Comments on: It’s our innate evolved form of government

By: McChuck

McChuck — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 14:14:55 +0000

80% of people never progress beyond the high school mentality. They routinely vilify the 10% of people who learn to think and do.

The remaining 10% never progress beyond the middle school mentality. They become politicians and social workers.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 05:01:55 +0000

Seriously 200k years ago? Ok. Those “humans” were not really human they were like many of the Stone Age “humans” still living today whose relatives we found not 100 years ago living in caves mud hut and the like. Those these humans are simply not civilization capable not even if you give them one ready made and maintain it for them it still ends up a pile of rocks.

We humans Europeans and our racially close cousins were those half apes and didn’t even have the sense to get out of Africa till about 75k ago. So till the. Even we were not we. And how long did it take those half apes who left Africa to become human? Well, we were probably pretty civilized by 20k ago no I don’t think little villages I think much much more we had huge cities 12k ago that couldn’t be sudden.

By: David Foster

David Foster — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 02:23:30 +0000

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

This has always struck me as one of those sayings that sounds a lot more profound than it actually is. It certainly isn’t very complementary to Eleanor’s husband, FDR, who I guarantee you spent a lot of time discussing events, and also plenty of time discussing people. This will be true of anyone in a leadership position, of anybody who actually needs to get things done and to interact with other people to do so.

By: Altitude Zero

Altitude Zero — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 16:58:56 +0000

Is it my imagination, or are people more obsessed with high school than they were 30-40 years ago? I mean, this theory may well be true, at least in part, but I have a feeling that if it had been put forth fifty years ago, it would have been phrased differently.

By: bomag

bomag — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 12:58:46 +0000

Lots of explanatory power there.

But the need to husband technology pushes us to organize outside the gossip network. Those in charge of hunts and war parties get serious. When humans moved north and faced winters, we had an explosion of seriousness.

I suggest that today we have less need to be serious; the guys keeping the machines running are routine and quiet, allowing the Woke to cancel and bitch about slights from the past. They are assuming the lights will stay on no matter how much they degrade the human capital that builds and runs the physical plant. Tsk.