A Positive Vision for the Right

A Positive Vision for the Right
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Full Title: A Positive Vision for the Right? - YouTube
Creator: Academic Agent
Publication Date: August 4, 2021


Summary

Mission: To build a self-sustaining local community with traditional values

  • This vision, "Milkman Localism," aims to create a community that can take care of all basic material needs without outside help.
  • Community isn't just a location
  • It is a harmonious sense of social cohesion that gives a sense of fulfillment to its members
  • The vision promotes sustainability and traditional values over wastefulness and modernity, suggesting a preference for preserving established structures and ways of life.
  • The vision also strikes a balance between traditionalism and modern convenience

Assumptions:

  1. Community is good
  2. Local is better than national which is better than global
  3. Sustainable is better than wasteful
  4. Traditional is better than modern

Normative Goals:

  • To prevent nomadism
  •  Nomadism, caused by social and technological changes like mass immigration, disrupts communities and traditions, so a balanced vision is needed that combines modern conveniences with the spirit of traditionalism.
  • To prevent social & technological changes that irreparably disrupt the structures of everyday life and destroy local communities

Idealized Version: Trumpton

  • In the idealized community of Trumpton (from a late 1960's British children's show), everyone had a place and accepted their role in society, finding happiness in their assigned tasks and not aspiring for more.
  • This vision acknowledges that achieving it may be utopian and never fully achievable, but it shouldn't prevent us from striving for the good.
  • What would it take to develop such a community in the 2020's?

What is Required to Achieve the Vision

  1. Top-down planning
  2. Social engineering
  3. State-induced capital controls
  4. Deliberate retardation of markets and technology
  5. A recognition that an element of this is "utopian" (never fully achievable)
  • These are difficult concepts for the Right to come to terms
  • But they combat the Four Freedoms of the EU
  •  Free movement of goods
  •  Free movement of capital
  •  Freedom to establish and provide services
  •  Free movement of persons
  • All of these freedoms promote nomadism and tend to destroy communities
  • AA includes some fairly radical prohibitions in this community aimed directly at limiting the 4 freedoms above
  • Prohibiting electronic media, subversive and degenerate materials, and machinery that would disrupt the traditions and structure of everyday life or make one more productive
  • Similarly businesses would all be locally owned, have a duty to maintain their traditions
  • Foreign direct investment prohibited, as are outflows from the shire
  • No more than 1 house per person. Renting is prohibited. Usury laws prevent mortgages.
  • Own currency: The concept of a fixed money supply and the banning of interest and usury in Trumpton Shire challenges traditional banking practices and raises questions about the feasibility and effectiveness of such a system.
  • Growth threatens the rhythms of everyday life - therefore it's banned
  • New businesses or services would be assessed by authorities based on their impact on the structures of everyday life.
  • Taxation: Flat 10% tax rate for all employees and business owners
  • Set percentages on how this money is spent by authorities (33% defence, 16.5% fire service; 16.5% administration; 16.5% police force; 16.5% top brass salaries)

This is simply a rough sketch and would take lots of refinement.


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