For the sake of
civilization
(a Letter to The European Parliament)
For the sake of civilization
By Jean-François Maquiné
1 - Why did I write this letter?
When the civilized part in us rebels
A visit to a concentration camp
The Marxist war on natural causes
Marxism vs theory of evolution
A case study: Linking equity, social construction, equality and evolution
When the conclusion provides de reasoning
Learning by heart is brainwashing. Really?
Critical thinking does not mean what you think
Basic scientific reasoning remainder
The 'treason of the intellectuals' by Julien Benda
What does evolution say that so many reject?
Do not forbid to ask questions
There is a scientific definition for races
The definition of race does not matter. You don't need it.
Evolution, the second scientific revolution
Collectivism: the weaponization of empathy
'Catch-42', the collectivist fallacy
The abolition of the patriarchy
The lack of a moral code: The case of the skeptic community
4 - Lysenkoism: when ideologies drive science
Why should we fight Lysenkoism?
Science as a fast-food of ideas is a recipe for disaster
5 - The dehumanization process: causes and examples
The root of mass dehumanization
When the elite let down the people
The betrayal of the intellectuals
The loss of the meaning of sacrifice
The denial of a unique reality is to dehumanize those who endorse it
In Memory of Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Beltrame
The 'useless' people. When not being human is the new human
Intersectionality: a ranking tribal system for mass dehumanization
The victimhood mentality and strategy
When relativists denied the existence of the extermination camps
Shadow banning, 21st century's Gulag
6 - The language as reality: Essentialism
Three differences between essentialism and the scientific method
To kill a ghost-in-the-machine
Six consequences of essentialism
Free speech: essentialism vs reason
Historicism, magical thinking and the paradox of essentialism
Empty and bewitching verbiages at work
Essentialism, deconstructionism, and knowledge appropriation
Essentialism and dehumanization
When laws build the framework for a socially constructed society
7 - Genocide and the trolley problem
A psychological experiment named: The trolley problem
The trolley problem and communist famines
8 - The last argument: an old tale on intelligence
The Mysterious shares of the Babylonian Talmud
The solution of the Babylonian Talmud problem
Social organization is a 'chasse gardée' of the humanities
From the Babylonian Talmud to the poor black neighborhood
Mistreatment of intellectually gifted children and the equity rule
Babylonian-Talmud and the spirit of knowledge
The love for knowledge: Don't you strive for knowledge?
Our responsibility towards knowledge
When Bertrand Russell met Lenin (1920)
9 - The last thoughts: on men, their nature and rights
10 - The last words: For the world is hollow...
Excerpt from Star Trek - For the world is hollow
The rapid degradation of the project of human civilization
I - Addendum: Thinking in systems
From self-organization to hierarchy
Traps generated by a feedback loop
II - Addendum: Nature of collectivism and individualism
The nature of individualism and collectivism are not of the same kind
What is happening to civilization?
Essentialism or how the collectivists think
Communism, the gentlemen agreement of the elite
Post-modernism, Marxism and to cut things from their properties
How tribalism happens: From cells to tribes
Step One - Why do we want to be in a group?
Step three - How and why do groups persist
The two tribes: A clash on what it means to be human
The anomaly in collectivists' tribalism
V - Nine books for the great picture of our times
The blank slate. The modern denial of human nature by Steven Pinker
Explaining Postmodernism. Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault by Stephen Hicks
The road to serfdom by F.A. Hayek.
Why Knowledge Matters. Rescuing our children from failed educational theories by E.D Hirsch
The return of the primitive: the anti-industrial revolution by Ayn Rand
Human diversity, the biology of gender, race, and class by Charles Murray
The fraud of feminism, by Belfort Bax
Apocalypse never. Why environmental alarmism hurts us all, by Michael Shellenberger
The fatal conceit - The errors of socialism by F.A. Hayek (1988)
VI - List of misleading books. On an ideological warfare
The end of history and the last man by Francis Fukuyama.
The second sex by Simone de Beauvoir
The structure of scientific revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
The Mismeasure of a man by Stephen Jay Gould
VII - To save the mental heritage of civilization
Books with fundamental knowledge