MEFISDO

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What does MEFISDO stand for?

Multi-Ethnic
  • A society that is not defined by ancestry but by intentional participation and co-operation.
  • It is wrong to discriminate by birth. It is also wrong not to discriminate by behaviour.
  • This also means that having been born to a MEFISDO society doesn’t guarantee membership.
Fair
  • Causing suffering must be avoided when possible.
  • Anything is allowed that doesn’t cause unnecessary suffering to other MEFISDO members.
  • Birth, wealth, or belief do not grant privilege.
  • Accumulation of power is limited through lateral structures instead of hierarchical ones.
  • Accumulation of wealth is limited to 10 times the median wealth, all forms of wealth included.
  • Multi-generational wealth accumulation or dissipation is heavily compensated. The luck or unluck, or behaviour of the parents should not affect the life of the child.
  • Mindfulness of, and resource preservation for future generations. Limit global population to sustainable levels.
  • MEFISDO protects those whose behaviour is compatible with MEFISDO’s principles. It has no obligation to protect those who violate the principles. Those who intentionally violate the principles are considered to have forfeited their Human Rights.
Individualist
  • A person is not primarily defined by their role in society.
  • People are individuums, not husbands, wives, men, women, employees,bosses, parents, rich, poor, foreigners, citizens, relatives, straight, gay, black, brown, white, christian, muslim, atheist, etc.
  • Everyone is primarily defined by themselves, not the groups they voluntarily or involuntarily belong to.
  • Do not identify. Just be!
  • Behaviour politics instead of identity politics!
Secular
  • There is place for spirituality in a society. Even for some organizations around beliefs, with limited power and wealth.
  • It is understood however that nobody knows the spiritual truth, therefore it has no place in conversations of policy regarding this world.
  • Historic organized religious institutions are stripped of special status and tax exemptions. Those which have practiced violent proselytism are to be marked as terrorist organizations.
  • Religions that restrict their members’ rights to fairness or preach principles in violation of MEFISDO are to be dissolved.
Decentralized
  • Centralization means hierarchy; hierarchy means power structure with a single chain of command.
  • A “net of command” on the other hand means nobody can exert sole control and nobody can blindly follow orders.
  • Small communities and organizations over large ones. Co-operation over coercion.
  • Communities and organizations that turn cancerous in their observable behavior are disbanded by force of the rest of the communities.
Orthoculture
  • The principles of MEFISDO can be applied in diverse ways.
  • Any culture however that is not compatible with the principles of MEFISDO must be shut out and not to be interacted with.
  • It is acknowledged that not every human is willing to live by the principles of MEFISDO. Those humans are outside of the fairness protections of MEFISDO.

The curses that make MEFISDO hard

We don’t know or care if the world was cursed by a metaphysical being or if they are the result of unconscious laws of Nature.

Scarcity
  • The physical world has finite resources.
  • Infinite growth is impossible. Attempts at it are analogous to cancer.
Entropy
  • In addition to scarcity, existing things deteriorate, break down, get lost, etc.
Uncertainty
  • Nobody can have complete, unbiased, and error-free knowledge of the past, present, or future.
Isolation
  • Our minds are inaccessible to anybody but ourselves. Means of communication e.g. language, art, emotional expressions, etc. are easy to misunderstand or misinterpret.
  • We can’t feel each other’s suffering; the best approximation of that is empathy.
Malevolence
  • Some humans exhibit behaviour that causes unnecessary suffering to other beings.
  • It doesn’t matter what is going on in their mind, what their “intents” are. Doesn’t matter if “deep down they are good people” or “they just want to do good”. It is not enough to not be evil; one must not appear to be evil.
  • The nature of evil seems to be to try to get into positions of power from which position they amplify the suffering they can cause.

We know the above are curses, because we all can imagine worlds without them. However we must acknowledge that these are the cards we have been dealt. MEFISDO and its members must operate by actively counteracting the above curses.

The page linked here provides some examples of how to counteract the curses.