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Leadership as a deterrent to social progress

You’re all insane.  Humans organize themselves into tribes, families, nations, and other assorted social structures.  These structures often define how humans define themselves; we describe ourselves in terms of nationality or supposed race or ethnicity.  But we also define ourselves in terms of being leaders or the lead, shepherds or sheep.  This is a fundamental flaw in civilization and one of the most problematic issues in our social evolution.  The elevation of certain members of society to positions of authority and even worship creates a stratification of society in which there can exist no equality.  Because of this inequality and because of incorporating an economic system into the social structure human beings are permitted to have an elite or subjugated status which may not reflect their actual contribution to society.  Bill Gates did some small amount of coding early on in the Microsoft beginnings but he became a billionaire on the talents o...
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  You’re all insane.   The condition of humanity is the smell of mustard gas and roses.   At once, horrible and beautiful.   Humans have made incredible advances in technology, our understanding of the universe we inhabit and of our place in that universe.   At the same time, we hold powerful allegiances to nation-states, religion, and social dogma.   Humans can hold spurious or completely facetious beliefs in our social systems because there are no negative consequences or those consequences are obfuscated by other dogma.   The same is not true for the physical world.   If I breathe pure hydrogen I will die.   If I submit that as a tenet of a new religion, there is no consequence.   However ridiculous, they are just words.   Reality takes no prisoners, and the physical laws of the universe are non-negotiable.   But I can say almost anything and it will be up to the intellectual sophistication of the audience whether it will be...
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