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well, what's the anti-thesis?

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Literally Missing. Presumed, like dark matter. A big unknown variable X to make the calculation work. This presumption is in everything related to the notion of "progress", the whole thing is about competing views of being-in-history. Is history progressing, or is time circular

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A more granular (maybe I'm getting this wrong) way of looking at it:

thesis: current generation of typical animals.

antithesis: predators, nature, etc. which would eat/destroy the current spate of animals

synthesis: the animals of the current generation born with traits which take into account the predators' ways and thus can avoid being eaten, who pass these traits onto the next generation.

Example:

thesis: our ancestors: weak, useless "claws" and teeth

antithesis: saber tooth tigers, the Ice Age

synthesis: ancestors that learned to simulate hibernation by living in caves, and simulated the deficiency in strength and claws and fangs with clubs and spears

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Dark matter is like duct tape for so many theories, a get-out of jail free card for bad consensus science.

On that topic, methinks that sudden divergent genetic changes, including new species formation, are brought about by extreme changes in solar radiation, especially during geomagnetic fluctuations. Or at the least, highly influenced by it. I have read several studies showing that this may be the case. With that being said, it is audacious to think we really know much of anything. Certainty is the death of wisdom. Enjoyed the article as always. Well done.

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I'd be interested in hearing your analysis of "The Last Duel".

Those shots of the nobles in the audience during the titular fight made me think the movie was actually a commentary on how women are used to subvert/seize power. Not by the lowest rungs of the social order, but by the third-highest rungs getting rid of the second-highest.

Basically, when the aristocrats got tired of being strong-armed by Adam Driver, they used sexual impropriety as a means to overthrow/kill him.

Your analogy of Me Too works well, because that's how the communications industry got rid of its executives.

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I havent seen the movie, I'm just basing this on what I've heard other people say about it, and trying to get away with it

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