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Grundvilk's avatar

You give the "other side" too much credit, and not enough to us deplorables.

For instance, you write:

"Note from this the different time scales that our overlords operate on compared to the masses: the online right thinks in terms of events — days, weeks, months or maybe a couple of years at most — while the timescale of the central bank owners is on the level of decades or centuries, giving the latter an enormous advantage."

You are confusing, I think, a deep mental illness perpetually (generation after generation) afflicting the "other side" with virtue(s). Just because a one-legged man makes it awkwardly, slowly, and painfully down the road for miles by using a crutch, doesn't mean that they can walk as well as those with two legs. No advantage to basically being chronically crippled. Pity them instead, and then of course actively take steps to unnecessary falling into the position of having to fear them as they hobble along.

As to a "Redneck Rebellion" -- the people you speak of act in more insistent, consistent and less abrupt manner than "the other side". It is the "other side", in fact, that has been trying to effect a rebellion.

As to the matter of redneck "rage" or "anger". Wrong words -- it is "disgust", not "rage". See https://www.colby.edu/psych/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2021/09/Xu_et_al_2021.pdf if you want more hard data confirmation that the "other side" is the side that has rage, anger, and a propensity for violence.

As to the proposed "egalitarian (Christian) rachet-effect" you use as an interpretive tool. Up to about 10,000 years ago there were not that many of us at all, as our few common forebears all passed haltingly through the same sequential set of environmental meat-grinders and sieves. At heart (in our genetics), there is, therefore, not that much difference among people. (Reportedly, the genetic difference between any given one man and one woman is far, far greater than the genetic differences among the modern groups of men and women on the earth.) This egalitarian impulse, bred unconsciously into our bones over a couple of million years predates Christianity -- Christianity instead is an echo of our evolutionary past and our consequently shared human genetics. Not something to try to discard by repetitive thinking. See https://hraf.yale.edu/ehc/summaries/hunter-gatherers for reports on pre-Christian/pre-Neolithic egalitarian tendencies.

Interesting maps you provided, but these are tautological not explanatory.

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Sam's avatar

We are made to believe that we can control the climate with our activities and that Sun is just a minor inconvenience, but at the same time we are being told that we cannot stop technological progress that we are directly responsible for. Likewise, we are being told that a genuine successful revolution of people against their masters is impossible.

What if none of that is true?

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