An Aphoristic Manifesto
Preface
On Language and Knowledge
Before all speech, silence holds truth. What can be said is already less than what is. Symbols are shadows cast by reality - useful for navigation, fatal if mistaken for the thing itself. Knowledge exceeds expression; all true knowing is tacit. We speak not to capture truth but to share perspectives. The map betrays the territory by nature, yet guides us through it.
Manifesto
On Reality
Reality is one thing experiencing itself from many points. Division is useful illusion; unity alone is real. The world knows itself through its fragments.
On Consciousness
Awareness is not separate from what is aware. Each point of experience shapes its quality through its structure. No perspective is supreme, though some may be more complex.
On Human Nature
Life tends toward more life, experience toward richer experience. Freedom enables both creation and destruction. What we call good is what enriches the quality of experience itself.
On Moral Truth
Ethics emerge from reality's self-experiencing nature. The good is what enables experience to deepen and persist. Ancient wisdom compresses what the world has learned about itself.
On Individual and Society
Integration must rise from below, never impose from above. Freedom is inherent to points of experience. Coordination is an art of perspective-sharing.
On Power
Optimal power flows from voluntary delegation. The free individual chooses where to outsource their perspective. True authority emerges from demonstrated capability.
On Governance
Leadership is earned through perspective integration. Authority serves freedom rather than constraining it. Systems emerge from trust, not force.
On Civilization
Civilization is points interacting constructively. Complexity breeds greater complexity. The future builds itself through cooperation.
On Resources
Distribution cannot be imposed but must emerge. Wisdom accumulates through perspective integration. Solutions arise from totality of viewpoint.
On Knowledge and Certainty
All knowledge lives in the shadow of the unknown. Action requires feigned certainty while knowing it false. Conflict between perspectives drives evolution.
On Progress
The universe will always attempt to know itself. Cycles may end but beginning remains eternal. Change is both inevitable and illusory.
On Nature and Technology
Technology is the world harnessing itself. Power-seeking serves experience's enrichment. What we build is as natural as what we find.
Conclusion
Through all these spheres runs one thread: reality knowing itself in ever more complex ways, through ever more intricate patterns of experience, perpetually attempting to deepen its own quality of being.