An underappreciated aspect of human society is that humans in large communities need a set of common beliefs. Large society in this context means anything larger than the Dunbar number. Once you get to that number, law codes and a way to enforce them are a necessity. One tool to do this is a common set of beliefs held by most of the members. This provides a mechanism for those rules to become a habit of mind, a shared reality we would think of as culture.
A simple example of this is a taboo against an activity. Let’s say a poisonous berry grows in a part of the forest. The people may develop a taboo about eating anything or even entering that part of the forest. Perhaps they evolve a legend about one of their gods cursing the place or prohibiting people from entering it. Once enough people believe this, it becomes part of the law code of society and it is enforced by collective action against those who break the taboo about entering that area.
It is a crude example, but we have many such examples in the modern day that are not much different from that crude example. For example, Americans remain convinced that eating fat will anger the health gods. There is no science behind the Standard American Diet, but most Americans accept it as true. They don’t think about it. It is just part of the shared beliefs they grew up with and live within, so they accept it as true. We accept all sorts of behavior and environmental nonsense on faith.
Now, it should be noted that the shared beliefs do not have to be accepted by everyone in a society for them to work. Going back to our sacred bit of the forest example, it is not necessary that everyone accept the myth. It just has to be a critical mass that accept it and is willing to act on it. Unless there is an equally compelling reason to resist the myth and the reason is held by a sufficient number of people, a minority belief will become the majority belief in practice, if not spirit.
It is not too hard to find examples of this form of minoritarianism. American history is riddled with causes that were championed by a minority. The proliferating set of taboos related to the Covid beliefs held by the ruling class are a great example. A tiny number of people, relative to the population, deeply believes in these Covid taboos, so they have launched a crusade against Covid. America looks like a weird Muslim country now, because lots of people joined this new belief.
That is another aspect of shared belief. It appears that another prerequisite for large human society is a sense of shared purpose. The answer to why we are here and what is the purpose of our lives is answered within that shared set of beliefs. “My life has meaning because I am part of this great cause of my people” is a highly efficient way of enforcing group behavior. The best rules are those eagerly enforced by a set of true believers whose purpose in life is to enforce compliance.
Move backward through popular politics in America and you see one holy crusade after another driving the political debate. Today it is driven by Covidians. Before that it was driven by white liberals thinking Obama was Jesus. Before that it was driven by the war on terrorism. When the Baby Boomers had kids in school the crusade was to fix the schools so everyone could be educated. Go back further and we had a war on drugs and, of course, the great crusade against the evils of communism.
American history has been one crusade after another. The great battle between good whites and bad whites exists because it fills that need for a purpose. In the albescence of some external foe, the good whites keep their crusading skills sharp by going to war with the bad whites over some moral cause. This not only gives purpose to their lives, but it also reinforces those shared beliefs about who they are and why they exist. The reaction from the bad whites serves much the same purpose.
If you observe the Covidians for a bit, you see this need for purpose. The HBD community, for example, rushed to be the early adopters of the new faith, sensing it was a way back into the community of the respectable. It was not a conscious decision on their part. They did not vote on their secret e-mail list to become Covidians. It was the result of a shared desire to be rehabilitated and restored to polite society, along with the general sense that their purpose in life is to inform the rulers on the human sciences.
The same can be said for the women volunteering to be the mask police in every community in America. The natural role of women has been so reduced in status that this artificial role of Covidian den mother has become highly appealing. Mothers have been far less emotional about things like mask wearing and social distancing than the army of unattached, childless females. The reason is they have kids to scratch that maternal itch, so being a Covidian den mother has little appeal.
The fact is, human societies need shared beliefs. One aspect of that shared belief is a shared purpose. Most people, certainly not all, need that space labeled “purpose” to be filled by society. This is especially true of childless females. It is also true for males with no male role to play. Stripped of natural sex roles, this need for purpose is filled with causes that give purpose to life. The people wearing masks in their cars are not sheep following orders. They are believers looking for a god.
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Covid is a religion. Maybe thats the way to unite a non-society like those living in the borders of these United States….
Yes, perhaps this can be the basis of a new belief system replete with holidays: Merry Chrismask!
On a more serious note it has united a certain bunch of people. They can’t get enough of ‘the covids’.
If it our masters want to keep Covid going, there is plenty of Z’s mask den-mothers to enforce. Its possible , there will really never be a return to normal life, maybe, but maybe not!
My strategic political thinking is that turning men against these kinds of women would be something to unite men across all races, except (((them))) of course who have muh matriarchy
The unmarried, childless Den Mothers are too psychologically damaged to continue any endeavor. Excuse the crudity, but all of them are just one good horsefucking away from following a new guru. The poor guru soon learns mentally deranged followers become stalkers.
I have a conversation with someone yesterday who started talking about tents that were full and people on ventilators. I honestly did not know what she was talking about but I don’t watch the news or anything and all I said was I can’t trust the media, she agreed, and what I see around me is zero deaths. She was sad she couldn’t get the vaccine right away
zero deaths You’re clearly ignorant. Covid has chalked up huge numbers of fatalities. I am reminded of the decorator who slipped off his ladder and broke his neck due to Covid. Furthermore, it is a well known fact that Major General Charles Gordon, was speared to death during his last stand at Khartoum, due to Covid. I jest, of course. Yeah, nowadays, whenever someone in ‘real life’ speaks about Covid, I just nod and occasionally ask a question or two. Then go on my way. I know what my eyes tell me, and they tell me I am being scammed.… Read more »
Or a woman I saw interviewed that flatly stated that when her elderly father had a fatal heart attack in their home that the death would be classified as COVID since all bills would be covered and none left to his estate. Otherwise they would be on the hook for whatever Medicare did not cover in ICU in the 24 hours it took him to expire.
Saw a piece on the news this morning about number of hospitalizations here in NY for COVID. Only 10% of the peak number and mortality is confined to the very old and/or those with severe co-mobidities. But this has morphed from “flatten the curve” to “control society”. Cuomo almost sounded disappointed that he’s going to be shipped more vaccine than they can administer. Am sure he has a task force working on a “four corners” strategy to slow it down.
One of many alternative beliefs offered up by the Left. A raceless society. Mother Gaia. A nation-less future. I f**king love science. All forms of human coupling is stunning and brave. Sacrifice your future offspring to fight overpopulation. Slut walk. Etc. None of these beliefs have to be coherent. They can even be counter to each other. Their purpose is to weaponize against the traditional: Destroy the Before to make the new and glorious After. Utopia must be achieved on a level ground of ashes. Their Covid is a lovely weapon. With a somber (masked) angelic face of a protective… Read more »
Contradictions are rapidly accommodated. To cite one example, to adjust for Anti-Racism, Climate Change had to embrace mass migration despite the obvious environmental degradation that ensues. It is, in part, why outdoors activities now are criticized. Can’t have White folks enjoying nature when it might impede their Great Replacement.
“The same can be said for the women volunteering to be the mask police in every community in America. The natural role of women has been so reduced in status that this artificial role of Covidian den mother has become highly appealing.”
After decades of trying to figure out exactly what is destroying the Western world, I have come to the conclusion that the most devastating blow to a normal reasonable thriving culture in the West was extending the franchise to women and encouraging them to find their fulfillment outside the family.
Yes we live in a matriarchy. I’ve had this patriarchy/matriarchy debate with women a lot over the past couple of years. Where they tend to win is that they state (I live in the UK) that something like 95% of rape accusations never get to court. Therefore patriarchy. Now, I have a very good friend who has spent 20 years as a detective in the metropolitan police – 8 years of that dealing with rape victims. I was drinking with him the other day and asked him about that stat. What I wanted to know was if there was a… Read more »
This corresponds with the religious aspect of these movements, in this case the War on Patriarchy. When we kept statistics, the most falsely reported crime, and there wasn’t even a close second, was rape. The FBI once compiled detailed statistics on falsely reported crimes, and then certain aspects were de-emphasized. Guess which ones. Police used to be circumspect in investigating rape claims and now, as a matter of policy, believe all women. The gods demand belief despite a rich history of deception and lies and thousands of years of recorded history What your friend described is highly amusing because the… Read more »
good rule of thumb is whether a tribe refers to the ancestral homeland as a fatherland vs a motherland
So they are not raping anyone of consequence. Now I am not so bothered anymore.
On. The. Nose. Women ruling men, having a marriage be a political battleground is a disaster for a culture/ society. I blame all of our problems on women’s suffrage
movies sure didn’t help in their glorification of the sexuality of women. Putting god-size beauties on a screen the size of a barn has had its consequences
universal suffrage in general is a mistake.
ISTM that society began to fall apart when women entered the labor market work force in mass numbers. Ironically, that first happened in WWII. The “women’s” movement and permanent move of women to the labor force was driven by lesbians in the late 50s and on who looked back with nostalgia on WWII, and had no maternal instinct.
and the irony is that even with women working no one can afford a house for the most part
If all of a sudden women left the work force the wages of men would double to compensate for the lost income but then you’d save a ton on daycare, education, food
Win win
The natural boundaries of sex roles is a classic example of Chesterton’s fence.
It’s the essence of Satan’s lie, going all the way back to the garden. Our culture has been reinforcing the lie for decades. A good exercise is to read T. Roosevelt’s Mother’s Day speech; today that speech is anathema to the “liberated” female.
Let me again riff off that and add that abortion fanaticism has been lethal
“Covidian den mother”, I’m gonna steal it.
I’m thinking almost no one under 40 knows what a “den mother” is.
Weeblo here
I’m not sure about Americans negative views on fat in their diets. Something is making us all plus size. I see no aversion.
You talk of one crusade after another looking for a cause explaining on how we got here and why the crazy reaction to covid. Europe is just as totalitarian now and as easily compliant to dictatorial orders. Lack of a traditional faithful population marks them as easy prey by despots, large and small. Covid den mother, I like that.
Well, there are the naturally occurring fats and oils in real food, which we’ve always eaten and have been prized in many Western cultures throughout history, and then there are the garbage fats and oils that are in all the processed foods that so many Americans consume daily.
I think you’re right about the fat, David. My diet is shite, and I don’t exercise much. Yes, I am overweight… but hell’s bells, there are people out there that make me look slim. Is it genetics? Or maybe metabolic issues?
forced closure of drinking places has been a godsend for me and many out here in Lockdown City
Excessive carbohydrates make people fat. Fat and protein in your stomach signal your brain that “you’re full”. Carbohydrates don’t. They also trigger insulin spikes and troughs that create a vicious cycle of over consumption.
All of that is probably an adaptive response to times when excessive carbohydrates were only available for a short period of time, followed by a relative scarcity. So our bodies instinctively over consume them when they are available to store fat to be drawn down in the coming lean months,
Except that in the modern world there are no lean months.
Exactly. See my comment above. In fact, elimination of fat from the diet leads people to overeat and become obese.
I must say, David, and I understand the negative votes this may invite, but Covid has been good for me. I save money, don’t drink, lost weight, look great, complexion fresh, do yard work an read to fill the time gaps. And my work hasn’t suffered.
There is little to no correlation between fat intake and obesity. A celery calories has the same effect as a carrot calorie. Also, one of the biggest lies foisted on us involved fat intake and cholesterol levels, to take it further. You literally can eat your body weight in cholesterol-rich food and it will not raise your blood cholesterol level a single digit. Now, if you did eat your body weight in any food, the obesity thing would kick in. The cholesterol lie is a great study in how the old religions are slow to die, too. The complete lack… Read more »
One aspect of that shared belief is a shared purpose. Most people, certainly not all, need that space labeled “purpose” to be filled by society. This is especially true of childless females. It is also true for males with no male role to play. It is remarkable to me, how many ills of society would go away – granted in generations, not days – if these purposeless males and females just had children. That’s all. The family is a shared belief of society, even in these times, it is just that these people cannot, must not, give into the biological… Read more »
No. Kidding,,, and its mostly quite good. Practice, I guess!
“… if these purposeless males and females just had children. That’s all.” Well, let’s not forget that joggers, Musloids, and Appalachian meth-heads have lots of kiddies and that – by itself – doesn’t do much for society. Added to your prescription is the need for government to stop subsidizing unwed motherhood, and the reestablishment of disapproval/shame upon deadbeat males. Then add a plethora of incentives for marriage and disincentives to divorce. I see too many “liberated” females dropping their kids off at day care to think that childbearing, alone, does anything positive for society. Our taboos need to be turned… Read more »
Added to your prescription is the need for government to stop subsidizing unwed motherhood, and the reestablishment of disapproval/shame upon deadbeat males. Then add a plethora of incentives for marriage and disincentives to divorce. Yes, yes and yes. Particularly on the second. I had the ‘day care’ talk with some friends over the weekend. I was heavily outgunned, with most not seeing the harm in dropping the child off in a stranger’s care. As if they had better things to do. I think that people are far too trusting. Perhaps I should have searched for the names of the carers,… Read more »
Generations? I don’t think so. Overnight
Men change overnight when the wife starts smelling of vanilla when she’s knocked up
Yeah, welp… if this shite keeps up, the next Crusaders will be the Boogaloonians.
The masked dodos line up for injections of mystery genes while the annhilators among us plot to destroy the GOP with the stones of their own duplicity.
Santa may deliver hacked document dumps for Christmas that once seen cannot be unseen.
Christmas is going to be lit.
As a Canadian, I am confused. Many of the dissidents say it’s all over and have proclaimed Biden the winner. Others say that there are still bombs to fall and Trump isn’t out yet. I pray they are right. But… which is it? I am all over Alt Tech and there is all kinds of evidence of voter fraud right on video tape with sound, names and faces. If ever I have seen a place for the right to stand and fight, this right here is it. It’s why I get so frustrated with the dissidents walking away from voting.… Read more »
Most Americans do not know how their government works. Once the Electoral College votes, the next step is on January 6th, 2021 when Congress meets to validate the vote. All of the legal wrangling in the courts is now moot. https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/explaining-how-congress-settles-electoral-college-disputes
If only the kakistocracy knew how to code.
Just looking at numbers, bet is the f*ckery was a combo platter of emergent behavior and deliberate fraud. In exactly what proportion, not sure. But tell people that Literally Hitler is in office for four years and they are happy to hand over a blank ballot to a harvester or vote the mail ballot that was forwarded to the new address in a new state. Add in some triple scans of fraudulent ballots and there you go. But the real fun will happen if the folks tracking this down keep going and produce the level of proof needed after Jan.… Read more »
whatever happens, the toll it takes on Biden’s legitimacy is assured
The black hats have a kamikaze mentality. These annhilators will gladly rip the brakes out of the government and burn it to the ground.
No fault divorce has hurt men’s ”purpose”.
Sailer seems to be the best poster child for the HBD community seeking to adopt the beliefs of the ruling class. He fell hard for the coronavirus hoax then somewhat came back to reality with the Summer of Floyd. Now he is steadfastly refusing to see any election fraud in spite of all the statistical impossibilities being something that should be right up his alley.
Curious if Z has any grand thoughts on Sailer
Sailer’s recent “suck it up, take the needle, and let’s get back to normal” article is a bridge too far for me. If 2019 was “normal”, I’m not interested.
A lot of those HBD guys are on the spectrum, that’s why they can get caught up in minutiae of analyzing the deaths of 80 year olds and not conceptualize that their entire world is being destroyed.
Its ultimately why the entire HBD movement is a complete waste of time. You’re just attracting people like sailer, a guy who spend hours analyzing baseball stats for fun. You need artists and people who can speak to the soul.
He bothers me lately. All this time he’s talking about black tendencies toward criminality but then shuts his mind off to the possibility that their criminality may have manifested itself in their willingness to engage in a program of vote fraud
Most of the HBD people were inside the tent until they were either forced to walk back from their opinions (Murray) or they were shown the door. Some were hoping to be inside the tent. For these people, there is a deep desire to get back in the tent. If you look at their arguments, they are always appeals to the present ruling class to take a look at their evidence. Those who have remained inside the tent mute their HBD talk and instead virtue signal on things like orange man bad. For people who fashion themselves as moist robots,… Read more »
Sounds just like Luke Ford. Z Man hit it out of the park on his critique of HBD-IQ fetishists.
Sailer is a case study in an otherwise intelligent person so concerned with peer pressure he yields with the slightest resistance. Whenever someone drones on about how our movement needs more in academia and high culture (true to an extent), think about people like Sailer and Murray and you realize what a dead end that is.
Murray has written some wonderful things on paper, but seems to personally have an upper-class contempt for the unwashed white working-classes that is at odds with the tone of his actual writings.
Re: the childless women and their need for purpose, I used to joke that if Orange Man really was what they say he is, he’d found a Bund Deutscher Madel and enjoy the vote of 100% of young men – and 75% of all women – in perpetuity. (As for the purposeless young men, brown is a fetching color). Personally, I wonder if those “Promise Keeper” guys from the mid 1999s still have some of their organization manuals and by laws lying around…
We can’t even say that “Judeo——-Christian. Values” (as noxious as that term is) Unites our society. So it might as well be the Covid that unites us….
Uncle Joe and Kamel Toe Harris will unite the ignorant dirt people, you deplorable dissident!!!
🙂
We’re all in this together, dontchya know…!
I think the Covidians/Progs are going to have a very, very rough four years. It’s not just the old “They won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore” line. Trump became the center of their lives, the devil they shouted down, in the same way that old Solunar cults were convinced that they had to shout the moon away from the sun during an eclipse, lest the sun never shine again. America has been a one-party state for a long time, and the left has had all of the power, but with demographics (and more explicit fraud, helped by the intelligence… Read more »
Only matter of time before having to look at Biden’s white face every day sets them off on another rage episode
Biden will not be spared.
Look at the news today with that spic bartender calling for replacement of Pelosi and Schumer. The revolution continues.
Historical analogies are never perfect, but Trump as Nixon has always worked pretty well. Biden as Carter works well too. The trouble is, there is no Reagan and no silent majority for him to rally, even if he existed. The irony is that many of the MAGA people came to see Trump as a savior, but in reality he was probably the last best hope for the ruling class.
Good point. Trump was a steam valve and it has been closed even as the boiler gets ever hotter. If I had to hazard a guess, the Left will brutalize Harris after Biden fades and turn their fury on her corporate patrons (dump tech stock while you can). Most of us will be rooting for injuries. On the other side, the MAGA types walking away from the GOP as the Georgia run-offs take place indicates they have arrived at the place their left-wing counterparts soon will be.
Males & females stripped of sex roles. I don’t know how young people of the “traditional” opposite sex get together anymore – well I do, but you know what I mean… with all of this covidian insanity going on including shutting down typical meeting venues, I don’t know. I’m sure as hell glad I’m at an age where I don’t have to worry about that or have young kids in this bizarre world we now find ourselves in. But I worry about our unattached younger son and our older one with a four year old. These are not happy times.
The first step for the four old, as they approach the appropriate age, would be homeschooling. Is this something possible in your son’s situation? Would he entertain it?
“Move backward through popular politics in America and you see one holy crusade after another driving the political debate. Today it is driven by Covidians.”
AKA…’The Flu Cult’.
I guess because it’s so sad that it goes unremarked that if Covid is your purpose in life…
Secular religions always have the highest body counts. More people were killed in the original Great Terror over a span of a couple of years than during the entirety of the Czarist rule, to cite one example. How many will die in the name of Anti-Racism?
Imagine a culture so thoroughly debauched that it believes a woman can find meaning in PowerPoint, travel, and riding the carousel. Well, of course they are going to lurch from one stupid idea to the next.
You know how many women, even good ones, who are always hoping to make a difference in whatever low level position they inhabit out in the world. How much damage do you think that inflicts on us, all from good intentions. Can’t just make and raise babies anymore.
Women can make babies, but they do a lousy job of even raising children without firm male guidance.
I’m just posting this because it’s absolutely hilarious and every needs a laugh
https://mobile.twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1339328607764811778
Excellent piece. Only thing would add is that as we’ve become a society of abundance, the crusades become further and further disconnected from objective existential reality. The berry analogy, however wacky, kept people from dying. Now, as our Governor LIttle Il Douche demonstrated yesterday at a bill signing, the major threat to our existence is Confederate flags being displayed on government property or sold in state run gift shops..or something.
The Hong Kong flu of 1957 and 1968 was equally as bad but in that America sane men still made reasonable decisions and the Covid shit would have stayed in the medical section of the newspaper. That 1968 or 1957 world still had some cultural ether floating around of shared Christianity and shared reason left within it. The rise of feminism and decline in masculinity and the resulting Karen’s, the rise of a hostile media, and the resulting loss of any shared culture has contributed to bringing us the Branch Covidian crisis. How do we find meaning again? We find… Read more »
HBD community?
Mostly OT: The global ruling class does some truly laughable things. Everyone who even casually follows sports knows that PED and doping is widespread among Olympic athletes. Russia got caught and given the anti-Russian hysteria of our age from the globalists, they have been trying to drop the hammer on them. This ruling just announced Russian athletes can compete in Tokyo in next year’s summer Olympics and the 2022 games in Beijing but not under the Russian flag. Also they will not play the Russian national anthem for gold medal winners. Hopefully the impending collapse of the globalists will cause… Read more »
A society that allows fat flatulent fortyish childless harpies, onesie wearing Jaden Manbuns and ancient Fauntelroy fossil political hacks to boss them around will be erased from the history books.