Interview

Q. Do you honestly think all people are part of the NOBILITY?

A. I believe they all belong there even though many of them seem unworthy. Some people have been discounted for so long that they believe their low status is justified. They Have let themselves become pitiful exemplars of nobility who display contrary behavior as they attempt to survive or as they pursue wealth or power or both.

Q. Why do you dislike Christians and Muslims?

A. I love religious people as much as I love anyone. Some religious leaders have done bad things, but on the whole, religious people are preeminently good and pleasant. 

Q. What should we do with the real kings and queens.

A. Real? Do you mean us? Or do you mean the subjugators? The subjugators can keep their palaces and jewels. We certainly cannot have bloody purges and insurrections. Let everybody stay where they are and keep what they have until such time as the world reaches the tipping point.

Q. Your world sounds like Communism. Is that what it is?

A. I have not considered communism seriously. From what I can see, the greatest flaws of communism stem from the leadership it has cursed itself with. I am not committed to Socialism either, but it is possible, maybe likely, that the salvation of the human race will depend on elements of socialism, maybe communism, if these forms of government can be administered by good people. Communism and Socialism might be less repulsive if they were led by people unencumbered by compulsions for wealth and power.

Q.   So do you think Socialism is the hope of the future?

Maybe, maybe not. The label that Tribe assigns to a possible system of governance is Constitutional Autocracy, a system that can become as atrocious as any other under the wrong leadership. Every system of governance to date can be perverted to the detriment of the general population. After a preponderance of people abide by principles explored in Tribe, maybe the world can hope for rational leadership and peaceful governance.

Q. Will your world take children from their parents?

A. We will have to protect children from people who might harm them or who might take the smallest action contrary to a child’s well-being. It is a mistake for people to claim ownership over other people, even children or spouses.

Q. Under your philosophy, the world will have to abolish the death penalty, right?

A. Of course. Maybe. Eventually. When you have a rabid dog, if you cannot cure his disease or end his suffering, you might decide to put him down. If a person has an incurable, rapidly  infectious, painful disease and the person might become Patient Zero of a pandemic, it might be better for the patient and for the world that the patient be euthanized. Decisions of this magnitude might be reserved for collaborative consideration, but it might be necessary to consider such actions while people continue to be encumbered by the reckless ideas that have led the world to the dangerous state we have today — the normalization of greed and the addiction to the perversions of power.