The S.T.A.M.P club is built on the idea that we do not have to live lives that are ruled by money, rather we can structure our resources in such a way to free ourselves from the drudgery of modern capitalism. The philosophy of structural absurdism is something I have developed over the last 15 years. I have in the past played with the idea of promoting the philosophy and the political theory that for the longest time had been called “Graduated Democracy” but have never put in this level of effort to promote it until now. What changed is simply the shift in focus and the change in the political environment.
I had just finished pushing myself to the limit with my psychological experimentation with a process I call persona modification, dabbling in a secular theology I called “Gnostic Revisionism,” and then the threats to our sovereignty began under the Trump Administration. It was a sobering event, as I realized that if I had to pick a thing to focus on in my ramblings through the philosophies and sciences, it was going to be political philosophy.
There truly hasn’t been a good political philosopher since Marx, and most would attest that he was a terrible political philosopher despite the size of the spoon with which he managed to stir the metaphorical pot. I have thought many times that achieving harmony politically is not impossible; rather it is analogous to the flying machine: just because it hasn’t been done does not mean it is impossible—it just hasn’t been done right yet.
So, my work on Amovera, the ethics of my political philosophy, was strongly rooted in understanding the human condition objectively, and starting from scratch in the way I understood the nature of norms and social structuring as they pertained to the human animal. It required beginning to see life through an absurdist anthropological lens, and to begin to question the very foundations of the structure of our society not as resource distribution systems but symbolic operating systems that govern how our societies form around cultural archetypes and values.
In the end, the Autonomous Nations Theory of government was the outcome, and the many ideas that have come to incorporate themselves under the overarching philosophy of the Autonomous Nations of Canada serve as modular nodes of philosophical recalibration, by which I mean that each component of the political system is not absolutely necessary, but each serves a similar function of reshaping the structure of the society’s socio-symbolic landscape which they use to govern themselves (or defer governance to others).
Jack (Gladstone) Neoveris is a pen name from a previous project on persona modification and brand formation that was as much a secret art project as it was a transformative experience. I decided to keep the name moving forward for this project as a testament to the work I am leaving behind and as a reminder of what I am keeping moving forwards. Who was once the Jack of Clubs is now the Jack of Hearts, because the art starts with the heart, and even though I have rid this page of all my Gnostic and theological ramblings, the little hints of my past work are clues to the nature of who I am and where I come from—not things to be erased for political convenience, but things to be celebrated as the absurd formation of my character.
After all, it has always been an effort to attain optimum human potential in a replicable way, using Ivy League-standard epistemology despite being self-educated in order to make an ethos that leads to the transformation of a human being into their most effective and moral selves. I have labored over the last 15 years in and out of health, poverty, and wealth, and have come out empty-handed other than the philosophy that I have shaped and the psychological tools I have developed, and this is intentional because nothing can tie me down when I have held on to nothing. But this is going to change now that the philosophy is complete.
It is time to build a nation of nations, it is time to shape our inner world and lay the foundation for outer harmony, and it is time to do it with intelligence—not wild fantasy or vain ambition. I have shaped now a system that can cultivate human culture in the same way an ecosystem cultivates synergetic balances of life. Whether I get the opportunity to see it happen in my lifetime does not matter; what matters is that these kinds of engineered solutions need to happen. The S.T.A.M.P Club is meant to give people the tools to live successful lives while also engaging them in a meaningful political solution for future generations to live in without fear of prejudice or economic coercion.
It is time for the last great invention of the Anthropocene: a harmonic system of government and philosophy.
Jack's New Ethos 