Ichthus77
August 17, 2025, 5:34pm
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Lollipop_King:
The levelling of man continues.
Centuries of social engineering and “civilization” have led to a type of human being unlike our ancestor and, still to this day, socialization persists to filter out all the “unwanted” human characteristics, altering, in this way, human nature and degenerating, in my opinion, the human spirit into indistinct oblivion.
How do we know what is voluntary alignment with human nature/spirit, and what is a divergence from it, unless we can define that nature/spirit/capacity/function/essence?
Take elephants, for example. When the males are poached, do the young males become more male-elephant like, or less? What does feminization mean in that context?
Related:
Creatively recognizing consent in every context is our essence that requires choice. It’s an interesting juxtaposition because it pigeonholes us … into choosing. Choice is baked in to personhood. That’s not a Catch-22 like Sartre made it sound when he said we are condemned (it is our essence) to be free… so either way, it’s bad faith if we choose (because it implies we are punting back to our essence). He was as confused as Ayn Rand when she called selfishness a virtue and said it was selfish to find joy in mutually making the other greater and ourselves less in mutual consent recognition (altruism).
And yet, instead of exponentially multiplying or iterating that value, we try to capitalize on the human to the point we feel comfortable, zero unease, talking about human resources and human capital. And that is the swamp we fester in if we even make it out of the womb without our parts being auctioned off to the highest bidder…for science.
Only losers “have to” cheat.