@ArthurB First time I am seeing someone here calling out people instead of politicians. Politicians after all are reflection of people especially in democracy.
Politicians lie because people like to hear lies instead of bitter truth.
Aristotle correctly pointed out that democracy is only possible within ethnic groups, and that tyrants import foreigners because divided societies are easier to rule over and control.
@Ofer_binshtok Free speech and reformed judiciary that is unbiased will defeat the islamic terrorism.
The diluted version of free speech and judiciary is killing the west.
@CreativeDeduct Envy, pride, and greed will always remain in humans. So Marxism will never go away. It can be only pushed away with truth. But it keeps coming back. The fight is forever.
@EternalSunrise7@RupertLowe10 The people that are destroying the country by using the "laws" can be changed and used against people who destroyed the country.
I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
This map is basically a civilizational personality test. Rice farming needs 2x the labor of wheat, shared irrigation, coordinated planting cycles. You literally can't survive without your neighbours. This results in collectivist, tight-knit, "don't rock the boat" cultures. Wheat you can farm solo with your family and a plough.
The gender split is even more interesting. Southeast Asia is overwhelmingly bilateral or matrilineal in kinship. Women own property, pick husbands, control household income. Meanwhile the green zone runs almost perfectly along the world's most patrilineal, honour-driven belt from Turkey through Central Asia to Punjab. Male lineage, bride price, izzat, purdah.
Films and shows keep getting worse because art has turned into propaganda.
As Tolkien noted, evil cannot create. It can only mock, distort, and corrupt what someone already made.
They take the stories we love and drive them into the dirt to serve their politics.
Roughly 6% of the population is incapable of conscience.
Polish psychiatrist Andrew Lobaczewski warned that in times of upheaval, this minority weaponizes the language of justice, equality, and compassion.
And the trusting hand their freedom over gladly.
Society has become hyper-reactive to male failure modes and completely blind to female ones.
Male criminality and female "adult content creators" serve the same evolutionary function: extracting resources from the vulnerable.
We only recognize one of them as a problem.