Ok so basically this is how I see it working.
Tenants:
1. Subjectivity is the road to ignorance.
2. Everything can be measured.
3. No two measurements are ever equal.
4. The only way individuals or societies can progress is by accurately measuring the Universe around them, and iteratively changing their actions to improve themselves based off of this data.
In detail:
1. Subjectivity
Subjective (adj)
a. Dependent on or taking place in a person's mind rather than the external world
b. Based on a given person's experience, understanding, and feelings; personal or individual
Subjectivity is a corroding force acting upon a human beings consciousness. It, by it's very nature, closes off the mind from the world around it.
We can see it's corrosive effects in the field of Art. Subjectivity was introduced into the Artistic medium around the end of the 19th century.
Due to this you can see a clear and startlingly rapid degeneration of the technical skill of Artists. Regardless of what your opinions are the fact remains that the technical craftsmanship of Artists has deteriorated.
If we apply this same rule to other functions of society such as politics, academics, the affects are terrible. government policy based on inaccurate measurement. Academics Falsifying data.
Through this lack of accurate data inefficiencies in society begin to form and from those inefficiencies suffering forms, and from suffering you begin to see societal breakdown.
2. Measurement
Everything that exists can be measured, what else can I say?
"Can god be measured?" If he exists, eventually then yes. If he doesn't exist then, no.
Something like God cannot be measured within our current scope of measurement.
"God" could be some hidden force that we can't measure currently, like a parallel dimension of primordial energy that can be affected by the thoughts of sentient beings (Warhammer 40k fans will know what I'm talking about)
The problem is we can't measure that, as of now. And there is no accurate data that, if such things do exist, they have any measurable impact on our dimension.
Any Prophet or Pope or Cult leader who says he can "measure" or "communicate with" God is probably so deep in his own subjectivity that he can't be trusted. Since if he could really communicate with an otherworldly being, there's no reason why everyone else shouldn't be able to.
This is an example of un-replicate-able data. It can't be replicated and rely's on the the word of the would be prophet, and the consensus bias of his or her would be followers. This is not measurement. This is subjectivity made manifest within a social structure.
3. No two measurements are ever the same.
This is an important observation that I think often gets ignored by most modern day philosophies/ideologies, and even gets ignored by mathematics too often.
In fact I think the rejection of this idea is what killed Stoicism originally. You can research and see how (((Neo-Stoicism))) Promoted Idea's of "equality and fraternity among all peoples"
More French Revolution Gobbley Gook, utterly unrepresentative of the reality of our universe and nature.
In the nature of our universe no two things are ever equal to each other. If you take two leaves from a tree and break down the atoms of each they are never equal, in shape nor volume.
If you break down Star to Star, Planet to Planet, the composition of each, they will always be different
If you take mankind's most technologically advanced, most precisely formed pair of atoms specifically made to be perfectly equal, and broke them down, they will always be different, un-equal.
Even mankind cannot break this rule. Though mankind's psyche clamors for the predicability and peace that comes with symmetry, mankind alas, lives in an asymmetric universe.
1+1 is never just 2. It is Always 1.000x + 1.0000x = 2.000x
Equality is a lie.
So why do we tell ourselves it?
Because of our subjectivity.
4. The only way we can progress is by accurately measuring the Universe around us.
This is true for almost everything a person does. If they seek to lose fat the must measure their weight, and measure their eating habits and amount of exercise.
If a general seeks to win a war, he must measure his resources and the amount of ground gained.
Measurements, Measurements, Measurements.
It's the only way for anything sentient to grow and truly understand the universe.
You can see how the modern SJWs refuse to take measurements of the world around them, canceling and censoring. Encasing themselves in a cocoon of subjectivity.
And the majority of this subjectivity comes from their emotions, as the ancient stoics realized.
That's why I propose Meritocratic Stoicism.
Which rejects subjectivity and emotion.
Rejects the existence of equality, and strives to create a system which actively seeks to measure the most productive/most efficient members of society and reward them for their worth and reward them proportionately.
Tenants:
1. Subjectivity is the road to ignorance.
2. Everything can be measured.
3. No two measurements are ever equal.
4. The only way individuals or societies can progress is by accurately measuring the Universe around them, and iteratively changing their actions to improve themselves based off of this data.
In detail:
1. Subjectivity
Subjective (adj)
a. Dependent on or taking place in a person's mind rather than the external world
b. Based on a given person's experience, understanding, and feelings; personal or individual
Subjectivity is a corroding force acting upon a human beings consciousness. It, by it's very nature, closes off the mind from the world around it.
We can see it's corrosive effects in the field of Art. Subjectivity was introduced into the Artistic medium around the end of the 19th century.
Due to this you can see a clear and startlingly rapid degeneration of the technical skill of Artists. Regardless of what your opinions are the fact remains that the technical craftsmanship of Artists has deteriorated.
If we apply this same rule to other functions of society such as politics, academics, the affects are terrible. government policy based on inaccurate measurement. Academics Falsifying data.
Through this lack of accurate data inefficiencies in society begin to form and from those inefficiencies suffering forms, and from suffering you begin to see societal breakdown.
2. Measurement
Everything that exists can be measured, what else can I say?
"Can god be measured?" If he exists, eventually then yes. If he doesn't exist then, no.
Something like God cannot be measured within our current scope of measurement.
"God" could be some hidden force that we can't measure currently, like a parallel dimension of primordial energy that can be affected by the thoughts of sentient beings (Warhammer 40k fans will know what I'm talking about)
The problem is we can't measure that, as of now. And there is no accurate data that, if such things do exist, they have any measurable impact on our dimension.
Any Prophet or Pope or Cult leader who says he can "measure" or "communicate with" God is probably so deep in his own subjectivity that he can't be trusted. Since if he could really communicate with an otherworldly being, there's no reason why everyone else shouldn't be able to.
This is an example of un-replicate-able data. It can't be replicated and rely's on the the word of the would be prophet, and the consensus bias of his or her would be followers. This is not measurement. This is subjectivity made manifest within a social structure.
3. No two measurements are ever the same.
This is an important observation that I think often gets ignored by most modern day philosophies/ideologies, and even gets ignored by mathematics too often.
In fact I think the rejection of this idea is what killed Stoicism originally. You can research and see how (((Neo-Stoicism))) Promoted Idea's of "equality and fraternity among all peoples"
More French Revolution Gobbley Gook, utterly unrepresentative of the reality of our universe and nature.
In the nature of our universe no two things are ever equal to each other. If you take two leaves from a tree and break down the atoms of each they are never equal, in shape nor volume.
If you break down Star to Star, Planet to Planet, the composition of each, they will always be different
If you take mankind's most technologically advanced, most precisely formed pair of atoms specifically made to be perfectly equal, and broke them down, they will always be different, un-equal.
Even mankind cannot break this rule. Though mankind's psyche clamors for the predicability and peace that comes with symmetry, mankind alas, lives in an asymmetric universe.
1+1 is never just 2. It is Always 1.000x + 1.0000x = 2.000x
Equality is a lie.
So why do we tell ourselves it?
Because of our subjectivity.
4. The only way we can progress is by accurately measuring the Universe around us.
This is true for almost everything a person does. If they seek to lose fat the must measure their weight, and measure their eating habits and amount of exercise.
If a general seeks to win a war, he must measure his resources and the amount of ground gained.
Measurements, Measurements, Measurements.
It's the only way for anything sentient to grow and truly understand the universe.
You can see how the modern SJWs refuse to take measurements of the world around them, canceling and censoring. Encasing themselves in a cocoon of subjectivity.
And the majority of this subjectivity comes from their emotions, as the ancient stoics realized.
That's why I propose Meritocratic Stoicism.
Which rejects subjectivity and emotion.
Rejects the existence of equality, and strives to create a system which actively seeks to measure the most productive/most efficient members of society and reward them for their worth and reward them proportionately.
