(from twitter ‘dispute’) I can teach anyone to evaluate art. This is the overview of the method from the course presentation. With practice you can judge any work, set of works, movement, civilizational works, and speak of them intelligently and recognize when you must say “i don’t know enough” on one hand, and ‘i like it’ (or not) on the other. Art is a craft like any other. You may not like Shakespeare, Joyce (understandably), Hemmingway, or Dickens (oddly) or Michener, Ludlum, Forsythe, or the female equivalent, any other set of authors, but it’s possible to intelligently say why; same for food; same for art. Otherwise, you’re just saying “i don’t like math” and ” i like comedies”. Because how you feel about art is a measure of YOU, not the art.
Form: Mini Essay
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No Evolution Is Not Random It’s Just Undirected
Dec 2, 2019, 10:32 AM Evolution is not random. Evolution increases in complexity in order to exploit niches of caloric and therefore reproductive opportunity. In humans, and all domesticated animals, evolution consists of increasing cerebral volume, and slowing rate and depth of sexual development, making possible executive function (self-control) and rational agency. (choice). The east asians are the most developed. Whites less so, indians less so, middle easterners less so, and each of the three major african groups less so. With class size exacerbating (limiting) the distribution of domestication. The only contrary argument is that executive function (reason and agency) upon which all human achievement is constructed, is not evolutionary. We could make the argument that we are self domesticating and that this is an evolution of evolution itself, and that we are evolving the world in favor of self domesticating creatures. or we could make the argument that reason and agency and domestication is not evolutionary – but that is difficult to imagine, since once reason exists, and science exists, man has control over his evolution, and as far as we can tell, he seeks superior physical and mental fitness, and superior physical symmetry.
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No Evolution Is Not Random It’s Just Undirected
Dec 2, 2019, 10:32 AM Evolution is not random. Evolution increases in complexity in order to exploit niches of caloric and therefore reproductive opportunity. In humans, and all domesticated animals, evolution consists of increasing cerebral volume, and slowing rate and depth of sexual development, making possible executive function (self-control) and rational agency. (choice). The east asians are the most developed. Whites less so, indians less so, middle easterners less so, and each of the three major african groups less so. With class size exacerbating (limiting) the distribution of domestication. The only contrary argument is that executive function (reason and agency) upon which all human achievement is constructed, is not evolutionary. We could make the argument that we are self domesticating and that this is an evolution of evolution itself, and that we are evolving the world in favor of self domesticating creatures. or we could make the argument that reason and agency and domestication is not evolutionary – but that is difficult to imagine, since once reason exists, and science exists, man has control over his evolution, and as far as we can tell, he seeks superior physical and mental fitness, and superior physical symmetry.
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The Transition Into Gods
Dec 2, 2019, 12:05 PM by Luke Weinhagen Human development of executive function and rational agency resulted in our having more ability to exert intentional control over our environment than any other organism we have yet encountered (humans evolve to control environments). This control gives us the means to write natural law (figuratively – our exertion of control redefines the limits that are expressed by the environment in natural law). Because we could begin to write natural law, however poorly and imprecise at first, we could begin the process of domestication. The Story version: The fall of man was not the knowledge of good and evil, but life and death. When we control the environment, we change the limits. We redefine what is unfit, what will survive and what will be eliminated – what was only to be the purview of the gods. (CD: And with reason, became gods.)
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The Transition Into Gods
Dec 2, 2019, 12:05 PM by Luke Weinhagen Human development of executive function and rational agency resulted in our having more ability to exert intentional control over our environment than any other organism we have yet encountered (humans evolve to control environments). This control gives us the means to write natural law (figuratively – our exertion of control redefines the limits that are expressed by the environment in natural law). Because we could begin to write natural law, however poorly and imprecise at first, we could begin the process of domestication. The Story version: The fall of man was not the knowledge of good and evil, but life and death. When we control the environment, we change the limits. We redefine what is unfit, what will survive and what will be eliminated – what was only to be the purview of the gods. (CD: And with reason, became gods.)
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Computer science appears to have made it possible for us to imagine ourselves correctly
Dec 5, 2019, 3:12 PM Computer science appears to have made it possible for us to imagine ourselves correctly: “why doesn’t it understand or “why doesn’t it know” was a common question in the first generation of computer users. Today, every generation knows it’s just a machine and needs explicit instructions on its own terms. Programming had the same effect. Databases even more so. And the current ‘pseudo-ai-tools’ have reached the point of producing design patterns “organizations that fulfill purposes”: the grammars of software whether relational database, hierarchical database, Text-Index, Bayesian (“ai”), Object, Functional, Script, Speech, Touch, Text, punc- card, or Switch. So it is far easier for our generations to understand the brain as a computational device and the mind as our introspection upon it. But it is still difficult for us to understand that we have surprisingly little agency until we develop sufficient introspection — if we can at all. The principle difference in my thought is that I see mankind as largely consisting of semi-conscious beings riding an unconscious elephant, with a very, very, few of us able to look in the mental mirror and recognize the driver…isn’t us.
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Let’s Give Everyone a Precise Language and For the Discussion of Religion.
Dec 23, 2019, 8:15 PM (worth repeating) We have been misled to thinking that ‘religion’ requires superstition. But that idea is a product of the authoritarian dogma created by the church under christianity. It’s simply not true. DECONFLATED, RELIGION CONSISTS OF: 1) Narrative: historical, mythical, supernatural 2) Metaphysical Judgments: (in many forms) 3) Group Evolutionary Strategy: (in many forms ) 4) Normative Rules: (in many forms) 5) Registries of Familial Property (birth, maturity, marriage, death) 5) Rituals both private and public: (mindfulness in its forms) 6) Feasts, Sports, Arts, and Festivals:(in their many forms) RELIGION ‘WORKS’ BY: 1 – providing some variation on ‘mindfulness’ in which we can escape the problem of being honest with ourselves independently of all our accumulated intuitions and biases. 2 – Forming associations between the ‘pack-response’ and group participation, and eliminating the problem of stress from post-tribal life’s lack of feedback, thereby extending trust bonds across kin groups, class groups, and market groups, which decreases transaction costs of all kinds in all walks of life. 3 – Establishing normative rules for familial and cross familial behavior, that made (and continue to) reduce natural frictions between genetic variations in gender, class, tribe, race that (truthfully) translate in to different demands for association, reproduction, economic cooperation, and rule – and the status-seeking that affects each of those demands, dramatically. THE FUNCTIONAL PROBLEM OF WESTERN RELIGION 1 – Separation of education and religion ……..a – The failure of religions to reform in response to the scientific enlightenment. ……..b – The failure of religions to reform in response to Darwin. ……..c – The Academy’s seizure of the functions of the church upon the failure of the church to reform. ……..d – The End of western separation and competition between Religion and State by the adoption of the synthesis of jewish cosmopolitan and puritan postmodern by the State, Academy, Media complex the current generation of thinkers refers to as “The Cathedral Complex”, or just “The Cathedral” for short. ……..e – The beginning of state-financed New Indulgences (we call them ‘college diplomas’) that promise a middle or upper class level of consumption instead of forgiveness of sins and entry into heaven – when the postwar economic boom that made possible the rapid expansion of the consumer class was just a temporary product of the combined tragedies of the Great European Civil War’s destruction of centuries of accumulated production capacity, plus the destruction of, and delay of expansion of, world production caused by the movement we call world communism (and now, its inheritor, world islamism). 2 – the academy seized control of the commercial education and the ‘religious’ education (liberalism), but failed to seize familial education – and in most cases, assisted the state in the destruction first of black families, then white families, and now all families, in order to (a) provide women with child care (schooling), force them into the labor pool (feminism), and then consume the entire proceeds of women’s labor so that the war and boomer generation could retire early and lie on the next generation’s labor, and then immigrating third world labor to provide cheap labor (social programs) that cannot replace the prior generation because of lesser aggregate abilities. The family destruction was increased by attempt to create a mobile workforce and thereby deprive women of the multi-generational support necessary to raise more than one child without exhaustion. And now it is impossible for women to return to childbearing and child-rearing because of the tax demands placed upon their earnings by the immigration of underclasses and the dependency of the aged yet healthy enough to work. 3 – The state-sponsored secular ‘religion’ that we currently teach is pseudoscientific (false, and dishonest), where the content of Christian religion (the extension of kinship forgiveness to non-kin) was ‘true’ but conveyed by nonsense and authoritarianism. 4 – One of the unstated drivers for the current conflict in america is not just the decline of the white population and the ascent of the colored cities, but because science has caught up and since 1990 has been aggressively disproving the universalist, globalist, equalitarian democratic secular socialist religion. And those who are aware of this are … angry … and full of conviction that their traditions and intuitions were correct. Therefore they feel betrayed and deceived. THE WEST HAS ALWAYS BEEN POLYTHEISTIC While it is the secret to the west’s competitive advantage, we are sometimes misled by our (false) historical narrative: The west never engaged in conflation, by creating ‘one book’ so to speak. We have always had: …. 1) Law (limits) for the Ruling (fathering) Classes, …. 2) Commerce (pragmatism) for the producing classes. …. 3) Religion (utopianism) for Science / pseudoscience, philosophy / pseudorationalism, and Theology / fraud for the Educating (mothering) classes (church/academy). And have always maintained the three estates of the realm using the three methods of coercion 1) Law/Limits: Force / ostracization from movement/ resources / life itself. 2) Exchange/Utility: Payment / Remuneration / Ostracization from consumption. 3) Religion: Gossip / Rallying / Shaming / Ostracization from opportunity for insurance from the tribe. THE WEST’S ADMINISTRATIVE RELIGION IS THE COMMON SOVEREIGN INDO-EUROPEAN/ARISTOCRATIC/ANGLO SAXON LAW, AND ITS PRIEST’S ARE OUR JUDGES Reason, empiricism, science, and now ‘testimonialism’ (the completion of the scientific method) all evolved out of western empirical common law. There is no reason our founding myths: 1) Homer, takes of kings, princes and princesses: the germanic myths, legends, and fairy tales; 2) History and the lives of the great thinkers; 3) the tales of jesus and the saints; Cannot be taught as ‘religion’ and their contributions celebrated. RELIGION IS NECESSARY FOR EVOLUTIONARY REASONS, BUT SUPERSTITION, PSEUDO-RATIONALISM, PSEUDOSCIENCE, CONFLATION AND DECEPTION ARE NOT. THE CYCLE OF REVOLUTIONS (TRUTHS) AND COUNTER REVOLUTIONS (LIES) ——————————— 1) REVOLUTION: The invention of aristocracy (horse, bronze, wheel). =>COUNTER-REVOLUTION: organized conflationary superstitious advisory religion. 2) REVOLUTION: The invention of truth, reason, deconflation, competition. =>COUNTER-REVOLUTION: Conflationary Monotheistic Authoritarian Religion 3) REVOLUTION: Empricism =>COUNTER REVOLUTIONS: – French Pseudoscientific Moralism: Rousseau et al. – Russian literary nihilism. – German pseudo-rational philosophy. 4) REVOLUTION: Science: Darwin (evolution), spencer (operationalism), poincare(mathematical realism), maxwell (electromagnetism), nietzsche (restoration of aristocratic aesthetics) =>COUNTER REVOLUTION: – Jewish Cosmopolitan Pseudoscience: Boaz (anthropology), Marx (economics and sociology: cooperation), Freud (psychology), Adorno et al (Aesthetics).
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Let’s Give Everyone a Precise Language and For the Discussion of Religion.
Dec 23, 2019, 8:15 PM (worth repeating) We have been misled to thinking that ‘religion’ requires superstition. But that idea is a product of the authoritarian dogma created by the church under christianity. It’s simply not true. DECONFLATED, RELIGION CONSISTS OF: 1) Narrative: historical, mythical, supernatural 2) Metaphysical Judgments: (in many forms) 3) Group Evolutionary Strategy: (in many forms ) 4) Normative Rules: (in many forms) 5) Registries of Familial Property (birth, maturity, marriage, death) 5) Rituals both private and public: (mindfulness in its forms) 6) Feasts, Sports, Arts, and Festivals:(in their many forms) RELIGION ‘WORKS’ BY: 1 – providing some variation on ‘mindfulness’ in which we can escape the problem of being honest with ourselves independently of all our accumulated intuitions and biases. 2 – Forming associations between the ‘pack-response’ and group participation, and eliminating the problem of stress from post-tribal life’s lack of feedback, thereby extending trust bonds across kin groups, class groups, and market groups, which decreases transaction costs of all kinds in all walks of life. 3 – Establishing normative rules for familial and cross familial behavior, that made (and continue to) reduce natural frictions between genetic variations in gender, class, tribe, race that (truthfully) translate in to different demands for association, reproduction, economic cooperation, and rule – and the status-seeking that affects each of those demands, dramatically. THE FUNCTIONAL PROBLEM OF WESTERN RELIGION 1 – Separation of education and religion ……..a – The failure of religions to reform in response to the scientific enlightenment. ……..b – The failure of religions to reform in response to Darwin. ……..c – The Academy’s seizure of the functions of the church upon the failure of the church to reform. ……..d – The End of western separation and competition between Religion and State by the adoption of the synthesis of jewish cosmopolitan and puritan postmodern by the State, Academy, Media complex the current generation of thinkers refers to as “The Cathedral Complex”, or just “The Cathedral” for short. ……..e – The beginning of state-financed New Indulgences (we call them ‘college diplomas’) that promise a middle or upper class level of consumption instead of forgiveness of sins and entry into heaven – when the postwar economic boom that made possible the rapid expansion of the consumer class was just a temporary product of the combined tragedies of the Great European Civil War’s destruction of centuries of accumulated production capacity, plus the destruction of, and delay of expansion of, world production caused by the movement we call world communism (and now, its inheritor, world islamism). 2 – the academy seized control of the commercial education and the ‘religious’ education (liberalism), but failed to seize familial education – and in most cases, assisted the state in the destruction first of black families, then white families, and now all families, in order to (a) provide women with child care (schooling), force them into the labor pool (feminism), and then consume the entire proceeds of women’s labor so that the war and boomer generation could retire early and lie on the next generation’s labor, and then immigrating third world labor to provide cheap labor (social programs) that cannot replace the prior generation because of lesser aggregate abilities. The family destruction was increased by attempt to create a mobile workforce and thereby deprive women of the multi-generational support necessary to raise more than one child without exhaustion. And now it is impossible for women to return to childbearing and child-rearing because of the tax demands placed upon their earnings by the immigration of underclasses and the dependency of the aged yet healthy enough to work. 3 – The state-sponsored secular ‘religion’ that we currently teach is pseudoscientific (false, and dishonest), where the content of Christian religion (the extension of kinship forgiveness to non-kin) was ‘true’ but conveyed by nonsense and authoritarianism. 4 – One of the unstated drivers for the current conflict in america is not just the decline of the white population and the ascent of the colored cities, but because science has caught up and since 1990 has been aggressively disproving the universalist, globalist, equalitarian democratic secular socialist religion. And those who are aware of this are … angry … and full of conviction that their traditions and intuitions were correct. Therefore they feel betrayed and deceived. THE WEST HAS ALWAYS BEEN POLYTHEISTIC While it is the secret to the west’s competitive advantage, we are sometimes misled by our (false) historical narrative: The west never engaged in conflation, by creating ‘one book’ so to speak. We have always had: …. 1) Law (limits) for the Ruling (fathering) Classes, …. 2) Commerce (pragmatism) for the producing classes. …. 3) Religion (utopianism) for Science / pseudoscience, philosophy / pseudorationalism, and Theology / fraud for the Educating (mothering) classes (church/academy). And have always maintained the three estates of the realm using the three methods of coercion 1) Law/Limits: Force / ostracization from movement/ resources / life itself. 2) Exchange/Utility: Payment / Remuneration / Ostracization from consumption. 3) Religion: Gossip / Rallying / Shaming / Ostracization from opportunity for insurance from the tribe. THE WEST’S ADMINISTRATIVE RELIGION IS THE COMMON SOVEREIGN INDO-EUROPEAN/ARISTOCRATIC/ANGLO SAXON LAW, AND ITS PRIEST’S ARE OUR JUDGES Reason, empiricism, science, and now ‘testimonialism’ (the completion of the scientific method) all evolved out of western empirical common law. There is no reason our founding myths: 1) Homer, takes of kings, princes and princesses: the germanic myths, legends, and fairy tales; 2) History and the lives of the great thinkers; 3) the tales of jesus and the saints; Cannot be taught as ‘religion’ and their contributions celebrated. RELIGION IS NECESSARY FOR EVOLUTIONARY REASONS, BUT SUPERSTITION, PSEUDO-RATIONALISM, PSEUDOSCIENCE, CONFLATION AND DECEPTION ARE NOT. THE CYCLE OF REVOLUTIONS (TRUTHS) AND COUNTER REVOLUTIONS (LIES) ——————————— 1) REVOLUTION: The invention of aristocracy (horse, bronze, wheel). =>COUNTER-REVOLUTION: organized conflationary superstitious advisory religion. 2) REVOLUTION: The invention of truth, reason, deconflation, competition. =>COUNTER-REVOLUTION: Conflationary Monotheistic Authoritarian Religion 3) REVOLUTION: Empricism =>COUNTER REVOLUTIONS: – French Pseudoscientific Moralism: Rousseau et al. – Russian literary nihilism. – German pseudo-rational philosophy. 4) REVOLUTION: Science: Darwin (evolution), spencer (operationalism), poincare(mathematical realism), maxwell (electromagnetism), nietzsche (restoration of aristocratic aesthetics) =>COUNTER REVOLUTION: – Jewish Cosmopolitan Pseudoscience: Boaz (anthropology), Marx (economics and sociology: cooperation), Freud (psychology), Adorno et al (Aesthetics).
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Those questions that appear big, meaningful, or difficult rarely are
Dec 23, 2019, 8:18 PM Those questions that appear big, meaningful, or difficult rarely are – but if deprived of meaningful history (demographics, technology, economics, and law) they appear so. 1) Corporations: We invented Markets to force cooperation (legislation), Markets to Cooperate in (markets for consumer goods, services, and information), and Markets To Suppress violations of cooperation (Courts.) The State disintermediated the people on purpose from suing corporations, so that they could increase tax revenues. (research coal and rail damage in England). This violates the Common Law tradition of sovereignty and reciprocity decided by tort (trespass) and is easily reversed and restored. There is no reason whatsoever that we lack ‘standing’ to sue corporations (politicians, bureaucrats), in matters of the commons (class actions). Restore it, restore libel and slander. Although hard to do, we might want to restore laws against Shrews and Shrewing (Gossip, undermining, and shrill behavior. look it up. Your screaming leftist would be in stocks for most of our history.)
- Free speech. Free speech is not a difficult problem. It became a difficult problem with the end of the Duel, and the extension of that prohibition to prohibition on interpersonal discipline (inflating assault), and inflation into the prohibition on self-defense, defense of marriage, family, and property. There weren’t many extra-judicial punishments in our history but there isn’t much evidence that they weren’t justified. The reason our ancestors were better mannered was that the costs of ill-mannered behavior were high. It’s terribly easy to tell the difference between free and unfree speech: It’s either testifiable, reciprocal (ethical and moral), and warrantable – or it isn’t. If it isn’t testifiable, reciprocal, and warrantable, then its not possible to claim it’s truthful and moral. We test this every single day in courts here and around the world. We prosecute companies every single day. It’s not difficult to extend this law from commercial to political, to intellectual speech. We do it somewhat in the hard sciences – although the soft ‘sciences’ would nearly disappear, and economists would be hanging from lamp posts.
Social Media Companies. Legislation always lags when it doesn’t impact state authority. There is no argument to be made that Google-search (yellow pages, library), Wikipedia (Encyclopedia), Twitter (news), Facebook-messenger (communication), and Youtube-Instagram (publication, media) are not necessary infrastructure. that is indifferent From Electricity, Yellow Pages, Telephone, Network, and Cable. All of which are (heavily) regulated to ensure free movement of information EXCEPT pornography or conspiracy to commit crime.
The underlying problem is whether we are going to preserve the American experiment in the ‘third way’ of Majority Middle-Class Meritocracy under the common law of equals, or revert to continental ( church, aristocracy) division of ruled and rulers, under the Napoleonic (totalitarian) code. The answer is of course, that we can afford to do either, and have immigrated so many underclasses that it’s not possible to preserve our American experiment, in extending the rights of Englishmen, anglo Saxons, germanic peoples, and west Indo-Europeans that has been the secret of our success: Truth before face regardless of cost, Duty before self, sovereignty, reciprocity the jury, and the natural common law of tort. … and the problem it leaves us with. The dirty secret of western civilization is that we have been eugenic since our beginning. And both Christianity in the ancient world and in the modern Boas, Freud, Marx, Adorno et al, Derrida et al, and the current neoliberal -postmodern dogmatists are advancing a host of different ‘re-wildings’ of mankind in order to achieve their ends: ending the eugenic civilization we call the west.
People were not oppressed. They were domesticated. And that’s what we see in the genetic record.
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Those questions that appear big, meaningful, or difficult rarely are
Dec 23, 2019, 8:18 PM Those questions that appear big, meaningful, or difficult rarely are – but if deprived of meaningful history (demographics, technology, economics, and law) they appear so. 1) Corporations: We invented Markets to force cooperation (legislation), Markets to Cooperate in (markets for consumer goods, services, and information), and Markets To Suppress violations of cooperation (Courts.) The State disintermediated the people on purpose from suing corporations, so that they could increase tax revenues. (research coal and rail damage in England). This violates the Common Law tradition of sovereignty and reciprocity decided by tort (trespass) and is easily reversed and restored. There is no reason whatsoever that we lack ‘standing’ to sue corporations (politicians, bureaucrats), in matters of the commons (class actions). Restore it, restore libel and slander. Although hard to do, we might want to restore laws against Shrews and Shrewing (Gossip, undermining, and shrill behavior. look it up. Your screaming leftist would be in stocks for most of our history.)
- Free speech. Free speech is not a difficult problem. It became a difficult problem with the end of the Duel, and the extension of that prohibition to prohibition on interpersonal discipline (inflating assault), and inflation into the prohibition on self-defense, defense of marriage, family, and property. There weren’t many extra-judicial punishments in our history but there isn’t much evidence that they weren’t justified. The reason our ancestors were better mannered was that the costs of ill-mannered behavior were high. It’s terribly easy to tell the difference between free and unfree speech: It’s either testifiable, reciprocal (ethical and moral), and warrantable – or it isn’t. If it isn’t testifiable, reciprocal, and warrantable, then its not possible to claim it’s truthful and moral. We test this every single day in courts here and around the world. We prosecute companies every single day. It’s not difficult to extend this law from commercial to political, to intellectual speech. We do it somewhat in the hard sciences – although the soft ‘sciences’ would nearly disappear, and economists would be hanging from lamp posts.
Social Media Companies. Legislation always lags when it doesn’t impact state authority. There is no argument to be made that Google-search (yellow pages, library), Wikipedia (Encyclopedia), Twitter (news), Facebook-messenger (communication), and Youtube-Instagram (publication, media) are not necessary infrastructure. that is indifferent From Electricity, Yellow Pages, Telephone, Network, and Cable. All of which are (heavily) regulated to ensure free movement of information EXCEPT pornography or conspiracy to commit crime.
The underlying problem is whether we are going to preserve the American experiment in the ‘third way’ of Majority Middle-Class Meritocracy under the common law of equals, or revert to continental ( church, aristocracy) division of ruled and rulers, under the Napoleonic (totalitarian) code. The answer is of course, that we can afford to do either, and have immigrated so many underclasses that it’s not possible to preserve our American experiment, in extending the rights of Englishmen, anglo Saxons, germanic peoples, and west Indo-Europeans that has been the secret of our success: Truth before face regardless of cost, Duty before self, sovereignty, reciprocity the jury, and the natural common law of tort. … and the problem it leaves us with. The dirty secret of western civilization is that we have been eugenic since our beginning. And both Christianity in the ancient world and in the modern Boas, Freud, Marx, Adorno et al, Derrida et al, and the current neoliberal -postmodern dogmatists are advancing a host of different ‘re-wildings’ of mankind in order to achieve their ends: ending the eugenic civilization we call the west.
People were not oppressed. They were domesticated. And that’s what we see in the genetic record.