Philosophers Beware

If the ideology is a grisly mass movement, or evil, violent, revolutionary ism, then his ideas will lead to murder, death, war, totalitarianism and untold human suffering. He should be able to think, expand and speak about any idea or concept that beguiles him. How do we protect the public in the future? First, we must confess that there is never a guarantee that future followers of our ideology may not turn evil, cruel and violent, but there are steps that we can take to ameliorate such potential horrors. First, if we advise future adults to maverize, as individuating anarchist, they will not be much susceptible to the cooing and mesmerizing from blathering demagogues or gurus. Maverizers think for themselves and are innately skeptical of commands and pronouncements from authority figures. Maverizers think for themselves and will countenance no bully or elite to dictate to them, and that skepticism and independent mindedness should stop mass movements in their tracks. Second, the sovereign individual is the core ideal of the Western value system. If the sovereign individual maverizes, and thinks for himself, he, by definition, seeks to influence all other individuals by persuasion not by coercion. It is the collectivists that are fanatical, violent, and authoritarian, enforcing mandates and threats of federal violence against foes. Where citizens are individuators, they no longer allow that it is morally acceptable to force others to conform to one's ideology, and this popular reluctance would do much to undercut the danger of mass movement up ticking. Third, one can only promote liberty if one practices tolerance, real tolerance for those supporting competing ideologies. Fourth, bad means lead to a bad end. Bad means are using violence, war and intimidation to advance one’s ideology by any means. Bad means corrupts all ends, even good ends. There are no shortcuts. To invite people to come over to your noble ideology, you must rely on gentle proselytizing, persuasion and the power of advertising and example. If they join your cause, great. If they do not, too bad. If these four means of keeping ideas from going vicious and totalitarian in the future, are known and practiced, they will go a long way towards mitigating any harm growing out of a thinkers ideas.