Whatifalthist

A video I made explaining Mexican history https://youtu.be/Uz0NFYxvL5M?si=nZrop...

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The only way humans can understand themselves is to look both down into the realm of animals and then above to mysticism or religion. Man is an ape which ate of the fruit of knowledge, indelibly biologically intermeshing itself into the realm of the forms.

From the historic record it’s obvious that on a societal level humans need religion to biologically function given all agnostic societies collapse. A religion is a relationship between a certain Platonic form, or a concept that the thinkers of that society develop and the culture itself. This relationship must be cultivated like a friendship and must be organic. It must be believed by the people of that society and in the process it will indelibly warp the structure of the reality of the people involved as their vision of the world will become indistinguishable from the world itself to them.

For the former I grew up in a rural area where animals were everywhere. We share a lot more with them than we think and I like most animals more than I like most people. Animals are constantly consumed in striving, whether for dominance, sex, love, food and happiness. Largely the same as humans although the sheer sincerity of the animal will to life is sort of adorable in itself. There is beauty even in a tiger hunting prey. I remember all the pack animals constantly jostling for status over the most petty crap like which animal sat in which part of the pasture.

We contain both of these and that paradox is the story of human history writ large

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What’s the biggest reason Gen Z has such crippling mental health issues?

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Are normies morally defensible or is being complicit in a collapsing system morally bad in itself.

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A video I made explaining Native American History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgjZW...

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What would you if you were a 14th century Breton nobleman serving Bertrand de Guesclin in his Languedoc campaign of the Hundred Years’ War fighting against the English?

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I want to invent a word for “the kind of person who can only see what others tell them to see.” Any ideas for words that would fit. I want something I can use for intellectual discussions, not just saying NPC or sheep.

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In high school in 2016 I read the Atlantic magazine. It had as a hypothetical scenario “in 2026 when president Kanye under the democrats will run the country. Kanye will resort to more authoritarian methods to get another done versus the conservative controlled legislature. lol. Did not age well.

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A video I made explaining the history of frontier America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCgBR...

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I’m always in complete shock of how we have attained nearly peak socialization for social rules so universally stupid and contradictory. From a cultural basis socialization is very expensive in that societies exert enormous effort through school, government, family, media or religion to inculcate certain values and worldviews in their populations. If you read history you realize this is normally an incomplete goal with the peasants or fringe regions not belonging to whatever shared elite vision existed.

The thing is that Wokeness is complete rejection of our biological nature. We know from mountains of scientific evidence that humans have an innate nature passed through our blood that’s quite complex and contextually important. We know in our blood what the normal roles for men and women are, how governments works, how social class works or that we want to mate and thrive given that’s how our ape ancestors evolved. Wokeness is a society collectively agreeing to believe things that everyone subconsciously knows is a lie. You know they know they’re lying at their core, although not their exterior face, since they bear such enormous psychological costs in maintaining the lie in about a dozen ways.

Much like the Soviet Union we exist in a society with a publicly facing reality practically no one, including supposedly free content creators breaks calls out, and then the collective reality we all have to live in. The gap between our real lives and the public reality is several continents.

How come the Woke were so successful? I’m shocked there aren’t more autists, rednecks, rich people, history or literature buffs or religious people who haven’t bought into the system who just laugh at it. Everyone else ever in history thinks this is insane and evil. There are history books everywhere and no one notices. We somehow forgot all the basic truths that kept our ancestors alive overnight.

Growing up I was taught all these WASP adjacent politeness and it was kinda difficult to remember all of it as a kid but the amount of completely incomprehensible social rules that exist now are so huge I’m in shock we remember all of them as a society. Keep in mind most people aren’t particularly intelligent or driven but they follow the code scrupulously. For every social rule we have we have another opposing one. The question is which opposing principle to pick in a certain context and then doublethink to the opposite point when necessary. This is no way for a man to live.

Best, Rudyard

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