- 06 Dec 2017 23:15
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Exactly. It's just a kind of early behaviorism - cemented in a manufactured worldview called religion - that was necessary in order to introduce a technology - agriculture.
Every technology forces humans to distort themselves and fight their own natures. And this is supremely FATAL.
We destroy our own natures, and then we go extinct. Every civilization has destroyed its own environment, but only AFTER it has destroyed its capacity to follow its instincts.
I'm not regurgitating Nietsche here. This is a thread for posting ideas, not name-dropping.
ThirdTerm wrote:I think delayed gratification developed among modern humans as an acquired habit with the onset of farming.
Exactly. It's just a kind of early behaviorism - cemented in a manufactured worldview called religion - that was necessary in order to introduce a technology - agriculture.
Every technology forces humans to distort themselves and fight their own natures. And this is supremely FATAL.
We destroy our own natures, and then we go extinct. Every civilization has destroyed its own environment, but only AFTER it has destroyed its capacity to follow its instincts.
Victoribus Spolia wrote:If you are using Nietzsche's definition, then you are not applying it correctly. ...
I'm not regurgitating Nietsche here. This is a thread for posting ideas, not name-dropping.
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The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite.
The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.
— Julian Assange