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Competition and Cooperation
Today’s society loves the synthesis, but not the decomposition.
I heard a quote from a priest yesterday - “When we do things that are destructive to Creation, we’re not working with God.”
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?
Well, nature says no It’s the way of the world So can we write better genes without deleting strands?
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?
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?
Was the Tower of Babel a story of God breaking up our monopoly on nature? Was 9/11 another?
Can a society exist where men avoid pain and danger of hard work?
Can a society exist where women avoid the pain and danger of childbirth?
Can we lift the curses of Adam and Eve?
Only through technology, globalists say. Because technology is their God.
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?
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.
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.
Biology
How fast does human nature change?
What is the human biological relationship with geography?
Is the great human project one of genetics?
Is the greatest competition in life that of genetics?
Is the competition of genetics the competition of Life?
As Darwin says, does competition make our genetics better?
When the span gets broad enough, genes always become diverse?
Are we may bodies, or are we one body?
Do cells in the body compete with each other or do they work together? Or both?
Where do our desires come from?
Is good genetics the highest form of Quality? Of Plato’s Good?
Is Jesus the ultimate example of good genetics?
Groups
Is it wrong to compete against other people groups?
It is right to compete for our families, but it is wrong to compete for our ethnicities? Nepotism is okay, but racism is not?
At what point does discrimination for family become discrimination for race?
We will die for our family. Will we die for our race?
Seeing other cultures is great. But what about living in other cultures?
Is it more fun to be with your friends? People who think like you?
Are “diverse” communities made up of people who can’t fit in to the previous, normal groups?
Are people rejected from ethnically-based communities because of their genetics?
Do ethnically-based groups have a bad judgement of genetics?
Who has the best view of genetics?
How much can we understand about others’ genetics?
How big of actions can we take based on others’ genetics?
Globalism
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.
Is Globalism is the ultimate expression of the human mind?
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.
Why do so many atheists dislike competition? Isn’t that the point of darwinism? Competition will produce better life?
Perhaps prioritizing the mind starts with darwinism but leads to utopianism?
Perhaps utopianism is a rejection of life?
Is globalism pushed more often by those who are genetically intelligent?
Does the empire grow by attracting genetic rejects from other cultures?
Do gay people want to believe globalism because globalism makes reproduction less important?
Are they rejects because of their genetics?
Does the empire grow by being so capable that it can cater to them? As a status symbol?
It is a status symbol to be so rich that you can promote people who don’t produce life?
Do people who run the empire simply not like life? Want to change its characteristics?
Is the empire a rejection of life?
Is stopping conflict a rejection of life?
If the Globalist project succeeded, what if one group of people became genetically superior?
Is individual atomization the best way to achieve globalism?
Is globalism the death of nations, or the union of nations?
Does the Tower of Babel story doom globalism?
Are different languages necessary for those with different genetics?
Christianity
Is Christianity a project of genetics?
Is the point of Christianity to peacefully prioritize those who produce life?
Is Christianity a peaceful competition to promote life, while still providing for those who don’t?
Has Christianity changed our genetics?
When we live in Christian societies, do we genetically become more like Christ?
Why is Christianity slanted towards collaboration?
Because it is competing with everything else?
Will the New Earth be a place where everyone competes but the worst of competition is eliminated?
What should be a Christian’s relationship with the land?
What is the relationship of Jews and intelligence and money?
Rights
How much of prosperity comes from genetics?
Do human rights come from prosperity?
Does prosperity come from God?
My Answers.
“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
The implication of this quote is to separate nature from life. When people call a behavior unnatural, they usually mean it goes against life.
Religion is based on human nature - e.g. how to live
Government is based on combining human nature with current circumstances.
Childhood is about building identity - reconciling one’s nature with society and the world.
Adulthood is about using one’s nature in the proper way.
Excellence
Ability and morality are not separate
The pinnacle of excellence - and the union of ability and morality - is to provide for yourself and the people around you.
Writing a computer program is like writing DNA - which is what parents and Christ and successful people do
Every society has its warriors, merchants, priests.
Christianity phases out the warriors and priests.
It builds people who build.
It phases out those who can’t build and who destroy.
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.
Competition magnifies differences with who we’re competing against and shrinks differences between those on our side.
Yin and yang are competition - but they collaborate to make up the world
Opposites are the most similar things, because they are in each other’s orbit. And thus they can be described by a unifying principle.
E.g. left shoe and right shoe - “pair”
Capitalism vs. Communism - Economic Ideologies
Competition vs. Collaboration - Life?
Hegel’s end of history is the spiral being raised up based on opposing conflicts - like the DNA spiral?