About
Meritocracy is a political ideology affirming that individual skills and abilities should determine power and influence in society. Group identities, biologic or social, are only considered as secondary attributes. Granted, biologic identities are more meaningful than your social identities; given how the former are stable from birth to death. We are against unjust discrimination based on group affiliations, i.e. both the positive and negative kind, and consider the former to be thinly veiled bigotry.
We are passionate supporters of everything furthering progress and development. It follows that we want to remove anything hindering such noble pursuits. We are fierce champions of evidence-based politics, and will not support policies without scientific backing. Indeed, this movements commitment to science is unparalleled, and will change politics forever. True Meritocracy is all about pursuing truth and progress no matter where it leads us!
Snapshot of True Meritocracy
- It is all about merit, merit, and more merit
- Equality of opportunity is king
- Remove all chains limiting human development
- Against all unjust group-based discrimination
- Treat group affiliations only as secondary attributes
- We do however accept evidence-based grouping
- Pragmatism is king
- Only promote the best of the best available
- Approach everything neutral and unbiased
- Accurately identify, prioritize, and solve problems
- Apply a scientific method to political policies
- Policies must be meritocratic, sustainable, and legitimate
- Multi-generational application of “The Golden Rule”
- Multi-species application of “The Golden Rule”
- Guide reproduction wisely; continually improving health
- Advance human evolution with eugenics and genetic engineering
- Embrace realistic versions of transhumanism
- Implement scientific demographic planning
- Promote difficult change through carrots (not sticks)
- E.g. environmentalism, internationalism and taxation
- Unite humanity with an expanded version of English
- Support free trade and open (but meritocratic) borders
- Avoid petty laws and useless officials
- Balance personal rights with social duties
- Promote truth, beauty, love, improvement, and merit
- Stop the genocide of Earth’s biodiversity
- Maintain balance between mankind and nature
- Remove all chains limiting scientific progress
- Pursue truth no matter where it leads us
- Focus on holistic solutions
- Embrace innovation
- Politics should promote and mediate self-improvement
- Greatest good for the greatest number of all people
- Needs of the many outweigh needs of the few (or one)
- Consequences of actions are always most important
- Deontology only works for divine/perfect maxims
- View everything from short-, medium-, and long-term
- Consider everything holistically
- Review everything from a local and global perspective
- Divide Earth into logical and equally influential zones
- Have checks and balances for all branches of power
- No one too big to fail, or too powerful to prosecute
- Expand use of referendums and direct democracy
- Establish survey (policy-based) voting system
- Replace one-man-one-vote with a meritocratic system
- Focus on return-on-investment (ROI) in all areas of life
- etc………