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The book that will tell you who wins the next 20 years


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2019 Nov 21, 1:49pm   288 views  9 comments

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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
by Amazon.com
Learn more: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0062464345/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_gxW1DbDD9FXC4

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1   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2019 Nov 21, 2:35pm  

2020 Donald Trump
2022 Constitution amended
2024 Donald Trump
2028 Donald Trump
2032 Donald Trump
2033 Surgery to transfer the brain of deceased Donald Trump to AI
2036 Donald Trump
2040 Donald Trump.

Short book imo
2   Bd6r   2019 Nov 21, 2:52pm  

jazz_music says
This is the shape of the new world, and the gap between those who get on board and those left behind will be larger than the gap between industrial empires and agrarian tribes, larger even than the gap between Sapiens and Neanderthals. This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus.

very, very sad and true
3   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Nov 21, 3:13pm  

This is the book that will tell you who will win after the next 20 years:

https://www.amazon.com/Shall-Religious-Inherit-Earth-Twenty-First/dp/1846681448

Secularists don't have many babies; the religious have many. Kids tend to follow parents, and the reaction to postmodernism has already begun. It's simply a race to end it before which kind of religious, Evangelical/Calvinist/Mormon or Allah Akbars, inherit Europe.
4   RWSGFY   2019 Nov 21, 3:14pm  

Nobody knows nothing.

Remember "The End of History..." book by Fukuyama? LOL
5   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Nov 21, 3:15pm  

jazz_music says
Much of this is already true for the idle wealthy


I'm not too worried about Chelsea Clinton, Hunter Biden, or the typical HuffPo writing Trust Fund Baby running or conquering much of anything.
6   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Nov 21, 3:23pm  

Liberal_in_blackface says
Nobody knows nothing.

Remember "The End of History..." book by Fukuyama? LOL


The Trend is your Friend...


...until it Ends.

Extrapolation is a dangerous thing!
7   Shaman   2019 Nov 21, 3:23pm  

One thing is perfectly clear: without a vision the people perish.
Humanity needs overarching goals to pursue as a species that raise us up rather than just distort our race like a fun house mirror. Without great accomplishments to pursue, we will sink into perversion and death-seeking lifestyles. The transgender movement, massive drug problems, and rampant alcohol abuse are symptoms of the problem we created when we declared every achievement meaningless, and cut ourselves off from things that truly mattered.
We could pursue monument or landmark creation as humans did of old, making their mark on the planet one temple or colosseum or leaning tower at a time. Or we could go to Space, learn how to live off planet and get to other planets. There’s infinite possibilities in that pursuit.

Humans need meaningful work to thrive. It’s just in our DNA, those of us who aren’t sociopaths. Even a lowly job like maintenance worker can be significant if it advances a greater societal goal that’s seen as significant and also worthy.
8   Bd6r   2019 Nov 21, 4:08pm  

Shaman says
The transgender movement, massive drug problems, and rampant alcohol abuse are symptoms of the problem we created when we declared every achievement meaningless, and cut ourselves off from things that truly mattered.

I can't be sure, but perhaps the fact that (1) one can survive without working which was not really true until late 60's, and (2) the fact that less intelligent people (left side of IQ curve) can tear themselves in half and still many of them are screwed are the problems. A regular blue-collar worker in Middle America is screwed oftentimes (other than perhaps in oil boom states such as TX and ND), while 40 yrs ago he earned a good living working in steel mill or as a coal miner.

Curious minds can read about Calhoun experiments on rats and mice. If humans follow this pattern, and I think they do, we are fucked fundamentally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink

Following his earlier experiments with rats, in 1972 Calhoun would later create his "Mortality-Inhibiting Environment for Mice": a 101-inch square cage for mice with food and water replenished to support any increase in population,[9] which took his experimental approach to its limits. In his most famous experiment in the series, "Universe 25", population peaked at 2,200 mice and thereafter exhibited a variety of abnormal, often destructive behaviors. By the 600th day, the population was on its way to extinction.[7]

Calhoun himself saw the fate of the population of mice as a metaphor for the potential fate of man. He characterized the social breakdown as a "spiritual death"

If you read more about these experiments, then there are signs similar to what we have now in human society. Males withdraw and are not interested in females; they become homosexual; they start grooming themselves instead of interacting with females; etc.
9   Heraclitusstudent   2019 Nov 22, 9:47am  

Shaman says
Humanity needs overarching goals to pursue as a species that raise us up rather than just distort our race like a fun house mirror. Without great accomplishments to pursue, we will sink into perversion and death-seeking lifestyles. The transgender movement, massive drug problems, and rampant alcohol abuse are symptoms of the problem we created when we declared every achievement meaningless, and cut ourselves off from things that truly mattered.


Goals are things we value. This assumes we share values and beliefs. Shared values and beliefs in a group is what tribalism is all about.
Tribalism can create conflicts with other groups, but it is an absolutely necessary part of human existence that is being dissolved in the modern world, large cities in particular.

rd6B says
He characterized the social breakdown as a "spiritual death"


Spirituality is also synonymous with tribalism. Belonging, values and beliefs, purpose, meaning, and transcendence are taken away once you remove tribalism.

NoCoupForYou says
the reaction to postmodernism has already begun. It's simply a race to end it before which kind of religious, Evangelical/Calvinist/Mormon or Allah Akbars, inherit Europe.


A return to obscurantism and religious totalitarianism would be worse than no tribalism though.

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