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Long-term perspective

Humanity has experienced two major revolutions.

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

La seconde est la révolution industrielle, résultant de l'adoption de la méthode scientifique moderne. Elle se concrétise par le bon technologique des XIXᵉ et XXᵉ siècles. Il devient alors techniquement possible de se protéger du grand fléau qu'est la famine, et il sera bientôt possible d'envisager un monde sans travail pour la grande majorité alors que cela était précédemment réservé à une petite élite.
However, the required social transformation brought about by this second revolution has been delayed. The communist model proposed in the 19th century proved not only inadequate but also sterilized public debate for almost the entire 20th century. Nevertheless, during the second half of the 20th century, scientific sociology laid the foundations for building a social model suited to the new human condition. This model is presented in the second part of the book From Capital to Reason, which is freely available on this site.

The question of the Holocaust

The First World War, and even more so the Holocaust during the Second World War, have painfully raised the following question once again: What is it in human nature and in social organization that can lead to such horrors?

Until recently, the most accomplished work on this subject was that of Hannah Arendt. However, by the end of 2023, it became clear that her analysis did not go far enough, when the outbreak of war in the Gaza Strip triggered a surge of antisemitism worldwide. Indeed, in the media, intellectuals, and former deportees systematically emphasize the need to strengthen the fight against antisemitism, in the form of Holocaust education, even though it is already taught at three levels of the French school curriculum. We once again fall into the myth that if something is not working, it is enough to do it more in order for it to eventually work. This is an illusion and, therefore, worrying, since it is dangerous.

What is not said is that antisemitism, of which the Holocaust is the climax, is only the tip of the iceberg of generalized nepotism. Indeed, removing the tip of an iceberg without touching its submerged part is impossible. Why, then, is generalized nepotism and the cognitive dissonance that allows its unrestrained expression not pointed out as root causes of the problem? Probably because the various studies on the Holocaust have not gone far enough in their analysis. In fact, the most advanced concept proposed by Hannah Arendt, 'the banality of evil,' merely presents Adolf Eichmann as a simple ambitious bureaucrat, without further analyzing his deeper motivations, to what extent they are general, and how they could be channeled through education and political organization. Why did she stop her analysis halfway on such a fundamental question? Very probably because our elites, who are, for the most part, no longer racist in the early 21st century, still live in a social world structured by generalized nepotism and cognitive dissonance. This constitutes a powerful mental obstacle both to the research of intellectuals and scholars and to the public dissemination that is now necessary and urgent, given that populism is once again at the doors of power in the most established democracies. If we want to effectively curb antisemitism, we must promote education on problem-solving, which will reduce generalized nepotism and therefore undermine the foundations of antisemitism.

By scientifically defining what human nature is, particularly the concepts of generalized nepotism and cognitive dissonance, this site and the book From Capital to Reason provide a more advanced response than that of Hannah Arendt. But most importantly, it finally leads to the presentation of a new social organization that is genuinely capable of preventing the recurrence of atrocities such as the Holocaust.