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Life-Cycle: Cultural Mixing through Sex leads to Survival-Wisdom
cultural mixing

Life can be seen as sum of 'bubbles'. Bubbles house ritual behavior (local emotion). Flowers opening, bees dancing, or humans sacrificing, or just anything. Mixing bubbles result in a bigger bubble. As long as bubbles keep mixing then non linear change (also called creativity or evolution) will continue. A big (fundamental) bubble can temporarily squeeze aside a small common sense bubble, but the next 'nothingness' things might be reversed.
Ethics is the total of ritual behavior of ANY living entity, influenced or not by rules. Rituals are heavily influenced by local conditions. Therefore ethics also became the name for the total of rituals of all entities in some 'culture'. Abstract thinking multiplied the speed of till then 'Darwinian' evolution, say by a factor 1000. In direction evolution TOTALLY changed. Very RELIABLE physical variation influencing rituals now must compete with UNPROVEN very fast virtual rituals.
Combining skill and common sense behavior for the first time could make humans ready for fighting a next ice age. EXTREME care, abstract ethics (like rationality) without limits finally ends in fascism!! Consistent abstract logics (ethics) are effective in technology, but disastrous in social life.



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Periods of Absolutism

absolutism and great trust in tradition go hand in hand close around the absolute centre everything is in a mess Temporary standstill or only linear improvement temporarily happens when one set of rituals for a period of time gets dominant (period of absolutism, the counterpart of relativism). In the eye of that tornado things appear under control, and progress seems strong. Neighbouring cultures are 'flattened' by Info War and by War on Terrorism. Some fight (IRA, ETA, Al Qaida), others get drugged.

1 eye-openening example: The Qing Dynasty ruled over all Chinese kingdoms. The Qing emperor was given amazing 'rights'. In spite of brilliant achievements, the Qing rulers were arrogant and despotic. Worse still, the Qing rulers persecuted many intellectuals, having works that did not meet with their approval destroyed or banned . The emperial government was not only immensely arrogant but also rigidly conservative. Through its corrupt politics and conservatism, the Qing Dynasty after smashing start rapidly declined. As its support weakened almost daily, the Qing government collected more taxes for paying the expenses of war. Taxes and cruelties became too much.
(replace Qing with US and Chinese kingdoms with US-'allies' )
Especially for the poor

Example 2: The Ottoman Empire and The Persian Empire were after WWI minimized to modern Turkey and Iran. The United States looked another way, and was rewarded after WWII when Russian and British leaders looked away while the US colonized Japan, Korea, Philippines, New Guinee etcetera. Greedy Tsarist Russia and even more greedy British Empire robbed in close combat (The Great Game). Resulting in freedom-fighting terrorism in 'liberated' countries like Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Bahrain, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan.
Then evolution also pauses, before producing mixed rituals. Since around 1650 the Western World was dominant by way of Catholic Empire, British Empire and now US Empire. Catholicism, Industrialism and Capitalism almost annihilated Ottoman Empire and Persian Empire.

Isn't it funny that something like 99.999999% of evolutionary behavior shortly after being born is ready for a scrap heap? Or: the rituals of evolution aim at creating the variation that is needed for say 0.000001% of human individuals to succeed. Then again 0.000001% has sufficient overall intelligence to start a paradigm shift (think of Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Kuhn).

And of this already rare group of people only 0.000001% has enough creative talent and persistence to succeed in iniating such a shift in thinking. Very rare ritual mutancy results in 'prophets' (= mutants). Once in some thousand years 'prophets' don't need to be worshipped, but killing them on 'short' term awfully slows down change (killing Jesus resulted in 20 ages of confusion). Better treat 'lucky mistake' mutants (prophets or jokers) with care.
Still this vehicle evolution is considered as awfully efficient. It just swallows billions of liters gasoline for producing a 1 successful mutant. A successful mutant produces in a total paradigm shift an unpredictable essentially new ethics. It is the unimaginably strong result of tons of sex and varying experiences.

99.999999% of humans have sex to create variation throug mutancy. Life is beautiful.







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Sex and Love

Sex is the 'older animal part' of evolution, but it gave us the 'animal' part of ethics mostly called 'unconditional love' or respect. Since say 10.000 years some animals developed and started to use the left part of the brain (logical talents, using abstract symbols). The abstract notion 'power' in itself is nothing, but points to talents like physical strength. After the Crusades 'power thinking' developed into 'rational thinking'and a return to the Law of the Fittest as already existed before Christ. That was optimized at the end of 'Enlightenment' by Kant and later Darwin.
That is because abstract thinking (logic) has the function to improve bodily intuition, (not to provide intuition) and is easily tricked by fata morgana's.
Abstract thinking (logic, left brain) proved a subtile talent leading to extreme science, but without limits abstract ethics is DISASTROUS in social life


3000-2000 years ago the 'brothers of wisdom' Zoroaster, Buddha and Jesus used common sense to replace in their part of human evolution power thinking with 'love' . Each in own way they recognized that 'slavery' (the Law of the Fittest), was counterproductive. This is meant by 'make love no war' or the 'power of love'. This youngest essential addition to evolution in the 'Western World' got lost. Alexander the 'Great' annihilated Zoroastrianism in Persia. Youngest 'brother' Jesus was executed, by Pharisees assisted by Romans. Only Zoroaster followed by Buddha together founded a strong Ch'an Buddhism in Asia. Ages later Roman Christians made Mohammedanism a definitive 'mental wall' between East and West by fighting 'Crusades' with their relatives 'Muslims'.
The Roman variant of Christianity (having Jesus and many of his disciples executed and without influence of Zoroastrianism and Buddhism) especially differed on the point 'slavery', and destroyed 2 other branches of Christianity (in Ukraine and in India). That is meant by 'lost love'.Only in Ethiopia a branch of original Christianity MIGHT have survived. Anyway Zoroastrianism triggered Judean Christianity (not the Israel variant) and heavily influenced Zen Buddhism. Relative Zen survived, and is ethically superior to skillful but ethically rigid Catholicism.

That started in the dominant Western World a long period of confusion (see Christian World history). But 'unconditional love' proves strong, and will certainly be 'rediscovered'. This certainly explains the strong relation between 'sex' (very old part of evolution) and 'love' (very young addition).Time to join ethics and skill.
human animal ritual displaying love and sex








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Organizations: ritualized Orgies

In the language Dutch the plural 'organizations' is abbreviated to 'orgies'. That might be coincidence, but nevertheless very true. In an organization the leader (alpha-male or alpha-female) is allowed to 'have sex' in a ritualized way with anyone of the members. Such obedient members are called 'kontlikkers' (=ass suckers). By the way, 'bowing' in the animal world instead of lowering the head is done by offering the sex. But a queen inspecting arses must have been too embarrassing.

BUT the added notion love commands that there should be MUTUAL respect. Otherwise it is mind rape.

AND that there is no reason at all that the leader should have much more wealth than the members of his/her tribe. Phyically strong leaders behaving agressively is common in animal kingdoms, but since the emotional behavior 'love' entered human evolution this became 'not done'. That's why one 'smells' agression in big Western companies, and painfully misses 'love' in the shape of 'respect'.












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Tradition and Rituals

a fine mix








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AbstractRationality hinders Common Sense Behavior

Evolution uses as fuel variation (mutancies). Rationality (also called 'efficiency') filters out variation. That results in thousands of simular shops, billions of cellphones, managers in grey suits and roads full of the same automobiles. And in destruction of real variation as seen in nature. One oil platform disasters kills more sea life than you want to know.

all unique


But evolution is not helpless against variation killing events (religious behaviour). Evolution survived numerous illnesses, and in a calm but steady manner creates a stream of anti-bodies as environmental movements and terrorist groups. These attack on random places in the same manners as 'fire ants' and 'killerbees'. And in an exponential way keep growing in number. You kill one, one returns. You kill 1000...., wait, ...1001 return. It's a nasty job, but must be done.
I hate all those killings, but realize the inevitability. The worldwide war on terrorism is fanatically defending linear growth within Catholic Science against non linear growth (creativity, nature, evolution). However fast this linear growth may be, that is an unequal fight. You can't stop healthy benign viruses in the timeline. Maybe for something like 400 years, but such a period is like a tiny nothingness in evolution.




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Experience, Sex and Wisdom

Human life has at least 4 stages, (1) birth to puberty, (2) puberty, (3) sexually active life and (4) aging and finishing through transferring experiences with intelligence in wisdom.
In stage 1 intuition gets its fundations, and grows extremely fast. In puberty sex takes complete power. During sexually active life at present in the Western World only abstract knowledge increases (standstill of intelligence). A waste of creativity. In the last stage intuition MIGHT take over again (at present mostly doesn't), and CAN still grow considerably.
Celibacy was invented to keep intelligence growing. I'm convinced that it can work in decreasing the role of sex and improve gathering knowledge. But than both mind and body should 'forget' completely about sex. And I believe there are other ways to keep abstract intelligence growing. The attitude toward sex is already changing to more practical.
The conclusion of this graph must be: power is in the hands of those that during lifetime since childhood almost show no progression in wisdom. Their only extra weapon is (sexual) agression.



Zarah2nd, March 2004 and .






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