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Long term perspective

Humanity has experienced two great revolutions.

The first is the Neolithic revolution, resulting from the invention of agriculture a few thousand years ago. It led to a complete upheaval in social organization, moving from small groups of hunter-gatherers to villages, cities and empires.

The second is the industrial revolution, resulting from the invention of the modern scientific method. It is materialized by the technological good of the 19th and 20th centuries. It then becomes technically possible to protect ourselves from the great scourge of famine, and it will soon be possible to envisage a world without work for the vast majority whereas this was previously reserved for a small elite.
However, the change in social organization required by this second revolution was slow. The communist model proposed in the 19th century proved not only unsuitable, but it also sterilized public debate throughout almost the entire 20th century. However, during the second half of the 20th century, scientific sociology laid the foundations for surely building a social model adapted to the new human condition. This model is presented in the second part of the book. From capital to reason, which is made available free of charge on this site.

The question of the Shoah

The First World War, and even more so the Shoah during the Second World War, brought to the fore the following question: what, in human nature and social organization, can lead to such horrors? ?

The most accomplished work on this subject until now was that of Hannah Arendt. However, the fact that they do not follow through with the analysis becomes clear at the end of 2023, when the outbreak of war in the Gaza Strip induces an outbreak of anti-Semitism throughout the world. Indeed, in the media, intellectuals, and ex-deportees, systematically highlight the need to strengthen the fight against anti-Semitism, in the form of Shoah pedagogy, even though it is already present in three stages of the French school curriculum. We once again continue to maintain the myth that if something doesn't work, we just need to do it more and it will eventually work. This is illusory, and therefore worrying, because it is dangerous.

What is not said is that anti-Semitism, of which the Shoah is the climax, is only the tip of the iceberg of generalized nepotism. However, making the emerged part of an Iceberg disappear without touching the submerged part is impossible. Why then do we not point to generalized nepotism, and the cognitive dissonance which allows its unbridled expression, as the root causes of evil? Because the various studies concerning the Shoah, which have not gone through with the analysis, have not done so. Indeed, the most advanced notion proposed by Hannah Arendt, the banality of evil, is content to present Adolf Eichmann as a simple ambitious bureaucrat, without further analyzing his deep motivations, to what extent they are general, and how to channel them through education and political organization. Why then stop on such a fundamental question? Most likely because our elites, who on the whole are no longer racist at the start of the 21st century, still live in a social universe structured by generalized nepotism and cognitive dissonance. This constitutes a very powerful mental obstacle both at the level of study by intellectuals and researchers, and at the level of dissemination to the general public, however necessary, and now urgent since populism is once again at the gates of power in democracies. the best established. If we want to effectively reduce anti-Semitism, we must do problem-solving education, which will reduce widespread nepotism, and thus undermine the foundations of anti-Semitism.

By defining on scientific bases what human nature is, and in particular the notions of generalized nepotism and cognitive dissonance, this site and the book From capital to reason provide a more advanced answer than that of Hannah Arendt. But above all, this finally leads to the presentation of a new social organization, effectively capable of avoiding the reproduction of atrocities such as the Shoah.