Amerika

We have a little bump coming up in human history. The postwar consensus on democracy just dissolved, and it is being replaced by a need for function. In the future, our societies will abandon human rights in favor of a measure of utility.

In many ways, this simply reflects our overpopulated status. We have eight billion people, most of whom are lower intelligent and impoverished, and we have tried to subsidize these in order to avoid letting them die, but now the subsidies are out of money.

Worse, democracy has become suicidal in that it has neglected infrastructure and future planning in order to spend money on its citizens. Adrift without wind, it will go nowhere. We are going to be rebuilding like we did after the world wars.

In order to fulfill the promise of democracy that everyone would be important no matter how useful they were, we bankrupted ourselves and destroyed our societies, putting icing on the cake with diversity which has erupted into an outbreak of murder, rape, corruption, and lawfare.

The future will change the democracy formula from “everyone is important no matter how useful they are” to “everyone is important in proportion to how useful they are.”

Useful people serve the rest by doing something that benefits all. Even if your job is menial, like cleaning toilets or writing Rust code, others depend on you, and if you are participating, you are helping civilization, yourself, and everyone else all in one.

However, because the voters were panicked about unemployment, government backdoored socialism not just through entitlements but through jobs that are regulatory creations, basically forcing millions of incompetents upon industry.

That works when you can find constant wealth pockets like cheap third world labor to exploit. You just charge twice as much and make the product half as good, and people are constantly buying new garbage to replace the old stuff as it dies.

They then go to their jobs and demand more money. The KcPs keeps going by borrowing from tomorrow to pay for today, and so prices always go up and quality always goes down. Everyone pays to keep the incompetents around.

Most likely, we are heading to a future where relatively few people work office jobs or technical jobs, and the vast majority of humanity survives on subsistence farming. Very few humans have much utility, generally, and as automation replaces their labor, they will become irrelevant.

Very few remember that unions drove our jobs offshore, and not many know that in your average business, almost all of the staff think they could do a better job of running it than the boss does. The DKE is strong with the workforce!

As a result, no one is going to blink twice about replacing them. We are not there yet, but in the intermediate stage where we stop trying to give everyone a job, because that ended in mass incompetence, and focus on giving jobs to those who will do something useful with them.

We have been living in the civil rights era, which is the stage of democracy where everyone becomes so entitled that they demand the law make special exceptions for them, which is typical human behavior enabled by equality under the law.

They invent a theory to justify this, an ideal that hovers above reality like a pure and pristine light, “morality.” While we all have ethics, morality adds guilt and religion, which is a substitute for culture, and becomes a control system instead of a method of guidance.

This dualism — the belief that our Earth has an opposite, Heaven/”good,” which we should live for instead of adapting to reality — is the revenge of the herd. “We are all one,” they say, which means that we are all appendages of their minds in their telling and they hope to control us.

Dualism rejects reality, so all of its variants involve first a rejection of what is obvious, consistent, observable, and logical. They want you set aside the real world and pursue this other world, but it has social value only and betrays you because it is an illusion.

The rejection of the obvious makes people feel powerful however. Instead of struggling with whatever it is you struggle with, whether a marriage or career, you moralize about the situation and judge it. This makes you feel like a god above the Earth in that shimmering pure space.

However, the Devil never appears in an ugly form until he has trapped you. When “good” is “evil,” your head is screwed up, and the evil in good is that it rejects reality and forces your brain to operate through symbolism.

This causes you to stop thinking about what you should be achieving, and to focus instead on the symbolic appearance of being moral. Those symbols regulate what methods you use based on whether those methods are “moral”; thou-shalt-not-kill omits that some people need killing.

Our pagan ancestors recognized a sense of complementarity and parallel to reality instead. That which did bad should be treated badly, because its role was badness; that which did good, including being useful, should be treated well.

Thinking of yourself from an external point of view like symbolism and morality makes people into egomaniacs. They are not concerned with what they do, only how it looks, and while this may control their baser instincts, it makes them neglect orienting their lives toward achieving good.

In other words, in the moral telling, good is about avoiding bad methods, and thus, any goal of long-term good is forgotten in the rush to appear moral and benevolent. People give on up actual good and focus on appearance and symbolic “good” instead.

Most people do not want to have goals. If you have a goal, you can fail. If your only direction is to avoid doing bad methods, you can stop worrying about what life requires. Just keep living for those symbols in the sky.

Politics adds a new wrinkle because it competes with religion and commerce for the replacement of culture. Politics is ultimately just bureaucracy, or finding ways to use rules/methods to constrain others while you get ahead.

In the political view, the Heaven we aspire to is equality, because only offering equality makes the herd leave you alone so you can keep scheming to get ahead. Social mobility rewards the speculators and schemers while punishing those who simply like to do a good job.

Saner societies would view politics as a mental health problem, just as they would see dualism as insane. When you are focused on image and manipulation, you give up on the external world, and in doing so, discard the part of yourself that is united to it through intuition.

In this view, tyranny arises because society develops a mental health problem. Neurosis — confusion of cause/effect, like superstition or symbolism — rewards a paranoid desire for power in order to keep the herd at bay, and it only ends in apocalyptic tyranny.

The first casualty of this process is realism, which most call “truth.” This means paying attention to the actual consequences in reality of our actions, not just the moral methods we use. It is possible to be a pacifist who destroys his own society, but he will consider himself “good.”

If you care about ends/goals, realism is useful, but most people simply want to rationalize their desires as acceptable to the herd instead of making their goals things that benefit the whole of the world, not just others but culture, civilization, nature, and reality.

Those who want to rationalize their methods/means as good — the means-over-ends thinking of the symbolist, based in rationalizing what you want as a good method rather than an honest argument that it will produce a good result — find that truth is something they want to bend.

Rationalization is the core of the human solipsistic process. We see ourselves versus the world, decide the world is bad, and rationalize that view as “good” so that we can paint the world as bad and therefore ignore the obvious.

You might wonder why you live in an insane time, and the first clue is that it is bigoted against reality.

This era demonstrates a massive psychological toxicity because daily experience is hostile and filled with lies. Every interaction you have with society is fraught with risk if you do not endorse its illusions.

Has anyone considered simply having a society with fewer illusions?

To have that, we have to adopt new thinking based on utility. Good to the good, bad to the bad. Not all deaths or abortions are tragedies, in fact, a large chunk of every generation are bad and should perish. That which has no function can be discarded.

Humanity has exhausted itself trying to make sure everyone is equal and subsidized so that we can live in ideological and dualistic Heaven. Yet we have made Hell. It is time for us to set aside what we desire, and operate on what actually works.

Tags: dualism, humanism, psychological toxicity, rationalism, rationalization, utility