don’t want you to live for your own sacred purposes and goals. They generally oppose you seeking to live up to your convictions and ideals, seeking to fulfill your hopes and dreams, and seeking to achieve greatness and your destiny. Instead, these two crazy philosophies demand that you serve as a kind of slave to the theoretical and non-existent phenomena of some deity or morass.

Such irrational, fundamental beliefs – with such suicidal moral codes – are a type of lunacy. Such false and evil philosophies can’t be defended using logic or common sense. In effect, the rational, comprehensible universe laughs at the nut-jobs who hold such bizarre beliefs.

The main reason Rightists and Leftists follow such bad philosophy – other than a fundamental commitment to self-deception – is because they see how false and evil the major alternative philosophy is. And because they think these two ideological possibilities are the only ones which exist, they’re convinced that theirs is the only true one.

Of course, the conservatives and progressives aren’t truly convinced. A small but serious part of their mind recognizes reality. So the faithful have to apply a lot of fanaticism and self-brain-washing to keep their natural doubts at bay. They quietly understand that basic reason and common sense reject Rightism and Leftism. So the somewhat frenetic religious conservatives, and rather unhinged collectivist progressives, have to generate a considerable amount of personal blindness and craziness to persuade themselves that their respective belief-system is actually true and good.

But it isn’t. Their philosophy is lunacy.

And so this is a crazy world. Virtually everyone in it is a lunatic.

Recipe for Disaster

Nuclear bombs and welfare statism don’t mix. And since it’s generally undesirable and impossible to go backward in science and technology, mankind needs to go forward in politics. It’s fairly well known – even in today’s world of high governmental ignorance – that “free” nations rarely or never go to war with each other. So all of today’s communist, Islamic, and tribalist slave nations need to be converted to free ones. So too all of today’s semi-tyrannical Western welfare states.

For the nuclear-armed West, this means no more helpful and caring “soft” tyranny. No more beneficial and friendly “moderate” coercion of the Holy Individual. No more governmental attacks, and initiations of force, upon persons or groups “for their own good” or “for the greater good”. No more dictatorial regulation of social, economic, or personal behavior. Let men be free!

If the state stops attacking the Sacred Self, he’ll feel safe, protected, confident, free, happy, and prosperous. He and his nation won’t have any motivation to go to war. They won’t have much ability to either.

In a free society with an effective libertarian government, every man is protected from criminals, and from his government. No-one makes war upon him. People and property are protected from both street thugs and Big Brother do-gooders. 

Under political liberty, there’s no more collectivist attacks upon individuals “in the public interest” and “for the good of all”. Such assaults make people so unhappy and lead to such social strife! When aggressive violence is removed from the powers of state, virtually everyone becomes safe, secure, friendly, cooperative, happy, and content. War fades into a distant memory. 

Nowadays, nuclear devices should only be used against asteroids and space aliens. The tyrannical, bellicose welfare state needs to become ancient history. Society and government should feature individual liberty for all and nuclear bombs for none.