In essence, culture is arbitrary. One can stretch the nurture aspect of mankind as long as it does not break the most basic collective survival (such as Nongqawuse) - and it can be stretched to such a caricature extent that might be indistinguishable from madness. Let’s take a look at the fairly uncontroversial points, there are so many.
1, American left denies race and IQ, but American right denies biological evolution... and they both hate each other’s guts.
2, Soviet schoolchildren were brought up on stories of heroic self-sacrifice (Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya) for the homeland, and yet everyone let the USSR dissolve without a shot fired.
3, Hitler was sure that Bolshevik Russia would be unstoppable after Germany’s defeat *(”in the case of a victory of Bolshevism, the sad remainder of Europe would hardly continue to fight under England’s leadership against the European-Asian colossus which would then rule Europe” - January 30, 1944),* and yet the reality turned out precisely the opposite.
4, Noam Chomsky and Russian lefties accusing America of being a warlike, aggressive country that genocides everyone, starting with Indians, while in reality the population of every Anglo-American occupied country grew (the Philippines 1900-45, Iraq 1920-45, 2003-13, Japan 1945-55, Afghanistan 2001-21).
5, Russian lefties accusing Israel of being an American proxy, US righties accusing America of being an Israeli proxy.
6, White Western women screaming “refugees welcome”, and then those refugees becoming incels because said white women are racist and will never consider them boyfriend material.
7, Western right saying that wars in Asia lead to refugees in Europe, even though refugees can be easily barred from entry by the border police, making the wars irrelevant.
8, People acting shocked when Otto Warmbier mortally offends Juche Korean sensibilities by desecrating their idol, even though that was the equivalent of burning the Holy Quran in the hallowed city of Mecca.
9, Donald Trump stopping half a dozen wars in half a year, yet the Nobel Peace prize going to some obscure Latin woman.
10, Israel suffering from Islamic terrorism and going on the offensive being based, yet when China suffers the same from jihadis in Xinjiang, suddenly those very same Jews cry “Uighur genocide”.
11, Woke people and anti-semites accusing Israel of a “Gaza genocide” all the while Israel is feeding those Arabs instead of starving them in a very easy siege.
12, Israel being accused of genocide when only 70k Arabs died in Gaza (3.5%), whereas 100% of Artsakh Armenians (150k) get ethnically cleansed by Azerbaijan, and nobody gives a fuck.
13, Russia being seen as a paragon of Christian civilisation by both the US left and right, even though Putin is ethnically replacing Russians with Muslims, and saying “Russia for Russians” will lead to you being tortured by regime-sponsored foreign ethnic gangs.
14, Neo-Nazis fighting for the Jewish Ukrainian president. The Ukraine itself removing Soviet monuments despite being equally as totalitarian and anti-liberal as the USSR they supposedly hate.
15, The Ukraine fighting against “Russian colonialism” in Odessa architecture even though the steppe half of the country was settled only thanks to a massive race war against the Turks and Tatars under the Nordic Empress Catherine the Great.
16, All the mainstream media along with the “realist school of geopolitics” under Mearsheimer not noticing that Russia has not bombed the Dnieper bridges in the 4 years of open hostilities, only attacking in the most fortified strip in Donbass, and refusing to build reinforced shelters for their aircraft.
17, Polish people thinking Russia is flooding Europe with immigrants to lead to a rise in a far-right sentiment in Germany even though the vast majority of immigrants go through the Mediterranean.
18, Mysterious drone sightings in New Jersey and over Copenhagen, no sensible reactions from NATO, no sensible reason to do it for Russia; UFO disclosure.
19, Christianity being considered homophobic even though the spread of LGTV rights neatly maps onto the spread of Christianity.
20, Americans forcing male penis mutilation onto South Koreans, but North Koreans being too shy to depict it in their propaganda - as with most things intercultural, people will simply consider it unbelievable, even though for the foreign culture NOT doing it would be considered preposterous (if you say truthful things about America in the Ukraine, people will think you a Russian spy, but if you DON’T say those things IN the US, people will think you a Russian spy).
21, Muslims cutting off foreskins, Kenyans cutting off clits, Egyptians cutting off both, yet Lloyd deMause’s psychohistory being forgotten.
22, The biological model of mental disorders having no evidence.
23, Demographics experts never suggesting removing the female right to education even though female education is the strongest factor in the falling fertility rates.
24, Climate change activists never suggesting continental human genocide even though that would be the easiest way of reducing Carbon emissions.
25, First it was global cooling, then global warming, now the language has been changed to climate change. Previous terms get memoryholed.
26, Pedophiles being at the forefront of the original LGBT rights, now memoryholed (PROOF of the 1977 French letter, I’m not being homophobic, it did happen).
27, Rich capitalist Jews being the richest elite in the history of the planet, yet taken down by low-status women crying rape (such as Weinstein or Epstein); based traditionalist right siding with radical feminists.
28, Chernobyl being considered a disaster that prevented the implementation of nuclear power around the world even though only 30 people died; massively successful Bolshevik evacuation being forgotten.
29, Nuclear weapons being considered a magic wand that instantly wins wars even though the terror bombing of Germany, Japan and Korea did not force either country to surrender.
30, India, Pakistan and Israel developing nuclear weapons outside the NPT and nobody batting an eye, but the DPRK does it, and suddenly it’s a world peace emergency.
31, China is considered America’s greatest adversary, even though it was built by America at American cost, even when the USSR had already fallen apart so there was no geopolitical use for China any more.
32 Americans being triggered when anyone says that Taiwan is part of China, even though both Peking and Taipei agree that Taiwan is part of China as they both lay claim to the full territory of one another (PRC vs RoC in a civil war over one unified China).
33, Afghanistan gets fully conquered by the Taliban, and nobody recognises it after 4 years, but Syria gets conquered by Hayat Tahrir al Sham, and everyone instantly recognises them, even Mobile Legends changes the Syrian flag to green.
34, Trump shaking hands with the HTS terrorist Al Joulani, when HTS was a branch of Al Qaeda which did 9/11, and liberal media not drawing the parallel even though it’s perfect state treason.
35, Anti-semites crying in anguish at the prospect of “Greater Israel”, yet Israel pulling out of the conquered areas in South Lebanon, barely intruding into the sacred Mount Hermon, and still not annexing Judaea & Samaria - 58 years after conquering them (not having the stomach to repeat the Nakba which was carried out so swiftly in the momentous 1948 CE).
36, WW2 being supposedly an ideological war, even though Nazi Germany did the same land-grab against Russia that it had done under Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the supposedly anti-Nazi Americans and Russians both saw no issue with putting the Japanese and Chechens in camps respectively.
37, Russia being expelled from the Council of Europe for... evacuating children from the war zone.
38, The Donbass war not being called a Ukrainian civil war.
39, The coronavirus pandemic starting out as a world plague denied by mainstream media, then the virus did nothing, and yet the media then did a full somersault turning it into a fake world-ending plague. (Mister Metokur fans still consider the koof a world threat, neural plasticity is badly lacking...)
40, Right-wingers calling you Jewish if you reject the worship of the Jewish god.
41, Jews being famously liberal and pro-immigration, but then crying over the rise of anti-semitism when the notoriously philosemitic Judaeo-Christian golem whites get replaced (term Eurabia memoryholed). Make up yo mind...
42, Irish and Ukrainian nationalists hating the English/Russians respectively, but seeing no issue with their native populations being replaced by third worlders / Turks respectively (Dublin world city, Odessa Khadjibey).
43, Stalin and Putin being considered archenemies of the Ukrainian people, even though they both put in the greatest effort into creating the Ukrainian nation state - Stalin added Galicia and brutally imposed Ukrainianisation (korenizatsiya) onto the ethnically Russian cities and southern lands, and Putin confessed to supporting the Euromaidan coup d’état in the Tucker interview, and did nothing when the Donbass and Odessa Russians were ruthlessly ethnically cleansed. On the Valdai Forum 2025, Putin has “joked” about being CIA director...
44, In my local Ukrainian uni, one teacher believed that Ulfilas’ Bible (Codex Argenteus) was written by Ukrainians, not Goths; a physics teacher unironically believed in dowsing; a Catholic priest spreading young earth creationism; and cherry on top, a teacher literally told me that tight (yoga?) pants were a Chinese ploy to make Ukrainian women infertile. He also told me stories how children killed themselves in the 1990s supposedly because they lost touch with reality because of... video games. (Also, everyone believes that solar storms adversely affect human health.)
All of the above could be seen as a decent argument towards the world being possessed by madness - as opposed to rational actors reasonably observing reality and acting in good faith, merely with incomplete information. This is literally delirious nonsense. A god in the making? Universe increasingly cognisant of itself? Or simply a deranged madhouse.
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