Tiberius Thought

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

[[File:Indiv.png]] Liberty [[File:Lib.png]]
Tiberius Thought believes the prime aim of life is liberty. Liberty is the possibility and pursuit of realizing one's true potential (the Nietzschean concept of self-overcoming). Since personal freedoms are maximized as one accumulates strength, he sees liberty and power as synonymous, and thus inherently positive. As property is a form of power, he agrees with   that liberty stems from property rights (e.g., a man who claims land and defends it with a gun or is backed by a  monopoly on force has maximum freedom), and with   that some amount of  collective action is necessary (such as  wealth redistribution) to maximize individual liberty. From this, he derives many of his political positions, such as his support for  with  Bismarck-style welfare programs.

[[File:Republicanismpix.png]] Civics [[File:Authdem.png]]
One overlooked aspect of Tiberius Thought is his support for. He believes a strong, democratically elected executive authority, wielding a  technocratic cabinet and a brutally effective  police force, is necessary to advance his long-term goals. The legislature should be dominated by a single party which embodies his greater ideals, making it difficult for outside voices to compete.

[[File:Indiv.png]] Culture [[File:Lib.png]]
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[[File:3way.png]] Economics [[File:PlannedCap.png]]
Tiberius Thought combines,  , and. He takes  (e.g.,  balanced budgets and  privatization)—inspired heavily by the  Freiburg and  Chicago schools—and blends it with the   advocacy for  equal opportunity,  expanding human capital, and  class collaboration. As a consequence he favors:
 * A mutually beneficial relationship between [[File:Corp.png]] business and [[File:Statism.png]] state.
 * Creating and sustaining a healthy, land-owning [[File:ClassDistr.png]] middle class.
 * Defending [[File:Property.png]] property rights (including intellectual property).
 * [[File:Right-Distributism.png]] Employee stock ownership and profit-sharing promotion.
 * Making [[File:Edu.png]] tertiary education (college and vocational) tuition-free.
 * Mandatory private health insurance with a public option (like the [[File:Cball-Switzerland.png]] Swiss model).
 * Moving to a charter school system for [[File:Schoolicon.png]] K-12 education.
 * [[File:Welf.png]] Programs which encourage personal growth (e.g., the EITC).
 * Protecting [[File:LibSyndieSam.png]] collective bargaining rights (unionization).
 * Raising the [[File:Gero.png]] retirement age to 75 (slowly overtime).
 * [[File:Statecap.png]] Social wealth funds for profitable natural resources.
 * [[File:Globalism.png]] Unilateral free trade agreements.

[[File:Imp.png]] Foreign Policy [[File:Necon.png]]
For Tiberius Thought, the international system is anarchic: Best characterized by the Hobbesian war of all against all. But he also agrees with "capitalist peace theory", the idea that open markets and integrating more nations into supply chains reduces unnecessary conflict. A combination of hard power and soft power is to him the best way to sustain the American Empire. His foreign policy can be compared to British imperialism, but heavily modernized. The goal of American foreign policy for him is two-fold:
 * 1) The creation of a [[File:Globalism.png]] "Global Commercium" or a massive, global supply chain while ensuring complacency among trading partners. Trade is the best way to project soft power while ensuring weaker powers are dependent on the United States and her [[File:Cball-NATO.png]] allies for survival.
 * 2) The use of a [[File:Mil.png]] strong military and [[File:CIA.png]] security apparatus to destroy adversaries and competing ideologies (e.g., [[File:Soc.png]] socialism), defend allies, and install puppet states (i.e. [[File:Banana_Republicanism.png]] banana republics). This combination of "peace through strength" and interventionism falls into hard power.

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.

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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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