Principles and Goals of 2000
This document represents Orthodox Prometheism, as our religion was initially founded.
A new progressive prometheism principles & goals has been created as we evolve with the times, you can find them listed on the front page of prometheism.net.
I. We are both a nation and a religion. Whether we will be a
diasporic nation, a nation with boundaries, or both, will depend on
circumstances currently beyond our control. But in the future, a homeland must
be sought for by any means available.
II. Our aim is to create a genetically enhanced race that will
eventually become a new, superior species. In the short-term, this will be
achieved via eugenics and genetic engineering.
III. There are many reasons why we want to achieve this:
a.) Technology has outpaced the human brain in modernization -- we must now play catchup using eugenics and do it alone if necessary.
b.) The world is caught in a dysgenic trend from which we want to be freed.
c.) This is a way of maximizing our viability -- the survival and probability of survival of our genes. A more intelligent species will be more fit to adapt to new environments and to face new threats and obstacles.
d.) We see this as the noble thing to do, the idealization of humanity and beyond-humanity. We seek to bring ourselves closer to Godhood. Through eugenics and other forms of improvement, we will bring higher civilization, higher creativity, higher consciousness to the Universe. What Nature used to do via natural selection, we will now take into our own hands with directed and deliberate evolution.
IV. We must not
concern ourselves with others that are caught in the dysgenic cycle. We must
only be concerned with the success of other competing eugenics' programs that
will pose a threat to our own new species, for speciation will not travel along
a single vector when humans compete using the new technologies.
V. Any eugenics' program has equal validity to use the state's
coercive power to improve human genetic capital. Genetic capital is now more
valuable than land and/or territory aside from some scarce resources. DNA or
genetic capital is the most valuable commodity in the universe.
VI. Behavioral tolerance should flow naturally out of a highly
intelligent, eugenic society that is ethically cohesive. But is must be
accepting of many different preferences or freedoms of personal conduct that
might offend, but does no harm to the group. That is, elimination of consensual
crimes is a given in a society that through intelligence and understanding of
human behavior in others can tolerate deviants who do no harm.
VII. We are not a cult or sect. Our principles are firmly
grounded in empiricism and neo-Darwinism. Our purpose is merely to do what we
believe is noble, using science to create a new human species because that is
what we want to do. No irrational dogma is required or desired. The eugenic
state is a sovereign state, with or without borders.
VIII. As creators we do not submit to dogma or blind faith, but
only to empirical knowledge. Likewise, we have no need of holy men, only wise
men. As individuals, we only submit to the goals of the project, and to nothing
else. And in allowing us to be part of the creation, the group gives back to the
individual a sense of purpose and fulfillment. Eugenic is that which makes us
come closer to our image of god in a technological and ever expanding universe.
No limits, and no regrets.
Rules and
Strategies:
I. The danger of curing the effects of genetic disease through
postnatal intervention, and the accumulation of bad genes, is equivalent to
allowing toxins to build up in the environment and curing them with vitamin
supplements. Resources must not be wasted on curing disease when it is more cost
effective to merely eliminate the disease from the genetic capital of the
eugenic nation. We can easily live with numerous minor genetic flaws, but it
should never be policy to correct obviously adverse genetic diseases when they
can be detected and eliminated from the gene pool, even though that is not our
primary goal.
II. Eventually, the goal of a eugenically equalized society is to
displace representative democracy with direct democracy. Only in this way can
the corruption inherent in democracy be eliminated. This direct democracy
requires that all members of society be highly intelligent and capable of
understanding the issues as well as our elite representatives do now.
III. Neither any single woman nor man must be forced to procreate or
to spend time raising children. The genes of the group flow in all of us, and
resource acquisition is as important as having children to the success of the
group. That is, it is each person's choice where to contribute. It may be more
beneficial to hire breeders for having the children rather than force women who
prefer an intellectual life over being pregnant. And the same with raising
children. Group goals are met by everyone becoming a specialist in what they do
best, as long as it contributes in some way.
IV. Eugenicists can be classified as breeders, enforcers, or
nurturers. That is, there will be those who want to participate but not
necessarily pass on their own genes for various reasons. Everyone will be
productive and further the cause, but not everyone needs to do it in the same
manner. Specialization is efficiency. And our genes run throughout the tribe,
not in individual families, though family cohesiveness will not be frowned upon
as a natural instinct.
V. Racial purity is not a valid concept for a eugenicist. Since we
are breeding and genetically splicing our way into a new species, racial
components are ever changing. The only valid concept is one of group
cohesiveness. We want to be with people who are like us, that is similarity in
phenotype bonds the group together, not racial purity.
VI. Allegiance and patriotism to the group takes precedence before
attachment to one's religion or patriotism to the country where one just happens
to reside. Going to war for the state because of shared loyalties is dysgenic.
Only patriotism to the eugenic state requires your sacrifice and allegiance.
VII. The patterns of sexual attractiveness must be understood and
resisted. For example, too many males will seek an attractive woman over an
intelligent one. This evolutionary desire must be evaluated and counteracted.
But means are available. Sex and reproduction are no longer linked, and
communities that extend beyond the simple family unit can live with this
anomaly. It should be recognized and tolerated. The same goes for not requiring
women to bear children. Bearing children and parenthood need not be linked,
bonding to children in humans occurs some time AFTER birth, unlike other
species.
VIII. Potential children are in abundant supply and the world is
overpopulated with people without a future. Every child brought into this world
should be of the finest intellect possible, and free of genetic diseases or
abnormalities. Every generation needs to be an incremental step in the evolution
to a new species. The only traits to be altered during the first genesis shall
be an increase in overall intelligence, typical intellectual engagement(TIE),
and patriotism. Other behavioral traits must only be altered when there is no
longer a danger from competitive species and our knowledge of our species has
progressed to a state of understanding that makes behavioral traits modification
beyond question. Until then, we must retain the full spectrum of human variation
for the sake of higher adaptability and survivability.
IX. Our genders are equal because no more division of labor is
required. The mind is the only machine that is really important. Breeding is no
longer the result of sex. Breeding will be directed by intelligent
purposefulness for genetically enhanced children.
X. Warfare, that ever present component that drove group
evolution to reach Homo Sapiens will continue. Eugenicists will be attacked and
we will always be outnumbered. Brains must be used in place of soldiers if we
are to hold off attacks and detractors. But war it shall be, even if only
intellectual warfare, until we can overcome our own human nature for hostility
towards the other—and the other is no longer a threat.