Organic Nihilism

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I decided to start a thread which will aid all in understanding about nihilism.

I cannot deny God, for there is none to deny.
One denies the declaration that there is something which is not in evidence.
I cannot deny unicorns either, nor can I prove that Leprechauns to dot exit, because to demand this is to think from the Top<>Down.
Therefore, to call someone a nihilist because he denies an end, a teleos, a meaning to life, a universal morality, an absolute, is a perversion of the very term “nihilism.”
It is a tactic with which the true nihilists, those who deny existence, the world, themselves, as distinct, separate, identities, nature, the world, as we call it, hide their own self-hatred and their resentment of all that made them possible.

It is akin to European, supposedly men, who degrade, slander, insult, their own ancestry so as to immerse themselves within a blandness of uniformity they then paint with rainbow colours to hide its black and white shading.
Self-hated begins with a hated of one’s own past, because it is too hypocritical and cowardly to admit that it is self, as it is, which is despised; an indirect resentment of all that made the individual what (s)he is, finding relief in degrading all those ancestors, the culture, the history, that made them possible, but one whose greatness they cannot live-up to.

Genetic decline begins when unfit mutations are permitted access into the gene pool, and then they are sheltered from nature’s usual culling methods.
It is these products of genetic decline who now stand against the awareness of what they are and why they are so.
Perhaps it is a cruel practice to rip another’s hope away from them, to force them to peer into the abyss and upon their own essence, when there is not much there to feel proud of, but when one is unconcerned about feelings, and individuals, including one’s own, then reality is the only motivator: too see, to know, just for the sake of knowing, to understand, as a completion of one’s journey through life before death comes, and to accept, as the act of self-love, of yes-saying, as Nietzsche called it, of a final affirmation of life …an act of appreciation to that which made them possible, an honour giving, through one’s own bloodline, is the duty of all honest, courageous, free-spirits.

He or she who accept this duty with pride, is the one who takes responsibility for one’s own becoming.

Intelligence is not enough, many a man fail due to sheer terror, and the brightest minds are corrupted by fear, turning their potential into a shameless groveling and surrender.

Fear?
Yes it is present in all of us.
how could it not be, when one faces reality outside the sheltering confines of his comfort zones?
But fear can break you, make you bow, turn you into a jaded infant, forever suckling materialism and hedonism’s milk, or it can cultivate care, thoughtfulness, attention …nobility.

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Words not used as tools; symbols, referring to actions, (inter)actions (Flux), comparisons (value judgments) - phenomena.
Words used as referents to vague, generalized, abstractions, in dictionaries; words are communication devices for emotional states, and personal perspectives.
Words used to detach from the perceived (real), so as to then (re)attach them back to human abstractions.
Words to defer to authorities, expressing shared needs and hopes; those who comfort or distract, or detach the word from the active, from the perceived.
Words referring and deferring to human artifices.

Words not as art-form, as symbols, trying to represent the real, trying to bridge the distance between the noumenon and the phenomenon, but words trying to increase this distance, to create crevices of cynical indifference.

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Imagination detaching from reality becomes fantasy.
A fantasy is a mental construct with very little reference to the perceived, to the phenomenon, to sensual experience.
A fantasy - the fantastic - is unhindered by the real because it need not adhere to it. It is “liberated” from reality, from the determined. It draws data, sensual experiences, from it only to construct caricatures, the inapplicable, the nonsensical, through combinations.
It’s motive is not to remain attached to reality but to break free from what is despised …to construct, a mental model (abstraction), a noumenal universe, within which it can escape.

Imagination used as a tool for projecting into the beyond, the future, an alternative reality as a replacement of the present, the perceived, the past determined in a presence.
Fantasy is the realm of the Modern.
His existence is governed by the fantastic. He is driven to rise up to its standard, and when he ails, as he always does, He feels degraded. His only shame, his only guilt, is found in not living up to his own projections of the fantastic, as this has been constructed using social artifices.

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The word, as a symbol of the mental model (abstraction), the noumenon, must be detached form reality, and all attempts to reattach it must be resisted, condemned, accused of fascism, bigotry, silenced using emotional, sexual, and social methods.
Instead of describing, representing, referring, to the perceived, the word must be made mystical, magical, mysterious, divine.
It must hint at spirituality, the sacred, the beyond or the immanent.

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The individual must be stripped (cleansed) from all its past (nature).
It must be castrated (circumcised, emasculated), detached (aloofness), made fearless, careless (naive cynicism), freed from its history (forgetful), free from any duty towards its own ancestry (carefree, modern individuality).

The baptismal rite, a ceremonial drowning, is replaced by education: institutionalized cleansing, resulting in a mental tabula rasa (brainwashing).
Awareness is thwarted with emotion (shame, fear, guilt).

All identifiers derived form perception, from the past, from genes, are to be discredited.
The empty void left in the psyche will be filled in with the immediate, the current, the modern …the social standards of the time and place.
A modern can be found in the deserts of the Sahara just as much as he can be found on the streets of Manhattan.
a modern is he who is totally contained by the space/time, the immediate.
Modern is a temporal designation - it defines the mind which has a shallow perceptual-event-horizon, a mind completely dependent on the present, the immediate, for its standards in evaluating and judging and identifying.

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A modern nihilist is a mind who expects the world to provide him with what he most needs, with what he is desperate for.
Unable to draw inspiration form himself (his past being forgotten, denied, rejected), he expects, like a child would from a parent, that the world provide him with meaning, purpose, morality, and a goal.
finding none he calls this “negative” and so defines reality as the negative, and all who describe it as it is as pessimists, and nihilists.

When he rejects the reality before him, it is he, this infantile modern, who presents himself as the true nihilist, for he negates what is right before him, and expects what is nowhere in evidence, as his “right”.

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Schizophrenia is a natural consequence of modernity, and its underlying nihilism.
The mind must harmonize its nature, its inherited past, with the current, the immediate.
The larger the disparity between the two the more difficult the task becomes. At the extreme, such as the contradiction of the real by the ideal, as is found in nihilism, the harmonization becomes impossible, resulting in an internal rift …a schism, that applies different standards within different contexts and does not attempt to integrate them into a whole but keeps them detached, separated, compartmentalized.

Narcissism can only follow from this sheltering, schism.
The mind having little experience with the real which is kept at a distance and selectively engaged, and being shamed into stripping itself of all natural identifiers, overcompensate for this untested self-love with an obsessive, blind, self-involvement.
It inflates itself to proportions that will fill in the gap in their connection to reality and their past, exaggerating the immediate manifestation of this past, while remaining cynical and selectively ignorant, about anything unflattering.

Given that the modern has no inspiration, no pride, to draw from in his heritage, he settles for the immediate, inflating this absence with exaggerated, hypocritical, gestures, words, declarations.
A materialism loses himself in the things he purchases and surrounds himself with to fill in this void in self; the hedonist distracts himself with animal pleasures that remain forever unsatisfied - he distracts himself from the void using the endorphin rushes as a natural inebriating mechanism soothing his internal fragmentation, and distracting him from his hidden self-loathing.

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Organism

The phenomenon that self-organizes, that is characterized by an organization, a towards ordering.

The organs are not tools, in the sense that a screwdriver or an automobile are tools, they are extensions of the organism’s increasing towards.
The organ (eye, stomach, penis/vagina, ear etc.) are extensions of the organisms increasing willfulness.
They evolve with a purpose, in that they slowly select the attributes required by the organism which offer it an advantage. The advantage, is temporal, and it cannot be erased from the organ, simply because it has lost this advantage within a man-made environment.
An organ that has lost its utility, begins to atrophy, slowly evolving out of the organism’s organization.

Techniques and technologies are tools that may take over the roles the organs evolved to play.
The new role, if the organ is given one within a different environment, or a manmade one, will alter the organ’s role, naturally evolving the attributes to satisfy this new role.

Sense organs are extension of the organism’s neurological system, with the brain as the hub.
They evolve gradually, starting as cells that can perceive interactivity. If this sensation is advantageous, it develops further sensitivity.
That which stimulates it, activating its role, also acts as a friction, forcing it to heal stronger, and to increase.
The initial role it plays may, in time, develop peripheral utilities, in this way establishing the sense organ within the organism’s nature.

For example, the urethra evolved to vacate toxic liquids form the organisms’ internal structures.
Later it evolved the added role of transferring genetic material into the other organism.
Then this utility evolved added functions concerning interpersonal interactions.

All organs, all predispositions can be traced back to a primordial, original utility.

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Flux = Multi-directional interactivity.
What we call reality, the world, is both an ordering and a disordering.
We must close the circle so as to conceptualize the world as a singularity.

Fluidity = a linear perception of Flux, where entropy is increasing - a towards increasing randomness, chaos.

Chaos = an incomplete absence of patterns.
This absence of order can be misconstrued as a liberation from the necessity of ordering. Chaos, or absolute randomness, is another way of describing infinite possibility, infinite space/time.
It is a contradiction of all ordering, such as life, and consciousness.

Pattern = a repeating, predictable, reliable, interactivity - order(ing).

Past = a looking back towards near-absolute order.
Past is nature.

Nature = sum of all nurturing in the past.

Future = a projection forward, towards increasing chaos, either reflecting or contradicting the past.

Imagination = the combination of previous experiences/knowledge, data, into possibilities which are founded on the past, and their projection forward as probabilities.
Imagination uses the past to formulate a probability which is feasible, to a degree.
This probability is the object/objective.
Fantasy = the combination of previous experiences/knowledge, data, into possibilities which are not founded on the past, and their projection forward as probabilities.
Imagination uses the past to formulate a probability which is not feasible, to a degree.
This improbability is the object/objective.
Fantasy is a term used to define a projection which is less probable, in that it does not sample the past but combines it in unrealistic, fantastic models.
When this combination takes the form of a reversal, the inversion of the experienced/known, then the projected object/objective is called Nihilistic.

Consciousness = a looking back where the brain having gathered sensual data combines it with stored data (memory), and sensual data gathered, via a neural network, from internal, organ interactions, cellular relationships, balances.
The further back a brain looks to sample experiences/knowledge the further ahead it can then use the models, it constructs with the data, to project probabilities.
Self-Consciousness = a looking back upon one’s own looking back. An evaluation of one’s evaluating.
Because consciousness necessities a time period for processing data, self-consciousness adds to this processing period, depending no the brain’s processing speeds. This period of processing can result in reluctance, procrastination.

Intuition/Instinct = Consciousness reacting within an environment automatically.
This, more primal form of interactivity is the most efficient, as no self-consciousnesses, or even any great degree of consciousnesses needs to be involved.
The organism is directed by genetically established programmed responses to stimuli.
Consciousness is involved as mere sensation, emotion, where no understanding is required.
The organism acts and then, after the fact, analyzes its own actions. It is pure, animal, consciousness where stimuli produce a action without engaging the higher faculties.

Object/Objective = the projected idea(l) used by the brain (Will) to orient and direct energies.
It can take any form, since the object/objective, is a human fabrication (simplification, generalization), of the absolute which is always absent.
Some words used to symbolize variations of the object/objective - God, Self, Freedom, Power, Here, Now, I, One, Nil, Chaos, Order…and so on.
If the words, the codes, the symbols, are taken literally, as absolute points in space/time, then they are projections of an object/objective which negates the flux.
If they are taken artistically, figuratively, symbolically, representationally, then they become words the inspire, guide, direct the emergent unity’s actions, offering it meaning, purpose, an ideal to strive towards which characterizes it.

Nihilism = any object/objective which describes, or promises, an end to flux/fluidity - a teleos, an end.
A projection of the absent absolute taken literally as an existence which contradicts existence.
The easiest way such constructs are produced in a brain dependent on dualisms, binary methods, is inversion.
The brain takes the existent dynamic, fluid, phenomenon, which has been simplified/generalized into a static, thing, as a given…or it flips it on its head where the given is used to imagine/fantasize, about its reverse.
Ergo death becomes life…weakness becomes strength…ignorance becomes gnosis…the determined becomes choice.
In the last case the determined (immutable past), becomes choice, as a projection into the immanent future, where the choice is detached from the past…liberating it, as it were from the past/nature, and reality as well.
It confuses its own abstractions of the phenomenon, the noumenon, for the phenomenon itself.
Because the noumenon is malleable, as it is a construct of the very organ that can then alter it in whatever way satisfies its needs, it offers the sense of freedom, of power, of a will detached from all contingencies - pure fantasy. this condition results in culling, since the world cares not for human contrivances if they do not offer a survival advantage, unless the organism, and the brain serving its needs, is protected, sheltered, from thew world by an intervening will.

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Chaos, is a state of increasing randomness.
In relation to the ordering mind there are two types of chaos: the type which is the product of complexity, where the patterns are too complex and/or subtle to be perceived by a brain that needs patterns to interpret sensually, and the chaos which is pure, in that it is the absence of patterns, and so it cannot be perceived at all.

Randomness (chaos), of both kinds, is the natural consequence of Flux, as patterns of fluidity interact, some energy is lost in this interaction, thusly increasing interactivity.
Some of the lost, by the patterns, energies retain a pattern of activity (a median point of fluidity between the interacting flows that produced it, whereas others become random activities).
Ordering interacts with ordering, and/or with energies randomly active and in the interaction friction is produced…this energy is released as a free-radical, and this accumulated lost energy, due to ordering interacting increases entropy.
The tendency is towards a uniformity of energy, where all is veering towards the infinitely possible, and probabilities subside, as probability is another word for pattern (ordering) - the universe tending towards a cold state (decreasing energy).
This direction towards decreasing interactivity is the linear direction we measure by time.
Need/Suffering is how we sense it, not having to understand it to feel it on our self-maintaining emergent unity.

As it pertains to a self-organizing unity, such as an organism, ordering requires constant energy/effort…whereas its demise requires no effort/energy to be directed, focused.
One can remain inactive and suffer a return to the Flux, whereas one requires constant effort to remain a emergent unity, an organism, resisting the Flux.

This reaction/resistance to the Flux, is the effort required to maintain a pattern, a cohesion, in a world of entropy.
The past is always a reference to more order, an the future a reference to a decrease in order.
Neither absolute is ever attained, and so the process is continuous.

Dying does not require effort/energy…darkness, as a lower degree of Flux, increases with no effort.
The effort, energy expended is due to a pattern, a form of ordering which is (inter)acting.
As time/space increases the level of interactivity diminishes.

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To use the term “effort” is to imply energy directed towards.
Interactivity requires no effort, it is what existence is defined as.
To direct energies one would have to Will.
Will is only a result of a sophisticated form of ordering.

To suppose that Will is willing itself, or that it preexists the world, is to fall back on the Judeo-Christian position.
Willing, as a focus of aggregate energies towards an object/objective, is an effort, a striving towards, implying a lack in what is being willed.
One does not will what one already possesses or is; one wills, and directs itself in effort towards what one lacks partially, and in degree.

To Will is to need, want, desire…direct one’s efforts, one’s energies, towards an object/objective: idea(l), self, god, life, power.
There is no willing outside organic life, there is only (inter)acting.

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The conception of time, as in linear, is a towards increasing randomness.
To assume that in the randomness an order exists is an act of faith.
Randomness is the antithesis of patterns, and so increasing randomness (chaos) is the absence of patterns (order).
The possibility that man perceives complexity as random does not negate randomness as the definition of entropy, it simply exposes man to his own limitations, forcing him to take care when he is seeking patterns.
The more sophisticated the mind, the more patterns in the complex it will perceptive, but in the random no patterns exist, by definition, and so no patterns can ever be perceived - ergo increasing darkness tending towards absolute chaos, but never attaining it.

In the linear direction of towards entropy, within which life can emerge as a (re)action/resistance, order fragments or disorders, and so all ordering, when it emerges spontaneously, entails the destruction of preexisting order - as in the past - whereas chaos increases as a result of this ordering.
What ordering emerges is ephemeral and is immediately under stress, faced with the fragmenting and/or disordering attrition of (inter)activity.
If it were not so then men would just as likely be immortal than be mortal, and death would not be something a living organism would have to deal with, nor would self-maintenance, under the stress of temporal attrition, be a factor.

One would expect that as time distances from the near-absolute singularity (order), which we call the Big Bang, any spontaneous emergence of order will decline, as they are echos of this event.

Ordering requires ordering to sustain itself, by assimilating it.
The random cannot be perceived and so cannot be assimilated.

Randomness, on the other hand, requires no order, in fact it negates it as a product of its randomness.

The cyclical nature of time,a s it has been conceptualized in many traditions, and philosophies, is the result of man’s need to abstract, to complete, to create absolutes.
If there is a rational reason for the idea of cyclical time then it is in the fact that increasing randomness, tending towards absolute randomness (chaos, infinite space/time) also means that a near-absolute singularity becomes inevitable…and so a new beginning, so to speak, is guaranteed by the vary randomness it then tends towards.

We have to keep in mind that by order we mean diminished possibilities an absolute probability (certainty), a one dimensional point with no space and no time…as an absolute conception.
Order always means less possibility, more predictability…because that is what a pattern is.

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—Nihilism, the word referring to a concept, is detached from its most popular usage as a philosophical idea dealing with the absence of morals or a teleos, or a universal meaning.
I submit the idea that the term must be rescued form the very nihilism it has been hijacked by to imply the opposite of what it intends.
In this case nihilism refers to a human construct, an ideal, an abstraction, which finding no corresponding reference outside human minds, calls this a nil.

I redefine nihilism as that which rejects what is perceived, what is experienced, what is past(nature), and not what rejects human constructs trying to fill a void, based no need.

If the absolute is absent then reaffirming this is not nihilism, but a reaffirmation of existence, offering potentials for creativity, for becoming.
If there is no universal moral standard, outside of evolved social behavioural necessities, and no universal meaning, outside the delusions of religious fanatics, and infected, by nihilism, secular humanists seeking comforting, then this positive reaffirmation of the absent is, in fact, not a nullification but a position opening up possibilities: space/time.

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The word “nihilism” simply means to annul, or it is a doctrine of annulling, negating.

In modern times it is only used to indicate a negation of human constructs, which have no reference to anything outside the human condition.
In other words those who negate existence, as being just that, void of meaning, a finality, a moral standard, a universal, absolute, have twisted the word to mean a positive, simply because it is positive to human needs.
The insinuation here is that reality must be positively inclined towards human life, and not that human life stands in a state of antagonism, resistance, to a reality which also gives rise to life.

This reversal of meanings is typical of nihilism and its methodologies.
Not only was the “word” first, in this self-serving paradigm, but humans are the centre of existence, which must conform to human needs, hopes, and projections.
The organism, in this case the human species, is not burdened with adapting to the world, but the world must adapt to human constructs, defined and symbolized with words.

Language has one function: to symbolize a mental abstraction.
A mental abstraction, an idea, being the product of sensual data, collected and processed by the brain, and then simplified/generalized, into an image, at first in its most primitive form, or a concept, attaining the height of a numerical value.

This is where it can acquire a secondary function:
To detach, dismiss, avoid, correct, detach, from the sensual input used to construct it.
This is solipsism at is rawest form. A self-reference begins, as the word, symbolizing an abstraction, can now be looped back to refer to another abstraction.
The real, collected as input, and interpreted (simplified/generalized) as mental-models (abstractions), falls into the background.
Baudrillard refers to this process as a simlacrum of a simualation.
I go further and connect it all the sway back to the Bible, and its obsession with the word.
It’s not that there is a God (an absent absolute, referring to an absolute order, a complete past), but that with the bible the word IS God.

The word is authoritarian because it demands total obedience to its shared definition.
It is determining because ti shapes and limits human thinking.
It demands loyalty because the sensual must be denied power - it is cast as the Devil.
The word is malleable and so it is comforting, it offers salvation from the real, to minds who must escape their past/nature.

The only possibility for eliminating the sensual, the experienced, the perceived, is to shame it, turning it into a “sin,” or, like in the east, into an “illusion.”
It’s not that the word fails to adequately describe the real, but that the real is totally false, leaving the word in the void.

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Orwell hints, to us, what we need to know.

Orwell, George wrote:
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

The first quote hints at the contradictions produced by nihilism.
The word, taken literally, rather than figuratively, creates this schism between the noetic and phenomena.

To deal with it the mind compartmentalizes its standards for evaluating what is real and what is not.
This creates the rift, a schisms, which I consider a natural byproduct of modernity.

Orwell, George wrote:
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

The second quote hints at the reversibility of human constructs, since they are now detached form the anchoring, determining, sensual, and become self-referential, and based on human emotional reactions and fabrications, and desires.
With the concept of war, the idea that all life is an agon, a struggle, a battle, a fight, against dissimulation is not explored.
It is posited as only a human practice, making peace a concept promising relief from existential struggles.
the only peace, is death - one “rests in peace” only when the struggle to remain alive is done with.
But now, with the word detached from reality, it becomes an idea(l) implying, with vagueness, what is nowhere in evidence: a state of living death; to be alive and at peace, at the same time.
A paradox resolves with selective reasoning or compartmentalization.

Orwell, George wrote:
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

In this third, and last, quote, we find a hint at the power of the word.
Once the past has been forgotten, denied, or reinterpreted, by detaching it from experience and connecting it to mental constructs and emotional sensations, the work of human husbandry is almost done.
What remains is to rip identification from perception, so as to reattach it, to human artifices.
This is difficult since the organism, in this case the human being, is a becoming, and most of its processes are unconscious, automatic; one can erase human conscious memory but not genetic memory.

The word, by limiting human conception to the immediate, detaching it from reality, is part of the solution.
Shame, indoctrination, morality, also contribute is slandering self, and turning ego into a vice.

The rest is dealt with using inebriation, and distraction: fatigue (excessive work), sexual obsession (preoccupation with the sex organ), and numbing methods (drugs, alcohol, religion).

If you consider it carefully then an organism , on the conscious level of a human, with a still developing identity (self-consciousness) would have to be deconstructed, detached from reality, from nature (past), and refocused upon the immanent, the yet to be, the still to come, the future.

This refocusing, after the mind has been detached from its own past, is how a SuperOrganism would assimilate and integrate, an organism, like the human organism does with the simpler life-form, the cell.
The term “brainwashing” describes this cleansing, this socially produced tabula rasa, which we can associate with the detachment of a mind from itself…its own spirit.

Spirit is defined not as something mystical, but as the past which manifests as a presence.

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Nihilism, the constructs of nihilistic rejection of reality, now occupy both sides of the binary, dualistic, system.
On the one side the absolute One, and on the other the absolute Nil , but both presenting a variant of the same absent absolute which would end existence.
This gives the impression that a debate, a dialogue is occurring, between opposites, when, in fact, it is an internal struggle over which form of nullification will dominate.
And we witness this in many areas of human discourse, including politics and its spectrum of right/left.
As things stand, the difference between left and right are conflicts over method, rather than substance.
In the west the supposed conflict hides the fact that both sides agree on the fundamental binding principles of production and consuming, and on the “democratic” experiment.
In the U.S. there is only a superficial difference between Democrats and Republicans, and as modernity takes hold of the hearts and minds of the population this “conflict” will become more superficial than substantial.

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For the average modern nihilist, desperate to live in the “safety” of pretend uniformity, a small sameness suffices to build an empire of unity, in one case, while in another a small difference suffices to ignore diversity.
He is not interested in how specialized roles come about, why they are necessary, and how this expresses itself within different species - some who are simple and others more complex, some who live in more challenging environments and others who do not.

Sheltering adds to decreasing diversity as the roles played become obsolete when there is a will there taking on the roles specialization evolved to occupy.
Despite that, a look into the past, and how in all fields one sex dominates, particularly in the areas of creativity outside the box, pushing the boundaries, exploring new genetic and mimetic spaces, reveals the reason why.

That one sex evolved to challenge authority would also just happen to dominate human creativity could only be attributed to chance or dominance (putting the horse before the cart) by those too afraid to deal with the reality of the situation.

That this uniformity and decreasing sexual dimorphism would also be accompanied by a decline in creativity - see china - such as occurring in our modern times, should also not be considered a product of chance.
It is a symptom of masculine decline.

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Satyr? Is that you?

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It was.