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Stunning, Brave AND Wise.
You are such a conspiracy theorist @Tfmonkey because you doubt the reports that we are having a bumper crop this fall. Why would anyone trust a talking monkey online over the word of the experts who know better?
Oh. Oh wait. It looks like we are not having a bumper crop this year. Oh. It is smaller than expected. NO ONE COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING!
@sardonicsmile @Tfmonkey Even the thought I had about this was also made in the past. Absolutely brilliant, well done.
@Tfmonkey I would say your 2 choices are more like tactics and my 2 are more like strategy.
I fail to see how you can derive wisdom from your 2 choices, since they are essentially Darwinism restated.
@Tfmonkey More accurately, history is written by the current winners, since anything can be ret-conned with sufficient control.
And even the most powerful totalist system can't distort reality forever. It always snaps back, taking shit out.
Forced with a scenario where mankind has to start again but can retain 2 pieces of wisdom I would go with these:
1. We're just monkey's after a banana and some pussy.
2. The Political Trichotomy.
I think you can derive the most wisdom from those two.
@Tfmonkey But not just about patterns. Very very specific and important patterns that keep surfacing and killing tens of millions of us periodically.
The Trichotomy is a great example.
Evolutionary biology is also key. Men vs women yes, but also things like, "How the human lifespan makes us forget important lessons as a society that then forces us into cycles of destruction."
It all sounds so easy on paper.
@Tfmonkey I've come to appreciate the role of history more and more.
All our current problems, every single one, has been understood by our forbears many times over.
I'm convinced that education needs a radical change that puts the study of patterns front and center. That a person cannot be considered educated until they have understood that patterns of a deep cyclical or seasonal nature govern everything from the rise and fall of Empires to our own appetites.
And evolutionary biology.
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