RADICAL CENTER POLITICS

One of the single greatest things the internet has given humanity is that it may have helped lift millions out of poverty and into the middle class. The second thing it has done is create new sciences and allowed above-average IQ people to capitalize on those sciences to create new products in the world. Everything today requires the networking equipment and internet to operate.

However, is this economic uplift worth the social and psychological damage it has done to humanity? None of it would survive a coronal mass ejection (CME) and humanity would be worse off than before the advent of it. The only people who would survive an event like that would be completely isolated agrarian societies. Once the point of failure collapses destruction is in its wake.

The internet has given us unlimited information. For every research paper, there are a hundred articles written against it. For every negative article, there are a dozen positive, then negative against, ad infinitum.

Objective truth is buried in an age of unlimited information. Humanity wasn't meant to hear the collective voices of a billion people looking for attention. The average individual is incapable of finding truth reliably when all it takes is an algorithm change in a search engine to create a new sense of reality.

Different people who consume different news sources have different realities. Tribalism and objective truth cannot exist in society as it is currently constructed. This is where radical centrism and contrarianism come into play, if not needed for human survival at this point in our history.

Bad ideas can easily come into focus and steer the nation, if not the world, into new and uncharted territories. Let’s face facts, human psychology dictates that humans focus on negative facts and narratives over all others as a survival instinct. There are even news outlets now that show only positive news. No one cares. No one cares that someone crawled their way from poverty and became a functional member of society. In fact, people who find themselves in a rut are often abandoned by family and friends, as if bad luck were catching.

Contrarianism takes what is popular in society and turns it on its head. It doesn’t even need to have an introspective moment. It doesn’t need objectivity. It merely defecates on anything that can be defecated on for the simple fact that it is popular. This was once called grunge now it is called shit posting; both are seemingly philosophically correct and desperately needed en masse. This is needed because no idea regardless of how sound it appears should go unchallenged. Modern society doesn’t need single narratives that all espouse. This is what the government, media, and academia are trying to accomplish: multiple voices with one message.

Radical centrism takes the notion of contrarianism and focuses it on political matters. No idea, however sound it appears, should go unchallenged. When society drifts to one side, a radical centrist supplies the counterweight rather than moving automatically to the opposite camp. Rarely does anything ever fall squarely in the middle.

A radical centrist is one who has principles to uphold, who doesn’t take money from interest groups, who in fact distrusts government power despite working for the “man.” A radical centrist takes the “punk” movement and applies it to politics. Move beyond Left and Right, Red and Blue, and embrace the greyness of nuance.

This is the political stance of the Novum Carta.