Carl-Richard

Sometimes people's actions don't match their intentions.

What is really interesting is how this dynamic is able to co-exist with the tendency towards hyper-conformity and militaristic submission to authority. They appreciate strictly regulated and disciplined behavior as long as they agree with it. Free speech is in a sense only seen as a weapon to use against people for whom they disagree with.

You just solved all the world's problems.

Another point on racism being related to fear is there was a study that showed taking a drug that inhibits a certain adrenaline receptor lead to decreases in implicit racial bias. The reason why racism is seen in the lower stages of SD development is essentially because these stages are more egocentric and therefore more fear-based. There is a reason why racists in America say they don't trust black people and that they perceive them as dangerous and "out to no good". It's a well-established fact that if you grow up while being close with people of other races, then you're much more likely to be accepting of other races as an adult. Everything boils down to the fear of the unknown.

@Leo Gura I should've specified that I mean it takes a shot at the "common" materialist notions, but yes it technically just becomes a different type of materialist mindtrap in the end.

There are different degrees and aspects to this phenomena. You might be used to looking at them from a distance, but have you actually held one in your hand? I used to be creeped out about big spiders until I moved into a basement with huge spiders everywhere in my room. Now I no longer find them creepy. Another example is my mother who is a doctor. She is used to examining people's bodies and has a much lower threshold than other peoole for talking about disgusting bodily stuff at the dinner table. This is very interesting because she is usually extremely digust sensitive when it comes to other things like keeping her house clean and personal hygiene. I think the best example of how digust is subject to conditioning is how you are able to take a shit, wipe yourself and flush without constantly fighting the digust response, meanwhile if you see a human turd on the street, you'll most likely find it comparatively unpleasant.

I interpret the idea that we don't see reality but only interfaces as a shot against the materialist's conception of reality. It's not that there is no reality at all, but it's just a way of communicating the deceptive nature of the model. In this model, "interfaces" becomes the new reality. It's still another conceptual mindtrap, but in a sense it's atleast going in the right direction: critiquing absolutistic views and establishing relativity. However, you don't get to Truth by just moving towards more relativity. It only serves as a means to free your mind from limiting perspectives. To truly arrive at Truth, you must at some point start to move out along a new axis: away from concepts and into Being.

Survival.

If there was anything I could take back from what I said, it would be my use of the word "literally". I realized that I accidentally went full zoomer on that one. Everything else I stand for 100%.

I believe the local adaptation that you're talking about is often more culturally determined rather than genetically determined. When humans migrate, they would maybe have to learn new survival techniques (problem solving, tool-making etc.), but that doesn't require much action at the level of the genes, unlike say the adaptive radiation that happens with the introduction of new a species of frogs to an island. Nonetheless, genetic adaptation to the point of constructing novel phenotypes that confer a drastic environment-specific advantage usually takes millions of years. Homo sapiens appeared only 200 000 years ago. All humans are basically equally adapted to their environment at the level of genes, atleast in a behavioral sense.

Then maybe their local adaptation wasn't such a big deal after all?

A theory is that he called them vermin because he associated them with something disgusting, and he was known for having a very strong disgust-response (he liked having things clean). Disgust, fear and hate are different sides of the same coin (let's call it "defilements") . You fear, hate and find disgusting that which you're not used to. "That which you're not used to" inherently carries a dimension of the unknown within it. All defilements stem from the fear of the unknown, and it's directly tied to survival. It's what keeps you alive, and it's why you suffer.

You didn't really have a choice. All the people you would ever meet looked totally like yourself. All humans who live inside the same tribe are for all intents and purposes equally adapted to their environment biologically speaking. The type of adaptation you're talking about would require some drastic genetic dissimilarities, and I think the probability of those encounters would be too low to warrant an introduction of genes associated with assortative mating into the gene pool. What are the odds that a kenyan and a greenlander would ever meet? Extremely low. So low infact that I see no way that there would arise an adaptive mechanism that would account for the potential fitness disadvantages (that is also an assumption) of that encounter.

Fear of the unknown.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

Those are all literally different words for the same thing.

You don't watch somebody sneeze and then analyze that sneeze along the lines of whether or not it's something you should use as a guiding principle in your own life etc.. In other words, it's kinda trivial.

@Tim R It's just that some statements are less meaningful than others and some are more or less fitting in a given situation. It seems like you're trying to extract meaning out of "how can you be so dumb?" as if it was a non-duality oneliner.

Logic Lord please

What he said.

I don't understand.

This is 99% of people. Not much you can do about that.

You're blowing this way out of proportion.

Descriptions like these can be applied very broadly without having very much to do with Yellow.

A name is a concept. A hand is a concept. Belief is conceptual. That is the connection you're looking for.