Civilization rests on the supremacy of superior ideas, and the genius of human creativity to erect them for all to embrace. It is the opposite of Submission (which, disastrously, is the name of one of the major religions).
Teaching civilization to a child then consists fundamentally into introducing the notion of superior logic, which leads to the ability of discerning superior ideas.
Everybody is equal, some say? In mental capacity, certainly not, watch Putin or Hitler, for starters… Both idiots claimed they wanted to raise those they ruled over, although that was true only after inverting all values: madness was reason, lying was cogent, defeat was victory, terror was freedom, and life was death. Even worse, dozens of millions of complete criminal imbeciles approved this blatant inversion of all values, and enabled it. After a while, at least in Nazi Germany, the idiots kept going because they were all accomplices in unfathomable crimes.
So there is such a thing as mass imbecility, mass criminality. I know perfectly well that a theory was invented to deny that the German people were collectively responsible for the Nazi crimes and only a few thousands of criminal Nazis had done it. But actually ALL Nazis and their enablers were criminals, and they should all have been punished.The reason for this stupid theory, of denying collective responsibility was the urge many racists felt to recycle their Nazi fellow souls after 1945. Thus some of the greatest Nazi enablers (say Generalfeldmarschalll Erich Von Manstein) were recycled, and kept a (Nazi) clamp on the reconstituted Wehrmacht (aka Bundeswehr).
Von Manstein was Hitler’s most important enabler. In a cocktail party, the just promoted general, disrespecting the entire chain of command, went directly to Hitler, and explained to the Führer that the plans submitted to him for the attack on France, an attack through north Belgium and the Netherlands, were all bound to fail as the superior French army would anticipate this reedition of August 1914.Instead Von Manstein proposed a feint in the north, and a dash through the Ardennes low mountains in the south. The plan had been developed with the informal cooperation of Heinz Guderian, the great priest of Blitzkrieg. The reason Von Manstein was so bold is that his family, both biological and adoptive, was stuffed with some of the most famous Prussian generals of the two preceding generations.
The idea was genius, showing that even the greatest idiots, namely Hitler and Von Manstein, can stumble on genius ideas.
Never mind that Von Manstein pretty much looked like the caricature of a Jew that Nazis used to condemn to death, just for existing. It was not just appearance. Von Manstein was a biological Jew (⅛ at least) by the Nazis’ own criterions. To evade evidence, nazi racial experts decided that von manstein was a jew by religion, not race…
But not just that. General von Manstein himself arranged a military funeral for his uncle, Avraham Ben Avraham von Manstein, a Jew.
“At that time [1944] the General [Von Manstein] had been relieved from all his military duties by Hitler. This gave him the time to organize a funeral for his uncle during one of World War II most difficult periods. The funeral was held with full military ceremony, the coffin was draped with Nazi swastika flag and the military escort detachment was made of uniformed SS soldiers.”
How much more idiotic can one get? SS burying a Jew with honors? Or was it a preparation to what happened next: Von Manstein tried to escape punishment in 1945 by testifying against his Nazi comrades.
But then various tidbits surfaced: During the Crimean campaign Manstein was directly involved in atrocities against the Soviet population, especially those committed by Einsatzgruppe D, one of several Schutzstaffel (SS) groups that had been tasked with the elimination of the Jews of Europe. When a subordinate officer was alarmed by the mass assassinations of civilians, Manstein told him not to worry about it.
Manstein was tried, found guilty of war crimes in 1949, condemned to 12 years, served 4, and then became a trusted and topmost adviser of the German government. He was careful to discredit the officers who had resisted Hitler… who only got justly honored after he released his grip.
[The case of Von Manstein was not unique: the top marshall who conquered Norway for Hitler, and committed atrocities there was a Jew (Hitler “aryanized” him)That they were several top Nazi enablers who were Jews should not be construed as an approbation of Putin’s servants claiming that Ukraine is led by Nazi-Jews…]
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Nazi, top Hitler enabler, and Jew: what could be more idiotic?
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I grew up in some of the poorest countries on Earth. My father was born in Algeria… but was highly educated (he became a professional geologist after being admitted to the highest MBA style school).
I learned early on, in my first decade, that the intellectual abilities of people varied immensely. I found some of the witchcraft and cannibalistic culture I was exposed to in the depths of Black Africa pretty stupid, although the introduction of Islam, a religion from the white world, surprisingly represented in some ways a drastic setback… especially in regards to the female condition.
I also found a lot of Euro-Americans incredibly idiotic and arrogant, representing well an unreal culture (which has matured into some of the excesses of wokism… and pacifism/Putinism).
So, culturally we are not all equal. Some, most are truly unequal. If someone doesn’t know calculus, or more simply, the exponential function, they will have to be introduced quickly to them when the notions become indispensable to the logic deployed. The allegedly idiotic Socrates may have thought that everybody knew mathematics (so said Plato!)… but he was completely wrong.
No exponential, no true understanding of planetary boundaries, or of the knife edge on which civilization is presently dancing.
Looking back at the Maya, some thinkers there and then, probably saw the catastrophe coming… after all it had happened before, and the safeguards had been put in place by ancestors, for excellent reasons. However, low culture Maya decided to discard the wisdom of ages, and the Mayan civilization completely cratered.
A similar disaster on a planetary scale is foreseeable and imminent. To avoid it, we need to be smart. To be smart the notion of idiocy needs to be revived and extolled: most of the present policies to alleviate Earth Boundaries are idiotic, because counterproductive… For example, nuclear fusion, not electric cars, should have got the greatest public funding: ITER was slowed down ten years to make the money flow towards ITER from the US and other actors more palatable… officially speaking. In truth the fossil fuel industry was behind the defunding of fusion research.
An example of idiocy: the French government expects a reduction of overall energy usage of a third by 2035. That’s obviously crazy… and pointless: France is not causing the CO2 crisis. Policies like that insure the restoration of fossil fuel friendly governance… If elections are conducted fairly (a big if!)
All bad all over? No. SpaceX, exploding ever bigger rockets, has obviously the Pentagon discreetly behind it…. So stars, here we come. It could be worse. Namely total anti-tech, anti-science wokism, Maya style, ruling all over.
The Mayas didn’t recover: what their civilization needed to rebound, they had destroyed (not just their hydraulic works, but species of trees they depended upon for construction). When the Conquistadores showed up, more than five centuries after the collapse, the Maya, what was left of them, lived along the coast, in scattered shadows of their old civilization, with a very small fraction of the population they used to have. Most of Yucatan, once cultivated and a vast garden, had returned to wilderness.
Patrice Ayme
Our civilization, which is in imminent mortal danger, will not recover either if stupidity is not put on the run.
I I think, therefore I discern… Mentally superior from mentally inferior…
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