Earth 8

The world follows several strange philosophies.

Feudal Darwinism: When Charles Darwin released his theory of survival of the fittest, it was used by Europe's aristocracy to justify their power.

Christian Nihilism: After the pope was assassinated during WW1, many abandoned their faith in God or any meaning in life whatsoever. However, they still used the guiding principles of Christ for moral guidance.

Belligerent Vegetarianism: A philosophy based around the idea that animals lives must be protected from human consumption, at all costs. Even if that means war.

Extremist Moderatism: Followers of the idea that there must always be a happy medium between two extremes, no matter what the extremes.

Retro Socialism:A philosophy that says that we should go back to the era of socialist groups forming labor unions against unfair business practices.

Miltant Pacifists:A group so dedicated to the ideals of peace that they believe they need to fight for it.

Recursive Bigots: people who hate the cultural group they are a part of, to the point where they discriminate against people like them.

Cynical Idealists: people who believe in working toward grand ideals, but also believe that they will never actually accomplish any of those ideals in practice.

Apocalyptic Futurists: people who have great optimism for the future technologies...that they believe will be used to end the world as we know it.

Sycophantic Philosophizers: people who chose their philosophy to match whatever philosophy is preferred by their immediate superior.

Stoic Hedonists: people who use the principles of self denial to advance their pleasure seeking goals.

Ironic Nationalists: They want to establish a nation, but not because of like... common history or anything man, no that's too passe, they just want to make a country, ya 'know, ironically.

Anarchic-Narcissists: They seek to overthrow society and abolish governance, but they wish to gather power for themselves instead of establishing an anarchistic collective.

Retrogressives

All-Loving Satanists- devout religious people that believe that Satan calls on them to love all equally, as all are equally doomed to hell.

Sarcastic Optimists- People who genuinely believe that things in the world will work out for the best, but never miss an opportunity to make a snarky remark at the strangeness of the world.

Pagan Conservatives - They want to go back to the good old days, very old.

Kleptomaniac Evangelicals- they go door-to-door, stealing people's stuff, and promise they won't give it back until the owner converts.

Ironic Ecoindustrialists - They believe that for the sake of nature humans should go extinct; to that goal they try to promote climate change and pollution as fast as possible.

Know-Nothing Anarchists

Wiccan Capitalists

Elite Mystics- A class of highly wealthy and educated people who are heavily into mystic religions.

### The Consilium

After several ideological wars in the second half of the 20th century, it was agreed that there needed to be an outlet for ideological conflict besides war.

Carl Woden founded the Consilium, a semi-annual great debate between different ideologies. So far war has been avoided, through there are a few duels.