Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Why The Republican Party Is DOOMED" video.
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@Alltime2050 - NOW WE ARE IN 100% ABSOLUTE TOTAL AGREEMENT "What passes for conservatism today is an ancient way of processing thought that helped our species survive..."
ABSOLUTELY and its even deeper than that - everything about them is designed for survival in a very primitive dangerous environment - here is an example from Bejing University:
The Child In The Well Experiment
Mencius (fourth century BCE) was a Confucian philosopher. He proposed that all humans were inherently good. They all has “sprouts” of goodness, they just needed nurturing.
To demonstrate this he proposed the following. A young child is sat on a well, as you want by it falls screaming down the well. He says EVERYONE would run to help the child, call for help.
Recently this was tested. Subjects were taken to a room in a different city and there was a video screen of the space outside and it shows a well with a child on it. The subjects don't know this is a a pre recorded video, they think it is a live feed. As the “experiment” is being set up the child falls screaming down the well.
The theory is that 100% of people will react and call the assistant to go help the child.
This is not the case. 80% do exactly that, they go nuts and scream for help, run out the room to try and save the child, just what you would expect.
20% do NOTHING. They don't call for help, they don't get up and try to help and a significant proportion don't even register any facial emotions. They just passively watch a child die as if they were watching a commercial for shampoo.
Upon further investigation, the vast majority of these that don't react are right to far right wing in their political views.
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These are the conservatives and from an anthropological evolutionary stand point they were useful - they were the ones that ran away when the village got attacked and wiped out 1 in 5 times. they were the ones that stole and hoarded food in the famine so THEY survived. Evolution had a PURPOSE for conservative right wing sociopaths, but technology and human advancement have surpassed the usefulness of the right-wing.
In modern advanced societies they are just HORRIBLE people who don't fit in - and they KNOW they don't fit in and they KNOW we all dislike them and they have no morals so they turn to violence.
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@Alltime2050 "Unfortunately, they think their system of belief is the glue holding civilization together. " YEP - I totally agree
"Conservatism might very well have once been a useful tool for human survival but now, it's the greatest threat to the survival of our species in human history." YEP - totally agree...
I wrote this earleir to a guy asking about life in an ex-communist country - it may be interesting in light of this conversation:
I am English LOL. I live in Bulgaria, have done for 14 years. I know a lot of people in Romania.
These two countries are really interesting for the study of communism cos they are the polar opposite - Bulgaria had it very good under communism, on the whole. Romania had the worst of it with the dictator Nicholi Chaushesku. My friend used to get a pigs ear at Christmas to chew on as a treat...
Before Covis I was compiling a book of stories of ordinary people's lives under communism - we only ever hear about the people who left of the people who were persecuted. You never hear the story of Ivan who worked in a radio factory and had 3 kids, a Trabant, a house with no mortgage, food and great health service.
The main thing to know about communism is it was DIFFERENT to the story we are told in the west. We concentrate on the lack of shiny consumer goods, bt thats not the society they were creating, thats the society WE were creating. Its like judging a fish by the length of its legs.
They were genuinely trying to create a society where everyone had what they needed and it was sustainable environmentally and economically. They were NOT trying to build a consumer society cos they KNEW that was unsustainable cos Karl Marx showed that 150 years ago.
The Bulgarian word for stress is стрес - "stress" - they didn't HAVE a word for stress until capitalism so they just used the English word - that tells you a lot I feel.
In the last general election, 75% of people over 65 years old voted for the communist party. Even my friend's in Romania do kind of miss the communist times, everyone was incredibly poor but EVERYONE was incredibly poor and they looked after each other and they miss that... They like the luxuries of the now western life, but they don't like the inequality of the social isolation and stress it brings.
Bulgaria and Romania have the lowest levels of mental health problems in the EU - I firmly believe this is a hang over from the communist days - the way society is structured here is very family / child centric. NOT work or consumer goods centric. The GOOD father is the one who is home ASAP and in the par playing with his kids. The neglectful father is the one working late to pay for the new BMW whilst his kid is with child care.
I hope this gives you a small insight.
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