Desmet reinvented the wheel, as far as I can tell. I think Fromm already said it in his 1941 /Escape From Freedom/.
And we must keep in mind that the vocabulary (e.g. totalitarian, fascist, socialist, etc.) is imposed upon us by our narcissistic & sociopathic Ruling Class, i.e. “the winners write the history books.” Just like domesticated grass seed-based religion, these economic & political “science” 😂 technical jargon are entirely self-referential - arbitrary, even capricious, but definitely **propagandistic** - not scientific.
There’s no science in PolySci, alright? 😂The Soviets had their versions of Economic **science** & PolySci, too.
Neolithic socioeconomic systems & Neolithic religions are self-referential for precisely the same reason: because they ignore the 40,000+ Paleolithic years that our species existed - actually it thrived! - as physiologically & psychologically Modern Man.
I’ll briefly digress, in a probably vain attempt, to disarm any churchgoers in the audience by saying that I do tell my children that God is real - they’ve already begun bringing the There-is-no-god pop cultural filth into the household (!) - but I tell them that nobody can tell them who God is. Plus, I tell them that religion is a strange way to believe in God 😂
That said, all these Neolithic modes of being & ethnocentric biases are self-referential. That’s why they cannot predict.
Science 1) explains & 2) predicts.
Neolithic Ethnocentrism limits the mind; it’s anti-scientific. It prevents accurate explanation & accurate predictions.
Anyways, all of the PolySci & Economic technical jargon is synonymous with each other, e.g. capitalism & collectivism are synonymous. Another perspective: Whether Mesopotamia or pre-Colombian Meso-America, the USSR or the USA versions of Intensive Agricultural Civilizations, __all__ socioeconomic systems can be described as
Today’s China, Mao’s China, same difference, and same as we are, here in the God blessed USA 😂
The technical jargon is all synonymous. And our academic & religious & pop cultural “educations,” literally indoctrination, is foisted upon us by the narcissistic & sociopathic Ruling Class. Ironically, their perverse souls are as much a product of dysfunctional plant-centered dieting as we downtrodden Workin’ Stiffs’ perverse souls.
This is what plant-centered dieting does to culture - to the human body, mind, & soul. Always the same: the same Wild Goose Chases, the same Moral Detours from “God ‘n’ Mother Nature’s intention.”
Those mid-20th century “overcrowded rat” experiments (that kids might be introduced to in high school Psychology class or Psych 101 at university) eloquently 1) explain & 2) predict how ‘n’ why Intensive Agricultural Civilization perverts the biological wild-type Human Spirit.
Just like those poor experimental rats end up acting in very uncharacteristic ways for their species under conditions of overcrowding + malnutrition, so we, too, are perverted from our True Nature by capitalism-collectivism, whatever terminology you choose - because it’s all Neolithic plant-centered dieting socioeconomic structures.
These millennia-old conditions are:
1. chronic overwork,
2. chronic malnutrition, and
3. chronic overcrowding, which invariably & predictably & very **understandably** results in
4. chronic STRESS !!!, which
is NOT native to our species.
Our clever species evolved under conditions of acute + periodic stress, which sharpens the mind - and Mother Naturally develops a Grateful Soul unto “God,” however you might understand God.
Chronic stress is the Farmer’s lot in life, but we Modern Workin’ Stiffs, today, wouldn’t know it except for 20th century anthropology, which reveals that our native work week was about 20 hours 😂, not the farmer’s 80 hours 😂 which is still the contemporary suburbanite’s work week, including house work, shopping, cooking, commuting, paperwork, etc..
—> Our species is supposed to laugh ‘n’ play many, many more hours per week than we work. Thus is the scientific explanation for “the better angels of our nature.” Unfortunately, Copper Age & Iron Age religion is profoundly ignorant of the **fundamentals** of human psychology & physiology. <—
I’ll end here. Obviously I’ll talk your ear off, but I can’t tell if anyone’s interested (interested in stepping out from Psychologically Comfortable Ethnocentric Biases and into Real Science, not the TV set’s fake “science”), but anyways, I do enjoy this opportunity to validate myself; we’re all adrift in a Sea of Ignorance. They call it the “Curse of Awareness” for a reason, you know 😂
But Matias’s four points were already made in Fromm’s work, which I reiterate in my four points above. Briefly, these conditions that predispose the sheeple to “authoritarianism” or witch burning or “democracy” are __ever present__ under Mother Unnatural conditions of Intensive Agricultural Civilization.
They don’t come ‘n’ go. They’re always present; we’re always surrounded by fxxxing morons 😂, more accurately & precisely defined as “Grain Brains,” or as dispirited, tamed animals in captivity, “free range humans,” mockingly describing to our 21st century serfdom by referring to free range chickens 😂
But Jesus & the Buddha, etc. were correct: you’re more than what you think you are, but you’re not, today, who ‘n’ what you’re meant to be 👍❤️
Desmet reinvented the wheel, as far as I can tell. I think Fromm already said it in his 1941 /Escape From Freedom/.
And we must keep in mind that the vocabulary (e.g. totalitarian, fascist, socialist, etc.) is imposed upon us by our narcissistic & sociopathic Ruling Class, i.e. “the winners write the history books.” Just like domesticated grass seed-based religion, these economic & political “science” 😂 technical jargon are entirely self-referential - arbitrary, even capricious, but definitely **propagandistic** - not scientific.
There’s no science in PolySci, alright? 😂The Soviets had their versions of Economic **science** & PolySci, too.
Neolithic socioeconomic systems & Neolithic religions are self-referential for precisely the same reason: because they ignore the 40,000+ Paleolithic years that our species existed - actually it thrived! - as physiologically & psychologically Modern Man.
I’ll briefly digress, in a probably vain attempt, to disarm any churchgoers in the audience by saying that I do tell my children that God is real - they’ve already begun bringing the There-is-no-god pop cultural filth into the household (!) - but I tell them that nobody can tell them who God is. Plus, I tell them that religion is a strange way to believe in God 😂
That said, all these Neolithic modes of being & ethnocentric biases are self-referential. That’s why they cannot predict.
Science 1) explains & 2) predicts.
Neolithic Ethnocentrism limits the mind; it’s anti-scientific. It prevents accurate explanation & accurate predictions.
Anyways, all of the PolySci & Economic technical jargon is synonymous with each other, e.g. capitalism & collectivism are synonymous. Another perspective: Whether Mesopotamia or pre-Colombian Meso-America, the USSR or the USA versions of Intensive Agricultural Civilizations, __all__ socioeconomic systems can be described as
“pyramidal, hierarchical, socioeconomic structures of slavery & servitude unto concentrated, privatized, dynastic wealth.”
Today’s China, Mao’s China, same difference, and same as we are, here in the God blessed USA 😂
The technical jargon is all synonymous. And our academic & religious & pop cultural “educations,” literally indoctrination, is foisted upon us by the narcissistic & sociopathic Ruling Class. Ironically, their perverse souls are as much a product of dysfunctional plant-centered dieting as we downtrodden Workin’ Stiffs’ perverse souls.
This is what plant-centered dieting does to culture - to the human body, mind, & soul. Always the same: the same Wild Goose Chases, the same Moral Detours from “God ‘n’ Mother Nature’s intention.”
Those mid-20th century “overcrowded rat” experiments (that kids might be introduced to in high school Psychology class or Psych 101 at university) eloquently 1) explain & 2) predict how ‘n’ why Intensive Agricultural Civilization perverts the biological wild-type Human Spirit.
Just like those poor experimental rats end up acting in very uncharacteristic ways for their species under conditions of overcrowding + malnutrition, so we, too, are perverted from our True Nature by capitalism-collectivism, whatever terminology you choose - because it’s all Neolithic plant-centered dieting socioeconomic structures.
These millennia-old conditions are:
1. chronic overwork,
2. chronic malnutrition, and
3. chronic overcrowding, which invariably & predictably & very **understandably** results in
4. chronic STRESS !!!, which
is NOT native to our species.
Our clever species evolved under conditions of acute + periodic stress, which sharpens the mind - and Mother Naturally develops a Grateful Soul unto “God,” however you might understand God.
Chronic stress is the Farmer’s lot in life, but we Modern Workin’ Stiffs, today, wouldn’t know it except for 20th century anthropology, which reveals that our native work week was about 20 hours 😂, not the farmer’s 80 hours 😂 which is still the contemporary suburbanite’s work week, including house work, shopping, cooking, commuting, paperwork, etc..
—> Our species is supposed to laugh ‘n’ play many, many more hours per week than we work. Thus is the scientific explanation for “the better angels of our nature.” Unfortunately, Copper Age & Iron Age religion is profoundly ignorant of the **fundamentals** of human psychology & physiology. <—
I’ll end here. Obviously I’ll talk your ear off, but I can’t tell if anyone’s interested (interested in stepping out from Psychologically Comfortable Ethnocentric Biases and into Real Science, not the TV set’s fake “science”), but anyways, I do enjoy this opportunity to validate myself; we’re all adrift in a Sea of Ignorance. They call it the “Curse of Awareness” for a reason, you know 😂
But Matias’s four points were already made in Fromm’s work, which I reiterate in my four points above. Briefly, these conditions that predispose the sheeple to “authoritarianism” or witch burning or “democracy” are __ever present__ under Mother Unnatural conditions of Intensive Agricultural Civilization.
They don’t come ‘n’ go. They’re always present; we’re always surrounded by fxxxing morons 😂, more accurately & precisely defined as “Grain Brains,” or as dispirited, tamed animals in captivity, “free range humans,” mockingly describing to our 21st century serfdom by referring to free range chickens 😂
But Jesus & the Buddha, etc. were correct: you’re more than what you think you are, but you’re not, today, who ‘n’ what you’re meant to be 👍❤️
Thanks,
Gerald