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>>13017833
guess agaim

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>>12970346
Religious essentialism is more or less "humanism pozzed as fuck" if we're talking about humans - Chomsky extends it to class and technology. When reading chomsky, one often gets the impression that technology is "inherently good" somehow.

The connection to religion is tentative: for chomskian left libertarianism to work at all, you'd need to brainwash majority of population with some sort of religious dogma in order to operate sub-optimal materialism. This is, in fact, quite frequent in tribal cultures, but unprecedented on mass scale, where market steamrolls over tribal altruism in favor of transactional relationships. Neoliberals (as well as Land) just admit with glee that we can't do much about that, and suggest to just go along.

One fun fact about Chomsky is that he can be interpreted as "just don't have global market, and do work which makes yourself happy. the economic nonsense will sort itself out, somehow". Sounds awfuly like picrel, but high technology kinda kept in the loop. Yet not generating globe scale supply chains necessary to support said high technology, huh?

>>12907664
>Cultural evolution is not determined only by natural selection like the ‘natural’ world
True enough, I shouldn't make sweeping statements in a hypothesis. Even in natural world, host/bacteria have a constant generative-adversarial relationship (they evolve in response to each other).

It all boils down why large-scale species don't allow *any* independence of its constituents, it's an extremely oppressive regime for its own sake. For the beast to emerge it must be extremely intolerant to its own dissent (cancer) to a point it's simply not feasible for cancer to accomplish anything of note, or be thoroughly fatal.

So to restate my speculation: The descendants can dissent, but if successful, they'll erase all the infrastructure their Mammon parent represents, because the system is one enormous house of cards. They're the Ted posters. The whole point is that they can't *reform* the mammon from within at their sub-atomic scale, because its a beast capable to reform only on enormous systemic levels, and not by quasi-individual actions of its single cells.

>>12886909
Nonsense. It's the birth rates!

>>12710857
This, also pic related