Disclaimer: The below is a mockery of extremism gone wrong, showcasing a remix of different atrocities that have already been commited anyways combined with a healthy dose of references to different books I've read. I do not support the below ordeal at all.
If your militia succesfully took control of a sizable chunk of land and it assumed control of it, declaring a succesful popular revolt and revolution, how would you assume broad political power and maltreat your citizens?
The Land of the Bird King
My assumption of power and implementation of "progressive humanism" henceforth known as "sublimism" would happen through a number of policies. My militia, the Fowl, would abolish the legal systems and parliament and appoint a League of Sublime Beauty that is in order to cleanse the nation of ugliness, establishing the Land of the Fowls, upholding a questionable interpretation of the aesthethic ideals of Johannes the Seducer as a moral text and doctrine. The Fowl will oversee a few changes and turbulent years, legitimizing totalitarian statist economic policies by how beautiful they are, and using beauty as a reason for pretty much everything else.
- During the first few years, the Fowl would cleanse bookstores, museums, libraries etc. within the nation from "objectively" ugly arts that would from there on be known as ugly children of spirit. All ugly children of spirit will be taken into areas of containment, will be carefully organized and registered before being put in flames.
- All spiritual material, be that artistic or religious, will be carefully reviewed if it fits a warped Romantic ideal of sublimity in earthly phenomenon. A work has to rape your senses and overwhelm you, if the reviewer does not find that the case, there will be processings of the author. If it is ugly, the author is deemed spirit unworthy of spirit and will be boiled alive. If it is merely beautiful, it will not do and will be banned and the author, preacher or artist, if male and alive, shot. If the author of a work is female, she will only be sterilized, as women are inherently beautiful creatures (Except in cases mentioned further below).
- Beethoven's symphonies are excellent examples of objectively good and sublime art, so is this, this, and definitely this. All official punishments will be carried out to any of the officially tunes of sublimity, depending on what the executioner finds the most touching at the moment. There will be a Fowlish control group that oversees the execution: If the executioner is not sufficiently touched, he will be tried for sympathizing with spirit unworthy of spirit and punished accordingly.
- All males and women will, beginning at the age of 13 ending at the age of 20, be carried through a so-called metamorphosis, where they will be tested yearly and judged by a Fowl official. They will be graded in three fields: How captivating their eyes are ("Intensity"), how well-shaped their bodies are and how they perform physically ("Erotica"), and how well they sing and play a instrument ("Spirit"). They are grading as if the examiner was Johannes and the examination will proceed where they must entice Him without actively attempting to - they must lure. If they fail any of these fields, they are spirit unworthy of spirit and will be sealed within an iron box filled with asbestos dust and dumped in the ocean during a musical ceremony. If the Fowl succumbs to the enticing and does something during the metamorphosis, he will be executed while the subject will go free.
- If a woman is ever found nonsublime by her husbond, he may try her for being a witch child.
- If you have too many wrinkles (You have to be checked yearly by government officials), you are not allowed to go outside.
- You are very much allowed to have any religion or sexual orientation you want. This is a progressive humanist ideology after all. You merely have to be very loud about it; again, if a preacher can't "move" his peers, he's not allowed to preach, and flamboyancy about whatever sexuality you have will be promoted as a cultural policy.
- The Bird King is the most beautiful of the Fowl and will elect the next Bird King before he or she dies, because only the Bird King knows what true beauty is.
tl;dr: If you are ugly, you will be boiled alive to Falalalan.
Inspirational links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Tse_Tung
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_il-sung
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlusconi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build-A-Bear_Workshop
If your militia succesfully took control of a sizable chunk of land and it assumed control of it, declaring a succesful popular revolt and revolution, how would you assume broad political power and maltreat your citizens?
The Land of the Bird King
My assumption of power and implementation of "progressive humanism" henceforth known as "sublimism" would happen through a number of policies. My militia, the Fowl, would abolish the legal systems and parliament and appoint a League of Sublime Beauty that is in order to cleanse the nation of ugliness, establishing the Land of the Fowls, upholding a questionable interpretation of the aesthethic ideals of Johannes the Seducer as a moral text and doctrine. The Fowl will oversee a few changes and turbulent years, legitimizing totalitarian statist economic policies by how beautiful they are, and using beauty as a reason for pretty much everything else.
- During the first few years, the Fowl would cleanse bookstores, museums, libraries etc. within the nation from "objectively" ugly arts that would from there on be known as ugly children of spirit. All ugly children of spirit will be taken into areas of containment, will be carefully organized and registered before being put in flames.
- All spiritual material, be that artistic or religious, will be carefully reviewed if it fits a warped Romantic ideal of sublimity in earthly phenomenon. A work has to rape your senses and overwhelm you, if the reviewer does not find that the case, there will be processings of the author. If it is ugly, the author is deemed spirit unworthy of spirit and will be boiled alive. If it is merely beautiful, it will not do and will be banned and the author, preacher or artist, if male and alive, shot. If the author of a work is female, she will only be sterilized, as women are inherently beautiful creatures (Except in cases mentioned further below).
- Beethoven's symphonies are excellent examples of objectively good and sublime art, so is this, this, and definitely this. All official punishments will be carried out to any of the officially tunes of sublimity, depending on what the executioner finds the most touching at the moment. There will be a Fowlish control group that oversees the execution: If the executioner is not sufficiently touched, he will be tried for sympathizing with spirit unworthy of spirit and punished accordingly.
- All males and women will, beginning at the age of 13 ending at the age of 20, be carried through a so-called metamorphosis, where they will be tested yearly and judged by a Fowl official. They will be graded in three fields: How captivating their eyes are ("Intensity"), how well-shaped their bodies are and how they perform physically ("Erotica"), and how well they sing and play a instrument ("Spirit"). They are grading as if the examiner was Johannes and the examination will proceed where they must entice Him without actively attempting to - they must lure. If they fail any of these fields, they are spirit unworthy of spirit and will be sealed within an iron box filled with asbestos dust and dumped in the ocean during a musical ceremony. If the Fowl succumbs to the enticing and does something during the metamorphosis, he will be executed while the subject will go free.
- If a woman is ever found nonsublime by her husbond, he may try her for being a witch child.
- If you have too many wrinkles (You have to be checked yearly by government officials), you are not allowed to go outside.
- You are very much allowed to have any religion or sexual orientation you want. This is a progressive humanist ideology after all. You merely have to be very loud about it; again, if a preacher can't "move" his peers, he's not allowed to preach, and flamboyancy about whatever sexuality you have will be promoted as a cultural policy.
- The Bird King is the most beautiful of the Fowl and will elect the next Bird King before he or she dies, because only the Bird King knows what true beauty is.
tl;dr: If you are ugly, you will be boiled alive to Falalalan.
Inspirational links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Tse_Tung
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_il-sung
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlusconi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build-A-Bear_Workshop