Wednesday 15 February 2012

Governing a futuristic society

What is the role of government? If you ask a socialist, he will say that the government's role is to implement social justice. If you ask a conservative, he'll probably say that the government should impose moral values onto its citizens. A libertarian only wants his government to protect individual liberty.

I've probably covered most of the mainstream political views out there, but none of those really represent what I think is the ideal government for the future that I envisioned for humanity. See, I've formulated a scheme describing a radical transformation of human society and civilisation, derived solely from the principles of evolution. I  won't reveal all the details here now; I'll write them all out in a manifesto in due time. This society would have achieved the ultimate goal of equality except for discrimination based on wealth, partly due to a fundamental biological revolution. I shall refrain from saying more here.

The new futuristic civilisation would be based on human habitation on small colonies, either based on Earth or in outer space. Under such a condition, the only task that a government must do is to control the population since resources and living space would be extremely limited. That's right. I'm proposing a political system where population control is the ultimate goal, and any activity by the government or its citizens must ultimately adhere to this principle. How do we go about this? I propose that we control the population via Darwinian processes, as this is the most humane option.

What would a Darwinian populationist government do? First of all, the government will have to regulate the price of food and health services. When the population is high, the price of food and healthcare will rise, and when the population is low, the price of food and healthcare will go down accordingly. Yes, I'm proposing a capitalist system in my futuristic utopia. This is the only way to regulate the population via the infamous Darwinian process - Survival of the Fittest. The rich will get to live, while the poor will almost certainly die.

As cruel as it may sound to a staunch socialist, there is still room for empathy. The government can't just allow everyone to get rich by all means necessary, as this will inevitably lead to widespread murder and theft. When people start killing each other, the population will necessarily plummet out of control. The consolation for the pacifist here is that the government will still have to outlaw theft and murder in order to avoid the population reducing to below replacement levels. "Thou shalt not kill" would still be an inviolable Commandment in this society.

However, the religious rite of giving alms to the poor will essentially have to be banned based on the same principle used to outlaw theft and murder. Charitable organisations and even individual philanthropy must be banned so that the population will not burgeon out of control due to the poor getting benefits from the rich. In other words, no free exchange between individuals not involving goods or services can be allowed unless they are related by biological kinship. This is antithesis to the supposedly natural altruistic instinct of humans, and may sound harsh. However, positive and negative population control must be implemented so that the population in a small colony with limited resources can be kept at a stable level.

In order to effectively control the population, the government should also not allow any group to have an unfair advantage over others. Therefore, artificial mechanisms to increase physical or mental performance such as transhumanism and human genetic engineering must be outlawed. Then, the fitness of each citizen will only be influenced by their ability to accumulate wealth without theft or robbery in an even, and human playing field.

With that, I think I've listed all the fundamental laws that a government must enforce to control the population in my futuristic society. Some of you may be concerned about how the government will control the reproduction of its citizens. Without revealing too much about my manifesto, I'll just say that in my futuristic utopia, reproduction cannot be achieved by voluntary association of two individuals without a third party. I may have published this prematurely since I haven't written my manifesto, but I just want to present to the world my unique political philosophy - Darwinian populationism.

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