This is Part 3 of the Origins of Blue Pill mega article.
Introduction
Part one
Part two
Orientation
We can identify the birth of Greek philosophy as the intellectual breakthrough that established the Masculine spirit and broke the earlier Matriarchy. In this essay, we will discuss the preconditions and the mechanics for such a revolution.
In this article, we already showed that gender dynamics are the central issue of all political systems. This already gives us the first insight on where to look for:
- Philosophy and Social Programming are gender issues: the culmination of Male and Female worldviews.
- Gender issues are tied to politics.
- Therefore, both of them have political realisations.
- Philosophy was born out of an unlikely convergence of political systems.
This is spot on, let’s get to it.
Prehistoric politics
We start by discussing prehistoric politics. The main organising unit for much of human history is the tribe. The tribe is very limiting politically:
- It is bounded by size: Some people use Dunbar’s number.
- It is bounded organisationally: Because of limited size, some political systems can’t be imposed.
- It is bounded by resources: Because a small group of people is limited both in the ability to discover technology and the ability to apply technology.
Therefore, it should come as no surprise that centuries of philosophical debate have concluded the following: the only political system applicable in the tribe is totalitarian democracy.
Totalitarian means all-encompassing, i.e., the political system regulates all aspects of life. Democracy means everyone has a say. Taken together, it is a system that regulates and directs people’s lives through input from everyone. It is intrusive (in the modern sense), but only in terms that the consensus allows it.
Simply put, the tribe needs everyone, so everyone has to have an incentive to cooperate. Everyone has a saying, but everyone also has to surrender to the tribe. The innate constant status competition of humans essentially guarantees that the system will end up regulating all aspects regarding resources and breeding rights, hence becoming totalitarian. However, people cannot reject it because isolation equaled death in the Savannah.
The leader (or Alpha), especially, is no more than a slave to the whole. Any unacceptable behaviour can leave him stranded with the rest of the tribe wandering off. Leadership is conditional and fragile.
Since leadership is fragile, it begs the question: how can a political system maintain itself? It does so in only one way, and it is the same way used by all modern hunter-gatherers and primitives we have ever encountered and documented. It is held together by a system of unwritten laws, a code of ethics, if you will.
This code of ethics is the ruling instrument of the system, we will call it ancient nomos∗ , borrowing Alamariu’s terminology. Nomos stands for “law” in Greek. Think of the whole concept as the law system or social contract for primitives. Let us explain the concept further.
Ancient nomos
This law system operates under the conventions of the tribe over generations. Stories of ancestors pass into legend and get codified. Anecdotes of old and dispute resolutions become immortalized. The tribe as a unit learns from its experiences over time and passes them into virtue.
In particular, because the system is totalitarian, the unwritten law system is also total. It regulates relationships in every setting and stage. It regulates how infants are meant to grow up and be educated, it regulates initiation rites for men, it regulates marriage and sexual copulation.
Individuals get trapped in this system. Because the system is an ethics code, it is therefore moralised. To enforce itself, everything outside of it is deemed heresy, magic, or evil. Questioning the tribe becomes equivalent to siding with evil spirits or opposing tribes.
This idea is supported historically. We have observed that much of the early human culture was created through the phenomenon of schismogenesis: To differentiate themselves, tribes/nations did the diametrically opposite of each other. Think Athens and Sparta in classical Greece, for example. By extension, an individual rejecting the tribe’s belief would automatically put him into the belief system of the neighbouring tribe, hence an enemy.
Therefore, people are raised entirely inside this total system, and they cannot escape it. Its assumptions become the structure of cognition itself, and myth becomes perception.
This is the process in which Blue Pill (Social Programming) was born in the early Matriarchy. Ancient nomos is the Blue Pill itself. It locks the individual into the constructed myth of the tribe.
Here it is fully spelled out. Tribes’ experiences and anecdotes get codified and moralised into a code of ethics. This code of ethics is imposed via shared understanding (for example, shaming) or via religious outlets (for example, transgressions). Because of fragile leadership and innate status competition, this moral code regulates all aspects of life. The trap is now complete, the individual is born into a worldview, a matrix if you will, that cannot escape.
Importantly, ancient nomos is the default system of the human mind. If the tribe is the natural political unit of humans and the tribe operates under totalitarian democracy, then Blue Pill is the natural framework that the mind operates under. The ancient Matriarchy is the default; the Blue pill is the default. The mechanism is laid bare. Square and simple.
Aristocracy – an important political system
We have now arrived at the same question we had in the previous chapter. Such an all-encompassing system, how can it break? How can the road to Philosophy be paved? What mentality shifts need to be present for this to happen?
Aristocracy is the key piece in understanding philosophy. Aristocracy was developed by pastoral people; it is the rule of the best. This observation comes from animal breeding. Breeding the best animals is the way of the pastoralist, so a political system that the best get to rule (and by extension breed, by assigning power to them) is the natural conclusion. Pastoralists turned the way they feed themselves into a political system.
Aristocracy has a consistent pattern in the way it gets established. Nomadic pastoralists conquer settled agriculturalists and impose a two-class system. A ruling class and a slave class. This is the aristocracy being applied: “best animals” get to rule, and worse ones live in want. Of course, the pastoralists are the ruling class and the agriculturalists the slaves.
However, aristocracies have a deterministic lifecycle. Eventually, the Aristocratic elite grows soft and decadent from the abuse of power. This makes society prone to conquering (or collapsing). The society then gets reconquered by new pastoralists, and the cycle repeats.
This observation of the aristocratic cycle originates from the incredible insights of Ibn Khaldun, all the way back in the 14th century.
The mechanism of Aristocracy
Aristocracy is unique because it manifests a reason for differentiating between the two classes. The differentiation between the elite and the slaves is by artificial meritocracy. This is an interesting deviation from other slave-based political systems, but it is consistent with the origins of the political system. Remember, under pastoral rule, only the “best animals” deserve breeding rights, so we need to define what “best” is.
We are interested in the Greek aristocracy, as this one produced philosophy later on. Aristoi (“the best” in Greek) are the ones with Andreia – prowess in battle – and Phronesis – statesmanship. In short, the values of a ruler. A ruler needs to be strong and provide good guidance. Therefore, the Aristocracy self-proclaims legitimacy by being good at ruling.
Proto-Nature
For the purposes of our analysis, we are not interested in how the Aristocracy excuses its merit. We are not interested in whether the Khaldun cycle is fair or if artificial merit is legitimate or not. We are interested, however, in how it views merit.
Merit for Aristocracy is universal. It is not about social convention; merit is results-based, i.e., being a good ruler. It exists beyond society. If someone is a good ruler in a different city, he has equal merit everywhere. The concept transcends the tribe.
Aristoi, the ones with merit, are distinguished in competition (Olympics) and battle. Ancient Greek sources are clear about this. Read poems and heroic stories that they left behind. It is clear in Homer, it is clear in historians, and it is clear from the sculptures and art that they left behind.
This is the first glimpse of what can be called a universal truth. Anyone can theoretically win the Olympics, and anyone can theoretically excel in battle. In particular, the tribe cannot decide who wins competitions and who does well in battle. The individual excels because his nature dictates it.
In fact, let’s go one step further. The concepts of Andreia and Phronesis are about learnable skills. They can be objectively measured and acquired. Any system that ranks men by objective performance necessarily rewards excellence, i.e., the expense of resources to acquire skills. This is what we defined as Beauty in the earlier chapter. Aristocracy, by chasing merit, even if artificial, chases Beauty. That is its universal truth.
Universal truth is not compatible with the Female ideology; it cannot be tied into myth. It is only compatible with the Male ideology; it can only be tied into logic. That is why the concept was so unique and groundbreaking for the Ancient Greeks.
Alamariu very correctly called this objective and measurable property Nature. Indeed, transitioning from a collective and subjective reality to an objective and measurable one is akin to discovering Nature itself.
As we will show, this concept of (still artificial) Nature is the stepping stone to Philosophy.
The roadmap to Proto-Nature
The Dorians from the last chapter imposed the first large-scale Aristocracies. They did it in Greece, they did it in India with the caste system.
But how did they do it? How could they see this “rule of best” over ancient nomos? The answer is through the wolfpack, the band of male aggressive youth. The male-only space.
This is the basis of what made the Dorian society patriarchal. Through the invention of the chariot and horseback fighting, young males got disproportionate power. Young males use this power to reassert themselves into the clan to claim breeding rights (or raid other clans for the same purpose).
This is the mechanism. Through aggression and force, they can resist and fight back against the limiting structure of the tribe and impose their understanding.
Note: the youth’s worldview and understanding are not necessarily better. It’s just their version, but they can impose it.
The birth of philosophy
The birth of Philosophy in Ancient Greece sits at the end of a Khaldun cycle, which was artfully observed by Alamariu.
Nomadic Dorians arrived in Greece around 1800-1600BC. This is our pastoralist group. They made a base in northern Greece and proceeded to conquer the settled Minoans.
The Dorians imposed an Aristocracy, with its proto-nature concepts of merit. Here are some examples of how this merit or “proto-nature” was observed in culture. In Homer, Achilles (best by nature) disputes with Agamemnon, the Mycenaean king (ruler by convention – the ancient nomos). Hercules (best by nature) takes on Eurystheus, the king of Tiryns (ruler by convention). Perseus (Male spirit) ventures into the Aegean to slay the Medusa (Female spirit).
The whole framework we explained in the previous chapter applies exactly here. The patriarchal Dorians, by the concept of proto-Nature, were battling the settled Minons operating under the old Matriarchy. The Nature vs Nomos that we observe is exactly the Male and the Female spirits scrapping it out.
When the cycle reached its conclusion, i.e., when Aristocracy became decadent and collapsed into Oligarchies, Democracies, and Tyrannies, philosophers took this merit-based Nature and extended it to discover the true Nature of the world. The objective and immutable truth.
That is the Birth of Philosophy. Artistocracy introduced the concept of Nature, and philosophers mapped it into the actual world. This is how Male logic came to be applied in explaining the world, in explaining Nature.
But let us put the implications of this into perspective. This immutable truth preys on ancient nomos. Nature is the enemy of ancient nomos. Because if reality is to exist objectively, then it overrides the artificial conventions of the tribe. Philosophy is the natural enemy of the Blue Pill. The Blue Pill dissolves under empirical truth.
This is exactly what the modern Red Pill did for gender dynamics. This is the mechanism we used to dissolve dating delusions: empirical and objective truths.
A story retold
What are the outcomes of this 4-chapter series? Let’s, dear reader, repeat what we have just discussed.
- In the beginning, humans were living in a state of nature.
- The natural inclination is Matriarchy.
- Life ruled over ancient nomos, the all-encompassing Blue Pill.
This is the default of human nature. This is society when left to its devices. The improbable way of escaping this condition:
- The only force able to break ancient nomos is the male band – the Wolfpack.
- The only way to break ancient nomos is through the discovery of nature, Philosophy, and Science.
- The guiding light is Beauty.
There you have it, let that sink in.
This is Part 3 of the Origins of Blue Pill mega article.
Introduction
Part one
Part two
Orientation
