The fotbal and Goldberg

 In George Orwell's novel 1984, the population performed a hate ritual: they gathered in public and cursed the enemy of Big Brother: Goldberg.

Where we gather now and shout our hate towards others?

In stadiums.

How to create an evil society

 If people are competitive they will form an hierarchy.

Imagine that you are in an firm.

First rank of the hierarchy will be those who are skilled at their jobs: foremen.

The next rank will be of those who have social ability, who mend conflicts: team leaders.

Then will be those who know politics who forge alliances and bring resources.

In an competition if all skills are equal, the chance and cheating will win the game.

In sport cheating will not bring you far because you status is challenged with every competition, so you have to cheat everytime and this will be noticed 

In politics you have to cheat once to gain power and eliminate your rivals.

I think more you add a level in hierarchy, more you make chance and cheating more important.

More higher the hierarchy is more power it has and more imoral things you have to do reach the Iron throne, and the organisation will become more evil.

With the exception of North Korea, Cambodia most of the evil countries were empires.

Another thing that increases the chances of an evil is haste:

Few years ago the following experiment was done: half of participants were told to go in a build to fetch something and other half were just simply to go.

On their way a confederate fake it that it needed help. Those who had the task to fetch something barely noticed him, the others who were just walked him, help him.

Our chase to get goal blind us from the needs of others.

Football is about tribalism and chaos

 11 players face another 11 players and we elect the team and form a tribe.

Entire nations are organizing around the chaos on the field. 

The spectacle outside pitch is more interesting than the game.

The fans are committed and the organizers are corrupt,like in real History or a real religion.

No surprise that we have a religion of Maradona.

Irrational by design

 The irrationality of a group belief doesn't split the group it reinforce group cohesion.

The sacrifice you make to go against the popular trend makes an member of the group more loyal,if the group performs it's function.

The irrationality of old Religions and irrationality of the extreme left who deny biology are a feature not a bug, they keep the group united against other.

Believing in irrational is a loyalty test.

PS. You would think that America will be free from old gods and irrational beliefs.

After all you don't have an inquisition in America to check your correctness of faith. If you disagree with the elders you just move west.

But what we notice is quite the contrary: an explosion of cults, and irrational beliefs.

To the old Religions some new were invented.

In the old world religion reinforced ethnic identity being Catholic in Iberia meant to be Spanish or Portuguese. Being Orthodox in Balkans meant to be Greek,serb or Bulgarian. The religious Identity reinforced solidarity between different polities.

In US it seems that religion reinforced the in-group solidarity

I think America worth studying to learn more about human nature. The freedom there allowed expression of some characteristics that were repressed by tradition in old world.

What I don't like at modern visual art

 I think the modern art erases the individual.

Old western  painters when they painted a bouquet of flowers, painted every flower, making each one more individualised, more expresive.

After first world war, the personality of subjects was smudged into abstract prototypes.

This is more visible in communist art, where even the individual expression of artist was diluted.

The missing piece

 When the hunters wandered through forests, they be one attentive when birds went silent. A predator was approaching.

When Europeans made the first globes, they noticed blank regions in the Earth, that they stirred their curiosity.

When first periodic tabel of Mendeleev was created, scientist rushed to fill in the empty boxes 

When Craig Venter sequenced the human DNA, would discovered that it didn't know a lot about many unknown DNA chains.

Be watchful of what is missing.

RIP Craig Venter.

Here his last interview:

https://youtu.be/Zxg38eUL5IY?is=y8GeGIwWo_ROUNjh

Why you make more money from telling lies

 To tell the truth is effortless.

To tell lies it is required more work, so the demand for work is higher and you find employment to lie.

That's why the scientific channels don't get enough money but pseudo scientific, conspirației ist channels are awash in money.