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Hold on to your hats; we are heading into a massive sea change, what we might even call a time shift, as we leave behind a dying era and leap for another.

A window has opened. In this portal of time, people are open to different ideas than the ones that have been socially dominant for the past two centuries.

We are seeing the end of the guillotine era: the time in the Age of Symbolism in which symbols were used to rationalize individualistic desires, erasing all meaning to those symbols. We once knew what “good” and “bad” were, but now these only mean what is convenient or inconvenient for the individual and its social group.

Someone the other day described writing as both an art and a science. The art involves the goals and the perceptions of reality; these are the target that most cannot see and therefore which is entirely new to them. The science is the methods used, proportion, and other means of achieving the art.

Art is goals, science is analysis and wisdom. To do art well, one must know the world through the intuitive layer, so that the methods of language and image are not required. This unites the goal with what is realistic and finds a beauty in reality so that more beauty can be created.

Intelligence conveys the ability to see the future and know reality more than others can. To be capable of art, one must have a certain amount of intelligence, and it is rare on the bell curve of human intelligence.

As Arthur Schopenhauer said, “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.” We might posit three layers of humanity: those who can follow the methods others have used, those who are talented and can apply these exceptionally, and the geniuses who can adapt to unknowns.

We have been living in the era of means-over-ends where people have imitated successful actions from the past, but in doing so, have drifted farther from reality through a dialectical process. We are reacted to images of memories of the distant past.

Our current age has valued things that the rote or talented can do as well as geniuses, like following scientific methods or applying egalitarian ideas.

Our time shift involves the end of the guillotine era, in which in order to facilitate means-over-ends repetitive action behavior, we have demonized the exceptional and scapegoated them so that we could steal from them in order to subsidize the herd.

The guillotine era was based on rationalization. As society grew, we changed from hunter-gatherers to independent farmers to people working jobs, and jobs required means-over-ends thinking, which then shaped us toward rationalization, or finding a way to argue that what we wanted was mandated by the methods in favor.

What else do we have to say about a horror of a time that executed whole families and then replaced them with inferior leadership that stole everything and steered us into diversity? The French Revolution was a mistake. The Magna Carta was a mistake. The Peasant Revolts were a mistake. But we keep repeating these mistakes.

The sea change upon us is the end of this era of rationalization, where we assert that jobs and equality are good therefore anything we can plausibly argue expands those is good, which peaked in the civil rights era. We are moving to an age of demonstrating actual value in the whole context of reality instead.

With the death of the egalitarian experiment, its subsets — socialism, diversity, feminism, transsexualism, pacifism, universal gods — are also perishing.

Perhaps recently we saw the postwar order end, since the Utopia promised by defeating the foes of democracy turned out to be simply a gateway to Communism via diversity. “Civil rights” replaced any goal we had just like jobs replaced the need to actually achieve something, both at work and in our own souls.

We have been a beaten people for a thousand years since the middle classes began their takeover from the aristocracy, launching the bureaucracy that took over in 1945 and now rules us through its stranglehold on the economy and law.

But we have a portal, a window opening, in which people are receptive to something different. They have diversity fatigue, for sure, and most of them are questioning why they pay so much in taxes for little they receive from government in response.

Ironically this is born out of frustration. No one thinks the current system — corporate jobs, consumerist lifestyles, government subsidies, media guidance, diversity no-go zones, and cultureless ideology and religion — will ever change. Nothing ever happens. It has reached terminal inertia through bloat.

As a result, the rebellion against being over-governed and ruled by externalized, rationalized symbolic values like ideology and dualism has gained momentm. People in the West (but not the third world) are backing away from Christianity and liberalism. Like democracy, those gods have failed us.

We are still in the grips of the French Revolution mentality. We cannot point out to people that intelligence is biological, it falls for each individual somewhere on a bell curve, and some things are beyond the understanding of those at the lower levels, consistent with the DKE.

People cannot admit that we are not equal and therefore “equality” is a lie used to call for subsidies, and that this is the root of big government, the deep state, our debt and bankruptcy, and the continued failure of the system. It is grinding to a halt because it is run by morons instead of people of the level of our ancestors.

Two handmaidens keep the French Revolution narrative alive, the Leftist ideology (egalitarianism/individualism) and the Christian religion (dualism). Both of these insist that all humans are equal and important. Reality says otherwise, that only a few can actually make decisions and the rest are going through the motions.

Crowds occur when a group decides to mutually validate the individualism of its members, which necessitates scapegoating those with power and insisting on equality. This is a fundamental human failure, like overeating or alcoholism, that will always be with us, so we must always resist it.

In this brief portal of the ability to possibly think, our people are rejecting the fundamentalism of the Age of Symbolism and its reversed logic. Instead, they want value-for-value: those who contribute, get rewarded, and everyone else gets nothing.

Humanity established the first step in advanced civilization but then squandered it by pandering to the complaints and guilt of the people who were not making it in that environment. Now we are learning, and we have a brief portal of sea change in which we can shift time toward the future again.

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