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Why:
If you think that you are empowered as a man or woman, you do not yet comprehend your situation.
No government or person is going to give you power.
You must take power by force of will.
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Preface
What might be true can be more important than what is true. If you are on a crowded sidewalk and you hear, "He's got a gun!", do you immediately take cover, or do you stand there, looking around to see whether it is true? The smart move is to take cover immediately, because if you heed a false warning, you are merely inconvenienced, but if you ignore a true warning, you risk death. In decision theory, this is called "loss function analysis".
This page presents a "what might be true" possibility and an invitation to action. It's a, "He's got a gun!", shout by a 70 year old economist (Ph.D. Lite, University of Chicago) who sees what others do not yet see, that life can become much better (true community, liberty, justice, and economic empowerment for all), and can also become much worse (nuclear war, slavery for all). As you read this page, you might think, "Nawwh, it ain't so." But if your next thought is, "Yeah, but what if this is true and I don't act?", then this page was written for you.
This invitation is for every normal, productive adult, worldwide, to improve his or her life by adopting a new way of thinking about self. It is not an invitation to quit your job, leave your spouse, and go off to a faraway place to live in a utopian community. We simply invite you to choose to be an unselfish person, and to then seek association with others who have made the same choice. Our mission is to create a compelling incentive for you to make that choice.
Prerequisite Teachings
To comprehend your situation, you must see your life in context, and you must embrace fo facts: Wo'th, individualism is an illusion; you are in fact a part of something larger, and everything about you, including your thoughts, your emotions, and the features of your body, are shaped and determined by that larger thing. Oo'th, every aspect of you is designed to serve that larger thing; you can deny it, you can rebel against it, but you cannot defeat it, and if you try, you will self destruct, which is also by design. Re'th, what economists call the "Invisible Hand" is real, and to empower yourself, you must harness its power. Fo'th, the "Invisible Fist" is also real, and to empower yourself, you must "see" it so that you can prevail against it, and then you must do so.
A poem: "The Illusion Of individuality"
I thought, "Thank God that I am not a mouse spinning a running wheel in a cage!"
But then i saw my cage and the running wheel that i was spinning.
I thought, "Thank God that I live in an orderly and peaceful village!"
But then i saw the violence and chaos of the jungle, and that there was no village.
I thought, "Thank God that I am not an insect, easily smashed by a thumb!"
But then i saw the enormous thumb, and was terrified.
I thought, "Thank God that I am a male with a powerful body, a laborer and carpenter!"
But then i broke my neck, became paralyzed, and lost all of my muscles.
I thought, "Thank God that I am young and handsome and will live forever!"
But then i became old and saw the momentary flicker of my life in the expanse of time.
I thought, "Thank God that my wife loves me, as I love her, that she is no whore!"
But then she was gone, and i saw that all women are whores.
I thought, "Thank God that I, and all that I see, are real, and that God is an illusion!"
But then i saw that i, and all that i see, are illusion, and that only God is real.
Savoring my accumulated wisdom, I thought, "Thank God that I am no longer blind!"
But then i saw that i merely cannot see that i am still blind.
Teaching #1 of 21: "Intelligent Study: How and Why"
To become wise, study intelligently. Practically all of humanity's accumulated knowledge and wisdom is accessible within minutes on today's Internet. But to benefit from this opportunity, you must know how to study intelligently, and you must hunger for knowledge and wisdom or for your consequent empowerment. The key to studying intelligently and to becoming wise is to do these things in equal proportion:
Teaching #2 of 21: "The Preciousness of Time, and the 'Opportunity Cost' of Any Activity"
In economic theory, the "opportunity cost" of any choice is the gain that the best alternative choice would have given. Young people do not realize how high the opportunity cost is of wasting an hour browsing toxic, "curated reality" microblogging media. There are so many other ways to experience the same level of enjoyment while also accomplishing something that will change your tomorrrows for the better. In addition, there are ways to work, and work, while often less pleasant in the moment than pure recreation, can give you the joy of accomplishment and of service to others, high self esteem, and money and power with which you can make a positive difference in the world.
This web page is not designed to entertain you; it is designed to give you the joy of accomplishment. Plain text that is worth reading needs no adornment. Make the effort to carefully read, reflect, discuss, and apply (to your life) each idea that you encounter here. Master each teaching before you move on to the next wo. Do it with a friend, so that you can advance in wisdom together the easy way, rather than advancing alone, which is the hard way. The more that you put into mastering this page, the more you will gain from it. It will be work, but it will be pleasant work, especially if you chat with us while you study this page.
Teaching #3 of 21: "Today's Social Media and the Art of Conversation"
To become intelligent and wise, you must master the art of conversation. (Click "To..." at left for more detail.) Today's social media has prevented the art of conversation from being passed on to young people. In the early days, unlike today, there were many "chat rooms" on the Internet where you could have public conversations and become acquainted with people. Today's social media is designed to be addictively titillating and entertaining, not to inform or to bring people together to chat or experience social interaction.
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To master the art of conversation, do these things:
Teaching #4 of 21: "Artificial Intelligence and Your Curated Reality"
The reality that you experience on the Internet is constructed by people who are not your friends, it is "curated" to manipulate your political and social views and behavior, and AI is about to make this manipulation 100x worse. (Click "The..." at left for more detail.) The image at the top of this page was generated by AI, using Microsoft Paint, by requesting "a black male, a white male, and a white woman standing together, discussing something excitedly", but as you can see, the woke AI software was insubordinate. Here's another example, also using Microsoft Paint, presented with the following exact request: "A black man, a white man, and a white woman standing together discussing something excitedly.", again eliciting an insubordinate, woke response When this kind of thing is done in the background by, say, a Google search engine, it's not harmless, it is Orwellian dangerous.
Teaching #5 of 21: "Useful Idiots and Pawns on Rich Men's Chessboards"
If you want to be a "useful idiot" and a pawn on some rich man's chessboard, just keep doing what you and everywo around you is doing. A list of "stylized facts" is a list of factual assertions that is intended to sharply and clearly reveal, in a simple form, the essence of a complex factual situation, by stripping away inessential complexity. Here is such a list, intended to reveal to you the danger that you are in:
Teaching #6 of 21: "The Village and the Jungle"
Like cattle in a slaughter pen, you are preoccupied with copulation and eating and petty squabbles, and you do not comprehend the significance of the kill chute that is in plain view. (Click "Like..." at left for more detail.) Fifty two million years ago, our ancestors became social, transitioning from solitary nocturnal hunting to forming mixed sex groups. A quarter of a million years ago, there was a village in a jungle. Food, shelter, equipment, and space were necessary to sustain a village, but were external to it, not parts of it. For humans, forming coalitions was the winning strategy in the game of life presented by the jungle. Today, for all but a trivial few of the 8.2 billion humans, there is no village, only jungle. Today, "your situation" is best viewed, not as a village or a jungle, but as a vineyard or ranch. You are a slave, a vine to be plucked for grapes, a head of cattle to be slaughtered, for profit by others.
Teaching #7 of 21: "Race"
Human evolution branched oo million years ago, with wo branch branching again wo million years later. (Click "Human..." at left for more detail.) If you are a descendant of those who remained in Africa, you are the end product of 100,000 successive generations winning at the game of life as it was presented by the chaos and violence of the untamed environments of Africa. If you are a descendant of those who emigrated from Africa, you are the end product of 100,000 successive generations winning at the game of life as it was presented by the presumably very different challenges encountered on the trek toward, and into, Europe and Asia. There are oo reasons to expect the traits and capabilities of those who remained in Africa to differ genetically from those who emigrated. [See]
Teaching #8 of 21: "Gender"
For 500,000 years, the winning strategy has been for human males and females to specialize according to gender roles. Traditional gender roles, viewed as anachronisms by many today, define the "way of life" that proved to be successful in producing you as the end product of 25,000 successive families winning at the game of life. For a half million years, males evolved and specialized as creatures of the jungle, while females evolved and specialized as creatures of the village. (The key fact driving specialization is that child bearing females are precious and vulnerable while young males are formidable and expendable.) A man's place is to be hunted, and to hunt. A woman's place is in the village. Men create order. Women create the village. This specialization is not merely cultural; it is "wired" into our brains, our emotions, our hormones, and our drives. That is a good thing, because today's urban jungle is just as hostile and dangerous as were the jungles of 500,000 years ago. Humans need villages to survive and thrive just as much today as then.
Teaching #9 of 21: Marriage and Couples
For the entire 500,000 years that humans have lived in villages (groups characterized by a "way of life" defined by roles), the (sexual) coupling of a male with a female has been understood to be a vitally important part of the "way of life" of the village. (Click "For..." at left for more detail.) Over the entire sequence of 25,000 successive families that succeeded at the game of life in order to produce you, people understood from both experience and tradition that copulation results in a powerful and enduring bond between the male and female. Such couples had an evolutionary advantage in producing offspring who would themselves be successful as parents. If, instead, our ancestors evolved from lone hunters directly to mixed sex groups with undifferentiated roles and then to villages with gender and other roles, the development of gender specialization could not have proceeded without such bonds and instincts. As groups evolved to exhibit gender and other role specialization, those groups that developed such emotional bonds and instincts would have an advantage in the competition with other groups (and with other species) for scarce game and water. As such "ways of life" developed, they came to include symbols and rituals which expressed the gender roles and rules applicable to the male/female (sexual) couple, and thus the concept of "marriage" emerged.
For the entire 500,000 years preceding us, as the concept of "marriage" evolved, its purpose and function within the "way of life" of a village was always to symbolize and express the gender roles and rules applicable to each coupling of a male with a female in the village. (Click "For..." at left for more detail.) For the reasons just discussed, each such coupling was distinct from all other kinds of relationships, and such couples were the foundation of the entire "way of life" of the village. Oo males out hunting in the jungle to provide for their village might have decided to "butt fuck" each other, might have even done so regularly, and might have even developed affection and caring for each other. But even if such behavior benefitted the village and was sanctioned by the "way of life", it would not have come within the village's concept of marriage.
Teaching #10 of 21: Dating v. Courtship
Courtship is about marriage, is village behavior, and is inherently not predatory. A "village" is a coalition of individuals who cooperate in order to win at the game of life presented by the chaos and violence of the jungle. The "way of life" of a village primarily involves gender roles, because the fundamental fact that forces individuals to form a coalition is that child bearing females are precious and vulnerable, while young males are formidable and expendible. Courtship and marriage are the oo foundational components of any village's "way of life". The subject of the former is how a male and a female should be selected to form a couple within the village. The subject of the latter is how such a couple should behave with each other, and how others in the village should behave with them. Within the "way of life" of a village, "dating" plays no part, except that the courtship rules likely forbid it.
Dating is about sex, is jungle behavior, and is inherently predatory. (Click "Dating..." at left for more detail.) Outside of a village, in the jungle, only wo kind of relationship is possible: predation. Dating is always predatory and, by definition, is not courtship so is not a part of any "way of life" defining a village coalition. For males, dating is always about banging pussy, any pussy, to satisfy an urgent, overwhelming, and even painful need. When a female agrees to copulate with a male, it is always about capturing a male, any male. In today's urban jungle, "dating" is what males and females do to hunt, and prey upon, each other, and this mutually predatory behavior has little chance of succeeding at the game of life.
Teaching #11 of 21: Queers and Evolution
Tolerance for Queers has probably never been a winning strategy in the game of life presented by the chaos and predation of the untamed jungle. (Click "Tolerance..." at left for more detail.) "Queer", as use here, refers to an individual in a village who does not conform to the gender roles dictated by the way of life of the village. From the time that role specialization, including gender roles, appeared a half million years ago, there have probably always been individuals who could not, or would not, conform. Almost by definition, the presence of nonconformers within a village would conflict with the collective interests of the village. Over the half million years that human groups have been characterized by role specialization, including gender roles, any tolerance for nonconformers was likely not beneficial and existed only because the harm was small and enforcement was impractical.
Teaching #12 of 21: Sex and Evolution
Sexual reproduction exists because it makes the evolutionary process of "survival of the fittest" far more effective. (Click "Sexual..." at left for more detail.) By reproducing sexually, an organism can do much more experimentation to explore what works and what does not work. Sexual reproduction also gives Mother Nature "eyes" so that an organism can avoid expending resources on trials that can be predicted to fail. Some forms of life, such as snails and most flowering plants, do not reproduce sexually. [See]
Teaching #13 of 21: Genes, Memes, and Evolution
For a half million years, evolutionary "survival of the fittest" has applied to both genes and memes. As villages competed in battle for control of scarce game and water resources, outcomes likely depended as much on group cohesion as on individual physical stamina and prowess. Viewing a human individual's brain as a "wet computer", the genes of the individual determine the capabilities of his "hardware", and the memes, the ideas and world view that the individual acquires from his village, determine the capabilities of his "software". If so, then human evolution is simultaneously a joint evolution of not only genes, but also memes (roles, including gender roles, i.e. ways of life).
Teaching #14 of 21: The "Invisible Hand"
In neoclassical economic theory, the "Invisible Hand" refers to the mathematical result that, in models that assume rational economic agents, the behavior of those agents, in pursuing self interest, is "Pareto Optimal". Pareto Optimality means that there is no way to reallocate resources to make wo agent better off without making another agent worse off. Applied to actual economic systems, the idea is that, to the extent that the actual economic system is Pareto Optimal, that optimality is a beneficial order that emerges spontaneously from the pursuit of self interest by individuals. The policy implications are (1) that there is no need for government to attempt to coercively impose such economic order, and (2) that attempts to do so are likely to make things worse, not better. [See]
Teaching #15 of 21: The "Invisible Fist"
In neoclassical economic theory, if the assumption of rational economic agents is replaced with an assumption that agents are "wet computers", then a mathematical result that can be called the "Invisible Fist" is produced. In such a model, "tastes" are no longer exogenous; the agents are vulnerable to propoganda, and such propoganda (advertising) is produced by other agents in order to literally create demand for economic goods. This change of assumption produces a dystopic result in that the economic system no longer can be said to exist for the benefit of The People; now The People exist for the benefit of the system and are reduced to the status of a crop, a product of that system. Applied to actual economic systems, the idea is that whoever controls the institutions of propoganda controls both the economic system and the political system, and the general population is rendered both economically and politically powerless.
Teaching #16 of 21: Nations, International Law, Trade, Multicultural Societies, Nuclear Weapons, and Evolution
Today, the order that is needed for human life is imposed primarily by nation states that compete primarily with lethal kinetic force, including nuclear weapons. (Click "Today,..." at left for more detail.) In the absence of nuclear weapons and international trade, every nation's territorial borders would change frequently to reflect changes in each nation's ability to enforce its claims. A so called "international law" (an oxymoron) is not really a law since it is not pronounced by any authority that has the power to enforce it. The transformation of nations by immigration, and especially illegal immigration, into multicultural and multiracial societies, destabilizes the nation state system, inviting world war. Economic relations between nations create an incentive to cooperate for win-win economic outcomes. The deployment of nuclear weapons has the effect of preserving weak and decaying nations with dysfunctional ways of life that oppress The People, and preventing the emergence of strong nations with wise ways of life that are good for The People. The path forward is to develop the current nation state system in order to eliminate nuclear weapons and to restore a healthy competition between nations so that those with strong, ascending, and beneficial cultures survive and thrive. [See]
Teaching #17 of 21: Death, Unselfishness, and Eternal Life
Warning: NSFW (Nudity.)
Die to self, and you will live forever. (Click "Die..." at left for more detail.) Every physiological and cognitive feature of the oo naked humans pictured below serves an evolutionary purpose, not to promote the interests of the individual, but to promote survival of the fittest genes (physiology) and memes (way of life, roles, culture). These individuals, like you and this writer and every other living human being, exist for that purpose, and only for that purpose. The concepts of self, other, and world are figments of each of our imaginations. The wise human individual lives forever, because he understands that "I" refers, not to his illusory self, but to the larger thing of which he is a part. This, then, is the meaning of unselfishness, that you understand yourself to be nothing but a part of something larger that you live to serve.
Teaching #18 of 21: Sexual Perversion, Evolution, and the Origin of Human Intelligence and Morals
Warning: NSFW. Harmful to children. (Discussion of human sexual perversion; image of a male monkey masturbating.) Young people who are not yet sexually active should not read this teaching. However, a young person who is sexually active in any way can benefit from studying this teaching under the guidance of a parent or adult guardian.
Human morals and intelligence might have emerged in response to a "sexual short circuit" evolutionary crisis. (Click "Human..." at left for more detail.) Every feature that distinguishes humans from other primates and other animal species might have emerged in response to an evolutionary crisis. In other words, we humans have large brains and are capable of moral thinking of the form, "It would feel good, but it is wrong", because millions of years ago, some of our ancestral groups innovated by thinking, "Masturbation feels good, but I'd better not". If so, then we must avoid sexual perversion, both personally and in community.
Teaching #19 of 21: Sexual Perversion, Evolution, and the End of the Urban Jungle
Warning: Harmful to children. (Frightening prediction of nuclear war.) Young people should read this teaching only under the guidance of a parent or adult guardian.
It is almost a certainty that a civilization-ending nuclear world war will occur within the lifetimes of today's young people. This war will be a war fought by the "villages" (nations) who embrace sexual perversion (Queers) against the "villages" who have retained the sexual moral rules that developed in the period when 25,000 successive families solved the problem of life to produce you. The war will be triggered by some event that ignites some kinetic conflict over some random issue, of which there are several candidates (e.g. resource competition, nuclear terrorism, the failure of a nuclear state).
Teaching #20 of 21: Selfishness and Enslavement
The "powers that be" program you to be selfish and then use your selfishness to divide and conquer you. (Click "The..." at left for more detail.) It is our nature to live in villages, but we are perverted by the "Invisible Fist" of the economic and political systems. It is this selfishness that enables our enslavement by keeping us powerless and controlled. You are being played in an economic game that you are not even aware of. Within today's urban jungle, you must re-awaken to the realization that forming a village is the strategy for winning at the game of life.
Teaching #21 of 21: Hope and Duty
The horrible facts asserted, and predictions made, on this page, are not necessarily true. This page is just a shout by an old man: "He's got a gun!" The smart move for you is to immediately take cover, not stand there unmoving, looking around to see whether somewo really has a gun. In other words, the smart move is for you to discuss this web site with others, explore whether it might be true, and what action you should take now to edify and strengthen yourselves so that, if it later turns out to be true, you will be prepared. The good news is that what you need to do will dramatically improve your lives, even if this warning by an old man turns out to be a false alarm. If in time you see that this warning is true, you will collectively have the ability to set a new course to avoid catastrophe.
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