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#RichardDawkins refuses to apply his expertise in evolutionary biology to understanding evolved human nature & the kind of societies it has given rise to, I presume because, like all academics, he is under massive pressure from colleagues in the social sciences not to do so.
The social sciences are modern, secular heirs & in some ways counterparts of the medieval clergy, more interested in controlling society than in understanding it, for which purpose they have created a modern, secular replacement for #OriginalSin, in the form of racial prejudice. 
Human beings are inherently prejudiced about everyone & everything, making it an ideal replacement for original sin, redemption from which demands that one submit to state authority & ideology of post-racial #multiculturalism, DIVERSITY, Inclusion & #AntiRacism.
@j_dunkley I enjoyed watching your interview with @DrBrianKeating in the early hours of this morning, having woken up in my tent camped just outside Wareham in Dorset, using my phone as a hotspot, & thanks in no small part to physicists like yourself!
The natural sciences have progressed by leaps & bounds over the past few centuries. What has been discovered in my lifetime is mind-boggling. But alas, the social sciences are still trapped in a pre-Darwinian dark age, with a medieval understanding of society & the state.
This is why, unable to use DM, I'm tweeting you. You natural scientists know your stuff, & like the rest of us, trust social scientists to know theirs - only they don't.
The historian A J Toynbee observed that ALL successful civilisations ultimately commit suicide.
The historian A J Toynbee observed that ALL successful civilisations ultimately commit suicide.
#WhiteSelfGenocide #Ecocide & #ClimateChange are all expressions of #CivilisationalSuicide, which the historian A J Toynbee observed ALL successful civilisations ultimately commit.
If we want to prevent any one of these, we must understand their common, underlying, cause.
If we want to prevent any one of these, we must understand their common, underlying, cause.
I don’t think #AJToynbee recognised the underlying cause of civilisational suicide, but I do.
It’s a consequence of civilisation itself perverting & corrupting evolved human nature, which was adapted to serve a tribal society’s long-term survival. A tribal society now long gone.
It’s a consequence of civilisation itself perverting & corrupting evolved human nature, which was adapted to serve a tribal society’s long-term survival. A tribal society now long gone.
The primary purpose of the state is to facilitate a society’s self-exploitation, to the personal advantage of its elites & favoured clients, which, decisively, includes the very academics we look to as authorities on understanding society & the state.
The eminent British historian, #AJToynbee observed that all successful civilisations ultimately commit suicide, which is what our own civilisation is doing.
I arrived at this conclusion via a different route, which reveals the reason for civilisation's self-destructiveness.
I arrived at this conclusion via a different route, which reveals the reason for civilisation's self-destructiveness.
It took a long time, but having gained the insights I have, they now seem self-evident to me, which is problematic when it comes to trying to communicate them to others, who do not want to recognise them.
No one wants to be told that their civilisation is committing suicide,
No one wants to be told that their civilisation is committing suicide,
that there is no future for their descendants, anymore than one wants to be told by their doctor that they have an aggressive cancer.
Such truths are difficult to accept, & some simply refuse to do so, going into denial instead.
This is what we did, as a civilisation,
Such truths are difficult to accept, & some simply refuse to do so, going into denial instead.
This is what we did, as a civilisation,
