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Jul 27, 2022Liked by Aporia

I think an important puzzle piece related to left/right and the heritability of it is a factor that Alt Hype described as "causiness". It basically says that there's people that(presumably genetically) are high in causiness. These are the same puritans that emigrated to the US and were very strongly religious in those days, but today might devote their life to progressive demonstrations and virtue signalling. Apart from the natural and genetical left/right divide you have had this "cause neutral but extreme in the cause they choose" group that has swung the political pendulum to the left in an extreme way in the last 65 or so years.

People with high causeiness can flip sides quickly and dramatically, which you can see happen many times in history. Communists flipping completely to the dominant cause in mid century Germany for example. Conservatives are almost per definition low in causiness(just look at the name "conservative"), and primarily tend to their close family and kin.

People high in causiness flipping to a anti-natalist religion like progressivism, from a pro-natalist religion like Christianity is interesting in that it will strongly reduce the amount of causiness in the gene pool long term, in the opposite way that people with high causiness increased in the gene pool when their cause was to get 10+ children and spread the word of god.

Sorry the comment field with my ramble. I hope it was at least a little relevant!

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Jul 27, 2022Liked by Aporia

I remember that alt hype video where he talks about causiness. But now I do not remember the definition of this term. Could you please explain one more time what it means? Is it being driven by a single cause?

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Jul 27, 2022Liked by Aporia

Yes, more specifically it means a trait of how willingly and with how much fervour someone jumps on the bandwagon of the existing metacult of their society. If you look at the US, it has parallel metacults right now and a person with high Causiness can join either the left or the right. Things are changing though, with the progressive cult seemingly inevitably gaining ground with their control over schools, institutions and in the last few years, the internet giants. They are currently a lot better at capturing young causy people, and their control have only grown tighter. Conservatives winning elections seems to only slow this process down, not reverse it.

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Thank you. Alligns well with the "I support the current thing" meme

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Yes it is perfect for that meme. If you are cynical, you can even imagine that the metacult keeps switching what the current thing is in order to constantly reaffirm and see who is on "team current thing" or not.

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Great comment -- can you link the video, please?

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