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[Butters]

Our entire biology is rigged toward stupidity. 

When are you wise and mature? When you're old and can't have kids. 

Young dumb and full of cum, people are the most likely to raise kids when they themselves are the dumbest. 

Edit: I just realized that raising kids itself is a very unconscious process. Will conscious people even have kids? Lol, we're totally fucked. 

Edited 11 hours ago by Butters

[Natasha Tori Maru]

@Butters you could argue that prior to the tiny insulated nuclear families of today, grandparents and wider family, who are generally more experienced and wiser, would have a hand in raising kids along with younger parents. But the older generations ... Aren't always smarter or wiser 😂

I think this role has some theories around it; women past breeding age in menopause could be viewed as passers of cultural knowledge and wisdom. It's very strange for a female of a species past breeding age to endure. There is some ambiguity around this theory. We still don't know why women endure so long after menopause.

Humans seem wired for cultural inheritance as well as biological.

[Rafael Thundercat]

3 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

women past breeding age in menopause could be viewed as passers of cultural knowledge and wisdom.

The Caliban and the Witch book. For good, take a look on that book. 

The book  is writen  Silvia Federici's 

Your text describes post-menopausal women as potential vessels of cultural transmission — a biological anomaly that evolution seems to have preserved for social rather than reproductive reasons (the "grandmother hypothesis"). This maps almost exactly onto the historical figure Federici analyzes: the witch.

Federici argues that the witch hunts of early modern Europe weren't irrational hysteria — they were a deliberate, systematic destruction of a specific social role: the elder woman as healer, midwife, herbalist, keeper of communal and bodily knowledge. These were overwhelmingly older women, often past reproductive age, holding precisely the cultural inheritance function the text describes.

If evolution preserved post-menopausal women because they carry and transmit cultural knowledge, then the witch hunts weren't just misogyny — they were an attack on a specific evolutionary and social function

Federici connects this to primitive accumulation: capitalism needed to sever communities from their own knowledge systems, and elder women were those systems

The "witch" becomes the criminalized version of the grandmother-as-knowledge-keeper

Your text says we still don't fully understand why women endure so long after menopause. Federici's work suggests we did understand it culturally — and then burned it.

 

Edited 6 hours ago by Rafael Thundercat

[Butters]

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[integral]

21 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

I never get headaches no matter how long or how deep I think.

I just get exhausted, hazy, burnt-out, or sleepy.

I have to be in the right mood to think deeply, otherwise it doesn't work well. I have to find a flow state. And that state/mood doesn't last more than a few hours.

Have you found a reliable routine to get into flow consistently? 

Edited 1 hour ago by integral

[Lila9]

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This is brutally accurate. I wish I knew this 25 years ago.

This is the best argument against democracy and populism. This is why democracy and populism struggle so much. Intelligence is really challenging to scale across hundreds of millions of people. In a sense, you could think of mankind's #1 developmental challenge as: how do we make everyone intelligent? Mankind has been chipping away at this problem for 10,000 years and we still haven't solved it. What is the solution?

Creating a society/system that values truth and intelligence and teaches its children from childhood. This is possible. Of course, it is difficult because the elites don't want it, since it is easier to control foolish and ignorant people who are fragmented and separated from nature, from their ancestors' ancient wisdom, from their bodies, from their intuition, from themselves.

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[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, integral said:

Have you found a reliable routine to get into flow consistently? 

No.

Good music helps. Rest and relaxation helps. Driving helps.