OF OTHER RELIGIONS IS EVIDENCE OF OUR REPEAT OF OTHER CIVILIZATION’S FAILURES I

https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=2i7GkX7bIYc&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DfKe600qHEAg%26feature%3DshareADOPTION OF OTHER RELIGIONS IS EVIDENCE OF OUR REPEAT OF OTHER CIVILIZATION’S FAILURES

I would offer this alternative explanation to the author of the video:

1) Westerners and easterners evolved in different ‘economies’ so to speak: westerners had small populations, with small farms, and pastorialism, a homogenous (single-ethnic) people, with harsh winters (intolerant climate), lacking any extremely productive resource (seasonal flooding that could be organized into irrigation through ‘slave’ labor). A culture with mostly heads of small businesses, requiring constant choices, seeking solutions.

Conversely, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Hrappa, and Yang-tse, rivers were all open to irrigation and farming during cyclical, silt-replenishing floods. So (colder)westerners developed self-organizing Sovereignty, and (warmer)easterners developed authoritarian, organized (industriralized) farming. A culture with mostly slaves, lacking choices, seeking escapism.

2) Western Philosophy evolved as a sovereign, aristocratic(propertied) discipline, for aristocratic(propertied) classes, for the purpose of RULE(profiting from organizing production). This rule includes: Rule of self(Sovereignty), Rule of household, Rule of business(farming, manufacture, and trade), and Rule of the Polity.

When we are ruling self, household, business, and polity, we must place higher demands (value) upon our correspondence with reality, emotional tolerance for correspondence with reality, and continuous adaptation to reality, that we place upon interpreting reality in a way that lessens our emotional, intellectual, and physical burdens.

In the west, we avoid conflation of disciplines and as such, we produced class-specializations in our ways of thinking:

– Elites: Rule/law/war,

– Upper: Finance/commerce/contract,

– Middle: knowledge/reason/philosophy/morality, and

– Working/Lower: religion/theology.

Each depends upon the rest: an integrated polytheism of sorts. We preserved the competition between these disciplines. We preserve the sovereignty of each. And we do so because each represents the needs of the classes that they serve the interests of. The west(small manors and farms) never developed totalitarianism as did the east(industrialized flood-river farming), because we preserved sovereignty, so it was never necessary of the west to engage in conflationary argument as the east has done.

3) Organized Religion and Eastern Philosophy evolved as a REACTION to the invention of Sovereignty and Rule. (Sovereignty ==> Zoroaster > Hinduism > Buddhism, and Polytheism > Authoritarian Monotheism > Scriptural Monotheism). There are many reasons for this reaction, but in large part, it is that sovereignty is a eugenic evolutionary strategy with upward redistribution of resources. While eastern socialism is a dysgenic evolutionary strategy.

4) The west *DID* have it’s own version of Buddhism(mental discipline): Stoicism. And it was widely practiced until the schools were closed by the forcible conversion of the empire to Christianity in order to bring Oriental authoritarian mysticism into the declining empire. Why? Becuase it is very expensive to create truthful, empirical, high trust sovereign rule of law, and it is very cheap to create deceitful, mystical, low trust, authoritarian scripturalism. Reason requires voluntarily adopted education, and mysticism requires only ritualistic indoctrination.

5) In modernity, we are saturated by information (most of which is false), and competition, An absence of norms in which we can find an identity, and our families have been destroyed by feminist legal activism, our intergenerational families have been destroyed through migratory labor and immigration. People live alone and lonely in boxes. Instead of the german model where they use building codes to produce cities with family sized apartments, we have spread people either in isolated suburbs, or limited reproduction in our cities by maximizing revenue per square inhabited meter – the result being that American and British Cities are IQ-sinks and Unused-Ovary graveyards.

6) So I ask a different question: Why is it that we take the evidence of escapist eastern philosophy as a success, rather than its adoption means that we are replicating the east’s failures, and regressing to their authoritarianism and lack of choice?