People have an innate drive to search for meaning and purpose in life which produces happiness. Meaning is the highest human instinct. Your brain signals meaning when you occupy the optimal position in the dynamic territory you inhabit. Meaning is revealed and discovered and not made up. Moral relativism flattens everything out the consequence of which is there is no up. And if there is no up, then there is no hope, no courage, no heroism. But we know there is a down, and if there is a down then there is also an up to stive for. Our society consists of a hierarchy of competencies. If we can’t talk about ideas we are left to fight for dominance. Finding purpose requires: communal (group) identity, communal capacity from which springs individual identity, individual capacity. Religion is not delusional because people who have religious experience are healthier, happier and more productive. Therefore religion is not pathologic. Religious belief evolved and improved. The atheists can defend their crusade to destroy religion when they demonstrate good evidence that atheism is healthier. Find something that you like to do, your good at, and is useful.
Meaning is derived from the orienting reflex. A person experiences meaning when their left brain (concrete, expected) and right brain (abstract, new) are working together. You need to have one foot in order and the other in chaos.
Human hierarchy exists. It is not arbitrary but biologically derived. The human hierarchy (social latter) is not necessarily inherently patriarchal but effectively patriarchial because men tend to be more task focused, assertive, disagreeable, and aggressive at the extremes. Men and women are more the same than different except at the extremes. The differences at the extremes of the bell curve account for the 10:1 males vs. females disparity in prisons.
Hierarchy tends toward corruption. Degenerate hierarchy is dominated by power and oppression. But a wise society will base its hierarchy on virtue and competency. But trying to reject hierarchy itself rejects biology. If we don’t prepare men to be men and ascend the social hierarchy, or repress their biology through feminization, they can become discouraged, experience despair and may act out through crime, suicide, terrorism (become an obscurus). Men and women can both ascend the social latter by setting goals and developing their competencies.
Men are overrepresented at the top of the hierarchy but they are also overrepresented at the bottom doing some of the dirtiest and dangerous jobs. Most women in the legal profession work 80-hrs-week into their 30’s, become partner, and then drop out to have a family. This isn’t a value statement, this is just the reality of what happens. Women are finding meaning in family ahead of their career.
You don’t need to suffer to find meaning, but meaning helps people survive suffering. Rights are not as important to finding meaning as responsibilities. We find meaning by embracing and fulfilling our responsibilities. You want to get out of bed every day thinking that what you are going to do that day is necessary and important.
Groups don’t have rights because they don’t have responsibilities. You can’t gave rights without responsibility.
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