Tiberius Thought

Tiberius Thought is the economically center to center-right and culturally center-left ideology of the blogger Tiberius. He occupies the Authoritarian Right quadrant.

Metaphysics
Tiberius Thought follows idealism, the idea that the world is the product of a collective, non-egoic consciousness; and thus "reality" is dependent upon subjective perception. As egoic souls will have different interpretations of this subjective reality, all epistemological claims are relative. In other words, Tiberius Thought uses idealism to justify relativism.

Morality
Tiberius Thought considers all moral claims to be relative as well. Two people with similar experiences can come up with different moral systems to justify (or condemn) what transpired before them. Morals boil down to individual preferences—shaped by one's personal experience and culture—comparable to a person's taste for food or clothing. This is why Tiberius Thought uses "desirable" and "undesirable" and not "good" or "evil." Morals only matter insofar as they can be enforced through power. Those who wield power can impose their moral preferences onto others.

Elitism
Tiberius Thought believes that under an, a property-owning elite of  merchants,  academics, and  entrepreneurs—in the  Schumpeterian sense of people engaged in innovative activities; creative destruction—will manifest. This "Natural Aristocracy" becomes the primary source of  social progress: Advances in the arts, science, technology, and medicine (expressions of human ingenuity, development, and creativity). When free to exploit resources (human or otherwise) in their self-interest, they generate the wealth necessary to make such advancements to the overall benefit of the nation. Tiberius Thought's thinking on this stems from three sources:
 * 1) [[File:Hamilton.png]] and [[File:Soclib.png]]  defence of a [[File:Arist.png]] "natural aristocracy."
 * 2) The taking of [[File:Obj.png]] [[File:Elites.png]]  to its logical conclusion.
 * 3) The Schumpeterian defence of [[File:Corp.png]] big business by [[File:Civnat.png]] Michael Lind and [[File:3way.png]] Robert D. Atkinson.
 * 4) [[File:Nietzsche.png]] Friedrich Nietzsche's defence of [[File:Slaveism_icon.png]] Slavery in The Greek State.

Positive Rights
Tiberius Thought believes individual autonomy necessitates the existence of positive rights. WIP

[[File:Cap.png]] Capitalism [[File:Neoliberal-icon.png]]
Consistent with his belief that a wealthy, profit-driven elite—a  for lack of better words—drives  social progress when free to exploit resources, human or otherwise. This justifies his  economic model. This includes a mutually beneficial relationship between business and  state (e.g., public-private partnerships and corporate welfare),  privatization (in whole or in part),  deregulation, and  balanced budgets.

[[File:Welf.png]] Welfarism [[File:Soccap.png]]
A major problem with capitalism is that the gains of the free market are not equitably distributed across all of society. While it is desirable for resources to be allocated to the most intelligent, gifted, entrepreneurial (in the Schumpeterian sense), and productive, those who don't get these resources will envy the successful. This breeds  and   impulses among the masses. In addition, creative individuals and genuises capable of self-overcoming are trapped in poverty—inequality of circumstances being an unavoidable aspect of the human condition—which stops them from climbing the social ladder. Tiberius Thought thus supports redistributing the gains of the free market to ensure a minimum standard of living, which will help the poor "pull themselves up by the boostraps" while making revolution too risky; ideally through a universal basic income (UBI),  universal healthcare in the form of compulsory private health insurance, and  social housing. He also favors creating opportunities for upward social mobility, including tuition-free college and vocational training.

[[File:Tripartism.png]] Tripartism [[File:Soccorp.png]]
Although Tiberius Thought does support the existence of an economic elite, workers who helped create their wealth will, without structures in place for their voices to be heard, be exploited to excess. This leads to, which undermines the elite and subsequently stunts  social progress. The solution for Tiberius Thought is tripartism, where  workers,  businesses, and  the State work together to set internal economic policy on the local, company, and national level; with the latter accounting for the  national interest.

Relations

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Mixed
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Positive

 * [[File:BERNHEflash.gif]] BERNHE0504 - Probably the person I have most in common with in this community! Apart from some of your conservative social views, I don't have many complaints with you.
 * [[File:Icon_oRange.png]] oRange System [[File:Icon_oRange_Alt.png]] - Same as above; my main disagreements with him are on civic nationalism and foreign policy. He's also further left than me.
 * [[File:Vexism.png]] Vexism - Great friend, although we don't have much in common outside of a few philosophical similarities.
 * - One of the most wholesome members of this community, albeit more economically left-wing than me.
 * [[File:Stilluserricon.png]] - Embrace the profit motive and your ideology would be epic.
 * - Embrace the [[File:3way.png]] Third Way and you'll be based!

Mixed

 * [[File:pixil-frame-0(38).png]] Neo-Majapahitism - You may have some based economic takes, but your conservative values are awful. Also, you should be supportive of [[File:Imp.png]] American imperialism since it was the biggest supporter of [[File:Suharto.png]] Suharto.
 * [[File:O%27Langism.png]] - A blend of syndicalism and mutualism actually seems based, but your anti-statism ruins everything. As [[File:Hamiltonianism.png]] Hamilton predicted—and which history only confirmed—you need a powerful central government and markets for [[File:Prog.png]] human progress.
 * [[File:Panth.png]] Pantheonism - Guild socialism is cringe and so is pacifism, but otherwise you're not too bad.
 * - Same with [[File:Vexism.png]] her pretty much, although you're a pleasant person.
 * [[File:NewMatthism3.1.png]] Matthism - Not bad, but not great either.
 * - You're alright I suppose, although you'd be slightly better if you embraced [[File:Egocap.png]] Ego-Capitalism.
 * [[File:Glencoe.png]] Glencoe - Your views are tolerable.
 * [[File:Iconfloofel.png]] - A very wholesome person but we have nothing in common (except for agrarianism but for vastly different reasons).
 * - Same as above pretty much.
 * [[File:Rock.png]] Rocksism - Too left-wing but otherwise okay.

Negative
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Reading List
Note: Braun Spencer Thought does not necessarily agree with everything stated in these books, although this collection of books and essays will help you understand his thought process.
 * [[File:Corp.png]] Big is Beautiful: The Myth of Small Business - [[File:Hamilton.png]] Robert D. Atkinson and [[File:Civnat.png]] Michael Lind
 * [[File:Pragmat.png]] The Prince - [[File:Mach.png]] Niccolò Machiavelli
 * [[File:Protect.png]] Free Trade Doesn't Work - [[File:EconNat.png]] Ian Fletcher
 * [[File:Antichrist.png]] The Antichrist - [[File:Nietzsche-icon.png]] Friedrich Nietzsche
 * [[File:Accel.png]] Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest - [[File:Landian_Accelerationism.png]] Nick Land
 * [[File:Fed.png]] The Federalist Papers - [[File:Hamilton.png]] Alexander Hamilton, [[File:Jeffersoniandem.png]] James Madison, and [[File:Krit.png]] John Jay
 * [[File:Globalism.png]] World Order - [[File:Kisssingerism.png]] Henry Kissinger
 * [[File:Cdem.png]] Toward a Truly Free Market - [[File:DistributismIcon.png]] John C. Médaille
 * [[File:Darwinist.png]] Social Statics - [[File:SpencerDar.png]] Herbert Spencer
 * [[File:Cap.png]] Basic Economics - [[File:Chilib.png]] Thomas Sowell
 * [[File:Slaveism_icon.png]] The Greek State - [[File:Nietzsche.png]] Friedrich Nietzsche
 * [[File:Statecap.png]] The Closed Commercial State - [[File:Utsoc.png]] Johann Gottlieb Fichte
 * [[File:Welf.png]] Two Concepts of Liberty - Isaiah Berlin
 * [[File:GControl.png]] Repeal the Second Amendment: The Case for a Safer America - [[File:DemocratF.png]] Allan Lichtman
 * [[File:Statecap.png]] The Entrepreneurial State - [[File:WEF-Icon.png]] Mariana Mazzucato
 * [[File:EconInflate.png]] The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money - [[File:Keynes.png]] John M. Keynes
 * [[File:Necon.png]] The Neoconservative Persuasion - [[File:Trot.png]] Irving Kristol
 * [[File:Flatearthf.png]] The World Is Flat - [[File:Neoliberal-icon.png]] Thomas Friedman
 * [[File:AntiDem.png]] The Revolt of the Masses - [[File:LibSocAuth.png]] José Ortega y Gasset
 * [[File:Mach.png]] The Concept of the Political - [[File:CarlSchmitt.png]] Carl Schmitt
 * [[File:Edu.png]] The Case Against Education - [[File:Ancapf.png]] Bryan Caplan
 * [[File:Cap.png]] Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal - [[File:Obj.png]] Ayn Rand, [[File:Bankocracy.png]] Alan Greenspan, [[File:Egocap.png]] Nathaniel Branden, and [[File:Histval.png]] Robert Hessen
 * [[File:Mach.png]] Politics Among Nations - [[File:Pragmat.png]] Hans Morgenthau
 * [[File:Soclib.png]] On Liberty - [[File:Mill.png]] John Stuart Mill
 * [[File:Enlightab.png]] Leviathan - [[File:Hobbe.png]] Thomas Hobbes
 * [[File:SuccMin.png]] The Road to Serfdom - [[File:Hayek.png]] Friedrich von Hayek
 * [[File:Orlib.png]] The Foundations of Economics - [[File:NeoLiberal-icon.png]] Walter Eucken
 * [[File:Necon.png]] Vietnam: The Necessary War - [[File:Civnat.png]] Michael Lind
 * [[File:Community.png]] Equality as a Moral Ideal - [[File:Demsocstar.png]] Harry Frankfurt
 * [[File:Cultism.png]] Twilight of the Idols - [[File:Nietzsche-icon.png]] Friedrich Nietzsche

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