Biblical Series VII: Walking with God: Noah and the Flood (7/11/17)

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[Did] any of you see the new NRA ad? You might want to look that up. I would say that’s the most shocking manifestation of political polarization in the United States that I’ve yet seen. Most of it I’ve seen on the left. The real– What’s shocked me, mostly, has been on the left. But, the new NRA ad, that’s a whole new thing.

So it’s this attractive woman. I’m doing a voiceover. She kind of looks like Demi Moore.

Well, she’s kind of tough looking. I guess Demi Moore could look tough now and then.

and she has contempt on her face, and that’s a dangerous thing. And in the background there’s nothing but images of Antifa riots and Berkeley riots and fire and protest

and she’s describing that as a conspiracy, essentially, a conspiracy that involves the intellectual elite, including Hollywood, which is named by name. The accusation is–is that there’s a Cabal of corrupt intellectuals, let’s say, who are bringing the country to its knees, and that it’s time to get your goddamn guns. And so, look up the ad and see what you think, because there’s lots of people who would be perfectly happy if that was the direction in which we were headed. And one of the things that I’m hoping is that we might be able to talk our way through it. But we’re in a situation where every act of individual idiocy will push us one iota closer to the brink, and that’ll make the 15 percent of the population, or 30 percent of the population who would love to see everything degenerate into chaos perfectly happy, because that’s their aim.

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A decade ago I’d have assumed somebody up the chain was aware of where this was going and where it was coming from. But, like, the only way neanderthal hybridization could have had the genetic impact it does is if it had a much bigger phenotypic (or, at least, reproductive) impact than the recently-ruffled consensus presently maintains. So even things as fundamental to shared identity as the particular details of our species’ founding storyline are more in dispute than the learned beard men are willing to admit in public. Same deal with consciousness. Apparently now basic human biology as well…

People are often fucking morons and if we don’t quickly find a way to deprogram them without simultaneously filling them up with new and improved horseshit that would be nice. So far, Peterson seems like a good bet. I’m optimistic. Maybe he can contribute his self authoring curriculum to a joint AI MIRI eugenics Thiel transblackman NRx sequences of procedural neural network Andrew Ng feedback education MOOC system overlord hivemind D-Wave.