Roxxagonian Thought

Roxxagonian Thought is the ideology of artist, philosopher, and political commentator Roxx Anderson Gone.



Morality
Roxxagonianism believes that any consistent ideology should be a logical conclusion of an ethical or moral philosophy. The politics are to be deduced from an ethical system, not the other way around.

The moral system that Roxxagon roots himself in is Utilitarianism. The belief that "moral" and "desirable" actions are ones that produce the most happiness and the least suffering over all. If an action "costs" a small amount of suffering, but prevents a much bigger suffering, it is to be allowed.

He rejects Deontological and Religion-based ethical systems. Though he does hold some respect for people who believe in them, and build a consistent political view off them. He considers them much more reasonable than people who "post hoc" justify a lot of things and "flip flop" their moral and political beliefs based off instinctual reactions.

Human Nature
Roxxagons view of humanity in his early teenage years used to be more misanthropic, an extremely negative view of humanity as a mass. Strongly influenced by fears about environmental collapse. Though over time it faded and evolved more into a sort of optimistic cynicism.

Modern Roxxagonism sees human beings and societies as more self-interested than they are altruistic, though the conflicts and forces of human political history generally cause a positive trend.

It also sees humans as primarily irrational and driven by emotion and instincts, rather than reason, with human logic and intellect being subservient to the passions. This is inspired by the writings of evolutionary psychologist Jonathan Haidt, and his book "The Righteous Mind". Human passions, greeds, fears and instincts make decisions, human reason then post-hoc justifies them.

In a similar way, Roxxagonist philosophy also holds a cynical view of the origins of political ideologies themselves, inspired in great part by the marxist theory of Dialectical Materialism. He believes that mainstream ideology is influenced the strongest by special interests, political classes and social hierarchies attempting to post-hoc justify themselves. E.g. Pro-Capitalist ideology is being promoted to protects the interests of the rich and those who benefit off of capitalism. Authoritarian Socialist ideology gets propagandized to justify governments with such ideologies holding on to power. Nationalist ideology gets promoted to justify giving certain nations and governments special powers, and so on.

Government
Roxxagon considers himself a "moderate anarchist". Anarchist in the sense of the abolition of social and political hierarchy. He highly values democracy, believing it to be the best way to shape government and decisionmaking along the most important wills of all its people. Thus his most preferred system of government is Liquid Democracy, a modified version of Direct Democracy that still allows for voluntary representation. He once described it as "the most individualist form of democracy".

Inspired by the common call by right wing minarchists for a "night watchman state", (which he considers to ironically be extremely authoritarian,) he founded the concept of a "maid catgirl state". A state that is reduced to a public forum to allow society to organize itself, provide various utilities with minimal to no penal justice or centralized violence, and considered illegitimate should it not do so, or turn from a servant into the one being served.

This is also in strong part due to Roxxagonian thought having a stark rejection of libertarian "Anti-Politics". A moralistic rejection of using public institutions or collective organizations to push for positive social change, often being decried as "state handouts", "big government", or "the nanny state". He considers it a malicious invention of american pro-capitalist propaganda."'The opposite of the people serving the state is the state serving the people. Simple as.'"

Economics
The Roxxagonian economic model involves both market socialism, decommodification of vital goods and inelastic markets, as well as strong welfare programs. Sometimes jokingly calling it "Super-capitalism". He doesn't stick entirely to any economic school of thought, though most of his agreed-on economic knowledge comes from high school social science, Keynesianism, Modern Monetary Theory and Marxism, and he's generally skeptical of the austrian school of economics and propertarian philosophy.

He favors a Land Value Tax, ala Henry George, and a high inheritance tax on the wealthy, ala Thomas Piketty.

He considers welfare both an economic and moral neccessity, as a small but present level of unemployment is helpful and always strived for by governments, and "starving to death shouldn't be the punishment for laziness." He does acknowledge poorly thought out welfare programs can incentivize passiveness and inactivity, though he sais even this is a reasonable price to pay.

"'I'd rather have a country where 1.000 families live off welfare and do nothing, than a country where 100.000 families will starve to death if they loose the next paycheck.'"Though even to prevent this, instead of traditional poverty assistance he favors a Universal Basic Income.

Nationalism
Roxxagon considers nationalism, particularly the conservative and exceptionalist types, to be "a fucking mental disorder", citing both personal experience debating nationalists, which according to him consistently felt like "listening to post-hoc paranoid spirit science, except with less drugs and more racism", and George Orwell's essay "Notes on Nationalism". The latter he believes applies not exclusively to nationalism, but to "tribalist" and surface-based ways of thinking in general.

Religion
Roxxagon himself is an agnostic atheist. In his youth he used to be so much more strongly, as he used to be invested in the "Skeptic Community" on youtube, around 2015-2017. Particularly "The Armored Skeptic" and "Amazing Atheist".

Some of those beliefs on religion itself have faded, though he is still strongly against theocracy and conservative and fundamentalist religious cultures.

He believes in freedom of religion, although he believes it should submit to more "concrete" and "verifiable" freedoms it might get in conflict with. E.g. Jews and Muslims should not be allowed to circumcise their very young children without consent, conservative christians and muslims shouldn't be allowed to discriminate against gay people, and so on.

He justifies this with the following mantra: "We don't know if not worshipping a God causes harm to humanity, but we do know that throwing gay people off rooftops definitely causes harm."

-Roxxagonian Mantra on Religious Freedom He is not a state atheist, though he would strongly prefer it over a conservative theocracy.