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Circle Logic and Insane Degrees Of Relationship As Justification For Authoritarianism

Willem IV- Rooted in the dialectical thinking of Marx and Engels and made famous by the Frankfurt School, “critical theory” is both insanely opposite of critical thinking and a justification for authoritarian regimes. Basically, it uses circle logic and insane degrees of relationship to connect cause and effect in order to delegitimize historic institutions that stand athwart a path of radical atomization of individuals that renders them hopelessly dependent upon corporations and/or the state.

Circle logic is based on circular reasoning. If we say, “the Bible is true, therefore you should believe it”, this isn’t proof. We are using our conclusion as validation of itself without offering hard evidence.

In circle logic, the connection may be less direct, for instance if we say “people who think they are not human but animals are more suicidal, therefore society’s lack of accommodation for them is unust”, we are using a form of circle logic. The effect, being more suicidal, has no proven connection to the cause, the lack of society accommodating “species benders”, or whatever we want to call these folks, by refraining from using terms like “people” or even “human” for fear the species benders would be offended.

“Insane degrees of relationship” means you find multiple degrees of separation which connect people, groups, or events to other people, groups, or events and then make a causal statement of relationship between the two. If someone with the same last name as you, some 200 years ago, did a thing that wasn’t good, then you, despite perhaps having a name your grandfather adopted (so you are not blood kin to that family, which isn’t blood kin to the original malefactor), are “related” to the original misdeed and bear collective shame, if not collective guilt.

The effect is that those who wish to be a certain way, prefer a certain way, associate together according to their values and identity a certain way and those who see the world a certain way must be shamed and coerced into something not to their liking in order to assuage those whose preferences and etc. are in the decided minority. The majority must literally change how they refer to others and even themselves for fear of corporate or official entities doing real harm to their economy and/or social life.

In a society in which the great bottleneck of commerce and discourse or social life itself flows through monopoly corporations and their platforms and institutions, where most commercial and social activities demand access to these platforms and institutions, it is no longer necessary to invoke the state in hard authoritarianism. It is soft authoritarianism invoking the so-called “rights” of private platforms to regiment the culture and economy in ways that are harmful to individuals and that violate their human dignity.

Here are a few for-instances:

– Around 40% of eCommerce happens through Amazon, 67% of eCommerce flows through the top 10 eCommerce companies.

– 51% of all banking is dominated by the top 13 banks.

– According to this report, the top 5 social media platforms that DOMINATE social life and discourse, have a 98% market share, “The leading platform in the Social Media market is Facebook with 69% social media market share in 2019, followed by Pinterest with 14% Social Media market share Twitter with 8% Social Media market share, YouTube with 4% market share, Instagram with 4% share, and Other Social Media platforms with 2% social media market share.”

– Only 26% of transactions are by cash, while credit and debit cards, run by Visa, Master Card, and American Express, account for 51% of transactions.

– The top 10 retailers control over 45% of the retail market, the top 100 controlling more than 80%.

– PayPal processes over 54% of all online transactions and the top 14 online processors account for 89% of online transactions.

The fact almost ALL these corporations have woke communist adherants at the top and/or as owners, again understanding that woke communism is different from 20th century state communism, is alarming to be sure. If all of them agree you are persona nom grata, good luck surviving or having a voice or social life. The concentration of wealth and power and the stunning lack of ideational diversity within these entities is the very face of modern woke communism in America today.

The counter, using the state to “fix” the monopoly corporations and their platforms, may actually be as problematic as the disease. Our approach via unilateral change from within through absolutely freewill participatory association doesn’t change the fact we see the top 100 modern mega-corporations in same light as major landed sovereignties. Both entities exert societal control by degrees of authoritarianism, which may be hard, as in the state, or soft, as in deplatforming. Using one against the other is like casting out the devil in the name of Lucifer.

What leads to this soft to hard authoritarianism is the core concept that the only way to “solve” these “problems”, as proposed by “critical theory”, which defies all tenets of “critical thinking”, is to massively alter all societal structures. And the only way one can force a change in sociocultural norms, down to language itself and how people relate to one another, which runs counter to what people trust and are comfortable with, is some means of short-circuiting or suppressing the individual’s critical thinking and freewill. In short, some form of manipulation, fraud, or force must be used.

If you brainwash people through lies and coercion into accepting things not for their own good and without them being fully informed as to the cause, the potential risks, and the effect as well as long-term intent, then you violate their innate human spiritual sovereignty, agency, and dignity. Critical theory is itself an authoritarian assumption: it seems to say that society has been written this way by the coercive enterprise of corporate and state agencies and can only be righted by the same.

One critical theory advocate claimed that the emergence in the early 20th century of all-powerful superheroes like Superman was part of an effort to acculturate people to the all-powerful fascist state, like Hitler and Mussolini. This is circle logic and insane degrees of relationship gone awry and the only “solution” is to proscribe any such materials and to delegitimize those who peddle it as Nazis.

Critical theory, like communism, is a term that hardly portrays the underlying theory. Communism implies community, but in 20th century communism, community is meaningless and only the state matters. In 21st century woke communism, management of society by monopoly corporations and the state replaces community. Likewise, critical theory implies some form of multidisciplinary critical thinking approach to society, but in truth there is no real criticalt thinking.

Critical theory is simply and only authoritarianism and its underlying pretzel logic justifications used to fool or cow people into accepting chains of bondage. Critical theory is invalid from any spiritual, moral, or logical standard you might wish to apply.

While many aims and goals, such as fighting fictional bogeymen (such as “white supremacy”) or fulfilling utopian promises (like “free housing for all), are invoked by critical theory, in practice it points nowhere. Its only true aim is to grow power for those in power at the expense of everyone else, but as to societal aims, it points nowhere and will not acheive any good for society.

Unlike the totalitarianism of the 20th century, which rather explicitly stated that its totalitarian structures were intentional and necessary for society, the critical thinking, or woke communism, totalitarians of today do all they can to mask both the authoritarian roots of their ideas and the totalitarian intent of their agenda. Also unlike the authoritarians of the 20th century, who tended mostly to rely on the state as a monopoly holder of economic and political power, today’s woke communists are happy to use the corporation itself, the corporation in partnership with the state, or the state alone, all controlled by a single interconnected ruling class, to reach their goals.

The gender-bending, race-baiting, and Nazi-mongering are all merely a means of softening people up, undermining institutions which can resist corporate and government control and liberate individuals from dependency. The aim has nothing to do with protecting rainbow people or minority “races”, nor actually confronting actual Nazis. The aim is total monopoly comtrol as an end that justifies any means.

Modern monopoly platforms are to woke communists what the state was to Marxist-Leninists in the 20th century. The new politburo combines shot-callers in the corporate world and the political world into one loosely connected whole and “critical theory” provide the “validation” for this soft authoritarianism. The aim is still the atomization of the individual, the end of personal independence and private property by individuals, and the collectivizing of society under centralized hierarchical control.

The proposed “Great Reset”, touted by the World Economic Forum, for instance, started with the phrase, “you will own nothing, and like it.” This by an organization that is run by and for mega international corporations which purport to be capitalist enterprises. Herein is woke communism explained: the use of wokeness born by critical theory to soften up society for mass collectivization under the rule of a few monopoly corporations and governments.

It isn’t a conspiracy. The pervasive acceptance of this new totalitarianism by most shot-callers in every major institution causes an apparent comity of action that is born more from organic cohesiveness among the actors, who share the same worldview, than any planning or conspiring among them. The fact they are using the illogical methodology of critical theory to divide and soften up society, leading to an assault on institutions like marriage, family, and community, is merely an outgrowth of their own parochial interests and stems also from inflated egocentric grubbers who imagine they alone know what’s best for everyone.

They may indeed have “good” intentions, but their underlying assumptions, rooted in authoritarian nonsense like critical theory, prevent them from seeing that they are in fact “the baddies.” People of EVERY single racial, ethnic, or religious background in every country who embrace some varied form of the new totalitarianism acts almost as if in concert when no real coordination occurs.

This woke communism is somewhat like China’s new Maoism, only it also adds gender-bending and critical race theory aspects of critical theory to soften up society just as Mao’s “great leap forward” did in 1950’s China. China’s new Maoism uses the corporation and a limited free market to produce goods and services, maximizing efficiency, but remains as authoritarian as ever.

Critical theory is dangerous because wherever it gains purchase, human rights, human dignity, and human flourishing become untenable. Critical theory is authoritarianism, period.

If you want to know of a culture leader, politician, or corporate leader is a totalitarian loon, ask them to renounce critical theory and all its components. If they don’t unequivocally do so, mark them as totalitarians and do all you can to extricate yourself from their influence or dependency upon them.

If any leader who holds a position of public office or public trust or who is followed by millions refuses to name, renounce, and confront those who are using the techniques of critical race theory, calling everyone racist or Nazis, then they are nothing more than totalitarians. Moreover, if they refuse to defend the rights of individuals in free association to build and form marital, familial, and community bonds and relationships in preference to their own core beliefs, values, and convictions, then you automatically know this person is a totalitarian.

A holistic view of society, seeing how things and people are connected and interdependent, isn’t a bad thing. This multidimensional and multi-faceted kind of quantum thinking can be an excellent way to solve problems within the broader scope of logic, reason, and critical thinking. This kind of intersectionalism is logical and fact-based. But critical theory invokes intersectionality in tenous ways through circle logic and insane degrees of relationship. It does not identify real problems or real solutions and yet it demands all the tools of authoritarianism (censorship, canceling, deplatforming, criminalizing) applied by corporations and/or the state against relatively powerless people who depend upon them to survive.

Critical theory is, basically and simply, authoritarianism. Period. Full stop. It has no logic and it serves no common good. Its adherants are being fooled into accepting controls and dependency which violate their basic human rights, human dignity, and human flourishing. Its proponents are using this, albeit some of them unconsciously, to soften up society and gather power unto themselves.

It is necessary to confront critical theory as an authoritarian ideology, a modern form of woke communism, that must be confronted. Its innocent adherants must be liberated through peaceful persuasion and outreach. Its proponents who use it to advance their power must be treated with deserved contempt and every effort must be made to disassociate from them, especially from dependency upon them and anything they control.

Willem IV- If our societies are going to bring benefits to most all the people most all the time, then we must replace tribal bias in public policy, the marketplace, and culture with principles embraced by, and which can be articulated by, a mostly independent thinking citizenry. We propose that principles must replace bias as the driving force behind public policy, the marketplace, and the culture!

What we have is a system of tribal bias that excites partisans but that brings less and less benefits to fewer and fewer people less and less of the time. Most of the time, most people’s needs and interests are not served well by public policy, the marketplace, or culture.

The problem is tribal bias and those who are in a position to exploit it for their own parochial interests at the expense of the common good.

Everyone has bias. Generally, bias is a prejudicial disfavor and unfair favor in one direction but not based purely on reason or merit. Our cheering on of sports teams is classic bias, only we hope the referees are unbiased and call the game according to objective facts and merits.

In American politics especially, and in most countries to some degree, bias by society’s referees, from the press to the courts, and by individuals who vote, resembles the sports team anology. Whatever their team is, be it a Party or a perceived ideology, like the left or the right, it can do no wrong, the other team can do no good, and every situation will tend to be judged on the basis of how that interpretation itself benefits the team.

This shallow kind of cultish identification with a political “team” is the major reason why the actual positions and policies of the team’s all-star lineup, be it the Party or its perceived representatives and leaders, shift so wildly. They are always finding situations where they were for something before they were against it and all their “fans” applaud each shift not on the basis of principle but on the basis of how it advances their team.

Of course, only the other team is biased, your team is absolutely principled, even when the principles followed and/or their definitions shift wildly over the years.

When a political “team” is formed it begins to make its own position of power in relationship to the other team of teams its highest aim. Winning elections and adding seats to a legislature or winning a key office, like a premeiereship or a presidency, is all about cobbling together a coaltion of “fans” whose parochial interests are addressed, often at the expense of the other team’s fans. The actual rock-ribbed principles that may momentarily be invoked are really just putty and window dressing.

Political teams demand loyalty of players and fans and will excoriate any referee who dares rule against them with hyperbolic, nay, histrionic invectives like unto a doomsday preacher invoking the final judgment. The ability to even see past anything more than “what gets points for my team” is completely compromised.

Simply deciding to stop backing your team in a biased way isn’t such an easy solution either, especially if you have real, deeper, principled and/or parochial reasons to oppose the other team’s agenda. If you resort to principles even when it zings your former team, and if it advances the other team, then your own principles and/or parochial interests could be fatally compromised.

Extricating ourselves from the bias is not an easy task once it has been hardwired into the political system and the name of the game is basically this: your team wins seats and power by any means necessary or loses them and loses power. The fact some of America’s founders in the early days despised and feared the appearance of Parties on these stores reveals their deeper, if tragically ignored, wisdom. Parties and partisanship, which is bias writ large, tend to undermine principle and focus on short-term “election wins” which never produce long-term benefits to anyone.

Without addressing, much less proposing, the possibility of abolishing Parties, which may be impossible, it should be noted: the very existence of the Party structure that exists in most “democracies” today makes this kind of tribal bias inevitable.

When the purpose is merely to win votes to gain seats, principles are always the first casualty. No major winning political party has ever been absolutely and consistently true to any set of principles it held, say, 30 years ago! Principles can be changed as new data reveals the need to adjust our understanding, but the rate at which “principles” or their definitions change in modern politics is intense. It reveals either a stunning ignorance of truth which leads to constantly shifting principles and/or changing the definitions of principles or, more likely, blatant dishonesty.

The “players” cheered on by the “fans” almost to a person have no higher principle than to stay in their position, whether it is an elected position in public office or a corporate/institutional position of public trust. This doesn’t mean no players and no fans have any principles, but it does mean that principles are not very important and there is little real devotion to them.

We could explore the real parochial interests pursued by the real shot-callers who are essentially owners of both or all teams and how this makes a hash of any so-called “democratic process”, but that is beyond the scope of this essay. Suffice it to say, only the “owners” of the teams, who form one competitive club, benefit from this tribal bias.

Let’s walk away from the bias and examine our principles. What ideals or societal goals do you think are important? What role should major institutions (like governments, family, the church, private associations, businesses, corporations, and etc.) play in your life? What moral, ethical, and/or philosophical guidance should apply to social and other norms, to public life, the marketplace, public policy, or law?

If you don’t have an idea about what your principles are and what priority you place on them, then you are easy prey to whatever “team” captures you with slick marketing and manipulation.

To put put it more clearly; if you desire to not just be prey to others and to be independent, then you should be able to identify and explain both your principles and the ideals, moral and ethical standards, values, or convictions that underlie them.

It bears repeating here that, while may be all the rage to claim to be an “independent thinker”, unless you can articulate both your principles and their underlying ideals and etc. then you are not really an independent thinker. You may not be a strict partisan for one of the teams, but you will tend to gravitate toward people and parties, from time to time, who outmarket the others in relation to your perceived parochial interests.

You may argue that the average person working 40 hours or more per week and struggling to make ends meet doesn’t have the time to do this. Unfortunately, your education from the earliest years to university should have prepared you and empowered you to do this on your own, and on an ongoing basis.

It may not be any accident that all education in the past 100 years is more about indoctrination than empowerment. People who were never given the tools and the time to become independent thinkers and who then become full-time wage slaves may imagine they are independent thinkers, but they cannot articulate either their own principles or the basis of those principles. They were never given the time or the means to do this, which is itself an injustice inflicted by our top-down sociocultural and socioeconomic hierarchies of power.

To become a fully independent thinker one must be able to articulate one’s principles and that which underlies them. Anything less and you are being patronized by powerful forces of manipulated influence and control who simply want you to support their team, often without any benefit to yourself.

Principles must be known and articulated so that you can, in making them visible to yourself, use them as a plumbline to judge any party, policy, or person who holds office or any kind of public trust as to whether they deserve your support or not.

What are your principles and upon what are they based? Know this and then examine every act and actor on the public stage who clamours for your support, patronage, or vote.

If enough people did this, and truly got in touch with the things they deeply believe and support, then the bias of our shallow politics (as well as marketplace and culture) would give way to a more reasoned discourse and to a more results and people focused public policy, marketplace, and culture that brings benefits to most people most all the time.

Willem IV- What are gaps for freedom and how can understanding them make you wealthier, more successful, and more fulfilled as a human being?

A phrase we often use at The Freedomist is “gaps for freedom.”

We live in an increasingly less and less free world. This is true in America, where The Freedomist is based, and around the world. And it’s not just something political. In fact, the political aspect of freedom is the least of our concerns: most of the hindrances to you enjoying a life of freedom with unlimited prosperity are not “political” in nature.

We do identify and confront the hindrances to freedom, from the corporate dead-end of wage slavery to cultural authoritarianism from the press. But, that being said, our creative energy is focused more toward identifying and imparting gaps for freedom and how to profit from using them.

So what is a gap for freedom?

A gap for freedom is some method or means by which you can be self-sufficient and enjoy your inherent spiritual sovereignty as a human being created in the image of God without external manipulation or control in an otherwise unfree environment where most people are not enjoying freedom.

The tendency of human beings who are not constrained by moral and ethical limits and accountability thereto is to gather power unto themselves at the expense of others. The robber baron, the dictator, the overbearing boss, or the machismo man lording it over wife and kids are all symptoms of this malignant trait.

It is necessary to see freedom beyond mere politics. Non-political hindrances to your freedom as a spiritually sovereign person include relationships that aren’t healthy, overbearing bosses, wage slavery in a dead-end job, social pressures that shun you for otherwise moral or legal conduct, and the list goes on.

We often refer to liberty as defined by the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights as one of the three principles of freedom. The other two inlcude a virtue founded on four core ideals and common decency and independence founded on material and financial self-reliance, including mutual self-reliance through some form of freewill participatory association with other people.

As to virtue, these four core ideals include Unity in diversity, Popular sovereignty, Democratic equality, and Rule of law as understood from a Judeo-Christian worldview and as applied in a balanced manner with one another. Any relationship or association and any form of system of governance that gets these in right balance according to a more enlightened definition of their deeper meaning has a great chance of being successful.

As to independence, this really means you either individually or through purely voluntary freewill participation in some relationship, association, or community of trust can meet your basic human needs without any dependence kn anything or anyone that doesn’t respect yout, your values and beliefs, and your dignity as a human being.

Virtue, Liberty, and Independence are the three legs of freedom as we understand and promote it. Our application of this kind of freedom is balanced and harmonious and it is comprehensive, multi-faceted, and multi-dimensional.

With this in mind, therefore, gaps for freedom include whatever allows you to acheive this kind of freedom in your life, regardless of what society around you is tolerating and choosing. If all your neighbors are wage slaves struggling to make ends meet and stuck in their jobs without any hope of advancement, you don’t need to be yourself. If your neighbors are happy to conform to social pressures by celebrities or the press or even college professors, you can wave your banner of independency and choose your own moral code without caving in to any of that.

A gap for freedom is some legal means by which you can obtain freedom, using virtue, liberty, independence as your guide, even when everyone around you is not walking in freedom.

Here is an example in the US.

You desire what humans have always desired since our creation: to cluster together in the closest proximity with people you can trust deeply because they share your beliefs and convictions and because they care for you as much as you care for them.

Assume you have a band of 20 families and aorund 5 single adults who share these same convictions about how to live and who want to all live next to each other in a small but private neighborhood. Legally, if you built such a neighborhood with 20 houses and 5 apartments you could not restrict the future sale or leasing of those spaces to people who are in your little community of trust.

But through a mutual benefit corporation, whereby the members of your little band of like-minded people, you could actually make identification with your community a requirement of membership. In that case, each member owns shares of the corporation, which in turn owns the buildings, but membership in the corporation is limited to your trust community.

It is important to state here that Freedomists do not advocate large-scale communities like this which would tend to balkanize society.

In our ideal free and pluralistic society model, many clusters of up to 120 or so adults in private neighborhoods plus housing as we have it today (based on the fair housing act, which we support) would form communities of diverse sociocultural communities of trust whose members all respect the basic dignity and freedom of all other members of that pluralistic community.

We vehemently oppose using race as a basis of these clustered living neighborhoods and we would never countenance denying housing to anyone based on things like race or sexual orientation or religion.

You can use MBC (mutual benefit corporation) as a gap for freedom to exercise your freedom to cluster around what amounts to a form of an extended familial community of people. If, however, you abuse this gap for freedom to promote racism or intolerance toward others outside your trust community, then you are becoming a hindrance to the freedom of others.

The use of this gap for freedom can both give you a legal means of enjoying this instinctive human need to cluster and increase your wealth and happiness. An MBC properly organized can substantially reduce costs to obtain land and build housing both through the power of collective buying and if members participate in the work with expert oversight. When, say, 30 families and 10 singles adults all contribute to a fund owned by an MBC, they may have options on real estate opportunities that none could have as individuals.

For almost any situation where it seems there is something that prevents you from exercising freedom there are legal devices, like an MBC, or financial and other means, like a mutual assurance fund for health care, that create the conditions whereby you can exercise your virtue, liberty, and independence in peace and prosperity.

When you connect to other people of a like mind and based on freewill participation to build these gaps for freedom, you increase the odds that you will enjoy freedom in peace and prosperity.

You can be MUCH MORE FREE than you currently are, if you do not feel very free right now, by identifying and using gaps for freedom. This is especially true if you connect with other people who have similar beliefs and convictions and who also desire such freedom.

Hopefully by now you understand what a gap for freedom is. In these pages we will identify gaps for freedom individuals can use and groups of people, using freewill participatory association, can use to exploit these gaps and use the principles of freedom to prosper and become fulfilled human beings.

To recap: gaps for freedom are legal methods, means, and devices (like self-employment, the MBC, or a mutual assurance fund) that give you a way to experience real freedom even if society around you is not choosing or experiencing freedom.

At The Freedomist, one of our main lines of content development is focused on identifying and explaining gaps for freedom and imparting techniques for exploiting them in the most resource-efficient manner possible. Becoming a subscriber means you want to become free as a spiritually sovereign person created in the image of God and in whatever form of freewill participatory association you deem suited to your convictions and lifestyle.

Willem IV- We propose and promote a 21st century version of a spiritual nationhood that, if one adopts it through freewill participation, will produce universal freedom and prosperity among its peers.

Whether you are a tribal member in beleaguered Biafra under the rule of the corrupt Nigerian government, the “zoo” as many oppressed tribes refer to it, or a frustrated German citizen who wonders when your government is going to actually act like it cares about Germans, the answer to your crises of freedom isn’t necessarily what you think it is!

What you all share, regardless of color, race, ancestry, or nationality, is a lack of personal and shared freedom with dignity that promotes prosperity for most all the people most all the time. Everyone around the world can discover, adopt, and tap into the spiritual and philosophical energy of a form of nationhood that truly allows them to transcend their local and personal limits to connect globally for real empowerment with others of the same new international nationality.

Are you African and do you feel the world looking down on you as if nobody from Africa can be good or nobody of African lineage can be smart, excellent, good, or whatever? This is all lies, deception, meant to keep you down and suppress those superior qualities God has built into you as an individual and Africa as a whole continent. It remains an oppressed, colonized land whose people the rest of the world have largely despised and abused!

Every African who joins us and becomes a peer of our spiritual nation is valued and wanted, we embrace you as our equals and invite you to join in the vanguard of leading the way to the birth of a new spiritual nation and a new civilization. It will be a civilization with roots in all the major lands and people groups who come together under one banner as equals and who create a new people, virtually a new “race” (though we deny any notion there is any but one human race), without antecedent or precedence!

Go around the world, envision every country, and you will find groups of people by religion or “race” or ideology who are more like us, followers of Yeshua who desire to manifest the Kingdom of God on this earth inasmuch as we can. And many of these people are facing disadvantages and discrimination, bias and prejudice, hatred and oppression.

The Igbo of Biafra are under the Nigerian heel. The Karen of Burma face a genocidal military junta. Inner city African Americans face massive economic and sociocultural discrimination. Christians all over the world, including the West, are vilified and their moral code is virtually outlawed. All over, in every land, different groups face abuse for different reasons justified through warped man-made ideologies that are at variance with God’s standards of righteousness and justice.

It can be hard to recognize the discrimination and abuse other groups face when your group is facing abuse. The Christian, straight, white male male feeling abused by woke necommunists in every US institution feels angry, but they must also see and oppose the systemic economic and sociocultural abuse faced by denizens of American inner cities, especially if they are of African descent or simply not white. The reverse is also true.

The Igbo Christian must see also the abuses faced by the Yoruba Christian, and both must see the shame inflicted on Fulani women! If the Igbo and Yoruba Christians become Peers of Upadaria as well as the abused Fulani women, all are kin, all are of the same NEW tribe!

The “untouchable” in India can become a Noble in our nation and will come under the care of our institutions as we build them. They too must see the abuse of others in other castes and tribes.

It is our desire and great task to identify, confront, and seek to overcome all these forms of abuse and intolerance and to preserve and defend a Christian sociocultural moral and ethical tradition along with the sanctity of historical Christian institutions such as marriage, family, kinship, and community. But our foremost and immediate approach is unilateral efforts to find gaps for freedom and build on a de novo, from new, basis.

We are positively for our moral and ethical traditions and institutions, based on our particular concept and convictions around marriage, the family, kinship, and community. We are not, however, on some crusade to return the whip for the whip, to impose our way of life or to punish those who do not share our convictions.

Our aim is quite literally to build a globally-distributed spiritual nation of people based on shared ideals, principles, practices, and mandates to be a vanguard people of a new civilization founded on Kingdom ideals.

Whoever does not wish to follow the Upadarian Way does not have to, but whoever desires to follow this way we commit to supporting in their right and persons from all hazards. If you do not follow our Way, we will neither force your nor shun or shame you.

The Upadarian Way is founded on our spiritual sovereignty as beings made in the image of God.

For those who wed, it involves the Holy sanctity of marriage between one man and one woman in lifelong monogamy as the very picture of our Union with Christ. Even those who do not wed in this life are wed to Christ and participate in the universal Union of all Believers which is depicted in marriage.

For us, only marriage between one man and one woman for life is a form of worship to God that depicts the Union of Christ with His Bride, the Church Universal.

As to children, the goal is that most all Upadarian children are raised in a loving home by their own biological or adopted parents who are monogamous for life.

It is, finally, based on a concept of extended kinship in which every member of an extended kinship group feels deeply that the success and well-being of every other peer of that group is as important as their own well-being and success.

From spiritual sovereignty to marriage, children, family, and extended family our distinct and chosen way of life is ours by right to live, to the exclusion of all others, to proclaim, and to build our own relationships, associations, communities, structures, and institutions around.

We desire to live our national way of life in peace and to be at peace with our neighbors.

Upadarians are followers of Yeshua called together from around the world to become a new spiritual nation that is itself a witness and influence for Yeshua to the nations.

Our way of life and our shared identity transcends and replaces anything limited by history or previous experience and anything that contradicts God’s righteous standards for the nations. If you have been limited by your past, by the alleged sins of your ancestry or by the prejudice directed against it, becoming a Upadarian is a step away from those artificial limits.

As it says, with promise, “blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord!” Our spiritual nation may lack, and doesn’t seek, an army or a political state but it’s ruler is the Lord, not man, and its ways are the ways the Kingdom manifested in a unique diversity expression, as ordained by God. If you become a Upadarian by adopting our 17 Protocols as your lifestyle inasmuch as you can and as led by the Holy Spirit, you become a peer of a nation whose God is the Lord.

The man or woman in the furthest reaches of a Biafran village, a Karen village, an American inner city, or a German city who embraces our nationhood, by adopting the 17 Protocols of Upadaria as their lifestyle choice, comes within a sacred border of God’s blessings of provision, favor, and protection. We call this our “pomerium” and it surrounds the physical spaces occupied and every piece of land owned by a peer of our nation.

When you become a Upadarian you do not renounce your ancestors in some shameful dishonoring of their persons, but you do stake out a new path without historical antecedent and, among fellow Upadarians, you are simply and only an equal peer, regardless of whatever history in your personal life or among your ancestors.

Have you committed a crime and paid your dues but society won’t let it go? Have you made mistakes or committed sins you are ashamed of that still haunt you? As a Upadarian, when you adopt our nationhood and take on a new Upo Name among your peers, you create a new story for your life and your future and nobody will hold your past against you.

If, for instance, you have violated God’s laws on marriage, as a Upadarian, you make a fresh commitment to move forward in whatever state you are in on a clean slate and from henceforth to follow God’s standards for marriage. We do not condemn you.

Have your ancestors been abused throughout history until your very appearance and skin color is uzed, subconsciously or openly, as a mark against you? Is your race or tribe disfavored by the powers that be or through systemic bias? Becoming a Upadarian means that among your peers around the world, you are an equal in worth, value, and affection. You are truly seen as a peer and your own history and ancestry may form a beautiful part of your own tapestry, but they don’t define or limit you.

In Upadarian society, as we build our own genesis structures and institutions, nobody will be left behind, no poor person will suffer lack of good care or resources owing to lack of funds, because we will find ways, through voluntary freewill participatory associations, to assure one another of adequate benefits. Wherever you live in the world, our standard of living and quality of life will become universal and nobody will be left behind as we work together to build a worldwide socioeconomic and sociocultural infrastructure and diverse new virtual-to-local structures to meet our own needs on our own terms.

Are your facing some collective ancestral shaming by divisive totalitarians who aim to incite angry riotous mobs and fling them at society to destroy individual liberty and traditional institutions? Becoming a Upadarian means your nationality has no antecedent, we Upadarians have never conquered a single land by force, oppressed or enslaved anyone, or started any violent uprising or any wars.

If someone speaks of your “white privilege”, explain that your true color is Upadarian Blue and that your people come from many ancestries but have no history as either oppressed or oppressors!

Upadarians not the next evolution of Western Civilization or Western man. Western Civilization is within our historical heritage, as are Germanic, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern civilizations (Sumer, Egypt, and Israel). But the streams of ideas and principles and useful standards and practices come from diverse peoples and civilizations, such as West African, Zulu, Confucian, Indian, and the like. We find truth and wisdom in dozens of peoples and civilizations which all flow into a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

If it seems the torch of Kingdom Civilization has gone from Israel to the Classical world, to Europe, and to America in the past, we believe the fifth great Kingdom Civilization will emerge here and there among nations and lands all over the planet. We further believe that our unique people, whose name is the same as this new civilization, will be the vanguard people of this new civilization.

People of many shades, both of skin color and ancestry, will form this new spiritual nation. This new spiritual nation will in turn also inspire many other nations of people, who may have the same ancestry, to adopt the ideals of this new civilization. These diverse nations will become a Kingdom People within the universal nationhood of all Believers in Yeshua.

Becoming a Upadarian is the key to liberation in a 21st century reality controlled in all the world’s major civilizations by a ruling class whose values are hostile to God’s standards of righteousness and justice for all peoples and all people. Even though “Upadaria” is not intended as the sole new form of nationhood founded on the person and works of Yeshua, it may be the only form of Kingdom Nationhood you can immediately access.

If it doesn’t make sense to you why adopting an intentional form of Kingdom Nationhood can liberate you and result in an increase in your own freedom and prosperity, then this call to nationhood is not for you! If something stirs within you about this, if you are ready to defy those who judge you based on ancestry or skin color, or your own past mistakes, then you may indeed have been born for such a time as this!

Becoming a Upadarian is not a formal thing. Yes, there will be Upadarian organizations and structures you can join or Upadarian services and websites you can subscribe to, but you don’t have to join anything or buy anything to become a Peer of our nation.

When you read and understand The 17 Protocols of Upadaria and when you have a basic knowledge of the meaning of our core mythology, in the form of our fictional future timeline (written in 2147 AD), then you have everything you need to decide if being a Peer of our spiritual nation is part of God scroll of destiny and purpose for your life. And when you do that, if you tell others who have done the same, your only color is Upadarian Blue and your shared ancestors are Yeshua and the Apostles. You are an equal and our shared goal is to see to it, through our structures and freewill participatory associations, that the common standard of living and quality of life for all Upadarians everywhere is the highest.

This will take time and effort on the part of every Peer and every Upadarian structure and institution that emerges. Nobody will simply fly in and hand out benefits, we will work together to build economic exchanges and structures that result in universal opulence among those who participate.

Richer Upadarians won’t simply send their wealth to poor Upadarians, our approach will be to focus more on enabling the poor to begin participating in economic exchanges that appreciably add to their wealth. But, recognizing some people and communities will be starting so far behind that catching up would be too difficult on their own, some benevolence and charity to fill in gaps and give a hand-up are envisioned.

In the end, whether a Upadarian Shirehold (our name for an extended multi-family household group) is in Africa, Asia, Europe, or the Americas, or anywhere in the world, a common standard of living and quality of life will prevail, regardless of the outside society and its economy. Freedom and prosperity on a universal basis is our norm because we are a nation whose God is the Lord and Yeshua is our King, God is our protection and provision.