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The majority of people have a strong tendency to want to be part of something that is bigger than themselves. It is why they not just get up in the morning, but why they are *energized* to get up in the morning.

Clans and religions were among the earliest bigger things. People know that they will die, and so they invest into their descendants, honor their ancestors, and contemplate metaphysics and the nature of life. Many people will willingly sacrifice themselves for their children or for their highest ideals because of this.

In the modern era of printing presses and telecommunication systems, there is also a broader set of choices for people to group together around, either combined with those other ones or sometimes instead of them. Sometimes they choose nationalism. Sometimes they fight for a political ideology that transcends borders. Sometimes it is a professional guild or professional recognition. Sometimes it is the environment. Right or left or anywhere in between, you can often tell what someone adheres to as their highest ideal.

A powerful exercise is to 1) identify what you feel a part of in the bigger sense (it could be a few things) and 2) whenever someone’s behavior confuses you, stop and think about what they likely feel a part of in a bigger sense, if anything. You might feel that what they associate with is fucking retarded, but if you can at least identify it, then that is the first step toward successful communication and debate and rebuttal.

Using myself as an example, my professional experience is in a combination of engineering and finance. Separately, my ethical philosophy is grounded in virtue ethics (that’s a whole other longwinded topic), and as a result, what I feel a part of in a bigger sense is various social movements and protocols that utilize technology to bring financial autonomy to people. That’s where I put my time and capital toward.

Successful commerce involves the combination of value and communication. Therefore, I want people to be able to communicate freely and transfer value freely. As such, I strongly associate with the leading technologies in those fields, such as Bitcoin and Nostr.

If I thought they were weak, I would sympathize with them but not invest in them or have much hope for them. That was my view for a while. But if I view them as technically capable and achieving of network effects, then my rationality combines with my sympathy and becomes full support.

I don’t care what peoples’ race, sex, orientation, ethnicity, or nationality is. Instead, what I care about is doing whatever tiny part I can to bring technologies to people that allow them to transfer value and information to others, or to educate people on those technologies, etc. That is where my time and capital is focused on. Outside of family, that is what makes me energized in the morning to work toward.

What is yours?

Well unfortunately race (dna pools) matters a lot, but that aside consider this...... what's happening now is a new situation in all of human history but with some echoes of the past

All organized human groups require a narrative to keep them stable, typically this was done with a religion, religion is basically a narrative perpetuation system, now religion and media compete for this role, it's notable that LGBTQism is merging with religion in the west to some extent

All organized human groups have natural and/or narrative enforced hierarchies

Hierarchies require more violence to enforce the less of a natural meritocracy they are as that makes them more unjust

Races and countries can also have unifying narratives

If you have race, religion and country all aligned then you have a very strong and stable situation for as long as it holds

The holding of the narrative and thus the group together requires narrative control, typically this is done by the elite class in any group

Typically narratives support an elite group that act as parasites on lower groups typically by causing division by implying one lower group is exploiting the other as a distraction from the elite group who's actually exploiting all lower groups and the more the narrative drifts from the truth the greater the exploitation. These systems can stack in tree form so the elite in one country and still be the bitches of a greater outside force

Now what's happened in simple terms is these narratives have all been shattered by the internet as top down narrative control has become impossible. We're now trying to form, organically, an objective reality/truth based global narrative and all hell is breaking loose

Whoever is a the top of the narrative tree knows this, maybe whoever is at the top of subordinate narrative trees feels the same, this would explain why the likes of prince Charles for example is going against England's narrative because it was mostly a lie anyway. We all thought the royals loved all their subjects when in fact they stole all their land and allowed the entire country to become hocked up to global bankers

99.9+% of history is just missing totally and what's left is doctored into narrative to suit elites

Science has drifted more from truth or best guess to just fabricated narrative in many fields

Many if not all major institutions started out as or drifted into fabricated narrative

Most people can't live outside of narrative control because it's too psychologically painful or they simply have a material interest in complying. The ones that find it too painful have reactions ranging from inability to form logical conclusions based on hard evidence to full on identity disassociation disorders leading to some level of psychosis, your typical blue haired SJW type is this.

Many ordinary working folk see through a lot of this even though they might not be able to put the whole picture together as their normal days activities involve multiple clashes with the narrative so they feel something is wrong even if they can't finger it and they simply don't have the months or even years of rumination time to put all the pieces together like this.

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Certainly! Here are up to 50 concise points from Smedley Butler's "War is a Racket," along with the logic behind them:

War is often driven by economic interests rather than noble causes.

The profits of war are concentrated in the hands of a few.

Many wars are fought to protect and expand corporate interests.

The military-industrial complex promotes and benefits from war.

War leads to the destruction of lives and property.

The costs of war are often borne by the poor and working class.

War is a tool used by the wealthy to maintain power and control.

Politicians and corporations profit from war at the expense of the public.

The military is often used to advance the interests of corporations.

The true costs of war are hidden from the public.

War is glorified and romanticized to justify its horrors.

War creates a cycle of violence and destruction.

The arms industry profits from selling weapons of war.

War leads to the concentration of wealth and power.

War diverts resources from social welfare programs.

The propaganda of war is used to manipulate public opinion.

War enriches the few at the expense of the many.

War is a means of exerting control over other nations.

The military-industrial complex perpetuates a culture of war.

War is used to distract from domestic issues.

The true motives behind wars are often hidden from the public.

War leads to the erosion of civil liberties.

The military-industrial complex perpetuates a cycle of war and profit.

War leads to the displacement and suffering of civilians.

The financial costs of war are staggering.

War enriches corporations that profit from reconstruction efforts.

The military-industrial complex influences foreign policy decisions.

War creates a culture of fear and violence.

The true beneficiaries of war are not those who fight it.

War perpetuates a cycle of violence and revenge.

The arms race fuels the profits of the military-industrial complex.

War is used to justify the expansion of military power.

War leads to the destruction of communities and cultures.

The human costs of war are immeasurable.

War creates a climate of insecurity and instability.

The military-industrial complex undermines democracy.

War is used to justify the erosion of civil liberties.

The arms industry profits from selling arms to both sides of conflicts.

War is used to justify the suppression of dissent.

The military-industrial complex perpetuates a cycle of war and profit.

War is used to justify the expansion of military bases.

War leads to the militarization of society.

The true costs of war are often hidden from the public.

War is used to justify the concentration of power in the hands of a few.

The military-industrial complex profits from the perpetuation of war.

War leads to the destruction of natural resources.

The arms industry profits from selling arms to oppressive regimes.

War is used to justify the expansion of military budgets.

The true motives behind wars are often disguised as noble causes.

War is a racket that enriches the few at the expense of the many.

These points reflect Butler's critique of war as a profitable enterprise that benefits a small elite while causing immense harm to society as a whole.