All About NeoLibertarian.Com
NeoLibertarian.com uses Integral Thinking, Systems Thinking, and analysis of political “Newspeak” to move past the ideological trench warfare of “Red States vs. Blue States” and “Left vs. Right.” We’re not a political party, but we provide new thinking and new insights to help deal effectively with our complicated times. This site is for Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and Libertarians who feel the need for better solutions and who don’t see those solutions in the old dogmas of any one, established party. It is time for NeoLibertarian views that take the best from all the old political parties and add new thinking to take politics to the next level. Take a look at our web site and our blog, think about our case studies and books (as they become available), and see if NeoLibertarian theory can help you steer your party and your country into the future.
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."
--Lincoln's Second Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862.
NeoLibertarian.com does not represent or endorse any particular political party; we don’t have a NeoLibertarian party platform. We’re a think tank that believes changes must come from within the established parties.
The term “NeoLibertarian” itself is used by multiple groups in multiple ways, but here the definition is simple: we advocate new ways of thinking, hence the “Neo,” and we see this new thinking as building on the principle of liberty, which stretches back into the enlightenment and is, in many ways, manifested and exemplified in the United States Declaration of Independence and Constitution.
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
-- Albert Einstein
NeoLibertarian.com advocates a higher level of political thinking that embraces and expands upon the best elements of the existing political parties. NeoLibertarian Theory uses four pivotal tools to do this:
- Integral Politics. This is based heavily on the Spiral Dynamics Integral (SDI) ideas developed by Ken Wilber and Don Beck. SDI is a tool for moving to a higher level while incorporating, not replacing, the best from earlier times.
- Systems Thinking helps us to understand how things work in the social systems and environments that we live in. The Systems Thinking ideas you will see on this site are based heavily on the work of management guru Peter Senge.
- Analysis of Political Newspeak. Politicians and the media have been twisting and redefining words to suit their own agendas since there have been politicians and media. At NeoLibertarian.com we look at how twisting words stunts meaningful debate and we work to point out some of the more egregious examples of this Newspeak. The term Newspeak is, of course, used with a tip of the hat to George Orwell, who coined it in his classic novel 1984.
- An emphasis on liberty.
One quick point: while I heartily endorse Ken Wilber, Don Beck, Peter Senge, and some of George Orwell’s writings, please don’t assume that any of these people endorse me or the way I have used their ideas. As far as I know, none of them even know I exist . . . so far.
NeoLibertarian.com is based in San Francisco, California, USA. The site focuses on politics in the United States and often uses San Francisco’s political battles as examples, but the thinking, and especially the ways of thinking, are applicable globally.
“You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.”
-- Morpheus in The Matrix
Take the Red Pill and come on in: take what’s useful, leave the rest.
