perhaps relative status games being played on moral axes explains our unstoppable shift towards today's woke religion better than a narrow genealogy like the puritan hypothesis or jewish hypothesis does alone
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every day the status game is played on selflessness and the way to leapfrog your competition is to become more progressive (care more about the marginalized) because caring less is selfish by definition so there is only one direction to move
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the same status game is being played with revolutionary fervor (the desire to change the world for the better) and by definition the only way to leapfrog your competition and establish higher relative status is to call for more aggressive change not less
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vestigial commonalities between people playing these games in 1900, 1950, and today is to be expected but shouldn't be read as ideological lineage so much as observations of a phenomenon common to the game being played
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this isn't to say that certain ethnic groups aren't more prone / skilled / enthusiastic about playing these status games than others and play a bigger and more insidious role but the status game must be addressed too (see: nordics are into antifa too)
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as to why precisely the status game is orientated along these axes I would guess these resonate better with lizard-brain interpretations of *what is good in times of plenty* ... and that in times of danger our scarcity we would look to strength and courage instead....
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in this sense I contend the reason humanity has gotten fat is the same reason why we champion the moral axes of selfless moral purity and revolutionary change .. and there may be both biochemical and cognitive underlying causes
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Agree on all of this but a major element that is novel alongside social media (which tightens the feedback loop by making sure the conversations aren't ephemeral and don't have to be face to face) is that women make up a large portion of the egregore now.
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The egregore will take on characteristic women thinking as more members try to model the minds of the rest of the egregore - men are capable of thinking like women but the reverse isn't true so all will converge on women-thinking.
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