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 # Less Retarded Society
 
-Less [retarded](retard.md) society (LRS, same [acronym](acronym.md) as [less retarded software](lrs.md)) is a model of ideal society towards which we, the [LRS](lrs.md), want to be moving. Less retarded society is a [peaceful](pacifism.md), collaborative society based on [love](love.md) of all [life](life.md), which aims for maximum well being of all living beings, a society without violence, [money](money.md), oppression, need for [work](work.md), social [competition](competition.md), poverty, scarcity, criminality, [censorship](censorship.md), [self-interest](self_interest.md), [government](government.md), police, [laws](law.md), [bullshit](bullshit.md), slavery and many other negative phenomena. It equally values all living beings and establishes true social equality in which everyone can pursue his true desires freely -- it is a TRULY [leftist](left_vs_right.md) society, NOT a [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) one. The society works similarly to that described by the [Venus Project](venus_project.md) and various [anarchist](anarchism.md) theories (especially [anarcho pacifist](anpac.md) [communism](communism.md)), but it also takes good things from elsewhere, even various [religions](religion.md) (without itself actually becoming a religion in traditional sense); for example parts of teaching of [Jesus](jesus.md) and [Buddha](buddhism.md). LRS isn't searching or arguing for ways to force people to behave well, it is arguing for people to behave well.
+Less [retarded](retard.md) society (LRS, same [acronym](acronym.md) as [less retarded software](lrs.md)) designates a model of ideal society towards which we, the [LRS](lrs.md), want to be moving. Less retarded society is a [peaceful](pacifism.md), collaborative society based on [love](love.md) of all [life](life.md), which aims for maximum well being of all living beings, a society without violence, [money](money.md), oppression, need for [work](work.md), social [competition](competition.md), poverty, scarcity, criminality, [censorship](censorship.md), [self-interest](self_interest.md), [government](government.md), police, [laws](law.md), [bullshit](bullshit.md), [slavery](work.md) and countless other negative phenomena plaguing our contemporary society. It equally values all living beings and establishes true social equality in which everyone is [free](freedom.md) to pursue his true desires -- it is a TRULY [leftist](left_vs_right.md) society, NOT a [pseudoleftist](pseudoleft.md) one. The society works similarly to that described by the [Venus Project](venus_project.md) and various [anarchist](anarchism.md) theories (especially [anarcho pacifist](anpac.md) [communism](communism.md)), but it also borrows good things from elsewhere, even various [religions](religion.md) (without itself actually becoming a religion in traditional sense); for example parts of teaching of [Jesus](jesus.md) and [Buddha](buddhism.md). LRS isn't searching or arguing for ways to force people into behaving well, it is arguing for people to behave well.
 
 Less retarded society was invented by [drummyfish](drummyfish.md), who also created the concept of [less retarded software](lrs.md). The idea evolved from his previous writings about ideal society, most notably his 2019 manifesto called *Non-Competitive Society*.
 
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 **There is abundance of resources for everyone, poverty is non existent**, [artificial scarcity](artificial_scarcity.md) is no longer sustained by capitalism. There is enough food and accommodation for everyone, of course for free, as well as health care, access to information, entertainment, tools and so on. Where there used to be shopping centers, parking lots, government buildings and skyscrapers, there are now fields and food banks and people voluntarily collaborate on automating production of food on them.
 
-**Our society is NOT fair**, everyone is happy whether he deserves it or not, happiness doesn't have to be deserved. [Fairness](fair.md) is a concept valued by [competitive](competition.md) systems, not altruistic ones, it is an attribute of the system that ensures the better one wins and worse one loses, i.e. in a fair society the talented is rewarded and the untalented suffers, the strong wins and the weak loses, fairness is about winning and losing, reward and punishment, therefore our society is unfair as there are no longer any winners or losers.
+**Our society is NOT fair**, everyone enjoys a happy life whether he deserves it or not, happiness doesn't have to be deserved. [Fairness](fair.md) is a concept valued by [competitive](competition.md) systems, not altruistic ones, it is an attribute of the system that ensures the better one wins and worse one loses, i.e. in a fair society the talented is rewarded and the untalented suffers, the strong wins and the weak loses, fairness is about winning and losing, reward and punishment, therefore our society is unfair as there are no longer any winners or losers.
 
 **States and [governments](government.md) don't exist**, there are no artificial borders. Society self regulates and consists of [decentralized](decentralization.md), mostly self-sufficient communities that utilize their local resources as much as they can and send abundant resources to communities that lack them. **The is no law** in the sense of complex written legislation, **no lawyers, courts and police**, society works on the principle of moral laws, education and strictly [non-violent](nonviolence.md) actions taken against negative phenomena (e.g. noncooperation, avoidance, ignoring, refusal of people to use money etc.). Communities aren't hugely [interdependent](dependency.md) and hyperspecialized as in capitalism so there is no danger of system [collapse](collapse.md), but they aren't isolated or [nationalist](nationalism.md), they are altruistic, communist and help each other. Many decisions nowadays taken by politicians, such as those regarding distribution of resources, are in our ideal society made by computers based on collected data and objective scientific criteria.
 
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 - **Isn't it utopia?** As explained above, the society is an ideal model that's probably not 100% achievable, but we are pretty certain we can get extremely close to the ideal in the real world implementation, there are no known obstacles to it. Even if we couldn't get very close to the ideal, it would be better to get a little closer than not, there is no logic in refusing to try. Every major invention happened for the first time one day, even when it's been called impossible; for example before [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md) practically everyone would tell you the principles on which it would be built (free voluntary work, allowing anyone to edit) were utopian. History is basically a constant stream of events proving our disbeliefs wrong. Things such as abolishment of death sentence, universal literacy, universal health care, women in science, abolishment of black man slavery, instant world wide communication and similar things might have once been deemed a similar utopia.
 - **How is this different from "communism", "socialism" and other movements/ideologies that brought so much suffering and eventually failed anyway?** We are very different especially by NOT advocating revolutions, violence and forceful application of our ideas, we simply educate, show what's wrong and what the solution is. Harm has only ever been done by forcing specific ideas, no matter whether rightist or leftist ones -- the key in preventing harm is to avoid the temptation of forcing ideas. We know that only a voluntary, non-violent change based on facts and rational thinking can succeed in long term. The mistake of every failed "utopian" ideology was that it was forced, oppressive and in the end served only a few as opposed to everyone, no matter what the initial idea was. These ideologies fought other ideologies, creates cults of personalities and propaganda to manipulate masses. We do not fight anyone, we simply show the truth and offer it to people and believe that this truth can't be unseen. Once enough people see the truth and know what the logical solution is, a change will happen naturally, peacefully and inevitably, without any force.
 - **How do you think it is realistic to achieve abundance of resources for all?** Nowadays it is easily possible to produce enough resources for everyone, i.e. food, electricity, clothing, buildings to live in etc. -- in fact this has been possible for many decades to centuries now, today all the technology for 99% automated production of most basic resources such as food and electricity is available and well tested, it is just kept in private hands for their sole profit. Nowadays our society is putting most of its effort to artificially made up "businesses" that keep the status quo, partly out of social inertia and partly by the (mostly decentralized and to a degree not even self admitted) conspiracy of the rich. Imagine people stop engaging in marketing, market speculation and investing, bureaucracy, public relations, law (copyrights, patents, property laws, taxes, ...), economics, military, meaningless technology (DRM, spyware, cryptocurrency, viruses and antiviruses, ...), artificial meaningless fashion, drug abuse business, organizing political parties, campaigns, unions, counter unions, cartels, strikes, and so on and so forth (this of course doesn't mean hobbies and art should disappear, just unnecessary industries). We will gain millions of people who can help achieve abundance, land that can be used to produce food and build houses to live in (as opposed to skyscrapers, unnecessary factories, parking lots etc.), and we will let go of the immense burden of bullshit business (millions of unnecessary workplaces having to be maintained, millions of people having to commute by car daily, communicate, organize, be watched by employers, ...). People will get healthier, more rested, cooperative and actually passionate about a common goal, as opposed to depressed (needing psychiatrists and antidepressants), lethargic and hostile to each other. Of course this can't happen over night, probably not even over a decade, but we can make the transition slowly, one step at a time and in the meanwhile use rules based e.g. on the following principle: that which is abundant is unlimited for everyone, that which is scarce is equally divided between all. The question is not whether it's possible, but whether we want to do it.
-- **Isn't your society unnatural?** In many way yes, it's unnatural just as clothes, medicine, computers or humans living over 70 years are unnatural. Civilization by definition means resisting the cruelness of nature, however our proposed society is to live as much as possible in harmony with the nature and is much more natural than our current society which e.g. pushes sleep deprivation, high consumption of antidepressants, eating disorders, addiction to social networks and so on.
+- **Isn't your society unnatural?** In many way yes, it's unnatural just as clothes, medicine, [computers](computer.md) or humans living past 70 years are unnatural. Civilization by definition designates resistance to the cruelty of nature, however our proposed society is to live as much as possible in harmony with the nature and is much more natural than our current society which e.g. pushes sleep deprivation, high consumption of antidepressants, eating disorders, addiction to social networks and so on.
 - **Won't people get bored? What will motivate people? If they have everything why would they even get out of bed? Haven't you seen the mouse utopia experiments?** It is a mistake to think that competition and the necessity of making living is the only or even the main driving force of human behavior and creativity (on the contrary, it is usually what makes people commit suicides, i.e. lose the will to live). Human curiosity, playfulness, the joy of collaboration, boredom, sense of altruism, socialization, seeking of life meaning and recognition and many other forces drive our behavior. Ask yourself: why do people have hobbies when no one is forcing them to it? Why don't you bore yourself to death in your spare time? Why don't rich people who literally don't have to work bore themselves to death? Why doesn't your pet dog that's not forced to hunt for food bore himself to death? Instead of the rat utopia urban legend try the *cat utopia* project yourself: buy a cat, give it love, home, food, toys, leisure, freedom and healthcare for free, see if it gets depressed -- many people have performed this experiment over and over and it usually turns out the animal is the happiest being under the Sun. Maslow's hierarchy of needs tells us that once people fulfill basic needs such as that for obtaining food, they naturally start to pursue higher ones such as that for socializing or doing science or art. Unlike rats in small cages people show interests in seeking satisfaction of higher needs than just food and sex, even those that aren't scientist try to do things such as sports, photography, woodwork or gardening, just for the sake of it. It's not that there would be a lack challenges in our society, just that we wouldn't force arbitrary challenges on people.
 - **Why are you [defeatist](defeatism.md)? Don't you think it's just pointless trying to achieve something while believing you already failed?** Firstly being defeated doesn't mean disappearing completely, we know we will fail but we'll leave a seed of something that can't eventually be stopped from growing: LRS is extremely ahead of its time -- not by 50 years or 100 years, but more like several thousand years, maybe millions. Monkeys aim to prevail during their life time and by getting at the top of some kind of mountain or social pyramid, by hoarding X wealth, passing some law, creating some kind of country or whatever -- that's completely worthless animal behavior, we aim to achieve something truly significant and good instead which will take longer than our lifetime and will require behaving without self interest and [competition](competition.md). Just like abacus was the very first step towards inventing today's [computers](computer.md), LRS is in this sense the very first step to inventing a truly good society. It is first by completely letting go of all [bullshit](bullshit.md), every single one, including things like "winner mentality", which is why there are almost no supporters, everyone [fails](fail_ab.md) by keeping to the old ways at least in some points. We aim for truth and good, not for winning -- giving up the goal of winning makes us able to take the moral decision in situations when we have to choose between winning and behaving correctly.
 - **Without violence, how will you prevent capitalists from continuing capitalism?** As also stated e.g. in the [Trash Magic](trash_magic.md) manifesto, we can simply destroy the economy by refusing to participate in it -- a capitalist cannot sell a thing that's abundant, available everywhere for free, he can't sell services if those services are provided for free. Capitalism is depending on the fact that those who it abuses have nowhere to run away to, once enough of us start building such place and provide a bette place to live, suddenly more people will leave the capitalist system and even if some capitalists remain, they won't be able to do anything, economy won't work anymore.
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 ## How To Implement It
 
-This is the hard part, however after successfully setting things in motion it may start to become much easier and eventually even inevitable that the ideal society will be closely approached. Our forefront goal is to **change the [culture](culture.md)**, the mindset, the way people think -- not the [laws](law.md), laws are irrelevant, they are in place to tame shitty culture (not even mentioning that by now law is just business, degenerated and corrupted so that it fails even at really providing anything to the people), once culture is fixed, laws will be eliminated. That's partly why there is no point in voting or supporting political parties, we mustn't rely on "something else" (laws) or "someone else" (political parties) to make good society for us, we must make it ourselves by simply starting to behave well as we watch the system [crumble](collapse.md) under its own weight -- for this we develop a parallel culture that's forked from the older, saner culture and developed in better direction than where it went; our [less retarded culture](less_retarded_culture.md) exists alongside the toxic [modern](21st_century.md) culture and is seen as "offensive" by it (just as anything from the past), nevertheless we must keep to it as much as possible -- this society relies on retards adjusting to any culture they live in (just like most people will acquire the accent of the place they live in), so we mustn't do that (we must keep our own "language" no matter what anyone around us speaks). For this we may have to isolate ourselves from the toxicity of today ([political correctness](political_correctness.md), [productivity cult](productivity_cult.md), [fear culture](fear_culture.md), [privacy](privacy.md) hysteria, pedophobia, [gay fascism](lgbt.md), [woman fascism](feminism.md) and so on) and just not behave in alignment with today's world at all.
+This is the tough part, however after successfully setting things in motion it may start to become much easier and eventually even inevitable that the ideal society shall be closely approached, but at current stage it's debatable whether the "setting things in motion" part is really within the real of possibility, considering we're on the best way to soon destroying the whole planet. Our forefront goal is to **change the [culture](culture.md)**, the mindset, the way people think -- not the [laws](law.md), laws are irrelevant and eventually harmful, they exist to tame shitty culture (not even mentioning that by now law is just business, degenerated and corrupted so that it fails even at really providing anything to the people), once culture is fixed and people are purged of their slavery to self interest, laws will be eliminated. That's partly why there is no point in voting or supporting political parties, we mustn't rely on "something else" (laws) or "someone else" (political parties) to make good society for us, we must make it ourselves by simply starting to behave well as we watch the system [crumble](collapse.md) under its own weight -- for this we develop a parallel culture that's forked from the older, saner culture and developed in better direction than where it went; our [less retarded culture](less_retarded_culture.md) exists alongside the toxic [modern](21st_century.md) culture and is seen as "offensive" by it (just as anything from the past), nevertheless we must keep to it as much as possible -- this society relies on retards adjusting to any culture they live in (just like most people will acquire the accent of the place they live in), so we mustn't do that (we must keep our own "language" no matter what anyone around us speaks). For this we may have to isolate ourselves from the toxicity of today ([political correctness](political_correctness.md), [productivity cult](productivity_cult.md), [fear culture](fear_culture.md), [privacy](privacy.md) hysteria, pedophobia, [gay fascism](lgbt.md), [woman fascism](feminism.md) and so on) and just not behave in alignment with today's world at all.
 
 However at the moment society seems too spoiled and change of a direction seems very unlikely, it seems more probable that society will destroy itself or enslave everyone forever -- [capitalism](capitalism.md) and similar misdirections of society connected to self-interest, competition, [fascism](fascism.md) etc. pose a huge threat to our endeavor and may ruin it completely, so they need to be strictly opposed, but in a CORRECT way, i.e. not by revolutions and violence but rather by education, offering alternatives and leading examples (i.e. means aligned with our basic values). It has to be stressed that we always need to follow our basic values of nonviolence, love, true rationality etc., no compromise of these is ever possible. Resorting to easy ways of violence, forcing ideas etc. will only prolong the established cycle of suffering in the society which we are trying to end. Remember, we are not creating a revolution, we aims for a rather slow, nonviolent, voluntary evolutional change.