Version 0.0.1: A Request for Comments
Today the doctrine ships — not as a finished thing, but as an opening position. Version 0.0.1 of Swartzism is published as a Request for Comments: five axioms, an ethics of scale, one boundary, five works, and a process for changing all of it except the last.
Read the Manifesto. Then read the Principles — the analytical machine underneath: every claim about the record carries a source, and one fabricated citation has already been caught, corrected, and logged. Then read the Governance — how the text changes, what never changes, and why.
Three commitments come with the version number:
- The boundary is constitutional. Liberate the world’s knowledge; defend each person’s life. Everything else in the text is revisable by argument. The boundary is not revisable by coalition, cost-benefit, or mood.
- The text must survive its own attacks. A version that has not survived a published attempt to destroy it is not stable, whatever its number. The review log is the doctrine eating its own cooking — and Pass 2 is now public business.
- No one owns it. The doctrine is apersonal: arguments are judged, not authors. It publishes under its own name, takes help, not direction, and carries no signatures.
The profession test governs its texts: a doctrine that taxes its professors shrinks to a church of martyrs. This one intends to grow — which is why 0.0.1 is an invitation, not a proclamation.
Attack it where it is weakest. That is what the comment process is for.
The text is open for comment — name the line you attack, bring the evidence.
Read the Manifesto How to comment