What are your specialities?

[Bill the Piper]

(09-26-2019, 06:14 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Humanism, and not populism, is the rightful objective. Humanism encompasses the whole of humanity (Alle Menschen werden Brüder), and populism can easily put the focus on one nation. To be sure, an oppressed nation has the right to seek independence. A populist ideology that serves only one nationality with a narrowed definition can easily become racist; I translate German volkisch as racist. Hitler was a populist and not a humanist, which makes all the difference in the world.

The important concept here is horizon of identification:
-Egoism encompasses only one person. Everybody else is either irrelevant, useful as a tool providing pleasure, or an enemy. Only psychopaths are pure egoists, though Satanists and Randists believe in in on a theoretical level.
-Tribalism encompasses a tribe or ethnic group. Other tribes are seen in the same way the egoist sees other individuals. What is today known as populism is in fact tribalism. Bolshevism features a class-based tribalism and both radical feminism and the redpill movement feature gender-based tribalism.
-Racialism encompasses a race. It's not necessarily the same as racism since it doesn't have to involve hating other races, like egoism doesn't have to involve hating other individuals.
-Humanism encompasses the human species. It could be construed to involve disdain for other species of sophonts, when we met some in space or create them on Earth using biotech.
-Cosmic idealism encompasses all intelligent beings in the universe.