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Light of the West/Old/Brain vs. DNA.md

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+Land, namely the Earth, is the basis for all human life.
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+A [[Culture]] is the relationship between people and land. 
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+However, is it the relationship between the land and its people, or the people and their land?
+This question is at the heart of the Globalist - Tribalist divide.
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+The question, when posed this way, is a question of whether we are reliant on greater forces or whether we are gods who will shape the universe.
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+[[Invention]] is the greatest shaper of the universe - whether the invention of life itself, or one of life's inventions - such as the printing press.
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+This question can be phrased another way - which is the primary mechanism of invention?
+Sexual, or mental?
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+Mental invention, such as of writing or the steam engine, has been one of the primary drivers of human life.
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+*The Thesis of the Globalist Religion*:
+We have created humans with the capability to produce paradise and eternal life. Therefore, the project of sexual invention is over. Now, we can use brain invention to supplant sexual invention, and this will enshrine us as gods. 
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+A mind-based, Globalist perspective seeks to replace the invention mechanism of DNA with inventions of the human brain. Essentially, they believe future life will come from the human brain instead of from sex.
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+This is an interesting assertion, because it essentially argues that the brain is a better information storage and retrieval device than DNA. DNA stores, so far, the greatest information we could think of - the information of Life. The brain stores the Globalist's preferred medium of information, human symbols.
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+A lot of this philosophy comes form too much comfort. Overthinking and comfort lead to a preponderance of theory and wishing without actual substance.
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+Now, one could argue that the DNA is obviously better for this than the brain - after all, DNA stores information for the brain itself. But now, we have the computer - so the question then becomes, can the brain create a storage device which is better than DNA?
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+The one advantage of the brain in this argument is that, though it stores less information than DNA, it has more ability for interconnection. Or does it?
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+Certainly, we can communicate thoughts through the computer, but we can also communicate emotions, which can be thought of as a more DNA-based communication mechanism.
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+Because they believe this, they believe distinctions based on sex and DNA are outdated. They believe that the idea of an ethnic nation is outdated. They try and minimize differences between the nations - and between people.
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+The greatest mechanism for invention is sex and DNA.
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+The idea of one nation ruling the others is the idea of one set or type of DNA ruling others. Building a nation used to be the project of building DNA.
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+The project of the church is sexual invention of people who are like Christ.

Light of the West/Old/Collectivism.md

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+*What do you fight for?*
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+Since 1945, we’ve been indoctrinated to think that collectivism is bad because Europeans destroyed each other in World War II over collectivist ideas, such as race, culture and nationality.
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+The idea that America is not a collectivist country is a lie. Liberalism and humanism are the most extreme forms of collectivism - because they advocate fighting for the biggest collective of all, humanity. “Human rights” and “individual liberty” are human collectivist justifications, which have been used for invading several countries over the years.
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+Human collectivism is collectivism based on humanity - based upon the idea of fighting for certain concepts or truths inherent to humanity itself. 
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+This is not to condemn human collectivism, but to make people aware of what it is. Christianity is a form of human collectivism - and it is a great form of human collectivism because it has an accurate idea of human nature. Christianity acknowledges that we are not perfect, and cannot build a perfect world. Globalist collectivism is the opposite, and thus is one of the greatest threats we face today.
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+Pulling people together because of identities depends on how much life that identity brings. The truth is always “some”. But like any concept, they will never fully bring life.
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+There is a difference between globalism and globalization. Globalization is just a description of what happens when humans become prosperous - we develop better communications and travel technologies. There is nothing inherently wrong with globalization - it is a natural byproduct of prosperity.
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+Globalism, on the other hand, is the new religion which is built around globalization. Globalism and Individualism can both be religions, and are both the same thing. Think about it - from the perspective of a globalist leader, what will give that leader the most power? If every intermediary power structure is insignificant. If everyone is atomized into an individual. Individualism is the natural ideology of someone who wants to rule all humanity.
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+It is the strange situation of America - America was founded on a cooperative structure of Christianity and Globalism. The founding fathers explicitly stated rights as individual, inalienable, and human. Thus, they laid a legal groundwork which, if true, applies to all human beings. They also stated that the government was intended for a religious and Christian people, which the original citizens vastly were.
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+Now, Christianity and Globalism seem to be divorcing. Many in government want Globalism without Christianity, and many Christians want Christianity without Globalism. 
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+So - why?
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+The current globalist/nativist divide is not a divide between individualists and collectivists. It is not even a divide between secular and religious - it is a divide between addicts and realists.

Light of the West/Old/Cooperation vs. Competition.md

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+e/acc vs. Effective Altruism
+Rich vs. Poor
+Tycoons vs. Christianity
+Nationalism vs. Globalism
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+**Competition and Cooperation**
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+Today’s society loves the synthesis, but not the decomposition.
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+I heard a quote from a priest yesterday - “When we do things that are destructive to Creation, we’re not working with God.”
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+Can life exist without death?
+Can a fire burn without gas?
+Can a crop grow and not uproot the grasses?
+Can a fruit be eaten, not wither in acids?
+Compose a song without erasing a note?
+Take a job without crushing a hope?
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+Well, nature says no
+It’s the way of the world
+So can we write better genes without deleting strands?
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+The answer seems to be no, because this is not the way of nature.
+Is the way of nature the way of God?
+Is eternal salvation God’s offer in exchange for how he tills the fields, fans the flames, eats the fruit, composes the song of Civilization?
+Did God imbue us with destructive ideas to clean up bad parts of Creation?
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+If we as nations choose to collude, will God break up our monopoly? 
+Is human monopoly as bad for God as company monopoly is for our economies?
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+Was the Tower of Babel a story of God breaking up our monopoly on nature?
+Was 9/11 another?
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+Can a society exist where men avoid pain and danger of hard work?
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+Can a society exist where women avoid the pain and danger of childbirth?
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+Can we lift the curses of Adam and Eve?
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+Only through technology, globalists say. Because technology is their God.
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+There is tension between the idea of God and the idea of science because science says that this pattern of consolidation and competition is how we are formed, while the Bible says that we were formed by that ultimate creative process - God - which makes no mistakes. But is that really real creativity?
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+Perhaps competition is more in the moment and God’s message is in the past and future, precisely because when we are in the moment we don’t need the message.
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+It certainly seems like both competition and collaboration are required at different times, when helpful. Rigidly having one or the other is the problem with the jihadists and the globalists.
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+**Biology**
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+How fast does human nature change?
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+What is the human biological relationship with geography?
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+Is the great human project one of genetics?
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+Is the greatest competition in life that of genetics?
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+Is the competition of genetics the competition of Life?
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+As Darwin says, does competition make our genetics better?
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+When the span gets broad enough, genes always become diverse?
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+Are we may bodies, or are we one body?
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+Do cells in the body compete with each other or do they work together? Or both?
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+Where do our desires come from?
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+Is good genetics the highest form of Quality? Of Plato’s Good?
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+Is Jesus the ultimate example of good genetics?
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+Is it wrong to compete against other people groups? 
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+It is right to compete for our families, but it is wrong to compete for our ethnicities? Nepotism is okay, but racism is not?
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+At what point does discrimination for family become discrimination for race?
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+We will die for our family. Will we die for our race?  
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+Seeing other cultures is great. But what about living in other cultures?
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+Is it more fun to be with your friends? People who think like you?
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+Are “diverse” communities made up of people who can’t fit in to the previous, normal groups?
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+Are people rejected from ethnically-based communities because of their genetics?
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+Do ethnically-based groups have a bad judgement of genetics?
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+Who has the best view of genetics?
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+How much can we understand about others’ genetics?
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+How big of actions can we take based on others’ genetics?
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+**Globalism**
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+_I remember when that guy got mad at me because I attacked him, saying it was “less ideal” than collaborating. But what if it was ideal in the long run for me to have the land and centrally control it? Depends on my abilities._
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+Is Globalism is the ultimate expression of the human mind?
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+Why is it that so many atheists profess darwinism, and yet spend little time thinking about which human behaviors or characteristics are good for life? Mostly, it seems they are thinking of what they want life to look like.
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+Why do so many atheists dislike competition? Isn’t that the point of darwinism? Competition will produce better life?
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+Perhaps prioritizing the mind starts with darwinism but leads to utopianism?
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+Perhaps utopianism is a rejection of life?
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+Is globalism pushed more often by those who are genetically intelligent?
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+Does the empire grow by attracting genetic rejects from other cultures?
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+Do gay people want to believe globalism because globalism makes reproduction less important?
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+Are they rejects because of their genetics?
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+Does the empire grow by being so capable that it can cater to them? As a status symbol?
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+It is a status symbol to be so rich that you can promote people who don’t produce life?
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+Do people who run the empire simply not like life? Want to change its characteristics?
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+Is the empire a rejection of life?
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+Is stopping conflict a rejection of life?
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+If the Globalist project succeeded, what if one group of people became genetically superior?
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+Is individual atomization the best way to achieve globalism?
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+Is globalism the death of nations, or the union of nations?
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+Does the Tower of Babel story doom globalism?
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+Are different languages necessary for those with different genetics?
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+**Christianity**
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+Is Christianity a project of genetics?
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+Is the point of Christianity to peacefully prioritize those who produce life?
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+Is Christianity a peaceful competition to promote life, while still providing for those who don’t?
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+Has Christianity changed our genetics?
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+When we live in Christian societies, do we genetically become more like Christ?
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+Why is Christianity slanted towards collaboration?
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+Because it is competing with everything else?
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+Will the New Earth be a place where everyone competes but the worst of competition is eliminated?
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+What should be a Christian’s relationship with the land?
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+What is the relationship of Jews and intelligence and money? 
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+How much of prosperity comes from genetics?
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+“From a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behavior, one that simply goes against the laws of nature, cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.” - YNH
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+The implication of this quote is to separate nature from life. When people call a behavior unnatural, they usually mean it goes against life.
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+Religion is based on human nature - e.g. how to live
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+Government is based on combining human nature with current circumstances.
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+Childhood is about building identity - reconciling one’s nature with society and the world.
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+Adulthood is about using one’s nature in the proper way.
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+**Excellence** 
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+Ability and morality are not separate
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+The pinnacle of excellence - and the union of ability and morality - is to provide for yourself and the people around you. 
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+Writing a computer program is like writing DNA - which is what parents and Christ and successful people do
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+Every society has its warriors, merchants, priests.
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+Christianity phases out the warriors and priests.
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+It builds people who build.
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+It phases out those who can’t build and who destroy.
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+The paradox of competition is that it builds cooperation. The way to unite a country is to give it an enemy - the way to unite the world is to find aliens.
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+Competition magnifies differences with who we’re competing against and shrinks differences between those on our side.
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+Yin and yang _are_ competition - but they **_collaborate_ to make up the world**
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+Opposites are the most similar things, because they are in each other’s orbit. And thus they can be described by a unifying principle.
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+E.g. left shoe and right shoe - “pair”
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+Capitalism vs. Communism - Economic Ideologies
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+Competition vs. Collaboration - Life?
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+Hegel’s end of history is the spiral being raised up based on opposing conflicts - like the DNA spiral?

Light of the West/Old/Culture.md

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+*A culture is the relationship between humans and their land*
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+The stone pots, clay houses, log cabins, stucco walls, timber beams of traditional human structures make this relationship clear.
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+At the heart of this relationship we have industry, which allows human life to grow by providing nutrients.
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+A nation is a culture which has created a formal structure. This structure is the government.
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+A religion is the people’s conception of the unknown and the external.

Light of the West/Old/Globalism vs. Christianity.md

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+The interesting difference here is that Globalism respects mental reproduction while Christianity respects sexual reproduction. However, there are similarities as well.
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+The Globalist vs. Christian visions of Heaven are very similar - free from physical burdens and differences between us. No marriage, sex, or reproduction. No hard work.
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+The difference is that Globalism says we can achieve this vision now through technology, and Christianity says we can achieve this vision later through sex.

Light of the West/Old/Globalism.md

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+Bill Gates says that the people he wants are the lazy ones because they can find new ways of doing things. 
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+At some point, technology and invention have changed from doing more with what we have to getting more so we can put all our resources into making our lives easy.
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+The truth is that life needs both competition and collaboration to grow. Different times call for different approaches. Neither should be demonized.
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+Does Christianity idolize cooperation? Or is the point to provide a landing pad for failed competitors?
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+The current globalist/nativist divide is not a divide between individualists and collectivists. It is not even a divide between secular and religious - it is a divide between addicts and realists.
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+The scariest part of what’s happening today is that the Globalists are addicts. They are addicted to their vision of a perfect world and will fight tooth and nail to reach their perfection.
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+Humans cannot create perfection. The human brain is not that from which all life springs, though it _is_ obviously our greatest asset.
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+Globalists idolize the human brain; believe it can do anything. This is false. The brain has its limitations.
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+Evolution clearly shows that the human brain is derived from concepts and processes outside of itself and its purview. The human brain, although great, is finite. We didn’t come from the brain - the brain came from us, and from God. Or physics, or evolution, or whatever you want to call it.
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+Invention itself is outside of the brain. The brain itself was invented - again, by God, Nature, Physics. The greatest mechanism of invention is sex and DNA. The idea that we can supplant that invention - that our brains are now chief inventors and nothing outside of them matters - is foolish. The process of invention predates the brain.
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+Every real inventor knows that there is no timetable for when invention happens. The Romans could have invented the steam engine - but they didn’t. We cannot control the timing of invention, and we cannot focus all our resources on it hoping that prosperity will pop out.
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+Globalists are attempting invert the relationship between mind and reality, and push a worldview where God, Life, evolution - all come from our brains. This is why they are attempting to build artificial Gods with AI, and why they believe everything will be automated. It is the pitch Sam Altman is giving right now to raise $7 Trillion dollars.
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+Even the development of AI shows that brain-first invention only goes so far. AI is a very impressive invention, but it has not at all lived up to the expectations of operation in the physical world. Many are still laboring on robots and self-driving cars, but the market success of AI has been on its information categorization and transmittal abilities. AI is taking white-collar jobs vastly more than any others. AI is a very useful map of the world - but it is not a useful entity in the world. AI people think that they are inventing a new world, but really all they are doing is reinventing the world of the mind. A better world of the mind is impressive, and clearly useful - but the world of the mind is not the real world. The mind is a tool to map the real world, not to be it.
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+Globalists like the idea that the world of the mind can be the real world because a perfect world is just that - an idea. A perfect world is not something we can create. Perfection is not real. Perfect is the enemy of the good. Needing perfection ends up draining more resources than it gives. Globalists need this perfect world - because they are addicted to it. Even as everything falls apart around them, they refuse to let go of their beautiful idea.
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+Perfection seems to be a function of comfort. Of the idea that everything that needs to happen and everything that will happen is already known - and the only thing holding back progress is other people.
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+The brain is not perfect - even though academics seem so gleeful to point out “cognitive biases” - they curiously seem to think that the human brain is birthing perfection. Maybe they think that their brain doesn’t have biases - only yours.
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+We cannot be thinking that the world will be ever be derived from the human brain. It won’t. The brain, and invention, will continue to help map and change the world. But God is the only fountain from which the world and life can come.

Light of the West/Old/Invention.md

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+ Invention can be thought of as a new framework of knowledge - a new arrangement of atoms that change how an organism interacts with the world (Peter Thiel's Zero to One is an advocate of this.)
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+In fact, Romer, an economist, believed that the only long-term growth of human economy was through the growth of knowledge. He proved this theorem and won a Nobel Prize.  When knowledge grows in society, we re-shape our interactions with the world, and therefore improve our relationship with reality.
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+However, this growth of knowledge is not simply mental and symbolic knowledge - for, in face, genes are knowledge. Thus, invention - growth and molding of knowledge - is also a description of evolution, in which the knowledge-store of DNA is continuously improved over time to grow Life.
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+**Industry at its best is at the intersection of art and science** 
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Light of the West/Old/Religion.md

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+A religion is a [[Culture]]'s conception of where Life comes from, and of the unknown or uncontrollable parts of the world.