Yes, I know them, but are they correct answers? Racial purity, eradication of religious heresy, extermination of sexual degenerates, well-defined and immutable social hierarchy, strict enforcement of female submission, dietary/drug requirements and prohibitions, are all classics, but I’m unsure they actually work.
Whatever the solution is, it’s rather clear that fighting these factors have gotten us further away from it. Lots of people are trying to “improve society”, but it’s only getting worse. And when they double-down, thinking that they just didn’t go far enough, society gets worse even faster. These people are often utterly incompetent, even though some of them are clearly acting in good faith.
You don’t need racial purity, you just need competent people with a shared culture. You don’t need to eradicate heresy, just people who oppose the norms and values which currently work. You do need a hierarchy, no question about that, but position should correlate strongly with competence, and you need to keep corruption at bay somehow. And degeneracy is a symptom of bad mental health and a lack of self-control, the type of indulgence is less important. The more self-control/discipline a person has, the more freedom you can allow them before they destroy themselves.
I wouldn’t call it “female submission”, just different gender roles. And since women are more emotional on average, they’re much easier for politicians to manipulate. They tend towards the changes which sound the most appealing, rather than those with the biggest possibility of actually working. You have to take genetics into account, you can’t change human nature by changing society.
Human history is long. We have seen what works. The trick is finding something which works and in which people are happy and healthy. Keep in mind that I’m not advocating for people having “good lives” by whatever objective metrics you can think of, that doesn’t work. We should create lives in which those living said lives enjoy themselves. Comparison, and having too many choices, are both terrible for human health, for this reason modern dating apps are terrible.
It’s very possible that companies earn money by creating a need in the population, and that people signal much better lives than they actually have (buying things they can’t afford, only posting good news on social media, etc) which results in a population in which everyone feels inadequate/inferior, making them desperate enough to turn egoistic/selfish.
I do agree that there’s many possible factors, but I’d also encourage people to focus on the psychological side of things. Too many people try to change the world because they refuse to change themselves, and the most vocal of the bunch tend to be mentally ill.
Edit: Finally, we’re fighting against odds which have never existed before, like the current population density. I think it’s better to have many, smaller communities than few, large ones, for many many reasons. But this is less profitable, so globalism is the future.
Yes, I know them, but are they correct answers? Racial purity, eradication of religious heresy, extermination of sexual degenerates, well-defined and immutable social hierarchy, strict enforcement of female submission, dietary/drug requirements and prohibitions, are all classics, but I’m unsure they actually work.
Whatever the solution is, it’s rather clear that fighting these factors have gotten us further away from it. Lots of people are trying to “improve society”, but it’s only getting worse. And when they double-down, thinking that they just didn’t go far enough, society gets worse even faster. These people are often utterly incompetent, even though some of them are clearly acting in good faith.
You don’t need racial purity, you just need competent people with a shared culture. You don’t need to eradicate heresy, just people who oppose the norms and values which currently work. You do need a hierarchy, no question about that, but position should correlate strongly with competence, and you need to keep corruption at bay somehow. And degeneracy is a symptom of bad mental health and a lack of self-control, the type of indulgence is less important. The more self-control/discipline a person has, the more freedom you can allow them before they destroy themselves.
I wouldn’t call it “female submission”, just different gender roles. And since women are more emotional on average, they’re much easier for politicians to manipulate. They tend towards the changes which sound the most appealing, rather than those with the biggest possibility of actually working. You have to take genetics into account, you can’t change human nature by changing society.
Human history is long. We have seen what works. The trick is finding something which works and in which people are happy and healthy. Keep in mind that I’m not advocating for people having “good lives” by whatever objective metrics you can think of, that doesn’t work. We should create lives in which those living said lives enjoy themselves. Comparison, and having too many choices, are both terrible for human health, for this reason modern dating apps are terrible.
It’s very possible that companies earn money by creating a need in the population, and that people signal much better lives than they actually have (buying things they can’t afford, only posting good news on social media, etc) which results in a population in which everyone feels inadequate/inferior, making them desperate enough to turn egoistic/selfish.
I do agree that there’s many possible factors, but I’d also encourage people to focus on the psychological side of things. Too many people try to change the world because they refuse to change themselves, and the most vocal of the bunch tend to be mentally ill.
Edit: Finally, we’re fighting against odds which have never existed before, like the current population density. I think it’s better to have many, smaller communities than few, large ones, for many many reasons. But this is less profitable, so globalism is the future.