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Politics is downstream of culture. In order to change the politics you experience, you must first change the culture you suffer.
The first step in this process is recognizing that all politics is violence. In the twenty-first century, we experience politics as violence committed against Constituencies by States. This has been the status quo since the advent of writing.
The State Subjugationist program, as outlined by Novus Seclorum Libertati ("NSL"), seeks to define an alternative experience of politics. By standing up-river from politics, concern shifts away from policy and instead is devoted to the definition of cultural alignments. These alignments, rather than specific legislative, judicial, or executive operations, are what determine the bounds of political experience within a Constituency.
Culture is the texture of a social organization. Many factors across the development of that organization may influence the end product, but NSL is concerned primarily with those factors that lie within the realm of Philosophy: Metaphysics, Ethics, and Theology. To change the texture, prior elements must be removed, and NSL chooses to do this through an act of philosophical deflation. It is not the first to do this, and as such nods at its predecessors before differentiating itself from them. Whereas Wittgenstein's philosophy is therapeutic, the Subjugationist's is interventive; deflation is necessary, and it is necessary to deflate as quickly and completely as possible, so as to prevent cross-contamination. NSL, as a text, chooses to deflate by collapsing Ethics into language and ejecting the rest as cognitive sickness, a significant step further than mere bewitchment. With this done, NSL can then proceed to build an ethical system from the ground up.
It is important to understand that NSL, as a text, is not making arguments about how things ought to be. Instead, it is outlining a competing model of how things are. As such, the core is constructed axiomatically, to serve as a set of statements that need only be accepted rather than proven. These statements are designed to flow from each other, with the intention of reaching a particular location: the politics NSL, as a text, wishes to experience. Rather than attempting to divert the flow of the river laterally at the foothills, NSL carves a channel from the intended destination to the mountaintop and only then diverts at the spring. What the diversion actually represents is answering the question invoked by the first step in the process of change: "If all politics is violence, who should be the victim of this violence?"
NSL proposes the victim should be the State.