The point is, you're going to have such a system whether you like it or not. You can try to come up with whatever nerdy ass religion substitute you want, but it's either going to wither on the vine or turn into something worse than what it was trying to replace. Just stop with all the silly bullshit and deal with reality as it is.
It was certainly another cog in the machine. Inflating the education bubble had the dual benefit of reprogramming the middle class and stealing their money. This is the Clown World bubble I'm most excited to see pop.
They weren't thinking about it like you are. They weren't trying to come up with an expression of their culture, but were looking for something that they found compelling. Christianity bubbled up to Constantine after gaining organic popularity. The selection process was well under way before elites jumped on the bandwagon.
This makes some sense, but you have to take into account that all this weakness and suicidal tendency only emerged after Christianity was already mostly neutralized. Western civilization was still virile and robust while Christianity dominated. Anyway, it is what it is. It's kind of like complaining about your spine. You're free to argue that it's not the best arrangement for you as an upright, bipedal creature, but it's certainly better than not having one at all.
On that note, you might also want to consider the hunter-gatherer individualism explanation for the unusually high trust European nature. The very bad wrong-thinker Kevin MacDonald made a pretty good case for it in Culture of Critique, one of the few books to be banned on Amazon:
Recent research by evolutionary economists provides fascinating insight on the differences between individualistic cultures versus collectivist cultures. An important aspect of this research is to model the evolution of cooperation among individualistic peoples. Fehr and Gächter (2002) found that people will altruistically punish defectors in a “one-shot” game—a game in which participants only interact once and are thus not influenced by the reputations of the people with whom they are interacting. This situation therefore models an individualistic culture because participants are strangers with no kinship ties. The surprising finding was that subjects who made high levels of public goods donations tended to punish people who did not even though they did not receive any benefit from doing so. Moreover, the punished individuals changed their ways and donated more in future games even though they knew that the participants in later rounds were not the same as in previous rounds. Fehr and Gächter suggest that people from individualistic cultures have an evolved negative emotional reaction to free riding that results in their punishing such people even at a cost to themselves—hence the term “altruistic punishment.” Essentially Fehr and Gächter provide a model of the evolution of cooperation among individualistic peoples. Their results are most applicable to individualistic groups because such groups are not based on extended kinship relationships and are therefore much more prone to defection. In general, high levels of altruistic punishment are more likely to be found among individualistic, hunter-gather societies than in kinship based societies based on the extended family. Their results are least applicable to groups such as Jewish groups or other highly collectivist groups which in traditional societies were based on extended kinship relationships, known kinship linkages, and repeated interactions among members. In such situations, actors know the people with whom they are cooperating and anticipate future cooperation because they are enmeshed in extended kinship networks, or, as in the case of Jews, they are in the same group. Similarly, in the ultimatum game, one subject (the ‘proposer’) is assigned a sum of money equal to two days’ wages and required to propose an offer to a second person (the ‘respondent’). The respondent may then accept the offer or reject the offer, and if the offer is rejected neither player wins anything. As in the previously described public goods game, the game is intended to model economic interactions between strangers, so players are anonymous. Henrich et al. (2001) found that two variables, payoffs to cooperation and the extent of market exchange, predicted offers and rejections in the game. Societies with an emphasis on cooperation and on market exchange had the highest offers—results interpreted as reflecting the fact that they have extensive experience of the principle of cooperation and sharing with strangers. These are individualistic societies. On the other hand, subjects from societies where all interactions are among family members made low offers in the ultimatum game and contributed low amounts to public goods in similarly anonymous conditions. Europeans are thus exactly the sort of groups modeled by Fehr and Gächter and Henrich et al: They are groups with high levels of cooperation with strangers rather than with extended family members, and they are prone to market relations and individualism.
It's how officers have been trained, from the academy onward, for years. I got my initial assessment of Uvalde so wrong because I rated the reality as so low on the scale of probability -- it was such a staggering systemic failure across every domain. My defense at that time was of the rest of the officers out there who train to execute these responses exactly like what was done here. It's the kind of thing you hate to be good at... stepping over the bodies of dead children to stop the threat and secure the scene as quickly as possible.
And there are no winners. There is no happy ending. It's likely that some of the officers knew some of the people involved. I am so tired of the politicking around these events. I'm disgusted by society for producing this, and for how Christianity is so wrongly perceived in such a pervasive way (and largely due to the behavior of Christians). My heart breaks for these families. I pray for peace for them, but I pray more that the tolerance for the insanity ends.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter account suspended over ‘Trans Day of Vengeance’ post
Censored by the Twitter bots or subversive censorship agents for drawing attention to the "Trans Day of Vengence" events planned for April 1st
The RISK Act; it's like the Patriot Act, except it explicitly targets American citizens and no longer pretends to respect the US Constitution:
VPN Users Could Face Decades in Jail Under New RESTRICT Act
Following on the heels of the extremely unpopular (and likely unconstitutional) Social Media Bill out of Utah.
The uniparty must be getting nervous.
I mean, it is conspiratorial, it's just that (most) of the planning and discussion happens in the open; in academic journals, conferences, NGO and non-profit work, lawfare, politicking, etc. There is a very definite if broad end goal of (not to sound like JBP here) inverting any and every hierarchy: moral, psychological, social, economic, political, and biological especially. They differ on means and the details but the end is the same. That is what's so frustrating about American politics - the biggest conspiracies happen out in the open - they literally say what they want to do and how they intend to do it - but because Anderson Cooper doesn't talk about it, people look at you like you grew a 2nd head if you do. Much the same with history.
An excellent piece from Kevin Downey Jr. today: Tolerance and Acceptance Were Never Going to Be Enough for the Trans Crowd – PJ Media
Good luck with your "Day of Trans Vengeance", children. You bleed too.Today, we are at a point where a 6’4″ man named “Lia” Thomas has been allowed to dominate women’s college swimming, while the real women on the team were told to shut up and not complain about losing their accolades to Thomas and having to eyeball his twig and berries in the showers.
Major publications like the NY Post, the Daily Mail, and even the Post Millennial have called “he” a “she.”
People have lost their jobs for refusing to play make-believe with the small portion of the country plagued by a mental malady called “gender dysphoria.”
Despite all the ass-kissing the trans crowd has enjoyed, they feel they are being “genocided” out of existence. So much so that they are planning a “day of trans vengeance.”
In the United States, the trans crowd walks on water. Yet six people — three of them only nine years old — had to die, just five days before the “day of trans vengeance.” One of them was the daughter of the school’s pastor. I’m sure that was just a coincidence, right?
Empires only last so long. Start at about 8min, but everyone here will enjoy this in its entirety. It’s from Freeman Dyson. I may have posted before but he also explains climate change what matters, why the models don’t work, etc.
Freeman Dyson: Heretical Thoughts About Science and Society - YouTube
Space travel update: NASA unveils new spacesuits for upcoming moon mission
The nation's space program has a brand-new purpose, and it has nothing to do with space.NASA has just unveiled the new spacesuit that will be worn during Artemis III, an upcoming mission to put the first woman and person of color on the moon’s surface — and it’s a huge upgrade from the suits worn by the Apollo-era moonwalkers.