No one in such circumstances would have thought to suggest that the youngest wet-behind-the-ears brave or the village women should participate in the decision-making for the group.
This is an excellent point. Since realistically we're not going to go back to kings, reinstituting the property requirement for voting would be the most practical way to bring a little more sanity to our decision making. But I think that suggesting this makes me racist.
TBH I didn't. It was a term I'd actually come up with independently but which I used to basically refer to collapse and regeneration. A couple of years later, I was disconcerted to see the WEF types start using it for their Agenda 2030, etc. plans.
I think nobody in 2017 imagined what we will be up to since 2020. But if you can, tell me more. I have read many of your articles and they are very insightful I really appreciate all the knowledge. Just to confirm, the whole thing which happening now is consequence of electing idiots in position of power - democrats or republicans, doesn't matter. Before there were some checks and balances which kept the system functioning, media, non-idiot voters, finance, accountability, moral, local cummunity, families and others. This has changed since social media and smartphone introduction, so now we have possibility to manipulate, control and persuade people like never before. So the media and social media give us the biggest idiots, cryples and psychopaths to position of power. That's what I understand.
Now for the pandemic, where I am still confused, so this idiots with IQ of cucumber made plan and call it great reset, which used applied psychology to convince everyone that outside is deadly pandemic. This idiots also made sofisticated research into viruses like flu and convince everyone that there is deadly threat to shift attention to be able to do the transformation. In mean time they also introduce some substance to inject into people to damage them and to kill some. Then they start war with Russia which they losing and now they start another to one.
I can't find logic in this, either their are idiots so for me is stranger to belive they would prepare and execute so sofisticated thing like in 2020 on another hand, the war in Ukraine and others seems like work of idiots but for me it's strange to believe that the same people behind covid which was in my opinion incredibly well prepared and executed are those some people who continue to rule the rest of events since then.
In last, I still wonder about the vaccine, was it really only introduced to harm and kill part of population?
Well researched, beautifully written but 90% nonsense.
Of course there are hierarchies, in everything, but so what?
The corollary of 'authority' is 'responsibility'.
Societies break down when people are held responsible but have no authority to make changes. They break down when fools are given authority but never held accountable.
How the authority derives, monarchies, voting, special, classes all are irrelevant if the people making decisions are not held accountable for the outcomes.
From the article you would think that all authority is benevolent and good, all hierarchies are beneficial. This is clearly nonsense. Unless that authority is used for the 'good' of those over whom the authority is wielded then only evil and bad can come form it.
The only 'workable' form of government is a "Benevolent Despot'. All else fails. You can't share authority and you can't share responsibility. No 'Committee' has ever been successful for more than a very short time.
You can delegate but only to an individual and that individual holds responsibility for the outcome, under you and only to you. Even when 'delegated' you hold responsibility for the outcome.
At some point 'The Buck has to Stop', and it is always (for a successful society-organisation) with a single person.
Any other structure no matter how well organised and hierarchical will fail.
Well said. The idea that a hierarchy of control is the best way for society and institutions to be organized is responsible for most of the human suffering today and throughout history.
Despotism, slavery, war... these are works of and made possible by hierarchies of control. Authoritarianism and the desire of some people to control others are the enemies of humanity. Freedom and individualism are our hope. A person calling himself "Theophilus" should understand the meaning of "...those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last."
"While in a hierarchical society everyone knows his place and can find his or her individual identity within it, in egalitarian contexts, the individual person is cast adrift, unmoored from a sense of belonging and identity, and is left to try to forge his own identity as best he can."
This is a really interesting insight. The common view is that identity is an individual thing, something that is searched for and ultimately self-created, but people can spend their whole lives "finding themselves" without resolution. Accepting one's place in the natural hierarchy provides a framework in which identity can be found in accordance with nature, rather than in contradiction to it.
Evolutionary psychology seems to suggest that humans naturally arrange themselves into dominance hierarchies. However, political equality means the equal right to participate in—and be represented by—a democratically elected government. I think it's a straw man argument to claim this as a "refutation" of Enlightenment egalitarianism. Thoughtful article, fun to read.
No one in such circumstances would have thought to suggest that the youngest wet-behind-the-ears brave or the village women should participate in the decision-making for the group.
This is an excellent point. Since realistically we're not going to go back to kings, reinstituting the property requirement for voting would be the most practical way to bring a little more sanity to our decision making. But I think that suggesting this makes me racist.
True. Sadly, instead of getting a polar axial king, we may have to settle for polar axial White male property owners.
Just asking if this was written in 2017 did you already know about Great Reset how is presented now?
TBH I didn't. It was a term I'd actually come up with independently but which I used to basically refer to collapse and regeneration. A couple of years later, I was disconcerted to see the WEF types start using it for their Agenda 2030, etc. plans.
I think nobody in 2017 imagined what we will be up to since 2020. But if you can, tell me more. I have read many of your articles and they are very insightful I really appreciate all the knowledge. Just to confirm, the whole thing which happening now is consequence of electing idiots in position of power - democrats or republicans, doesn't matter. Before there were some checks and balances which kept the system functioning, media, non-idiot voters, finance, accountability, moral, local cummunity, families and others. This has changed since social media and smartphone introduction, so now we have possibility to manipulate, control and persuade people like never before. So the media and social media give us the biggest idiots, cryples and psychopaths to position of power. That's what I understand.
Now for the pandemic, where I am still confused, so this idiots with IQ of cucumber made plan and call it great reset, which used applied psychology to convince everyone that outside is deadly pandemic. This idiots also made sofisticated research into viruses like flu and convince everyone that there is deadly threat to shift attention to be able to do the transformation. In mean time they also introduce some substance to inject into people to damage them and to kill some. Then they start war with Russia which they losing and now they start another to one.
I can't find logic in this, either their are idiots so for me is stranger to belive they would prepare and execute so sofisticated thing like in 2020 on another hand, the war in Ukraine and others seems like work of idiots but for me it's strange to believe that the same people behind covid which was in my opinion incredibly well prepared and executed are those some people who continue to rule the rest of events since then.
In last, I still wonder about the vaccine, was it really only introduced to harm and kill part of population?
Well researched, beautifully written but 90% nonsense.
Of course there are hierarchies, in everything, but so what?
The corollary of 'authority' is 'responsibility'.
Societies break down when people are held responsible but have no authority to make changes. They break down when fools are given authority but never held accountable.
How the authority derives, monarchies, voting, special, classes all are irrelevant if the people making decisions are not held accountable for the outcomes.
From the article you would think that all authority is benevolent and good, all hierarchies are beneficial. This is clearly nonsense. Unless that authority is used for the 'good' of those over whom the authority is wielded then only evil and bad can come form it.
The only 'workable' form of government is a "Benevolent Despot'. All else fails. You can't share authority and you can't share responsibility. No 'Committee' has ever been successful for more than a very short time.
You can delegate but only to an individual and that individual holds responsibility for the outcome, under you and only to you. Even when 'delegated' you hold responsibility for the outcome.
At some point 'The Buck has to Stop', and it is always (for a successful society-organisation) with a single person.
Any other structure no matter how well organised and hierarchical will fail.
Well said. The idea that a hierarchy of control is the best way for society and institutions to be organized is responsible for most of the human suffering today and throughout history.
Despotism, slavery, war... these are works of and made possible by hierarchies of control. Authoritarianism and the desire of some people to control others are the enemies of humanity. Freedom and individualism are our hope. A person calling himself "Theophilus" should understand the meaning of "...those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last."
"While in a hierarchical society everyone knows his place and can find his or her individual identity within it, in egalitarian contexts, the individual person is cast adrift, unmoored from a sense of belonging and identity, and is left to try to forge his own identity as best he can."
This is a really interesting insight. The common view is that identity is an individual thing, something that is searched for and ultimately self-created, but people can spend their whole lives "finding themselves" without resolution. Accepting one's place in the natural hierarchy provides a framework in which identity can be found in accordance with nature, rather than in contradiction to it.
Evolutionary psychology seems to suggest that humans naturally arrange themselves into dominance hierarchies. However, political equality means the equal right to participate in—and be represented by—a democratically elected government. I think it's a straw man argument to claim this as a "refutation" of Enlightenment egalitarianism. Thoughtful article, fun to read.
The Law of Moses ruled out an inherited aristocracy. No primogeniture. No ability to accumulate farmland in perpetuity.
There was hierarchy, but the hierarchy was dynamic, heavily age based, and trapezoidal. No king until the people wimped out and whined to Samuel.