It's just not true that people are fundamentally good--except for a few evil rich people who manipulate everyone else who can't meet their material needs into fighting each other over race, gender, etc. That's not where racism comes from. /2
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People, in groups, tend to be vicious and tribal--just like all our primate cousins. We make in-groups and out-groups. Racism is the stupidest, easiest, most vicious way to do that. It must be battled *constantly* and forever, every generation. It's not about material needs. /3
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Comfortable people still fall into all sorts of bigotries not because they were trained to by manipulative oppressors out of false consciousness. They do it because people are hairless monkeys with barely evolved pre-frontal cortices. Fighting bigotry is a permanent struggle. /4
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The problem isn't false consciousness. It's not planted there by bad people. Culture matters, of course, but when tolerant cultural examples are present and you choose bigotry, THAT IS A CHOICE. It's not a manipulation. It's a choice. And people actively choose it all the time./5
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You can achieve socialist outcomes without resorting to delusional humanism and appeals to false consciousness, elitist cultural manipulation, etc, to explain the evil that people do. When people want bad things, you have to strongly encourage them to want better things. /6
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Sometimes giving them more material needs will help them listen to the angel on their shoulder. But mostly it makes little difference. Homo sapiens is a primate. We do what all our primate cousins do. And we have to constantly wage war on that part of our brains. /7
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Generally speaking humans are bad, bad news. We have been ever since we walked off the savanna. We extincted all the big mammals before the dawn of agriculture. We've been killing each other over stupid garbage everywhere in the world civilization arose--and before. /8
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There isn't a small group of elite sociopaths forcing us to do that. That's who we are. It's not material privation doing that. It's who we are. Being better than that is a constant, permanent, intentional struggle. It will be with us forever absent altering our own DNA. /end
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Lol reading the hilarious replies to this thread is like reading all the equally hilarious doctrinaire critiques of Harari. People are bad. A society with perfect economic equality will still do horrible things to those it classifies as "outsider." It's what we do.
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And for those of you trying to tease out my ideology from all this? I'm farther left than most of you. I'm a socialist post-westphalian transhumanist. I want fully automated luxury communism. I simply reject nationalism and outdated 19th century humanist romanticism.
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