Occidente ACELERA

 

holy shit
i asked claude to make a video on western civiization pic.twitter.com/8hKEVR1Djs

— vittorio (@IterIntellectus) September 24, 2026

¿Hacia? —Occieente.

Cultural Evolution as Whig History

According to Daniel Dennett (From Bacteria to Bach and Back, p. 309):

 

We are indeed living in the age of intelligent design, and it goes back several millennia—as ar back as we have documentation. The builders of the pyramids knew what they were doing and had articulated goals and plans, which they understood and executed with precision, organizing thousands of human workers in a process not at all like termite castle construction: it relied on top-down control and an impressive level of comprehension. That is not to say that the pyramid builders didn't rely on a massive amount of know-how—memes—that had been refined and optimized by relatively mindless differential replication over earlier millennia. Every generation has a legacy of accumulated knowledge most of which has, by now, been practically confirmed in thousands of applications, including memorable failures by rebels who decided to buck tradition and try other methods and standards. While much of this hard-won knowledge has also been expressed, explained, analyzed, and rationalized in treatises on every imaginable topic, we shouldn't make the mistake of thinking that the authoers of those treatises were often the inventors or designers of the principles and practices they teach. In general, from Aristotle's day to the present, the explanations and justifications of our storehouse of general knowledge are a kind of Whig history, written by the victors, triumphantly explaining the discoveries and passing over the costly mistakes and misguided searches.

In Retrospection:

Cultural Evolution as Whig History

Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA

   

Fridman, Lex. "Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA – Lex Fridman Podcast #331." Video interview with Lex Fridman. YouTube (Lex Fridman) 20 Oct. 2022.* (Artificial intelligence, American character, Government, Economy, Wikipedia, Social media and communities, Pseudonyms, Online identity, Surveillance, Nomadism, Libertarianism, Startup nations, Israel, Science, Computerization, Blockchain, Regulations, Bureaucracy, FDA, Coronavirus, Trump, Reputation, Tests, Feedback, User reviews, Information, Evaluation, Agencies, Pharmaceutical companies, Web 2.0, Data, Medicine and health care, Wokes, Cryptocurrency, Science, Longevity, Disinformation, Fact-checkers, Twitter, Journalism, Web 2.0, Freedom)

https://youtu.be/VeH7qKZr0WI

         2025

 

Fixing all but everything's more complicated than it seems... Eg.:

 

6.07.00. PROPAGANDA ALERT - Savvy Mr. Balaji has nonetheless bought wholesale, lock, stock, and barrel, the Catalonian Nazi-onalist propaganda. Spoiler: CATALANISM is a pernicious parasitical elitist supremacist racket imposed on the Spanish Sheeple by a bevy of TERMINALLY CORRUPT politicians. So don't buy the beauty of this beast, it's a really NASTY one.

—while Balaji buys the romantic sentimental belonging myth, which is the mere husk of the racket. And there is no Catalanism without supremacist racketeering.