Neo-Arctoism

Neo-Arctoism is the new self-insert ideology of Arctofire. Whilst it retains similar cultural views to Arctoism (Arcto's previous ideology), in economic and civic terms it is more  lib-right.

His view on government intervening in people's lives for the common good has turned more negative as the pandemic has carried on. He now emphasizes limited government,  individual rights, and  personal responsibility as an alternative to the draconian re-imposition of  lockdowns.

[[File:CorAcc.png]]Effect of Covid on Views[[File:CorAcc.png]]
With the hysteria around Omicron leading to the re-impositions of Covid restrictions across the world, including for the vaccinated, Arctofire became concerned with unchecked government power trampling over individual rights arbitrarily and indefinitely.

He feels that the collectivist approach to the pandemic has become negative for society,as it robs people of their most fundamental freedoms and sacrifices everything and everyone to the alter of 'protecting the health service'.

Whilst initially he saw the vaccines as providing a path back to normality, and is still pro-vaccine and medical innovation in fighting Covid, the re-imposition of lockdown everyone in  Austria and the  Netherlands he saw as an indication that governments had grown addicted to power. He sees such government acts as a complete betrayal of the vaccinated who had been promised the end of restrictions, coming to the unfortunate conclusion that vaccination alone cannot return normality.

The constant imposition of restrictions whenever a new variant is detected is unsustainable and unjustified in the vast majority of circumstances. He recognizes that Covid is here to stay and that we need to learn to live with the virus, and that the only way that the pandemic ends is if the media and  governments stop talking about it and let people live their lives.

The obsession with Covid data as a metric of success he partly believes to be negative extension of the social democratic worldview. The belief in the state regulating individual behaviour in the 'common good', measured by arbitrary statistics, naturally concludes in the imposition of a police state, as such a worldview completely ignores the complexities of individual lives by attempting to create a perfect society.

Whilst he concludes that some government intervention and regulation is needed, he opposes 'cradle to the grave' welfare provision. He wants to leave people to succeed or fail in their individual lives without the state excessively interfering.

Idealism vs Realism
The previous Arctoism was extremely detailed, listing a bunch of ultra-specific policies which seemed to be geared towards building the ideal fictional country as opposed to a realistic political program; only adapting it to and  American contexts briefly.

He has come to see such utopian building exercises as counter-productive, as all politics must be viewed in national and historical context and one cannot just 'start again'. Hence, this new addition of Arctoism will try to tackle the core political philosophy of Arctofire, focusing on the core principles without providing a super detailed list of policy proposals. He will then, create separate national oriented balls containing policies that he thinks would be beneficial for that specific country and how they can be achieved.