Thread by @PaulVanderKlay

Today's video is a massive mess teased by a click-baity title. I also happen to think that the title is true.

The length is obscene which has the beneficial effect of mostly limiting the content of the video to my core audience that usually for vocational reasons can digest VERY LONG video content.

I make these videos not so much for the promotion of ideas but to spur insight, engagement and discussion.

A lot of what we see today both in terms of propaganda (think Ellul) and group formation is parasitic. Such groups are always dependent over the VERY long run (which we seldom appreciate the value of) upon the existence of that they're reacting against.

It's actually the far larger, older things that are far more important. Religion is the ideation that creates civilization and any healthy, lifegiving culture upon which the civilization relies. Religion, as @wellman4444 says is all about desire.

We find meaning by desiring something beautiful and truth attainment for human being is always accomplished by grouping. Idealization, attention, worship, they are all essential, inescapable and go together. @jordanbpeterson and @PageauJonathan

the best groups, most long lasting, most productive generally pursue the best, most stable, truest ideals. Those ideals have structure. Stable, archetypal ideals will become the foundation for the most enduring, most fruitful groupings.

Groupings that don't have archetypal ideals both before them in their meaningful pursuit, or beneath them as foundation will always suffering from fundamental instabilities.

Those instabilities will manifest in predictable patterns. Often feedback loops that destroy the groups and the larger movements. Purity dynamics come into play here. Purity dynamics naturally, given a difficult ideal will be generative and not self-devouring.

If you are seeking an archetypal ideal the structure of reality will itself limit the self-devouring nature of the purity dynamic. If the ideal the group is chasing is unstable or non-existent the purity dynamic will consume the group as the members consume each other.

I think M/F4L is a stable, archetypal ideal for human flourishing. It affords stable, multi-generational civilization as an ideal. Purity dynamics are naturally retarded by other structure realities.

I think part of the reason we're seeing purity dynamics consume other progressive liberationist groups is because their ideals are not archetypal and so unstable. They cannot produce the ideal sufficient to energize long term stable groupings.

I think we're running this experiment in real time and the consequence over the long term will be misery.