THE VIRTUE OF HISTORY POLY-HEROISM AS CIVIC RELIGION (important ideas) The probl

THE VIRTUE OF HISTORY POLY-HEROISM AS CIVIC RELIGION

(important ideas)

The problem in producing a positive religion is providing a sufficient portfolio of virtues that people can select from and use to respond to differing circumstances.

It’s the same with political orders. everyone wants to mandate an optimum when the romans know a long time ago that you give shit away when you’re prosperous, you run a market order most of the time, and you run a fascist generalship in times of war, with the only constant being rule of law (reciprocity) as the point of equilibrium between the two extremes.

Hence my argument for real or semi-real historical figures, and enough of them so that we can call upon their example no matter what the conditions.

The only reason not to is authoritarianism and as far as I know all religious people are closet authoritarians, whether they want to lead or follow, just as they care closet regressives by seeking static rules regardless of whether they do so for discounts on mental labor, or discounts on the work to compromise with those having different ends, or they want to rally people to their chosen reproductive strategy despite the fact it’s not in the interest of others to do so.

Economic analysis explains everything and no matter what you do religious people lose. In fact, it’s pretty easy to argue that organized religion is the worse thing to happen to humanity in history.

I mean, we already now that the source of all monotheistic religions was the failure of the indo-iranians to compete with the europeans, and therefore they spread west to escape them, but took the technology with them while inverting the aryan religion from one of defeating nature to one submissive to it.

it’s very hard to tell people that their desire for predictability is suicidal and that it’s only trustworthiness despite unpredictability that produces goods. It’s very hard to tell people who are dedicated to fictionalisms in which they find comforts that they are destructive to humanity and the most regressive people living. But it’s simply a fact.

I didn’t expect to end up here but then I have more intellectual honesty and moral courage than most people, and am more willing to be wrong than most people for reasons that were nothing to do with my own choice.

Truth is truth. It is very hard to face it.