The Unintelligence of Man's Superiority

This post is dedicated to all who believe they are superior

The modern state, the modern economic system, the modern technological structure and the modern state never tire of telling us about how complex they have become. We lived today in this advanced, highly complex world.

This is, of course, built on a conception of lineality that is not only a simplification of existence but a simplification that reduces our intelligence to less than necessary for optimal human enthrivement.

It mostly has to do with reaching beyond the demarcating line into instability. That is not something that is human; that is something that is of the nature of existence; or what we believe is its nature.

The first element of instability is this false perspective of lineality. This simplicity is on a full simple mode by viewing the human existence as a lifespan from point A to point B. We are taught this as a simple fact and it seems likely that we continually age from being born until we age no more and die.

We do various things to interfere or extend this lineality to its maximum capacity because of the value we place on human life. We then, confusingly limit this lineality to its minimum capacity by tipping the intervening lineality into instability.

This is, however, a confusion itself because of the nature of instability in elemental particles that grows with atomic weight. But this is not a linear development. Helium, in weight (mass), only greater than hydrogen is the result of the first stage of fusion. The simple idea is that helium is too simple and thus inert. Were this true then suns would fuse into helium and that would end it. In actuality under high pressure helium lends stability to the formation of other elements and is an active partner in the creation of stable elements and can fuse with other elements under such pressurized conditions.

As stars begin to “burn out” as their hydrogen is fused they begin to fuse their helium. The extension of the life of the star into the helium-fusing stage is seen as old age and unstable. Actually the stage of fusing helium, called the triple-alpha stage, is when what we know as stable existence actually forms. Three helium nuclei fuse to form one carbon nucleus, which can then fuse with helium to form oxygen.

This process continues and larger stars can continue this process, fusing helium with carbon and oxygen to create heavier elements like neon and magnesium, and eventually elements up to iron. So almost all of the elements of what we believe are “essential” and create what we observe as stable, including life, are developed during this triple-alpha period when the fusive process becomes increasingly complex.

Iron element formation reaches its stable peak and no heavier elements will generally be formed until a star goes supernova. Gold is one of these elements, a weak and unstable element and mostly exists only within other rocks or stable elements. All the way to the threshold of lead; thereafter all of the variant isotopes are inherently destabilizing to their own existence.

When we “date” the past; we can date it by its “stable” carbon components (how much carbon is left) or its “unstable” radioactive isotopes that remain present in a sample. It works by comparing the ratio of a radioactive isotope to its stable decay product, which is based on the known decay rate (half-life) of the isotope.

So while we may believe if we can accomplish fusion reactors on earth we will have a technological wunderkind, fusion is an extremely non-complex process, just difficult for us to achieve because of the need for the immense heat and the massive amounts of resources that the resources of the earth doesn’t easily provide.

But as the fusion process begins to enter into the fusing of the most stable elements, it begins to swell in mass due to the very process that makes stable particles formulate. But this process of stability has a limiting point and elements heavier than iron are primarily formed in the extreme conditions of supernova explosions.

Intelligent life, should it exist, would exist in a range of triple-alpha stability, but attempt to maintain the balance necessary for the stable environment to exist as long as possible by using but never abusing the environment and recognizing an economy of use that doesn’t tip over into an unstable overuse of the resources that developed into an environmental balance that is capable of providing a sustainable stable environment for a life form’s needs for survivable. These needs can only be developed via a complex relational correlation between the lifeform and that stable environment to prolong the relationship and the environment that sustains the species. But this very triple-alpha stability is resource consuming by all of its lifeforms that becomes increasingly destabilized.

For the human this involves creating a community that recognizes this complex relational balance and creates a community that can sustain not only the stability of the environment but the stability of the community. From its earliest evolution humanity needed to be ultra-observant of the environment and needed to develop communities that could observationally share in unison.

Tool-making that assisted this process became a necessity to not overuse the environment and limit the potential disruptions that all lifeforms do to the stability of the environment in which it survives. For humans this meant creating tools that were beneficial but as useful as necessary to impact the environment as minimally as possible.
So ineffective uses of of its tools in relationship to this complex relationship necessitated that all of the community’s participants needed to be able to not only observe the environment in which they resided but the impact they were having on that sustainable environment so everyone needed to be able to share their observations with each other about their observations of their environment but their observations of their communal impact upon the environment.

Our brains developed in this manner and its large central lobes are primarily purposed for this sharing. Understanding how to create an environment of communal sharing that stressed these needs created potential exaggerated human propensities of their own importance. So these “primitive”, or primary human communities needed to develop not only a complex relationship with their environment, but a complex relationship between the individuals within the community that both emphasized the necessity of each individual’s essential importance in sharing their observations with the others within the community but developed methodologies that deemphasized any exaggerated importance of one within the community over another within the community.

This balance was not egalitarian in the sense of equal use of resources, but developed by recognizing everyone in the community essential needs be met by supplying all of the needs to all of the individuals so that no one suffered an insufficiency of needs and the community as a whole maintained, as much as possible, the stability of both the community and the stability of the environment to continue those needs.

From this complex situation humans learned by developing communities that didn’t prohibit wealth or leadership but prohibited wealth that was not shared, and wealth accumulation was possible only by those who did the most sharing. In this manner no more was taken from the environment than could be destabilizing to the community within the environment and leaders were followed by how effectively that managed to maintain both as well as their ability to the limits of what changes in use of the environment could be maintained and when changes in use of the environment should be enhancing to the stability of the environment that limited its ability to sustain the community within the environment.

Stability did not mean eternity, but it recognized the environment as capable of change that sometimes would require migrating to a different environment, or portions of the community might migrate. The hunter-gatherer myth didn’t, as a rule, ever dominate the human community because humans essentially lived within certain environments, for longer or shorter eras.

The neolithic alteration of the environment did aid humans in maintaining longer settlements with many environments sustaining more abundant resources necessary for human communal sustainability. But it also gave rise to the potentially exaggerated personalities to gather and move into these complex communities. These exaggerated personalities now claimed kingship and superiority not because some humans became more intelligent, but because these exaggerated personalities moved into sustainable communities and used the communities and the resources of the community to benefit them.

This alone could not have sustained itself, but it reframed the human learning complex from recognition of their role as part of a balanced environment and balanced communities that “worshipped” not gods, but the godliness within the essentiality of each element (living and nonliving) within that environment. Humans themselves remained unworshipped as individuals and were in fact discouraged from exhibiting superiority beyond their roles within the community. The leader or shaman was superior in his role, perhaps, but not beyond his role.

These human practices of environmentally recognized equalities became transformed into learning gods were specifically entitled to worship for bringing the rains or the sun became exaggerated gods that supported authority of those who now exaggerated their roles beyond the roles of those whose communities they usurped.

Human learning was refashioned to believe in the rightness of the superior and their destiny to be superior to what that had stolen from both communities and their sustainable environments.

This was never sustainable. Nor was it complex. It was premised on denying individual observation to the law of gods and men and required subservience to these laws of god and man in direct contradiction to the sustainability of the triple-alpha era of creating observably sustainable elements. It is not that the triple-alpha fusing of helium is the era of sustainable stars, but the era within a star that creates the observably sustainable elements that were now abundant when our star system (and others) now formed.

And so earth formed as part of another (or many other) star systems becoming increasingly destabilized while creating the elements that become stable.

So stability,whatever stable elements that do arise and that we have utilized to live upon this earth, are also temporarily stable until our sun itself enters into triple-alpha. But by denying mankind the learning of this, we have created, within mankind, an inability to intelligently understand our non-superiority.

And even if you believe, for whatever reason, that some humans might be somehow more intelligent than others, I cannot imagine anything more unstable, and therefore less intelligent, than believing we are somehow superior to the elements that both ourselves and our environment consist of. But in order to retrain human minds this is exactly what we are learning in our “advanced” communities.

And one of the most intelligent conceptions of human intelligence was the realization that these personalities who wished to exaggerate themselves and their importance over others were the only destabilizers capable of destruction of the environment and human existence within that environment.

And before devils became the opposite-gods, all folk-myths recognized the essential potential of “evilness” existing within these personalities. Evil can only exist because man himself assumes the guise of superiority over other men, and especially when this develops into the godliness assumption of being superior to the mother while in the womb. Which is exactly what the idea of superiority to nature is suggesting is the genius of man’s intelligence.

Huh!

Please tell me why you are more intelligent than the environment. Admittedly,I am way to dumb to comprehend.

further reading:

MichaelWong, Asymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening: a possible solution to the Fermi paradox?, royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rsif, July 2023

Franz Boas, The Mind of Primitive Man, A Course of Lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute, Boston, Mass., and the National University of Mexico, 1910-1911, THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 1921