Neo-liberalism, Socialism, Post-modernism, Ultra-nationalism. The 4 gods of modernity did not live together in harmony, but everything changed anyways when reality struck.
Why am I writing all of this grandiose talk about failing gods, a supernova effect, and a different take on politics. To summarize my view simply:
Modern political ideologies have reached their ends over the past 200 years.
There is a need for a paradigm shift in political thinking but I am not creative enough to propose a new paradigm. Instead I want to set the stage.
I want to build an environment where others can build new paradigms.
To that end, I wrote these four fundamental posts to cover the ideological basis of The Future Party:
The Vision: The supernova effect.
The Ends: The 10 foundations.
The Means: The 6 attitudes.
The Reason: this post.
Today, broadly speaking, there are 4 ideologies that form the pantheon of political thought, the first 2 are economic and the other 2 are social. All of them promised utopia then failed miserably at different points:
Neo-liberalism: Failed in 2008 (Great Financial Crisis)
Socialism: Failed in 1991 (Fall of the USSR)
Ultra-nationalism: Failed in 1945 (End of WW2) & before & since
Post-modernism: Currently flailing around
In the past they have been mixed and matched in many ways, but overall the result of their failure in the present is rising tension and desperation globally. Desperation that risks tearing societies apart.
Do note that I'm speaking about the Western side of the story here. Globally the journey is a bit different, some had it really good, others made decent gains, a few saw no improvement, and a handful sharply declined.
So why do I call them gods?
Because their advocates treat them as such. With the visible decay in quality of life visible worldwide, most public figures are insisting that the solution is blind faith in maximizing one of the 4 while expecting the result to be different this time...
Insanity.
Below is a brief summary of each, including their promise, their successes, their failures, and the lessons we at The Future Party learned from them.
Stay tuned for dedicated full posts on each topic in the near future.
Neo-liberalism
Socialism
Ultra-nationalism
Post-modernism
These are not thorough as I focused here on the bigger picture of the ideologies driving political discourse towards extremism.
Individuals, parties, and other groups mostly fall in a place where they hold a mix of views. In eras of turbulence such as the one we live in today, extremism slowly rises in spite of what individuals want. Opportunistic politicians take advantage of passionate radical elements to bolster their ranks. This however has the side effect of dragging society towards a more extremist direction.
Instead of pandering towards any of the existing ideologies, I want Balance to be at the heart of The Future Party
This is why we want to focus on building the environment for new constuctive ideologies to flourish. You can learn more about that in the blog posts below.
Thanks for reading,
Amr
Future PM of Canada (ideally)
For a Brighter Tomorrow!
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