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1. That humans are NOT a blank slate, possess a multitude of universal behaviors, that is innate and not socially constructed.
2. That 200 years of the Enlightenment Liberal Nationalism has created the best situation for individual humans in all history, and we should step back and appreciate.
Roman hegemony in the Mediterranean "Pax Romana created the best situation for individual humans in all history.".... Just before 1000 years of dark age, plagues, barbarian invasions, obscurantism, and other human misery.
Heraclitusstudent saysRoman hegemony in the Mediterranean "Pax Romana created the best situation for individual humans in all history.".... Just before 1000 years of dark age, plagues, barbarian invasions, obscurantism, and other human misery.
True, but that's a reason to insure that Liberal Nationalism doesn't collapse from too many "Reforms" and "Diversity" and corrupt Cosmopolitan Elites who view themselves as "Citizens of the World" rather than of their respective Nations.
Too many take the benefits of the Enlightenment and Liberal Nationalism too lightly, and think society is infinitely malleable.
I believe you're either growing or dying, so the solution is to greatly expand the number of Enlightenment Value powered Liberal Nation states, first with unincoporated US territories on the Moon, Mars, and beyond. (You knew i was gonna sneak that in).
Pax Romana created the best situation for individual humans in all history.
The Roman's wished they had dental
I believe you're either growing or dying, so the solution is to greatly expand the number of Enlightenment Value powered Liberal Nation states, first with unincoporated US territories on the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
The second is very difficult for me to accept. You could have said at the top Roman hegemony in the Mediterranean "Pax Romana created the best situation for individual humans in all history.".... Just before 1000 years of dark age, plagues, barbarian invasions, obscurantism, and other human misery. There are trends that are unsustainable and you can't pretend they are.
I can accept that a period in time is "the best" even if subsequently there is a fall from that level. The people who died from old age before the Roman Empire collapse certainly lived the best human lifestyle during their time alive compared to any lifestyle previously lived.
Onvacation saysThe Roman's wished they had dental
Of course I meant: "Pax Romana created the best situation for individual humans in all history until then."
There is only so much organic growth to be had out there.
That's true, provided the self confidence, bravado and arrogance instilled by self congratulatory books such as "Enlightenment now" is not what causes the ensuing fall.
It would be easier to colonize the bottom of the sea, Greenland, and Antarctica. It would be easier to live on the top of a mesa or in an abandoned coal mine than to live in an low gravity, no atmosphere, temperature extreme place like the moon.
Taking it for granted and not appreciating it is the real danger.
But we can't let hide the fact that we are already in overshoot situation with regard to nature on earth and things will get much worse in the coming century.
HeadSet saysIt would be easier to colonize the bottom of the sea, Greenland, and Antarctica. It would be easier to live on the top of a mesa or in an abandoned coal mine than to live in an low gravity, no atmosphere, temperature extreme place like the moon.
Low Gravity, No Atmosphere, full of Aluminium and Iron = Megastructures, Centrifuges, etc. cheaply and easily. Pain in the ass to build a 1000 foot tower out of non-steel iron or aluminium in Greenland by 3 guys and load it up with solar panels. A snap on the moon, no earthquakes, wind, little friction, low gravity.
That low gravity alone would kill you. As would the meteorites the size of grain of sands that constantly pepper the surfac
We're in 2019, 50 years after the first human set foot there, and so far about 2 dozens humans have followed him. There are reasons for this.
Got a whole moon, quarter the size of the Earth. Just a few days away, a shorter trip than Columbus or Cabot had from Europe to the New World.
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He destroys the primary thought process and secondary thought processes of the Left by pushing two main themes:
1. That humans are NOT a blank slate, possess a multitude of universal behaviors, that is innate and not socially constructed.
2. That 200 years of the Enlightenment Liberal Nationalism has created the best situation for individual humans in all history, and we should step back and appreciate.
If humans are not a blank slate, then the utility of Social Engineering is limited. Leftism is based on Human Nature being almost infinitely malleable. Since Socialism has repeatedly failed, they don't like their noses rubbed in it - they were simply first attempts at conquering the Human Nature frontier, let's try again until we get it right. And, we should not thank Liberal Nationalism for all the good it does, but focus on all the harm that still exists and might be caused by Liberal Nationalism (ie Globaloney Warming)