The law of contradiction constitutes a definite limit to meaning in human expression and understanding. A thing cannot both be and not be simultaneously. The nature of our relationship to the universe makes discernment, and therefore choice, unavoidable.
Dichotomies are dangerous. Because the universe is defined by the law of contradiction, dichotomy-based thinking is understandably widespread. But our survival depends on developing an ability to distinguish between valid existential claims and adjectival attributions.
Language operates by exclusion, by the application of the law of contradiction. Its universal use encourages the fallacy, responsible for unimaginable suffering throughout human history, that properly specific exclusions and distinctions are themselves universal. This fallacy is the illusion of the absolute. By fostering the illusion of the absolute, language can lead humans to inhumanity.
Existence precedes essence -- but most of the factors that shape our essences exist before us. Born to specific people in a specific time and place, we are thrust from the womb into a specific pattern of choices, a specific range of possibilites.
Social contracts are valid only when continually, individually reaffirmed. No contract binds absolutely.
Humans differ radically from their environment. Humans make choices; the environment does not. Purpose is a fundamental characteristic of humans, but to attribute it to the environment is always erroneous. The question "Why are we here?" admits only a human response.
Freedom is necessary, but it is not sufficient. Denoting freedom good-in-itself, an end rather than a means, provides license for a sanctimonious brutality capable of annihilating any human culture. Our subjective apprehension of reality makes it impossible for any system not based upon individual moral authority to function non-destructively.
The Law of Contradiction stands at the center of the philosophy of the People's Entropy Research Front. It is a very simple law, and in its simplest form it is the basis for science, math, language and logic. In a more complex form, it shapes art, culture and literature. The Law of Contradiction simply states that if X is true, X cannot simultaneously be false. If X exists, X cannot simultaneously not exist. A thing is either real or it isn't. There is no middle ground. This is natural, nonrelativistic logic. This is common sense.

The People's Entropy Research Front believes that human brains have evolved to process logic in a way that works for our species. We believe the common-sense Law of Contradiction is a vitally useful tool for human awareness. However, we believe that is it merely a tool -- one of many tools by which human beings can relate to the universe. Every tool, or framework, we use to perceive the world imposes unavoidable limits on our perceptions. What we intend to convey here is an awareness of the limits inherent in various frameworks of perception, with special emphasis on the limits of the Law of Contradiction, since it is the most common framework in use.
The Law of Contradiction creates dichotomies. Consider the common pairs of opposites we use in everyday thought and language. Hot / cold, soft / hard, good / bad, in / out, large / small. There are literally thousands of such pairs. Yes, we have words for the in-between things, for the continuum defined by each pair of opposites. But what matters is that the continuum is defined by the opposites. The concepts are defined to oppose. These paired concepts, called dichotomies, are useful, natural ways of thinking. But they can also place a severe limit on creativity. A particular problem is that the common-sense logic of the dichotomies encourages people to think of these concepts as being unalterable, universal, unquestionable. The less people question their particular perception framework, the less creative they will be.  One of the main goals of the People's Entropy Research Front is to teach people to notice the limits of their imagination, and to find new frameworks in which those particular limits don't exist. This expands human creativity and inventiveness.
The illusion of the absolute comes from an unquestioning, consistent application of the Law of Contradiction. Humans have a passionate love for patterns, and an amazing skill for finding those patterns. The Law of Contradiction encourages people to look for dichotomy-based patterns, to the exclusion of other possibilities. When this is the only framework employed, it seems to the person that the patterns they discover are absolute truth. This effectively blinds them to other possibilities and imposes a severe limit on their consciousness. The People's Entropy Research front believes that many "absolute truths" have great social usefulness, but we do not advocate the universal application of any single framework.
This section of the Manifesto expands on the usefulness of being aware of the limits to one's consciousness. The problem of free will that so many philosophies become tangled in becomes a triviality when one considers that one has a choice of frameworks with which to view the world. No human being approaches the real world objectively. Objectivity is flatly impossible. And each tool we use to subjectively approach the real world imposes different limits on our subjective perception, in exactly the same way eyeglasses of different contour and thickness will impose different  limits on our physical sight.
Because the People's Entropy Research Front encourages a heightened awareness of the limitations of our subjective relation to the universe, we believe that human relations should not be governed by an unquestioning application of the Law of Contradiction. Absolute law and absolute duty, universally applied, are tools which human beings employ in order to avoid taking responsibility for unpleasant choices. While they serve some social purpose, we believe that a more fluid contractual structure based on other frameworks of perception would prove more beneficial in humankind's long-range development.
Meaning is choice; choice is meaning. Because we cannot avoid choosing, we cannot avoid assigning meaning to even the most trivial incidents in our lives. The assignment of meaning is closely tied to purpose. The People's Entropy Research Front advocates awareness of purpose and deliberate, conscious choice as a way of life.
The choices you make are more important that the fact that you can choose. Your subjective relation to the world makes choice unavoidable. Freedom is unavoidable. It's how you use it that matters.
Manifesto Exegesis