The Integrity Party?

Sanna Rayman and Katrine Kielos asked Rick Falkvinge, the party leader of Piratpartiet, some questions about his party in Korseld, a program on SvD Webb TV. Sanna Rayman asked why they did not call the party The Integrity Party instead, mindful of the criminal taste of the word pirate.

He claimed that the name Piratpartiet was a necessity for their success. He would not have been in Almedalen if not for this name. The 19 and a half minutes long interview dealt very little with integrity as it turned out.

Let me predict something. Freedom of thought, the integrity of mind, might just become one of the more important concepts in the future. I have detailed why earlier in my blog.

The Western world currently face competition by authoritative dictatorships, notably China. I'm less concerned about Russia but we might feel them since they are so close by. Somewhat worried that the Chinese have found an socioeconomic model that would outperform ours one might turn to the concept of freedom and the pursuit of happiness to find consolation that we are still on the right track.

The question I ask myself is if an answer to this problem is found in political philosophy or in biology. If I have understood matters correctly, John Locke used biology to lay the ground for liberalism. This was in the end of the 17th century. Have this concept been improved recently?

People are starting to support ways of optimizing human potential rather than talking of democracy, like for example Caroline Glick at The Jerusalem Post when she cited Hillary Clinton, President Obama's Secretary of State. Based on what I know, I could speculate that it is possible to "stabilize" people and that this implies a new government praxis--towards authoritative.

This stabilization has everything to do with human integrity. Do we want to enter such a race of robotization of humanity? Or should we trust our instincts--pursuit of happiness.