PURITY™ is an apolitical organisation which advocates peace through apolitical governance. The answer to both how and why politics should be removed from governmental processes begins with a simple examination of conventional democracy.
Democracy theoretically serves the 'will of the people,' whereby 'will' includes a mixture of wants (arbitrary desires which serve no functional purpose, such as going to the cinema) and needs (functional, practical outcomes which serve as the foundation for desires, such as security, food, fuel, electricity). Our wants are precious - they are everything we truly cherish; our needs are important, but not precious - they are just a means of realizing our wants.
We advocate for an important distinction between wants and needs in relation to the processes and relationships between citizens and their governments: Citizens should be able to freely determine their respective wants and indicate them to their respective government. The role of government should be to recognize and logically prioritize their citizens' wants, prior to determining and implementing the most efficient provision of their needs. The two processes should not be mixed: Governments should not attempt to decide (guess or control) what their citizens want; determining citizens' wants requires consult with each individual citizen. Similarly, individual citizens should not attempt to determine what the collective society needs or how the societal resources should be prioritized to best achieve what they want; determining the most efficient use of resource to satisfy citizens' needs requires the coordinated collection and scientific analysis of vast amounts of data ('big data'). The latter is not equivalent to the polling of opinions which occurs during modern elections. Citizens are the authoritative source regarding what they want, not what they (believe they) need.
It is difficult to imagine what life would be like if every material in the world was political, that is, opinionated, in the method in which they serve people. Imagine an artist trying to paint on canvas and yet certain parts of the canvas would only permit certain colors of paint to be applied; or a paintbrush that would only cooperate to paint images that it approves. This may seem a ridiculous concept but it will become especially relevant into the future as our materials (resources) are increasingly designed to actively serve people. For now, whilst we take for granted that inanimate objects are apolitical, we intuitively demand that other, more complex and active materials should also be apolitical. Although it may not be obvious, government and other infrastructures in society are really just materials, designed to serve the needs of people. For society to be truly free and ordered, all materials, including governments, must be apolitical. We aim to forge a politically neutral 'canvass' for society to freely exist upon.
To find out more about what a consistent society would look like, we invite you to read the moral ideology of Purism™, which guides and bounds our organization.
Democracy theoretically serves the 'will of the people,' whereby 'will' includes a mixture of wants (arbitrary desires which serve no functional purpose, such as going to the cinema) and needs (functional, practical outcomes which serve as the foundation for desires, such as security, food, fuel, electricity). Our wants are precious - they are everything we truly cherish; our needs are important, but not precious - they are just a means of realizing our wants.
We advocate for an important distinction between wants and needs in relation to the processes and relationships between citizens and their governments: Citizens should be able to freely determine their respective wants and indicate them to their respective government. The role of government should be to recognize and logically prioritize their citizens' wants, prior to determining and implementing the most efficient provision of their needs. The two processes should not be mixed: Governments should not attempt to decide (guess or control) what their citizens want; determining citizens' wants requires consult with each individual citizen. Similarly, individual citizens should not attempt to determine what the collective society needs or how the societal resources should be prioritized to best achieve what they want; determining the most efficient use of resource to satisfy citizens' needs requires the coordinated collection and scientific analysis of vast amounts of data ('big data'). The latter is not equivalent to the polling of opinions which occurs during modern elections. Citizens are the authoritative source regarding what they want, not what they (believe they) need.
It is difficult to imagine what life would be like if every material in the world was political, that is, opinionated, in the method in which they serve people. Imagine an artist trying to paint on canvas and yet certain parts of the canvas would only permit certain colors of paint to be applied; or a paintbrush that would only cooperate to paint images that it approves. This may seem a ridiculous concept but it will become especially relevant into the future as our materials (resources) are increasingly designed to actively serve people. For now, whilst we take for granted that inanimate objects are apolitical, we intuitively demand that other, more complex and active materials should also be apolitical. Although it may not be obvious, government and other infrastructures in society are really just materials, designed to serve the needs of people. For society to be truly free and ordered, all materials, including governments, must be apolitical. We aim to forge a politically neutral 'canvass' for society to freely exist upon.
To find out more about what a consistent society would look like, we invite you to read the moral ideology of Purism™, which guides and bounds our organization.
Peace Through Purity™