Extinction or Ascension for Humanity?
In the nuclear age, how does civilizational collapse end?
Azad—the game itself—had to be discredited
“The Empire’s been ripe to fall for decades; it needed a big push, but it could always go. Coming in ‘all guns blazing’ as you put it is almost never the right approach; Azad—the game itself—had to be discredited. It was what had held the Empire together all these years—the linchpin; but that made it the most vulnerable point, too.”
“The Player of Games” by Iain M. Banks
(A fantastic novel which illustrates the choice which now confronts humanity)
Table of Contents
Why is western civilization collapsing?
The “Holy Spirit” hypothesis vs the “central banker” hypothesis
What is the evidence to support the “Holy Spirit“ hypothesis?
What precisely is being selected for?
What precisely did the Buddha "liberate" himself from?
If the Holy Spirit emerged via natural selection, does God exist? Does heaven exist?
What is the brain physiology of the apex predator?
Why is western civilization collapsing?
Imagine that you were living during the time immediately preceding the arrival of the Black Death. Imagine that you knew, with a very high degree of certainty, by simple observation, that by simply improving sanitation such that flea-infested rats very rarely came in contact with humans, that the lives of the 25 million people who were about to die could, in fact, be saved.
Imagine that, for some reason you did not fully understand, no one would listen to you. They were constantly blaming wrong causes, like miasma (bad air) for the disease. And because they remained obsessively attached to their biases, and would not listen to you, you had to watch the Black Death take the lives of everyone you care for.
What would that experience be like for you?
I believe that humanity, in 2024, is facing something far worse than the Black Death. I believe there is a very real possibility that the human race could destroy itself in World War 3. And yet, to the best of my current understanding, in the same way as the best minds of the day did not properly understand the root cause of the Black Death, the best minds of 2024 do not seem to properly understand the root cause of the current danger.
Perhaps owing to the way their professions have shaped their perceptions, they seem to believe the danger to be a function of geopolitics, the central banking system, etc. However, all of these things are merely symptoms of the disease. If we treat the symptoms of the disease instead of the root cause of the disease, the patient is going to die.
If I am understanding the situation properly: Because our best minds do not have a deep enough understanding of the deeper forces which are giving rise to and sustaining these external realities, I am convinced that their plan to "stop the world from killing itself" is not going to work. On the contrary, it may, indeed, actually accelerate the self-destruction of humanity.
What are these deeper forces which are steering us towards self-destruction?
Step 1:
The key is to first make the observation that the criminal minds behind this conflict were all born with a criminal "brain physiology" which compels them to behave in this fashion. It's not their fault they were born this way and they cannot change what they are. The fault is ours for failing to see the world the way it actually is and to adjust our movements accordingly. A civilization, in the nuclear age, which allows people with these criminal brain physiologies to attain money, status and power is every bit as insane as the Europeans who allowed the unsanitary conditions which made the emergence of the Black Death possible.
Step 2:
Ask the question: Why do these criminal brain physiologies exist? And why do they seem to be in charge of all of the institutions?
The answer to all of this is, what I call, the "Holy Spirit hypothesis":
The "Holy Spirit" hypothesis
We are survival machines for genes. All living beings are survival machines for genes. Whether we are conscious of it or not, every hardwired emotional compulsion we feel is there because it helped to improve the probability of the survival of the genes carried by our ancestors in the zero-sum game environment of pre-civilization which they evolved in. These gene survival compulsions compelled them (1) to pull towards things that improved the probability of gene survival with the promise of pleasure and (2) to push away from things which decreased the probability of gene survival with the promise of discomfort. The genes we carry determine not only (1) the gene survival compulsions we are born with but also (2) our ability to rewire those compulsions in order to adapt to a changing environment. And the strength of the trait I am calling the Holy Spirit within us is what determines the latter.
"It's not the strongest of the species that survives. Nor the smartest. But the one most adaptable to a changing environment."
You may have noticed that the environment of civilization is very different from the environment which preceded it.
Since the birth of civilization, a war has been raging within our species between 2 "gene survival strategies" which give rise to 2 rival types of brain physiology. The 2 gene survival strategies are (1) the pre-civilization "zero-sum game playing" gene survival strategy and (2) the post-civilization "positive-sum game playing gene survival strategy." What we popularly refer to as the battle between "good" vs "evil" is, in fact, the war between these 2 gene survival strategies which emerged with the birth of civilization and has not yet been resolved.
It's a battle between
(1) I will ensure the survival of the genes I carry by gaining at the expense of my neighbor vs
(2) I will ensure the survival of the genes I carry by obeying the command of Jesus Christ to Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself.
Consider the hypothesis with which Karl Marx began the Communist Manifesto:
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes."
With this new understanding of human evolution being driven by a war between 2 rival gene survival strategies, we can restate this in a fashion that more accurately predicts sensory experience:
"The history of all hitherto existing civilization is the history of the evolution of constraints against criminality (zero-sum game playing) by the positive-sum game player. But it is also a history of the evolution of the zero-sum game player to overcome those constraints. This fight between the 2 rival "gene survival strategies", each time ends in, first the destruction of the moral order which is no longer capable of sustaining civilization (owing to inadequate constraints) and then the emergence of the newer stronger moral order which is required to sustain civilization (owing to superior constraints against zero-sum game playing)"
This begs the question: What is the force that gives rise to and sustains this long-standing conflict between positive-sum game and the zero-sum game?
The force that gives rise to and sustains the conflict between the positive-sum game and the zero-sum game is the deeper conflict between (1) the "natural selection" of the positive-sum game player and (2) the "sexual selection" of the zero-sum game player.
Why does this conflict exist?
Why didn't the birth of civilization lead to a quick victory of the positive-sum game player?
Why do we keep getting pulled back into the barbarism of pre-civilization with periodic civilizational collapse?
Why is sexual selection pulling in the opposite direction of natural selection?
Because millions of years of evolution in the zero-sum game environment of pre-civilization left us hard wired with a compulsion to be sexually attracted to the best zero-sum game players. Even if we are consciously aware of the fact that this unrestrained compulsion is responsible for evil consuming the world and re-establishing the barbarous pre-civilization environment that destroys civilization, how many of us possess the strength of the Holy Spirit within us to restrain and rewire our primal compulsions such that we are no longer sexually attracted to evil?
How can the human race avoid destroying itself if we cannot restrain the compulsions which are leading us to do so?
The human race can avoid destroying itself by fully resolving the conflict between the "natural selection of the positive-sum game player" and the "sexual selection of the zero-sum game player" in favor of the former.
We will ultimately accomplish this by ascending to a higher level of being such that ancient compulsions which compel us to gain at the expense of one another are fully restrained.
To accomplish this in the short amount of time we have available, we must understand the nature of the brain physiologies which gene survival strategies have given rise to because these brain physiologies determine not only (1) whether we are more strongly oriented towards good or evil but also (2) our ability to rewire the ancient compulsions which are incompatible with civilization.
Although there are potentially multiple varieties of brain physiology being selected for to support both types of gene survival strategy (psychopathy, narcissism, etc.), the "one trait that matters most" in differentiating between the 2 gene survival strategies is the strength of what I call "the Holy Spirit" within the individual; the strength of our "affective empathy"; the strength of our "genuine care and concern for the wellbeing of one another"; the strength of our ability to "Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself".
When the strength of the Holy Spirit exceeds some threshold value, the inner conflict between good and evil is completely resolved, the brain is completely rewired to extinguish all zero-sum game playing compulsions, and the ego and the shame demon which sustains it is completely extinguished.
This evolutionary triumph of the positive-sum game playing gene survival strategy corresponds to the cutting of the first fetter (sakkāyadiṭṭhi) in Buddhism. It is the complete and permanent destruction of the ego. I know this to be true for a fact because I, by following the instructions of the Buddha, achieved this level of awakening ~3.5 years ago.
I believe that, in order to avoid destroying ourselves, all of humanity must find a way to elevate ourselves to completely abandon all forms of unfriendly zero-sum game playing. If we do not do this, the probability that we will destroy ourselves is virtually 100%. And we cannot run away to another planet to save ourselves because the danger is within us.
Humanity is in the very dangerous position of having accumulated enough weapons of mass destruction to destroy itself BEFORE the "zero-sum game playing" gene survival strategy has been fully extinguished.
I believe it is urgent that we develop technologies to both (1) detect the presence of dangerous zero-sum game playing brain physiologies and (2) to cure them. We must develop the technology like that used by Jesus Christ to metaphorically "cast out demons" and "heal the sick".
I believe that Ascension for Humanity is even more important for our generation than implementing proper sanitation would have been PRIOR to the arrival of the Black Death. Humanity survived the Black Death. There is no guarantee that humanity will survive WW3.
The remainder of this article will
1: Convince you that the Holy Spirit hypothesis is true. I will do this by demonstrating how it solves a wide range of mysteries in human evolution. (I openly welcome and challenge anyone to point out weaknesses in the hypothesis.)
2: Assuming that the hypothesis is true, suggest a course of action which has a higher probability of preventing the destruction of humanity than the courses of action currently being pursued.
The “Holy Spirit” hypothesis vs the “central banker” hypothesis
Before giving evidence to support the Holy Spirit hypothesis, I must address the main competing hypothesis.
There are many people who believe that the root cause of the collapse we are now experiencing is the central banking criminal syndicate. Most who believe this are rallying behind bitcoin as the solution to the problem. They believe that we simply need to replace the ability of the criminals to steal from the people via money printing. Once a constraint has been established to prevent that form of theft, everything will be rainbows and lollipops and all criminality will vanish.
Like the champions of "miasma theory" during the Black Death, most of these people will, unfortunately, probably not be able to pull themselves away from their bias. For the few who might have the ability to do so, I present the following argument.
Central banking cannot be the root cause of periodic civilizational collapse for the simple reason that the phenomenon of civilizational collapse precedes that of the institution of central banking.
The Bronze Age collapse, for example, occurred long before central banking.
What do we know about the Bronze Age collapse?
The Bronze Age collapse, for example, seems to have been precipitated by several years of drought which compelled starving people to take to the sea in search of food. Rather than being welcomed as starving refugees, these "sea people" were attacked as "invaders". It seems like this might have given rise to civil wars which destroyed nearly all of civilization at the time. We might imagine right-wingers responding to the starving sea people by wanting to expel the invaders clashing with left-wingers who wanted to care for them.
Soon after the Bronze Age collapse, a man by the name of Jesus Christ came forth with a new commandment from God to "Love thy neighbor as thyself". Luke 10:25-37.
Think about that. In response to the total destruction of known civilization, Jesus Christ introduce a new commandment to the moral code of humanity which would stop future descents into hell.
The enforcement of the moral code to "Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself" altered the environment to create stronger selection pressure for trait of the Holy Spirit.
So the Bronze Age collapse is evidence to support the Holy Spirit hypothesis and against the central banking hypothesis for the root cause of the criminality which is destroying civilization once again.
Should we replace central banking with bitcoin?
The Holy Spirit hypothesis suggests that replacing the central banking system with bitcoin will do nothing to solve the problem of the millions of zero-sum game playing brain physiology that have been introduced into the gene pool to feed off the loot of the central banking syndicate.
What it will do is rob millions of these criminals of the stream of loot they've grown accustomed to.
It will create millions of criminals ravenously hungry for more loot at the same time.
Is this likely to move civilization away from or closer to civilizational collapse?
The plan to simply replace central banking with bitcoin without having a plan for how to handle all the criminals who were dependent upon the loot of the criminal syndicate is reckless in the extreme.
The emergence of the "Holy Spirit" in homosapiens ...
Once upon a time, a few thousand years ago, before the birth of civilization, homosapiens, having only recently triumphed over the neanderthals, were still a barbarous zero-sum game playing species. However, a new trait emerged within our ancestors which gave birth to a distinctly new variant of homosapiens who were more strongly driven towards cooperation rather than competition. (i.e. More strongly inclined to obey the commandment of Jesus Christ to Love thy neighbor as thyself.) It was the emergence of this trait which lifted our species out of barbarism and gave birth to civilization.
What was the nature of this trait? Let’s call it “affective empathy” AKA "Genuine care and concern for the wellbeing of others". A Buddhist might call it “metta”. A Christian might refer to it as the “Holy Spirit”.
As Jesus Christ said:
"Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is WITHIN YOU" Luke 17:21
In other words, when the Holy Spirit is strong WITHIN the people,
men love thy neighbors as thyself
and the kingdom of God manifests in the peace and mutual prosperity of the community.
Conversely, when the Holy Spirit is weak within the people,
men do NOT love thy neighbors as thyself
and the kingdom of God does NOT manifest in the peace and mutual prosperity of the community.
This newly emergent variant of homosapiens who first possessed the trait of the Holy Spirit was not fully conscious of why they were different from the older, more criminal variant of homosapiens which did not. They likely did not even understand that the criminal variant was, like the neanderthals, older, more primitive, less able to restrain primal compulsions to gain at the expense of their neighbors, and destined for extinction. They knew only that they were different.
Not understanding that different genetics gave rise to a criminal brain physiology, our ancestors, instead, conceptualized a conflict between what they referred to as “good” and “evil” and sought to “cast out demons” from those whom they perceived to be demon-possessed.
We made the mistake of believing that heritable criminal brain physiology could be “corrected” by the “correction” system, or by “accepting Jesus”, or by "the power of love", etc. But none of these things are effective because none of these things change the brain physiology of the criminal. No psychopath, for example, has EVER been reformed. NOT ONE!
Owing to this delusion, our criminal justice system failed. We allowed the monsters to roam freely amongst us to prey upon our children, to replicate, and to numerically grow their numbers as the good people were reduced to a "remnant" of what they once were.
Such is the nature of the dangerously misguided thinking that has led our civilization, now infested with criminality, to the brink of civilizational collapse and World War 3.
What is the evidence to support the “Holy Spirit” hypothesis?
Does this hypothesis accurately predict the criminality that we are seeing overtaking our world?
Can it be relied upon to guide our choices of how we should respond to this challenge?
Although we can never be 100% about any hypothesis, as a general rule, the larger the number of different sensory experiences that a hypothesis explains and/or is otherwise consistent with, the greater the probability that it is true.
But if you find even a single sensory experience which is inconsistent with the hypothesis, then the hypothesis should be either abandoned or refined to such that it must be consistent with this new experience without losing consistency with the others.
Despite years of trying, I have not yet been able to invalidate this hypothesis.
On the contrary, I have found a large volume of seemingly unrelated things which this hypothesis explains.
In the section below, I will out evidence that this hypothesis is true buy going through the big events in human evolution which the Holy Spirit hypothesis explains.
From the evolution of language (cognitive trade-off hypothesis) to
why homosapiens triumphed over neanderthals, to
why the brain size of humans has shrunk by a lemon in the last 5,000 years, to
why religion evolved, to
resolving the paradox of why humans are getting more peaceful over time but also descend into even more violent wars, to
why religions get corrupted, to
what the Buddha actually liberated himself from.
Finally, I demonstrate how the Holy Spirit hypothesis resolves the conflict between science and religion by demonstrating that the evolution of this trait is not only consistent with the existence of God and heaven, but actually predicts it.
How, precisely, did language emerge? (The Cognitive trade-off hypothesis)
Watch the chimpanzee destroy the human on this cognitive test:
Watch this video at 15 mins, 42 secs
How can we explain this?
"Tetsuro Matsuzawa postulates that a trade-off between superior language facility at the expense of memory ability based on social life occurred during human evolution".
What created the conditions for the emergence of this language facility?
The suggestion is that our ancestors were forced out of the trees and into the open plains because they were physically weaker. Owing to the increased vulnerability of the open plains, selection pressure was exerted for increased collaboration in order to survive.
This seems plausible. But how, precisely, would that have been experienced in the mind of our ancestors?
Would it not be via the evolution of "genuine care and concern for the wellbeing of others" subject to reciprocity?
Was it not the case that "care and concern for the well being of others" gave rise to the compulsion to share our maps of sensory experience with them, so that they could benefit from what we had learned to better meet their needs?
So the hypothesis is that the balance of forces between good and evil in the brain of the human altered sufficiently to create an inner conflict which slowed cognitive processing speed and made us uncompetitive with the chimpanzee on the IQ test. A chimpanzee, on the other hand, as Jordan Peterson points out "will eat a monkey alive with the damn thing still screaming." There is no such moral restraint giving rise to inner conflict to slow their processing speed.
I submit that this emergence the Holy Spirit in the heart of man created the conditions for the emergence moral restraint primal compulsions to gain at the expense of others, and restrain of primal compulsions (in general), so that the mind could rewire its hardwired associations of pleasure and pain with sensory experience. This restraint, in turn, made possible extended forays into "system 2 thinking" where more detailed sensory motor maps could be constructed to guide our movements through sensory experience and to develop language so that those maps could be shared and collaboratively refined and innovated upon for the benefit of the entire tribe.
Why did homosapiens triumph over neanderthals?
Approximately 40,000 years ago, the last of the Neanderthals cannibalized themselves into extinction in Gibraltar.
By all accounts neanderthals, as individuals, were superior zero-sum game players and would likely have triumphed over most individual humans in one-on-one hand-to-hand combat.
And yet, the superior zero-sum game player is extinct. How can that be?
Look at the structure of the neanderthal brain.
It is a brain designed for zero-sum game playing.
Superior visual perception, a much larger emotional center but a much smaller prefrontal cortex to restrain primal compulsions to gain at the expense of others.
Look at the structure of the homosapien brain by contrast.
Weaker visual perception, a smaller emotional center, but a much larger prefrontal cortex to restrain primal compulsions to gain at the expense of others.
It is reasonable to presume, therefore, that the ability of neanderthals to collaborate with each other on shared goals was significantly less than the ability of homosapiens to do so.
As any military person knows, "unit cohesion wins the battle".
The average size of a neanderthal tribe was smaller than that of a homosapien tribe. Was that due to the fact that they could not get along and had a tendency to cannibalize each other?
More so, our ancestors developed the superior technology of the throwing spear that the neanderthals never mastered. Was that due to the fact that less ability to restrain primal compulsions meant less ability to enter into "system 2 thinking" whereby such innovative ideas might emerge?
One might imagine how smaller tribes of morally unrestrained neanderthals might have been easily surrounded by larger tribes of spear throwing homosapiens and extinguished in battle.
Hypothesis: The neanderthals, owing to the fact that natural selection forced a move too far in the direction of the individual zero-sum game player, did not possess the brain physiology necessary to adapt and compete with our more cooperative ancestors.
Once again, the Holy Spirit wins the evolutionary contest.
Why has the brain size of homosapiens decreased by the size of a lemon in the last few thousand years?
As this video by Stefan Milo illustrates, at almost exactly the time that the Neanderthals ceased to exist, the million years evolutionary trend to increase brain size (by 70 cubic centimeters every 100,000 years) went into full reverse 30,000 years ago. Notice that is almost exactly the time when the neanderthals, our last remaining competitor, went extinct.
SOURCE:
More so, in the past 10,000 years alone, female brains have shrunk by an amazing 240 cubic centimeters .
Why is this?
Given that this time period coincided with the birth of civilization and the explosions of innovation, it is reasonable to presume that this shrinkage coincides with a remodeling of the brain to establish the even stronger ability to restrain primal compulsions so that superior collaboration and innovation can emerge.
What was the selection pressure which gave rise to this shrinkage?
Competition between tribes of humans, of course.
When 2 tribes go to war, the tribe with superior cohesion, collaboration and innovation has the advantage
An what is the trait which creates the conditions for superior cohesion, collaboration and innovation?
The trait of the Holy Spirit, of course.
Once again, the Holy Spirit wins the evolutionary contest.
As battle after battle between tribes was resolved in favor of the Holy Spirit, selection pressure for this trait grew stronger and stronger.
Why did religion evolve?
Brutal genocidal war between tribes was almost certainly the condition that created intense selection pressure for the "more perfect union" that the trait of the Holy Spirit makes possible.
EXAMPLE: at 23 mins 25 secs
Rational fear of seeing the entire tribe extinguished created intense selection pressure to remove such criminals from the tribe.
Strictly enforced moral codes within the tribe to bend natural selection more strongly towards the Holy Spirit would have naturally been established, giving birth to the first religions.
More so, strong moral codes which encourage peaceful coexistence and trade with neighboring tribes such that the tribes grow closer and merge would also have been selected for my natural selection.
Consider, for example, the case of the Khwarazmian empire which murdered the trade delegation of Genghis Khan and stole all that they possessed. The Mongols, of course, responded by cleansing the Khwarazmian gene pool of 90% of its population.
The Talmudic jews, whose moral code seems to mimic that of the Khwarezmian empire by not punishing theft against non-jews, would be wise to pay attention to the fate of the Kwarazmians:
EXAMPLE at 8 mins 20 secs:
“Oh, people know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me, what proof I have for these words, I say to you, that I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed the sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”
-Genghis Khan
Is"reciprocal altruism" being selected for?
The evolutionary biologists, Bob Trivers has hypothesized that natural selection is selecting for "reciprocal altruism".
As the periodic mass extermination of cultures which fail to obey the prohibition against theft illustrates, this is clearly wrong.
Both "reciprocal altruism" AND "reciprocal non-altruism" are being selected for.
Bob Trivers' hypothesis should be reformulated to more accurately predict sensory experience thusly:
Reciprocity (in full) is being selected for.
Both reciprocal altruism AND reciprocal non-altruism.
The "Law of Reciprocity" might be stated thusly:
"Love thy neighbor as thyself (Luke 10:25-37)
or else
their neighbors will remove thy genes from the gene pool."
Reciprocal non-altruism is, of course, essential to survival.
Civilizations which establish and strongly enforce a moral code which is in harmony with this "law of reciprocity" will create the conditions for the acceleration of the natural selection of good over evil. Such civilizations should, in theory, triumph over those who fail to do so.
Civilizations which, instead, foolishly abandon "submission to God" in favor of making the Lucifeian "freedumb to sin" their highest moral value, should, in theory, become overwhelmed by criminality and collapse into Sodom and Gomorrah. This predicts precisely what is happening to Western civilization today.
When you worship the "freedumb to sin" moral code of Lucifer, you extinguish the Holy Spirit in the heart of man and de-evolve in the direction of the neanderthals.
I submit that the selection of the trait of the "Holy Spirit" and the trait of "reciprocity" are the same thing.
One violates the principle of Love thy Neighbor as Thyself and assaults the Holy Spirit if he fails to punish the criminal who has harmed his neighbor.
Why is humanity BOTH (1) becoming more cooperative (in the long term) but ALSO (2) subject to civilizational collapse and the mass killing of war? How can BOTH be true? (The Steven Pinker Paradox)
Steven Pinker wrote a book called "The Better Angels of our Nature" in which he attempted to document how, over the long term, humans are becoming more peaceful, cooperative, innovative and prosperous.
That does, indeed, seem to be the case.
And yet, it also seems to be the case that we also experience these massive forays into the mass killing of war.
These 2 observations appear, at first, to contradict each other.
How can they BOTH be true?
The answer lies in carefully observing precisely what happens during the time period between large wars. Say, for example, the time period between World War 2 and today.
Take a glimpse at the top billboard songs, movies and TV shows of the culture during that time period. What trend do you notice?
Do you not notice what might be called a long, slow moral decline? Just prior to World War 2, we had the total moral decadence of the Weimar Republic. Ever since that time, it seems like society has been moving steadily back towards recreating Weimar conditions. Why is that?
Some would blame the Rothschild's or, more generally, the jewish crime syndicate. However, this bias blinds them to the much deeper truth that this pattern of long slow moral decline culminating in civilizational collapse has been observed in other cultures as well. The Buddha, for example, noticed this pattern in ancient India. No jews were present at the time. So how do we explain the existence of this pattern? How do we resolve the Steven Pinker paradox?
We do it by modifying the observation of Karl Marx in his Communist Manifesto to more correctly predict observed sensory experience:
"The history of all hitherto existing civilization is
the history of the evolution of constraints against criminality (zero-sum game playing).
However, it is also
the history of the evolution of the criminal (zero-sum game player) to overcome those constraints."
The long slow moral decline which culminates in civilizational collapse, is the time of the evolution of the predator to overcome the moral, legal and other constraints which were established to prevent his return after the last great collapse.
The civilizational collapse itself, is the cleansing of the gene pool of the excessive criminality that built up during the period of moral decline which caused the collapse.
i.e. The resolution of the paradox is: The mass killing of civilizational collapse is the means by which the longer term pattern of more enduring peace and mutual prosperity is made possible. After the collapse, civilization establishes stronger constraints to prevent the evil from returning. Each time this happens, the stronger constraints create stronger selection pressure for positive-sum game playing in the long term.
This sounds entirely plausible. However, what is the force that drives "the criminal to overcome those constraints"?
Despite the array of constraints against criminality, established by generation after generation,
the criminals keep coming back.
How do the criminals keep taking over?
Who keeps letting them back in?
We all know the answer.
Why is porn associated with Satanic imagery?
Whether we want to admit it or not, we are all sexually attracted to evil.
If we give into that temptation, we will make babies with evil humans.
Gradually, evil will consume the gene pool again giving rise to the long slow moral decline observed.
But why are we sexually attracted to evil?
For millions of years, our ancestors evolved in the zero-sum game environment of pre-civilization. Natural selection selected for the best zero-sum game player during that time. It would have only been natural for sexual selection to evolve to be in harmony with natural selection so that our ancestors would have been compelled to mate with the survival machines for genes that had a higher probability of survival in that environment. In a zero-sum game environment, the most sexually attractive individuals would have been the best zero-sum game players. Those who were best able to gain at the expense of their neighbors and acquire the resources necessary to improve the probability of the survival of the genes they carried.
However, a few thousand years ago, with the birth of civilization, natural selection shifted 100 degrees to favor the best positive-sum game player.
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive nor the smartest, but the one most adaptable to a changing environment."
Civilization is a positive-sum game environment. The exact opposite of the zero-sum game environment that preceded it.
Civilizations that win the positive-sum game contest to cooperate, collaborate and innovate in a "more perfect union" more effectively triumph over those who do not.
However, although natural selection has shifted to favor the positive-sum game, sexual selection is still hard-wired by millions of years of evolution to favor the zero-sum game player.
This is the source of the battle between good and evil within each of us.
This is also the force which sustains the conflict between "the evolution of constraints against criminality" and the "evolution of the criminal to overcome those constraints" at a civilizational level.
Therefore, if we are to prevent criminality from destroying the human race, it would seem rational to do something to restrain the primal compulsion to mate with zero-sum game players.
I submit that natural selection is already selecting for people who can fully restrain their primal compulsion to mate with evil people, however, given the stakes, it might be a good idea to provide natural selection with a helping hand to accelerate the process.
Why do religions get corrupted over time?
If you look at the situation closely, you will see that all religions evolved for the purpose of protecting the tribe by accelerating the natural selection of the Holy Spirit within the tribe at a faster rate than the weaker moral code they evolved to replace.
They did so by creating and enforcing stronger moral codes when bent natural selection more strongly towards fully compliance with the law of reciprocity:
"Love thy neighbor as thyself
or else
thy neighbors remove thy genes from the gene pool"
It seems clear, from history, that religions are strongest in the period immediately after the civilizational collapse when people are trying to rebuild society in a fashion such that future generations can avoid the collapse.
However, as sexual selection slowly begins to reassert its influence, the best zero-sum game players take control of all of the institutions and bend them to serving the interests of the tribe of criminals; this the institutions of religion;
The Buddha told a story of how the Brahmins were once noble priests who, over time, became corrupted.
Today people who call themselves Brahmins proclaim themselves to the high caste of a caste system and treat lower caste people with contempt.
Catholic priests are well known serial pedophiles.
The Rothschilds printed the Scofield Bible in 1913 and used it corrupt millions of Protestants into cheering on the jewish genocide of Palestinians in the hopes that God will rapture them into heaven.
Why does this happen?
Because the constraints established to prevent the criminals from returning to corrupt and destroy civilization are insufficient.
Why do Talmudic jews seem to be more corrupt than other religions?
If we see religion through the lens of evolution as an adaptation to strengthen the conditions for the emergence of the Holy Spirit with the tribe, then, logically, each new religion which becomes successful will do so because it establishes a moral code of conduct which exerts superior selective pressure for this goal.
Therefore, Christianity established a stronger enforced moral code to Judaism which succeeded in creating stronger selection pressure for the emergence of the Holy Spirit. Christianity developed a superior immune system to criminality to that of Judaism.
Islam, in turn, established a stronger enforced moral code to Christianity which succeeded in creating a strong selection pressure for the emergence of the Holy Spirit. Islam developed a superior immune system to criminality to that of Christianity.
Given this landscape, if you were born into this world with a criminal heritable brain physiology, where are you going to go?
The logical place to go is to hide amongst the jews and to corrupt the religion of Judaism to turn it into a tool to support your own zero-sum game playing compulsions.
Why did the left support forced vaccinations? Why did the right support the genocide in Gaza?
Many of us who believed that the central banking syndicate was the root of the evil and our task was to unify the people against them are being forced to reconsider our entire perception of reality when large portions of both the left and the right prove willing to violate "Love thy neighbor as thyself".
If polls are to be believed, a solid majority of the left supported forced vaccination. The evidence is now clear that an unfathomable number of innocents were either killed or seriously injured. Now we have to come to terms with the reality that a majority of people who profess to be motivated by genuine care and concern for their neighbors were willing to murder their neighbors. Crisis reveals character!
Similarly, it seems that a solid majority on the right are in favor of the genocide of Palestinians. This is even more shocking. It is difficult to imagine a human being watching the video of children being murdered day after day and being indifferent to the murders. And yet, that is what we are actually seeing. Crisis reveals character!
We seem to be witnessing a separation of society into tribes. Not of left and right. Not of the people vs the bankers. Rather, we are separating into tribes of good and evil.
Having seen what I have seen, I do not want to live with people who supported either the genocide of the Palestinians or the forced vaccinations of their neighbors.
The central bankers, by contrast, are starting to look like the good guys.
How to explain the unexpected depth of the evil in both the left and the right?
The Milgram experiment
In the famous Milgram Experiment of 1961, it was found that between 65 and 70% of average people were willing to obey a command from an authority figure to send a lethal dose of electricity into the body of a stranger.
For those of us who were born with above average empathy, this is horrifying, but it does, indeed, explain the total collapse of morality on both the left and the right that we are seeing.
How to explain this?
Does the sensory experience of both the left and the right and the Milgram experiment abandoning morality (60-80% of the population) contradict the Holy Spirit hypothesis?
No. It does not. It allows us to refine it. This result is entirely consistent with the resolution to the Steven Pinker Paradox. Think about what is happening here:
Since the birth of civilization, this war between the zero-sum game players and positive-sum game players has caused power to switch hands many times. Each time civilization collapses and the moral order needs to be restored, the positive-sum game players seize power. At one time, the nobility was actually noble. At one time, during the birth of each major religion, the religion was uncorrupted. However, soon after establishing the new moral order, power begins to shift back to the zero-sum game players as good people give in to the temptation of Satan to mate with the zero-sum game players. This gradual moral decline continues until the next big civilizational collapse.
This constant back and forth between the rule of good vs the rule of evil has created an environment favorable for the selection of people who can survive and thrive in both types of environments: rule by good or rule by evil.
The 65-70% people who were willing to obey a command from an authority figure to send a lethal dose of electricity into the body of a stranger represent that middle group.
A large portion of them took the vaccine for the same reason. They are hard-wired to obey authority.
Their brain physiology probably lies somewhere in the middle of the narcissism spectrum. Not lacking conscience enough to rise to the top of the dominance hierarchy. But also not having a strong conscience to restrain themselves from murdering an innocent.
From this perspective, the Rothschild central bankers do not look as evil as they once did.
What precisely is being selected for?
The Holy Spirit hypothesis is that
1: “affective empathy” AKA "Genuine care and concern for the wellbeing of others" AKA “metta” AKA the “Holy Spirit” is a trait which evolved in our ancestors to give rise to cooperation, collaboration, language, innovation and civilization.
2: this trait continues to be selected for and its selection creates the conditions for civilizations which are more cooperative, collaborative, innovative and inclined to peace over time.
With the passage of time, the Holy Spirit grows stronger and stronger in the heart of men to the point where individuals, like the Buddha, were able to completely extinguish the ancient zero-sum game compulsions which conflicted with the Holy Spirit.
Consider what is actually happening more deeply.
We are survival machines for genes.
We evolved solely for the purpose of passing on our genes and then dying.
Every emotional compulsion which drives our behavior, whether we are conscious of it or not, is a manifestation of a gene survival strategy.
The birth of the Holy Spirit in the heart of man gave birth to a new gene survival strategy.
The birth of the Holy Spirit in the heart of man sought to replace a "zero-sum game playing gene survival strategy" with a "positive-sum game playing gene survival strategy".
It represents a transition from, I'm going to ensure the survival of the genes I carry by seeking to gain at the expense of my neighbor
to
I'm going to strive to ensure the survival of the genes that I carry by seeking to love my neighbor as thyself, so long as thy neighbor reciprocates this love; If my neighbor reciprocates non-altruism, I will remove their genes from the gene pool.
So the battle between good and evil is not a battle between 2 lineages of humans, per se.
i.e. the #LineageOfGod vs the #LineageOfSatan.
Rather, the battle between good and evil is a battle between 2 gene survival strategies.
And it is entirely rational how the positive-sum game gene survival strategy would evolve in the species at the top of the food chain; where our only natural predator is other humans. We had to evolve a strategy to protect ourselves from predatory humans who seek to gain at our expense. In the long term, this positive-sum game gene survival strategy will extinguish zero-sum game playing humans for the same reason that we triumphed over neanderthals, for the same reason that the mongols extinguished most of the Kwarazmian empire. It is simply a superior gene survival strategy.
This hypothesis will soon be tested, of course.
The Talmudic jews appear to be the last remnants of the zero-sum game playing gene survival strategy.
This hypothesis predicts that they will not survive the war that is coming.
In the same fashion as the neanderthals who made their last stand in Gibraltar cannibalized themselves into extinction, something similar will likely happen to the Talmudic jews in Israel.
What precisely did the Buddha liberate himself from?
The Buddha famously said "I teach only suffering and the end of suffering".
So the short answer is that the Buddha liberated himself from suffering.
However, there are many milestones between suffering and the total end of the suffering.
The 3 milestones that are integral to a proper understanding of the "ascension" of humanity that is necessary in order to stop the world from killing itself are:
1: Liberation from the shame demon (ego)
2: Liberation from gene survival compulsions
3: Liberation from aging, sickness and death
1: Liberation from the shame demon (ego, sakāyadiṭṭhi)
It is the complete extinguishment of the shame demon.
It is the complete resolution of the inner conflict between the "zero-sum game playing gene survival strategy" and the "positive-sum game playing gene survival strategy" in favor of the latter.
All zero-sum game playing gene survival compulsions cease, because the shame of "not being good enough" is completely extinguished.
When the first fetter is cut, (1) 90% of suffering is ended forever and (2) super powers of perception are acquired.
Why is this true? How can this be?
(1) ~90% of suffering is ended? Why is this true?
Because all suffering, without exception, is an inner conflict between (1) a part of us that desires a particular sensory experience and (2) a part of us that desires to see the world the way it actually is.
All suffering, without exception, is ended when this inner conflict is resolved in favor of the part of us that desires to see the world the way it actually is.
Why is this?
Because the sensory motor brain evolved to predict sensory experience so that we, survival machines for genes, might be guided in our moves through sensory experience in fashion such that our moves increase the probability of gene survival.
Making good choices about how to navigate sensory experience requires an accurate map of sensory experience.
When we tell ourselves lies about how the world is, when we purposely map our sensory experience, the part of us that knows that to be an existential danger to survival launches an open rebellion again the falsifier. This conflict between these 2 parts is what we call suffering.
The suffering can only be ended by submitting fully to the truth. It is the job of the truth seeker to make the truth palatable to the liar so that the liar will willingly submit.
The Buddha teaches us how to develop this skill by holding these inner conflicts in spacious non-judgmental awareness so they do not overwhelm us, teasing them apart so that we can see both sides of the conflict clearly, negotiating a resolution to the conflict, and conditioning that resolution into our sensory motor map such that it becomes a part of our being.
Each time that conflict is resolved in favor of seeing the world the way it actually is, all of the suffering which the inner conflict gave rise to vanishes. We learn from this that it was our resistance to the way things actually are that was the cause of our suffering.
As we develop a proficiency in resolving these inner conflicts, the deeper underlying inner conflict underlying most of them eventually rises to the surface to be resolved.
This is the conflict between the "zero-sum game playing gene survival strategy" and the "positive-sum game playing gene survival strategy".
We perceive this as a conflict between "shame" and "guilt";
We perceive this as a conflict between the "pain of not being good enough" and the "pain of allowing innocents to be harmed".
Christians talk about being "born again".
When we are "born again", the balance of forces between "shame" and "guilt" is forever altered in favor of the later.
We resolve to live in harmony with our conscience for the rest of our lives.
We submit fully to the will of God.
However, the pain of shame has not been fully extinguished at this point. It has merely been subjugated.
The cutting of the 1st fetter is like a 2nd instance of being "born again" where the shame demon which we previously subjugated is not completely extinguished forever.
The shame-based compulsions which compel us to seek to gain at the expense of our neighbors are completely extinguished.
Why is 90% of suffering ended?
If you have experienced being born-again,
because you have made the moral vow to submit to the will of God,
you are familiar with the massive ending of suffering which accompanied the resolution of that inner conflict with that moral vow.
When we fully extinguish the shame demon,
the experience is similar but deeper and more profound.
We not only commit to submitting to the will of God,
but to becoming "an instrument of his will"
and to dedicate our lives to protecting the children of God from the evil that is consuming our world.
In the moments prior to this awakening, the Buddha is said to have been provoked one last time by the shame demon with the taunt "You are not worthy of this gift"
At that moment, the Buddha reached down, touched the earth and opened his heart to all of the suffering in the world and allowed it to overcome him, this "flipped the switch" and made it possible to make the moral vow which extinguished the ego.
This ends 90% of suffering because the inner civil war between the pain of shame and the pain of guilt is responsible for 90% of our suffering.
When this conflict is ended, 90% of our suffering ceases.
It is physiologically impossible for one who has cut the first fetter to violate the commandment of Jesus Christ to "Love thy neighbor as thyself".
A civilization consisting of such people, therefore, will be far less likely to destroy themselves even if the technology to do so lies at the fingertips of all of them.
We cannot stop the rapid advancement of technology.
For this reason, humanity has no choice but to accelerate our own evolution to extinguish the ego.
Either we extinguish the ego or we will be extinguished ourselves.
This might be done by using the techniques of the Buddha.
This might be done by using technology to accelerate the emergence of ego death.
It is conceivable that technology might even help those born with criminal brain physiologies to extinguish the ego and re-integrate into society.
(2) Super powers of perception are acquired? Why is this true?
When the sensory motor predicts sensory experinece incorrectly, we receive a signal that we have made a misprediction.
This signal awakens us from the trance of "system 1 thinking".
When we respond skillfully to that signal by entering into "system 2 thinking", searching for and finding the error in the model which gave rise to the misprediction and correcting it, suffering ends.
When we, instead, respond unskillfully to the signal, by resisting the evidence of the way things are, we create the inner civil war between the part of us that wants to deny the way things are (because we cannot handle the truth) and the part of us that wants to accept the way things are (so that we can rely upon our map to safe guide our movements through sensory experience). The Buddha called this denial of the way things are, avijjā. Avijjā, he said, is the root cause of all suffering.
When the ego has been extinguished and 90% of our suffering is extinguished, that is because 90% of our inner conflicts have been instantly resolved.
At this moment, we experience for ourselves how the suffering we experience owing to the non-resolution of inner conflicts creates "noise" that drowns out the "signals" we are constantly receiving to notify us of errors in our predictive model of sensory experience.
In this fashion the extinguishment of the ego increase our sensitivity to misprediction in the model that guides our movements through sensory experience. Compared to how we were before, this increased sensitivity is perceived to be a superpower of perception.
In enables us to rapidly revise our models of sensory experience to more accurately see the world the way it actually is.
As the reader may have guessed, the author has extinguished the ego. Most of the content of this article was made possible by the extinguishment of the ego.
Why is the extinguishment of the ego necessary and sufficient to stop the world from killing itself?
However, in my estimation, were humanity to accomplish this level of development, it would be a sufficient Ascension for Humanity to stop the world from killing itself.
This should be our goal: To fully extinguish the shame demon within that compels us to seek to gain at the expense of one another.
2: Liberation from gene survival compulsions
Although the cutting of the first fetter represents the triumph of the "positive-sum game gene survival strategy" over the "zero-sum game gene survival strategy", this is but a stepping stone towards full liberation.
The liberation of the Buddha is the liberation of the survival machine for genes from the tyranny of ALL "gene survival compulsions".
It is putting an end to the slavery of being used as a tool by the genes we carry to get themselves into the next generation in favor of the preservation of the lives of beings.
In Snp 5.11: Kappamāṇavapucchā (translation by Hammalawa Saddhatissa),
the Buddha referred to these gene survival compulsions which compel us towards decay and death as “Māra”.
These compulsions do not serve us.
They exist only to serve the genes that we carry. We are slaves to these compulsion which seek to kill us.
The liberation of the Buddha is the liberation of living beings, survival machine for genes, from the gene survival compulsions that gave rise to us.
He said those who attain nibbana, the extinguishment of suffering, "do not become slaves working for Māra, for death".
"Kappa" said the master
"For the sake of those people
stuck in the middle of the river of being
overwhelmed by death and decay,
I will tell you where to find solid ground.
There is an island.
An island that you cannot go beyond.
It is a place of nothingness.
A place of non-possession and of non-attachment.
It is the total end of death and decay.
And this is why I call it nibbana.
There are people who, in mindfulness, have realized this and become completely cooled.
Here and now.
They do not become slaves working for Māra.
For death.
They cannot fall under his power."
Here this powerful sutta, in full, recited here:
3: Liberation from aging, sickness and death
The Buddha sought to put an end to aging, sickness & death and he sought to do that via liberation from suffering.
How can that be?
How the heck can suffering, in any way, be "connected" to aging, sickness and death?
Do you know about hormesis?
We know from longevity science that putting the body into a state of "hormesis" reverses aging.
What is hormesis?
Hormesis is the "goldilocks zone of stress".
When we respond to a stressor with too little stress, we age.
When we respond to a stressor with too much stress, we age.
But when we respond to a stressor with just the right amount of stress, we do not age.
On the contrary.
When we respond to a stressor with just the right amount of stress, we actually get younger.
Our cellular age is reversed.
Why is this?
Because hormesis puts the sirtuins in our epigenome into an optimal state (stimulated but not overwhelmed) where they can do an optimal job of repairing our DNA.
Takeaway: If we can train the mind to respond to stressors by putting ourselves into hormesis, what would happen? Is this what the Buddha did? Is this how the Buddha solved suffering, aging, sickness and death? Is it possible that the only technology we need to solve the aging problem is training the mind to respond to stressors with hormesis?
SOURCE:
More so, we know that the T-cells of our immune system deteriorate to almost nothing as we age.
No T-cells = No immune system.
Older people are vulnerable to sickness and death for this reason.
Why do T-cells deteriorate with age?
T-cells deteriorate with age, in part, owing to the accumulation of fat on the thymus.
We know this because, when that fat is removed, t-cells are restored.
What causes fat to accumulate on the thymus?
Excess stress is the cause of visceral fat.
Excess stress triggers gluconeogenesis to boost blood glucose to prepare the body for flight or flight;
The excess energy in that excess glucose is converted back to fat which is disproportionately stored in the visceral organs.
Takeaway: If we can train the mind to respond to stressors by putting ourselves into hormesis, what would happen? Is this what the Buddha did? Is this how the Buddha solved suffering, aging, sickness and death? Is it possible that the only technology we need to solve the aging problem is training the mind to respond to stressors with hormesis?
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If the Holy Spirit emerged via natural selection, does God exist? Does heaven exist?
Think about this.
Necessity is the mother of all invention. True or false?
Unmet need is the mother of all invention. True or false?
What greater unmet needs exists than
the need to protect our loved ones from evil?
and the need to save our loved ones from oblivion?
Logically, if we are able to avoid destroying ourselves,
and the rate of innovation continues to increase,
we will invent a technology to meet this need.
We will create God.
We will create heaven.
The existence of God outside of time does not mean that God did not have a beginning.
God's beginning is in our future.
This resolves the conflict between evolution and belief in God
in a fashion such that BOTH sides of the dispute
choose to see the world the way it actually is
by abandoning a desired sensory experience
for a new perspective which meets the underlying needs of the abandoned one fully.
Religious people can have their need to save their loved ones from oblivion met fully.
Atheists can have their need for a scientific explanation met fully.
Everyone's needs can be met fully.
The conflict has been resolved.
Can we stop fighting each other now?
The Holy Spirit was a trait that was selected for by natural selection which will eventually create the conditions for the emergence of God.
Behold, the Kingdom of God is WITHIN YOU.
Why should you obey the commandment of Jesus Christ to Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself?
Because Jesus TOLD you in Luke 10:25-37: This is the price for entry into heaven.
What did he mean by that?
How would we design God and Heaven?
Would we not design it such that every child of God who faithfully obeys this commandment has a veto over your entry into heaven.
All whom you have harmed in your quest to gain money, status and power have a veto.
If you supported forced vaccination of your neighbors, are your neighbors who died because of this going to vote in your favor?
If you supported the genocide of the Palestians, are the murdered going to vote in your favor?
You cannot brown-nose your way in.
The rules for entry into heaven are exactly as Jesus Christ said they were.
Judgment day is coming!
The entire history of the evolution of the species has created the conditions for the emergence of your judgment day.
Repent for your sins.
What is the brain physiology of the apex predator?
Both
(1) the brain physiology of psychopathy
and
(2) the brain physiology of narcissism
prevent the emergence of a conscience,
but they do so in completely different ways.
Understanding this difference is the means by which we can understand why the apex predator is the apex predator.
Here is how it works ....
None of us are born with a conscience to restrain our primal compulsions to gain at the expense of others fully deployed.
Rather, we are born with or without the prerequisites for the emergence of a conscience and our life experiences trigger or do not trigger the its emeregence.
There are 2 prerequisites for the emergence of a conscience:
(1) The ability to experience strong pain signals
(2) The ability to experience strong affective empathy (AKA the "Holy Spirit")
Here's how it works:
With those 2 prerequisites present, we experience a primal compulsion to gain at the expense of an innocent.
We give into this compulsion.
We act selfishly and we harm an innocent person.
This gives rise to the emotion of guilt.
We feel the pain that the other person is experiencing.
We feel it intensely.
We feel it relentlessly.
The mind forces us to ruminate upon what we have done until we make the decision to (1) make amends for our crime and (2) resolve to never violate that moral code again.
Importantly it is the intense unrelenting pain of guilt which forces the permanent change in behavior of never violating that moral code again.
Were it not for this unrelenting pain of guilt, that change in behavior would not have been made and a conscience to restrain future such behavior would not have emerged.
A person who lacks the prerequisites for emergence of this unrelenting pain of guilt will NEVER feel the compulsion to change their behavior unless they are externally restrained by society in some fashion. They are natural born predators.
Psychopath brain physiology: weak amygdala = weak pain signals
Psychopaths have the brain physiology of a smaller and misshapen amygdala and very low connectivity between the amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex. This brain physiology seems to be responsible for the weak pain signals they experience. A strong characteristic trait of the psychopath is their fearlessness owing to their weak pain signals. The gene that apparently gives rise to this brain physiology is called the "warrior gene".
Owing to their inability to experience strong pain signals, a psychopath can act selfishly to gain at the expense of others and feel zero pain of guilt.
For this reason a conscience to restrain predatory behavior does not emerge in the psychopath.
SOURCE:
Professor Joshua Buckholtz, Harvard University: Psychopaths: The Most Dangerous People
See: 28 mins, 45 secs
Narcissist brain physiology: less gray matter = less affective empathy
Narcissists have a brain physiology characterized by less gray matter in several places but especially in the left anterior insusla. This brain physiology seems to be responsible for the absence of the ability to experience empathy. Unlike the psychopath, they feel strong pain signals, and they will often utilize their "vulnerable narcissism" to elicit sympathy in their prey. However, the "Holy Spirit" is not present in this brain physiology.
Owing to their inability to experience affective empathy, a narcissist can act selfishly to gain at the expense of others and feel zero pain of guilt.
For this reason a conscience to restrain predatory behavior does not emerge in the narcissist.
SOURCE:
Live Science: Narcissists' Lack of Empathy Detected in Brain Scans (2013-06-24)
Which of these 2 brain physiologies is the superior predator?
Psychopaths are disproportionately represented in the prison system. They are known to be impossible to reform. Despite decades of trying, no psychopath has ever been reformed. If you let them out of prison, they will re-offend. Prison does not change brain physiology.
Psychopaths are low level criminals primarily because they are not smart enough to climb the dominance hierarchy of criminality. Why is this? Because strong pain signals are needed in order to detect errors in the sensory motor predictive model that guides our movements through sensory experience. The don't learn from their mistakes. They are notoriously slow learners.
More so, their camouflage is poor owing to their fearlessness. Owing to their learning disability and their poor camouflage, psychopaths have no chance of being the apex predator in modern civilization.
Narcissists, on the other hand, are disproportionately represented in the hierarchy of both the public and private sector.
Owing to their ability to feel strong pain signals, they do NOT experience the learning disability of the psychopath. They can rapidly construct useful predictive models to guide their movements in their quest to play and win the zero-sum game. Unlike a moral person, however, there is no inner conflict between the zero-sum and positive-sum game player. In exactly the same way as the chimpanzee destroyed the human in memory test in the Cognitive Trade-Off Hypothesis video, narcissists destroy humans in the zero-sum game.
Watch this video at: 15 mins, 42 secs
Again, this makes total sense why you consider, as Jordan Peterson once observed, "a chimpanzee will eat a monkey alive with the damn thing still screaming". i.e. It is almost certain their total absence of empathy for the suffering of others which enables them to focus their full cognitive power on zero-sum game playing.
Historically, narcissists have been categorized as either grandiose/overt/masculine or vulnerable/covert/feminine. In practice, most narcissists have learned, from experience, that playing the vulnerable/victim is far more effective camouflage. The very best narcissists seem to be the politicians who are skilled at deceiving voters into believing that they actually care about them.
Owing to their superior learning ability and superior camouflage, narcissists are the far superior predator between these 2 predatory brain physiologies.
People who label the cabal who rules the world as "psychopaths" are very far off the mark.
the spectrum
The concept of "the spectrum" add depth and precision to the model. Narcissism is known to exist as a spectrum. Between the saint who loves her neighbors as herself and the demon who would "eat his neighbor alive with the damn thing still screaming" lies many people in between these 2 extremes.
If you look at any dominance hierarchy, what you will find is that
1: Those who are most highly restrained by conscience remain at the bottom of the hierarchy
2: Those who are the least restrained by conscience rise to the top
3: Those in between these 2 extremes fill up the middle-management levels between the 2
The spectrum also explains the disturbing result of the milgram experiment.
The portions of the "left" who cheered on the forced vaccinations of their neighbors are almost certainly higher on the narcissism spectrum than those who were strongly restrained by conscience.
The portions of the "right" who are cheering on the genocide of Gazand today are almost certainly higher on the narcissism spectrum than those who are more strongly restrained by conscience.
The fact that narcissism is a spectrum seems to accurately describe the descent into evil that we are witnessing.
Unfortunately, it also predicts that, because brain physiology is responsible, this 60-80% of the population who are able and willing to violate the command of Jesus Christ to Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself cannot be reformed unless their brain physiology is enhanced.
Is this inconsistent with the Holy Spirit hypothesis?
No. The hypothesis predicts that each big leap forward to a newer stronger moral system to stabilize civilization is preceded by a collapse of the existing civilization owing to insufficiently strong more constraints. The newer stricture moral codes imposed will serve to create stronger conditions favoring the selection of moral people.
Why is the brain physiology of factor 2 sociopaths unknown?
When most people think of the mental disorder held by the Rothschild's and their criminal syndicate, they use terms like sociopath or psychopath.
I believe this to be incorrect.
The more precisely we understand the nature of the brain physiology which compels their behavior, the more accurately we can predict and manipulate this behavior to defeat them.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has invented a disorder called Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) AKA "sociopathy" which consists of 2 subtypes:
Factor 1 Sociopaths are Psychopaths.
They have the brain physiology of psychopathy but the DSM chose not use use the term psychopath.
Factor 2 Sociopaths are characterized as being somewhat lower on the psychopath spectrum.
I believe that Factor 2 Sociopathy is a completely made up category.
Factor 2 sociopaths are so different from psychopaths that it is extremely suspicious that the DSM put them into the same disorder as psychopaths.
They do not possess the brain physiology of psychopathy.
They do not possess fearlessness.
They are completely different.
Unlike the narcissist and the psychopath, the brain physiology of the factor 2 sociopath and the genes that give rise to it are unknown.
How can that be?
It is my very strong intuition that what we call Factor 2 Sociopathy is, in reality, high-end of the spectrum narcissism.
And high-end of the spectrum narcissism is the brain physiology of the apex predators at the top of the organized crime syndicate.
Why is this?
Because the narcissism spectrum hypothesis predicts that one's position in the social hierarchy varies in direct proportion to how high one is on the narcissism spectrum.
i.e. Those who are unrestrained by conscience will do things to advance their position at the expense of their neighbor.
But those who are completely unrestrained by conscience will advance their way to the very top of hierarchy and will not hesitate to, for example, rape and murder children on video tape in order to attain the money, power and status that they desire.
Narcissists are the apex predator because the inability of the psychopath to feel pain both hinders their camouflage and their learning ability.
What happens when high-end of the spectrum narcissists breed with other high-end of the spectrum narcissists generation after generation sexually selecting for the best zero-sum game player?
You get "super narcissists" AKA "factor 2 sociopaths".
Some will counter that narcissists want narcissistic supply from us but sociopaths do not. There factor 2 sociopaths cannot be narcissists.
When a narcissist fails to get the narcissistic supply they need, what happens?
Narcissistic rage.
Usually narcissistic rage is enough to shock the others present into a state where the narcissist can get his needs met.
But what happens when narcissistic rage stops working and the people continue to rebel against the narcissists?
Do they not display exactly the kind of sociopathic genocidal behavior that we are seeing today in Gaza?
What is to be done?
Currently, I believe the 3 types of moves would be helpful
1: technology
2: legal
3: spiritual
4: unknown moves
1: technology moves
All zero-sum game playing brain physiologies MUST be PERMANENTLY removed from the gene pool.
As technology continues to advance, it would take only 1 individual to destroy the entire human race.
We need technology to both
1: detect these brain physiologies
and
2: cure them
#CastOutDemons => #HealThe Sick
2: legal system moves
More so, we need to accelerate the advancement of stricter moral codes to increase selection pressure for brain physiologies which naturally obey the commandment of Jesus Christ to Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself.
One way to do this would be to intentionally orient the highest law of the land to be in perfect alignment with what natural selection is actually selecting for.
Namely, the "natural selection of reciprocity".
"Love thy neighbor as thyself
or else
thy neighbors will remove thy genes from the gene pool."
All lesser laws should be in alignment with this higher law.
For example, money printing violates the law because surreptitiously seeking to steal from your neighbor by printing more money is not an act of love.
Money printing and Rent-seeking are just 2 well known forms of the more general moral evil of "passive-income" seeking
Passive-income seeking directly violates the highest law and thus should be banned.
Whenever we are seeking to gain at the expense of our neighbor instead of seeking to bring more joy to our neighbor, we are in violation of the law.
Usury.
Money printing.
Rent seeking.
All forms of passive income seeking should be illegal.
3: Spiritual moves
The mind can be trained to extinguish the ego so that we no longer feel any compulsion at all to gain at the expense of our neighbors.
Buddhism is one way that this can be done.
Technology may help to create the conditions whereby this can be achieved even by people with criminal brain physiologies.
4: Unknown moves
Finally, we need innovative solutions to restrain the compulsion to mate with zero-sum game players.
I do not know how this problem can be solved.
Once the technology for accurately detecting criminal brain physiologies is widely available, and the criminals are easy identify and isolate, it's possible the threat of seeing one's baby socially ostracized will be sufficient to restrain these primal compulsions.
There is a lot here I think is inaccurate, and also the idea of mandatory brain scans and brainwashing to make people conform to a standard physiology or genotype regardless of whatever their phenotype or expression of those genes are is horrifying.
To focus on what's wrong in terms of science and not morality, the premise is not correct. Evidence and logic suggests civilisation is what created "zero sum mindsets," not the other way around. At its most extreme, such mindsets are obviously psychopathy and sociopathy (the difference being nature and nurture). The latter has no reason to develop in primitive societies because it's disadvantageous to survival and will get someone killed, while the selection does not lead to the former genotype emerging through gene-culture co-evolution in the first place, because people with the behavioural traits and genes that make up psychopathy are detected and ruthlessly discarded.
Such extreme antisocial behaviour and the accompanying winner-takes-all, might-is-right ways of thinking were only able to emerge and thrive with the development of agriculture, because it allowed a small number of the most ruthless and charismatic to use violence to monopolise a surplus of resources and establish a social hierarchy without having to rely on prosocial behaviour and willing cooperation for survival.
See evolutionary anthropologist Peter Frost's article here from 2015 and his references:
https://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2015/12/is-sick-right-word.html
"'In a 1976 study anthropologist Jane M. Murphy, then at Harvard University found that an isolated group of Yupik-speaking Inuits near the Bering Strait had a term (kunlangeta) they used to describe "a man who ... repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and ... takes sexual advantage of many women—someone who does not pay attention to reprimands and who is always being brought to the elders for punishment." When Murphy asked an Inuit what the group would typically do with a kunlangeta, he replied, "Somebody would have pushed him off the ice when nobody else was looking." (Lilienfeld and Arkowitz, 2007)'
In a larger community, a sociopath may evade detection long enough to reproduce successfully and pass on his mental traits. Finally, in some cultures he can use his manipulative skills to dominate the community, becoming a "big man" and enjoying very good opportunities for reproduction.
This Pandora's Box was opened when humans gave up hunting and gathering and became farmers. First, farming supported a much larger population, so it became easier for sociopaths to move about from one group of unsuspecting people to another. Second, farming created a food surplus that powerful individuals could use to support underlings of various sorts: servants, soldiers, scribes, etc. There was thus a growing class of people who did not directly support themselves and whose existence depended on their ability to manipulate others."
I won't bother going through everything I saw I think is wrong, especially since I skimmed most of this article, although one I'll say is I would recommend reading historian Jim Penman's explanation of how and why religion developed as "cultural technologies" (in "Biohistory") mimicking epigenetic switches and behavioural changes found to occur in other mammals, like baboons, in times of e.g famine or stress that should reasonably apply to humans. Religion can be a promoter of civilisation and morality, but also keep in mind as you say that when it is a matter of selection and survival alone, it's not necessarily going to and is not a simple dichotomy like jumped up pre-civilisation barbarians against the forces of civilisation.
I think the conclusion (or observation leading to investigation) of multiple competing survival strategies causing collapse and chaos is basically accurate, but it's a lot different from what a lot of this article suggests. It makes sense to analyse this way, but I would suggest delving further into the literature, and also looking at and providing better sources than what is in some cases just Youtube videos (which besides any faults in terms such as credibility, are worth discarding for the reason they're not easy to refer to and use as a reference or check specific parts).