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
Duty toward the survivors of the camps
Learning and thinking to build one's own path
Collectivism vs individualism: tribalism in modern times
Marxism as an existential statement
A visit to a concentration camp
Collectivism, a central question
The Marxist war on natural causes
Marxism vs theory of evolution
A modern expression of a profound divide
Social construction and Lamarck's theory of evolution
Example of use of Lamarck's theory today
Cities: when everyone become a criminal
The fall of the utopian society
A case study: Linking equity, social construction, equality and evolution
Lies transform reality until they become truths
When the conclusion provides de reasoning
The perfect balance is the truth
Learning by heart is brainwashing. Really?
Controlling people by restricting the concepts accessible to them
Critical thinking does not mean what you think
They're not truthful with what they do to our children
To find the power struggle in the text
A network of ideologies to catch them all
The disintegration of traditions
Basic scientific reasoning remainder
Science knowledge is a network
Practicing: social construction vs science
Social constructivists don't know why they're right
On the so-called tyranny of science
Socrates - I know that I know nothing
The 'treason of the intellectuals' by Julien Benda
Those who record the knowledge of our civilization
The treason and its dire consequences
Instincts instead of intelligence
What means Benda's message for the 21st century?
Science is a religion, they say...
What does evolution say that so many reject?
Do not forbid to ask questions
There is a scientific definition for races
Why evolution is true, Chapter: What about us, by Jerry A. COYNE.
The list of forbidden knowledge
A - I.Q exists and is the most well-defined and used tool in psychology.
B - I.Q is roughly defined by 80% by our genes and 20% by our education.
C - The average I.Q between men and women is the same
E - Men are naturally interested in things and women in people.
F - The more equalitarian a society, the greater the gender differences in activities
H - They are differences in I.Q between races
The racist 'raceless' guideline
The definition of race does not matter. You don't need it.
Being lectured by Charles Darwin
Testing racism, two hypotheses
Evolution, the second scientific revolution
1) Harvard's race-based manipulation of SAT results
2) The Struthof attempt to redefine the scientific definition of race
4) The google bias of their anti-bias politic
5) C.E.R.N, the return of Lysenkoism
The other theory of human nature
Take responsibilities, tell the truth
Collectivism: the weaponization of empathy
But I want what's good for you, they say
The hunt for power to control reality
'Catch-42', the collectivist fallacy
The collectivist in the catch-42 fallacy
When the group is your reality
The other answer to the 'Nature vs Nurture' question
Unable to cope with the evolution principle
The abolition of the patriarchy
What teaches us western iconography?
The gender equalitarian experiment has failed
Why historically males run the hierarchy?
The state or the men. Pick one ladies but not both.
The needs of rules: An evolutionary perspective
The lack of a moral code: The case of the skeptic community
The fall of the skeptic community
Religion and its rules as an adaptation to natural constraints
Complement: When the theory of evolution meets the ghost in the machine
4 - Lysenkoism: when ideologies drive science
The responsibility of scientists
Lysenko, the sun around which reality orbits
Lafforgue testimony against the French 'Khmer rouge'
Why should we fight Lysenkoism?
Civilization has to be able to evolve
From an implicit to an explicit rejection of science
Some think that the truth is in the perfect balance of all things
Perfect balance, zero-sum economic and equality of outcomes
Nature vs Nurture: An answer to imperfect balance and asymmetry
Fighting the clandestine communist networks
How do you detect a secret network?
Trust, risk, courage, emotions, and honesty
Science as a fast-food of ideas is a recipe for disaster
To think implies to acknowledge the possibility to be wrong
We, the people of logical thinking
The paradox of the self-centered who wants to be a caretaker
Trading forgiveness for responsibility
5 - The dehumanization process: causes and examples
The root of mass dehumanization
A common vision: Knowledge and reason
When the elite let down the people
"Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain" (Schiller)
The killing of universities and the 3 pillars of its reborn
The betrayal of the intellectuals
Why do we need a science-based culture to learn how to think in modern times?
What makes the elites so important?
The loss of the meaning of sacrifice
Stand for something greater than you
Message for the atheists and/or skeptics
The denial of a unique reality is to dehumanize those who endorse it
Rousseau and the hate of civilization
The need to eliminate alternative realities
In Memory of Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Beltrame
We will not forget your sacrifice
A hope of convergence and reborn
The 'useless' people. When not being human is the new human
Having purposes is what it means to be human
Intersectionality: a ranking tribal system for mass dehumanization
Relativism as a defense mechanism
The victimhood mentality and strategy
When relativists denied the existence of the extermination camps
Post-modernisms' negation of Auschwitz
Shadow banning, 21st century's Gulag
Ignoring people is worse than hate
You've no right, not even the one to know it
When the world becomes a Gulag
From environmentalists to Marxists
6 - The language as reality: Essentialism
An irrationalist method to think the world
A brain process to catalog the world
Three differences between essentialism and the scientific method
What each method expects to achieve
To read nature from left to the right or from the right to the left
How they solve the lack of precision of words
To kill a ghost-in-the-machine
The days of innocence are over
The spectrum of reason and emotions and half-cut beings
The dissimulation of what essentialism truly is
Six consequences of essentialism
A) Language as a framework to understand the world
B) The feedback loop between reality and the brain is dysfunctional
C) For the essentialists, all the knowledge that exists is to get from the language
D) Free speech is violence for essentialists
E) Obsolescence and necessary reform of humanities
F) The powerless have no voice with essentialism
Free speech: essentialism vs reason
The structure of language and reality
The biochemistry of essentialism
A brain maturation process issue
Historicism, magical thinking and the paradox of essentialism
Empty and bewitching verbiages at work
Verbiage with a scientific veneer
The spirit of being clear and helpful
Essentialism, deconstructionism, and knowledge appropriation
To invalidate the foundation of science and take control of it
An infinite number of interpretations leads to the collapse of society
Essentialism should be the main target of rationalists
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
The elasticity of moral condemnation
Controlling the emotional outcome
8 - The last argument: an old tale on intelligence
The Mysterious shares of the Babylonian Talmud
The puzzle (as written in the Talmud)
a) If the asset is worth 300, then each creditor receives respectfully: 150, 100, and 50.
b) If the asset is worth 200, then each creditor receives respectfully: 75, 75, and 50.
c) If the asset is worth 100, then each creditor receives respectfully: 33.3, 33.3, and 33.3.
The solution of the Babylonian Talmud problem
1) You ordered the list of the member of the coalition depending on the percentage they ask.
2) You take the member who asks for the smallest part.
5) Divide all the money left equally between all remaining members of the coalition.
Social organization is a 'chasse gardée' of the humanities
The usefulness of Mathematical principles of natural philosophy
1) Pareto principle and Price's law
When inequality gives more to all than equity
To become what you want generates unfairness and hopelessness
The world gets better, and some don't like it
Note: The solution to the Talmud puzzle is known today as the: Equal division of contested sum.
From the Babylonian Talmud to the poor black neighborhood
Smart kids call for good teachers
Mistreatment of intellectually gifted children and the equity rule
Gifted children smash the blank slate
A zoology experiment or was that education?
What it means to run a civilization
Babylonian-Talmud and the spirit of knowledge
The love for knowledge: Don't you strive for knowledge?
Our responsibility towards knowledge
The war on researchers and the results of their work
When a published mathematical article disappears
When Bertrand Russell met Lenin (1920)
The Frankfurt School in a nutshell
9 - The last thoughts: on men, their nature and rights
Groups don't have human rights
The universality of rights applies only to individuals
Beyond human rights, it is enlightenment that is targeted
The empathy deficit hypothesis
Empathy deficit and mass killing
Empathy, the missing link for trust
Empathy and individualism vs fear and collectivism
We got the cause/consequence all wrong
Robinson Crusoe and why it will never be real Marxism
10 - The last words: For the world is hollow...
Excerpt from Star Trek - For the world is hollow
Helping people to visualize the future
The rapid degradation of the project of human civilization
I - Addendum: Thinking in systems
When a system causes its own failure
The ultimate missing piece of the Marxists: the feedback loop
From self-organization to hierarchy
Self-organization as the engine of systems
Hierarchy as the backbone of systems
Traps generated by a feedback loop
The first trap: drift to low performance
The second trap: success to the successful
The mathematical expression of the drift to low performance
Escaping the consequences of life: when relativism transcends determinism
Non-intuitive knowledge needs reason
II - Addendum: Nature of collectivism and individualism
Autonomous individuals do not lead to chaos
But individuals are unpredictable, we can't trust them!
Complex dynamic system or how individuals avoid chaos
The nature of individualism and collectivism are not of the same kind
You can't easily convert an individualist to collectivism
Civilization vs society level conflict
Why socialist Germany attacked socialist Russia in 1941?
The consequences of a world of culprits
What is happening to civilization?
Recognition and gratitude to Karl Popper
The autonomous individual as the solution to population increase
Moving from the primitive to the civilized tribe
How do we teach to become civilized?
1) to work on the reward system so that it favors reason over emotions
Essentialism or how the collectivists think
Communism, the gentlemen agreement of the elite
The internal flaw of the elites' ideal states
The internal flaw of democracy
The limit of laws and authority
Our actual elite is the last primitive tribe
Post-modernism, Marxism and to cut things from their properties
Emotional states as definitions of words
They don't tell truths, only stories
Positive feelings as truths of the world
Primitive tribalism is a binary representation of the world
Collectivism is not evolutionarily stable
How tribalism happens: From cells to tribes
Evolutionarily Stable Strategy
Autonomous processes are sorcery
Risk, randomness, and reward system
Step One - Why do we want to be in a group?
Step three - How and why do groups persist
Studying the rules: game theory
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 collectivist Utopia is purely an anti-civilization project
Ending the unlearning of thinking
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
Civilization Mental mechanisms
The state of our cultural heritage
Books with fundamental knowledge
Books to perfect your knowledge
Annex A: the context of the German YouTuber affair