“Altrugenic” is a portmanteau of altruism and eugenics. It expresses my area of interest – promoting the altruistic, high-IQ traits of the three forerunner races.
In this age of scale and unaccountability, predators rule and altruists perish.
In my cops megapost, I argued that cops should be required to wear headcams on duty, and that their testimony should be inadmissible in court without video backing. Just as technological progress empowers totalitarianism, so it can also serve liberty.
It occurs to me that if the panopticon can make honest men of pigs, it can also straighten that crooked timber, Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
Chechar has called for the resurrection of Syssitia, the Spartan mandatory dining club of ~15 men. New members were admitted by unanimous vote only. Above the door hung the sign, “Past this, nothing.” Meaning nothing spoken here shall go past this door. Even a king who was absent without leave would be fined.
But Sparta is long dead, and Chechar has no idea how to resurrect it. I do.
The fundamental unit of my proposed Neo-Spartan order is the triad. Two betas and one alpha. The entire society is composed of nested triads.
Within a triad, there is total info transparency. This can be achieved via Cyborganize journal sharing. Yet in this age of geographic dislocation, how can the once trivial task of local accountability be achieved?
The answer is the headcam. The journal must be backed by a total video lifelog.
What of the security vulnerability this creates? Cryptography and personal arms are the answer.
The Spartans understood that military courage depends not on the fearlessness of the individual soldier, but his confidence in the man on his left and right. That is the power of Neo-Sparta.
A bonding and initiation rite is also needed. I suggest emulating Bear Gryll’s “The Island” experiment – isolated minimalist survival for 30-40 days by 15 men and boys. As the series makes clear, this will have the desired effect.
