Here, term «Tartaria» refers to an extensive Gedankenexperiment about the logical fundamentals of the most popular paradigms, so-called «common sense» ("The rules are established, just follow!").
As an example, one may check that the addition of the three numbers in the figure at right
is performed correctly, following the well-established rules of arithmetic.
In this sense, one may believe that all numbers at the table are meaningful.
To the Narrator, some of the «common sense» concepts look like the addition operation in the example shown in the picture.
This research appears as an attempt to prove at least some of the «common sense» concepts, to construct the
«proof by contradiction» ("Demostración por contradicción", "背理法による証明", "hairiho ni yoru shomei", "доказательство от противного").
This is the main goal of this project.
In order to simplify such a proof, some assumtions of the utopia are a little bit exaggerated.
There are also additional goals; some meaningful results are expected to be achieved as a by-products:
(1) Test of the applicability or the
TORI Axioms [1] outside of the natural sciences.
(2) Suggest a historic forecast in such a form, that simplify the verification and the refutation.
(3) Calibration of sources of information: sites, articles and their authors. The research is supposed to reveal, which publications can be used "as is"; and which publications need to be qualified as «propaganda» and interpreted with the «RuleOfNewspeak», inverting the non-trivial statements.
(4) Detection of the censorship, revealing of ways the censors act and elaboration of ways of the resistance. This resistance seems to be important mechanism that prevents the human civilization from falling into fascism. The abstract futuristic utopia seem to be a good probe for this investigation.
Model of life in utopian, barbarian, but a little but democratic country is considered. It is based on the publications of century 21 with goal to identify the shortcomings and instability of the model.
This article overviews the project.
The rejection of the most of civilized norms is expected to lead to a Hell, to a Tartar. This justifies the name «Tartaria» of the project.
At other sites, term «Tartaria» may have another, very different meaning(s).
Many sides of human life seem to be under-investigated, not interpreted, not analyzed; at least in the standard educational scheme. The common sense rules are usually considered as «evident».
The two stages are observed:The unconditional acceptance of established rules can be qualified as a root of fascism; all other phenomena appear as sequences of the development and extension of such a practice - the propaganda, the censorship, the xenophobia, corruption, state terror and wars - as soon as the top ruler either (1) becomes crazy due to the unlimited power or (2) begins to hate the population of his/her country (and does the destructive things intentionally); for the external observer, these two cases look the same.
Certain topics are objects of censorship.
The censorship does not explain the motivation for prohibiting certain topics.
Even worse, there is an internal contradiction:
In order to prohibit something, the law should describe it carefully, provide examples of what is prohibited and what is allowed; but it is often prohibited to expose such examples.
Often it is assumed that all prohibitions of human civilization have valid reasons, and that society will collapse if these prohibitions are lifted.
Attempts to analyze such prohibitions often meet the motivated reasoning,
see «FemaleLogic».
This makes the impression that some rules are artificial, see «How to Write a Fake».
The justification of a rule may resemble propaganda,
tempting one to apply the «Rule of Newspeak»,
i.e., to invert the rule — replacing a prohibition with a recommendation or even a prescription.
However, the freedom of an individual ends just at the point where the freedom of another indicidial begins.
There is no freedom without Law. Some prohibitions are essential:
(1) Do not kill, except in defense.
(2) Do not attack first; do not threaten.
(3) Do not steal.
(4) Do not hide or falsify information.
If rules (1–3) are removed, people cannot produce anything useful,
as all effort goes into self-defense.
If rule (4) is removed, the effect is similar,
because one cannot trust that (1–3) still hold.
Even the «Ten Commandments» include more rules, and legal systems contain far more, plus many "unwritten rules" followed in civilized societies.
The goal of this research is to understand how important the additional taboos and unwritten rules are.
For any detailed experiment, even for the Gedankenexperiment, the choice of place, «laboratory»
is important. To year 2026, several observations indicate that the next big historic social collapse is supposed to happen at Moscovia, see «CollapseOfRF». The most important evidences are the following:
1. Total Corruption.
2. Nulling of constitution, see «Duration»,
3. «Dvizhuha» («Движуха», «Специальная военная операция»): the big, long, aggressive, existential, destructive war, started to save the dictator and his accomplices from boredom.
The Transfer of hostilities to aggressor territory is expected to cause the CollapseOfRF.
The longest expectations about existence of RF extend to the end of century 21, «до скончания века». This determines the natural choice of the time of action; the main events described in the utopia take place in century 22.
It is expected, that the extension of the «PutinWorldWar»
to the Central Europe,
to Iran and other South-West Asia (see «EpicFury»),
to North America (see «AnnexationOfCanada», «AnnexationOfGreenland», «DonroeDoctrine», «ThereWillComeSoftRains», «CivilWar2024», «CollapseOfUSA»),
then to everywhere
will stop the cultural, technical and scientific achievements of Humanity for few generations
so, there is no need to guess many new advantages in science and technology. The only few such achievements are mentioned in the Utopia:
«QuantumComputer», «QuantumGenetic», «ForecastiveGenetic», «CranberryTree», «MoonColony», «CenturyHeater», «Artificial Intellect» (referred as «Database»).
The Gedankenexperiment «Tartaria» attempts to reveal, to identify the mechanisms of the societal collapse when the "common sense" rules are rejected.
Such an experiment may help to counter destructive revolutionary ideas like the following:
«Und liegt vom Kampfe in Trümmern...»
from «Es zittern die morschen Knochen» [4]
«Весь мир насилья мы разрушим...» from «The Internationale»[5]
The absence of any attempt to test new “revolutionary” ideas on small-scale, harmless examples
may explain failures of democratic transitions, such as in 1917 or the 1990s in Moscovia.
Revolutions often occur when societies try to follow old principles
in new conditions without analysis.
Leaders seeking power rarely analyze consequences;
they act without experiments or even Gedankenexperiments.
This project explicitly fills that gap.
Unlike typical sci-fi, «Tartaria» clearly states its purpose:
to test what happens when most taboos (except 1–4) are removed.
If any taboo (beyond 1–4) remains unbroken in Tartaria, let the Narator to know in order to correct this fault.
Warning 1: The events desctibed in the utopia can be considered as «Proof by contradiction» analyzing observed publications. Model of life in the utopian, barbarian but a little but democratic country is contructed. It is based on the publications of century 21 and their extrapolations. Attempts are being made to identify the shortcomings and instability of the model. This model is not an appeal for the realization.
Warning 2: Project «Tartaria» is based on The TORI axioms[1]. They are not about what should be, but about what exists and that may happen. This project does not propose a better society.
Warning 4: The idea of the radical revision of the most popular «common sense» concepts is not new. many such concepts are revised and criticized [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]. Do not confuse the Narrator with the personages.
Warning 5: The model includes explicit description of extreme obscene barbarian customs. The description may offend the religious sense of an adept of a popular religion.
Warning 5: The model uses direct speech in various languages, including slang. In the most of cases, the English translation is not supplied.
Warning 6: The Gedankenexperiment should not be interpreted as a promotion of activity described. Please do not confuse the Narrator with the Personage.
