Ultra-Enlightenment

Ultra-Enlightenment is an extremely progressive,  post-humanist,  capitalist,  globalist,  liberal ideology which represents the current worldviews of Dragonguard999.

It believes Liberalism to be an ideology most aligned with the Faustian Spirit and thus something to be embraced completely as the basis of socio-political reality. It is also a pro-market albeit  regulationist ideology, seeing the phenomena of capital as merely a socially constructed projection of desire and value and thus irremovable part of society, but one that has to be controlled to avoid economic entropy. Inspired by NRx writings it adapts the name of Cathedral for its socio-political system, although it believes Dark Enlightenment understanding of this phenomena is not completely accurate.

[[File:HegelianPhilosophy.png]] Geists and Interdividualism [[File:Poststruct.png]]
Ultra-Enlightenment believes the western philosophical dichotomy of individual-collective  to be both inaccurate to reality and restraining us from social evolution. Instead it asks us to consider the self not as an individual ego but rather a synchronized multiplicity of informational-energetic fluxes. Ultra-Enlightenment believes a person to be an emergent phenomena that arises when information is communicated with enough intensity and in a synchronized manner within the bounds of a system. In case of a human being this system is neurons, thus the mind emerges from neurons communicating. This nature of a person can be understood as something similar to concepts of hegelian geist or  Lacan's narrative identity. The recognition of persons as an entity that still emerges from multiple dividual parts as a manifestation of communicative interaction between them gives rise to Ultra-Enlightenment's belief in what it calls "Interdividualism".

This different viewpoint on the nature of persons as geists also influences Ultra-Enlightenment's view of collectives. Instead of seeing them as separate and opposing phenomena to singular persons, in Ultra-Enlightenment's view communities are simply another geists that differ from their component members only in terms of scale. Much like humans are phenomena of emergent flow of information so too are social-groups, nations, civilizations etc. They too attain their own forms of agency, interests and identities experienced by their members in the form of social and crowd psychology. Societies emerge from interactions between people much like people emerge from interaction between thoughts. Society thus is not seen by Ultra-Enlightenment as simply a network of individuals or some supreme entity who's interest override its parts, but rather a storm-like flux of thoughts and desires that construct many, often overlapping and sometimes opposing identities as manifestations of interaction of drives and information. Something that can be perceived as akin to a mind with many thoughts and desires that sometimes also can be interconnected or contradict each other. Ultra-Enlightenment sees this fact as important because despite the fact that we ourselves emerge from thought-multiplicities it neither makes us perceive our individual thoughts as less important than "the whole" nor do we see our individual thoughts as more important than our emergent personhood. Both our individual thoughts and our emergent personhood is "us", thus this logic should also be applied on interpersonal structures, since their nature is no different from our own selves. This line of thought leads Ultra-Enligthenment to advocate for rejection and transcendance of the individual-collective axis instead opting for remembering that group and members in the end are the one and any discussion on priority of importance between individual or collective interest is completely worthless.

[[File:Neo-Faust.png]] Faustian Spirit
Ultra-Enligthenment adapts the Neo-Faustian interpretation of the Faustian Spirit. It believes that it is the characteristic of the human condition to be always dissatisfied with life. This leads us to pursue an unending struggle to gain infinite power, knowledge and control over the universe. Ultra-Enlightenment, much like Neo-Faustianism, believes we should not condemn this human drive but embrace it. Through this powerful greed we are pushed to achieve great things, build civilizations, pursue understanding of the cosmos, innovate new technologies and create art. Through this drive we achieve great power that can then be used to improve the conditions of life of our fellow man. The fact that our achievements have improved the condition of our civilization and immortalised us through our work can bring us satisfaction in life.

Ultra-Enlightenment believes this drive to be fundamental to human nature, evidence of which can be found in all cultures around the world. Still Ultra-Enligthenment believes that the ideology of Liberalism produced by western cultures under the influence of  Enlightenment has come the closest to embracing this human drive completely. Thus Ultra-Enlightenment believes that to build a truly faustian civilization it is necessery to spread, uphold and expand on the values born from this ideological drift and manifested in the french revolution. Rejection of theocentrism, dedication to progress and rejection of "natural order" and  pursue of the idea of liberation of all people.

[[File:Nietzsche-icon.png]] Liberty as Power [[File:Postmodernicon.png]]
For Ultra-Enlightenment the idea of "liberty" is fundamentally understood as form of power to influence reality in accordance with one's will. Freedom comes from the ability to make choices in accordance with one's own will, while being sure that those choices will result in the outcomes desired by the intent of the choice. In that way liberty can be understood as a control over your environment. At the same time Ultra-Enlightenment believes freedom to have a psychological dimension. People can be more free the more ability they have to follow their desires without internal blockades such as fear or cultural constructs restraining their way of thinking. In that way liberty can be also understood as ability to think freely without restrictions imposed by traditional mentalities and language. Ultra-Enlightenment thus believes liberation must be pursued both on the material level through fight against outside forces and technological progress, as well as through internal self-reflection and thought experimentation.

This understanding of liberty also leads Ultra-Enlightenment to reject the dichotomy of liberty-security  axis. In Ultra-Enlightenment's mind, liberty without security will mean that constant internal fear of threat will inevitably restrain your thinking and ability to make choices in accordance with your will. At the same time security without liberty simply means that your security is completely dependant on something outside of your control, therefore you are in fact constantly under a threat and thus not secure. In the end only power or control over your environment and your internal realm can guarantee your freedom.

[[File:Panhumanism.png]] Kinship of Intellects [[File:POSTHUMANISMICON.png]]
Ultra-Enlightenment believes that since all forms of intellect (geist) are able to create a higher from of intellect through interaction with each other, then they can all be perceived as kindred beings. This line of thought leads Ultra-Enlightenment to advocate for a sort of universal fraternity of all intelligent beings meant to ultimetaly interact and produce a form of universal geist, that would be the manifestation of common will of all intelligence and act upon its desires. The potential to be part of this universal geist serves as the basis of Ultra-Enlightenment's advocacy for common compassion and bestowing of rights on intelligent beings.

[[File:Neorational.png]] Neorationalism
Ultra-Enlightenment believes the process of reason in humans is fundamentally restricted from achieving its full potential. The computational process of reasoning is constrained by biological and cultural preconditions creating what we know as the common-sense ontology. This means that when we reason we generally are already restrained from comprehending phenomena we try to understand due to our intuitive knowledge setting certain borders to what is reasonable. At the same time our reasoning is often physically constrained by the fact that every kind of thinking process we do must still remain within the bounds of what is possible to imagine with our brain's capacity. In Ultra-Enlightenment's view The rational process to achieve its complete potential in comprehending reality must be freed from restrains of intuitive knowledge we have grown attached to. Ultra-Enlightenment believes that this must be achieved through a process of self-reflection of reason, abandonment of common sense patterns in process of rationalisation, studies of artificial intelligence or even intervention from the outside of the mind by reconstructing our material bio-structure.

Ultra-Enlightenment believes that only when our reason is freed from the biologically and culturally preconditioned frames of intuition and common sense, we will be able to completely comprehend reality. With that transformation our ability to influence and steer the world into our desired state will also grow exponentially.

[[File:Metamodernism.png]] Meta-Modernism
Ultra-Enlightenment believes that after the age of modernism, characterised by a myriad of ideological grand historical narratives meant to somehow fill out the existential void created by the collapse of cultural theocentrism and moral consensus around religion, we had to inevitably enter an era complete collapse of cultural narratives and sense of universal meaning. As scientific discoveries slowly torn down our sense of importance in face of the uncaring cosmos and expansion of knowledge in sociology and psychology revealed the fictional nature of "good" and "evil" we entered the state of postmodernism.

Ultra-Enlightenment deems the postmodern mentality as unhealthy to remain in, as it robbs civilization of any form of purpose and thus demobilizes its social forces from activity focused on greater ambitions. It has thus inevitably become one of the main causes for ideological and cultural disintegration, decline of happiness and chaos. At the same time Ultra-Enlightenment acknowledges that the discoveries of postmodernism cannot be simply ignored for the sake of some kind of return to naive modernism or superstitious pre-modernism. They are after all completely true.

Ultra-Enlightenment thus aligns itself with the cultural drift of "metamodernism". One in which ideological narratives remain self-aware of their factual nature as constructs yet are still affirmed as values to hold in face of absurd nihilistic nature of the universe. In this state of oscillation between ironic self-awareness and sincere belief Ultra-Enlightenment sees a way of escape from postmodern civilizational dead-end. One that refuses to surrender its sense of meaning and belief in purpose of life and civilization while at the same time does not escape from the truth of abysmal nature of the cosmos.

The Cathedral
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Techno-Capital and Optimization
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Blue Accelerationism
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Liberal Civilization and Expansion
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Evolution of Liberal Systems
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Conquest of Nature
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Faustian Culture
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[[File:Mega_Yes.png]] The Cathedral
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[[File:Yes.png]] Friendly
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[[File:Meh.png]] Neutral
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[[File:No.png]] Hostile
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[[File:Mega_No.png]] Archenemies
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