Are you tired of waking up every morning to yet another insulting dose of banality, mediocrity, lies, manufactured fear and general aimless lack of human intelligence, passion, creativity, and hope?

Well, the good news is that human society has not always been like this, and we don’t have to put up with it now.

This website is a rallying point for those of us, who like the Renaissance Humanists of 15th century Florence, are driven by a passionate commitment to the idea that one’s individual identity is more than herself alone. It is that desire to be universal, above the smallness of geographical location or constituency group affiliation.

We believe that real humans use their minds to actively control production for the benefit of the general welfare of all and that anything less than that is simply backwards. So you could call us Socialists, but that would miss the point.

We believe that there really is a way to decide what is good in human society; that there is such a thing as great art and music and that cultural relativism is a silly cop out. So you could call us Conservatives, but that would miss the point.

The conceptions rediscovered from the classicist of Greece and developed to a higher level by the Italian Renaissance is part of a long struggle, a 3000 year history of an idea that has flourished, has been beaten down, subverted, only to rise again. We saw its power to overthrow colonialism in the policies of the nation-building founders of the United States. It was attacked in the counter revolution that was the Civil War. We saw the potential of the civil rights movement of the 50’s and 60’s to spark hope in humanity only to be crushed and replaced with the “counter culture” and a generation betrayed.