re: America's Brutal Culture Wars Caused by 'The Return of the Gods'

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It’s all in your mind, I promise.

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I was a “rationalist” as much as anybody before the world started falling apart in ways I just can’t explain.

Here’s a spirituo-scientific theory I’ve had: man is designed for hunter gatherer small tribes, and that was the state where we were as God intended. It was when we invented grain agriculture that we built these larger, centralized societies that continuously, in a cycle that cannot be stopped, come together and catastrophically collapse. There isn’t enough moral courage in the hearts of men to wield the power that comes with great centralized wealth or power. Like Tolkien illustrated in his Rings books. I also think a human brain flooded with glucose 24/7/365 tends to be hyperactive, anxious, and depressed. So I think grain agriculture is what expelled us from paradise, and I suspect the ancient stories were some attempt to figure out what went wrong and where all the misery came from. And I suspect all the stories about good and evil spirits are an attempt to explain the reasons we discover, time after time, that if you give men all they need to carry out the designs in their hearts, you won’t like the result. I’ve seen the Devil, and he is me. Decentralization and downscaling (and less sh_t food grown at scale with no regard for human physiology) are all that will save us. This big project of ours will never work.