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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 of social organization, transitioning from small hunter-gatherer groups to villages, cities, and empires.

The second is the Industrial Revolution, resulting from the adoption of the modern scientific method. It materializes through the technological boom of the 19th and 20th centuries. It thus became technically possible to protect oneself from the great scourge of famine, and it will soon be possible to envision a world without work for the vast majority, whereas this was previously reserved for a small elite.
However, the transformation of social organization required by this second revolution is lagging. The communist model proposed in the 19th century proved not only unsuitable 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 reliably 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 for free on this site.

The issue of the Shoah

The First World War, and even more so the Shoah during the Second World War, painfully brought up the following question once again: what is it, in human natureand social organization, that can lead to such horrors?

The most advanced work on this subject was until recently that of Hannah Arendt. Yet, the fact that their analysis does not go far enough becomes clearly apparent at the end of 2023, when the outbreak of war in the Gaza Strip triggered a surge of antisemitism worldwide. Indeed, in the media, among intellectuals, and among former deportees, there is a systematic emphasis on the need to strengthen the fight against antisemitism through Shoah pedagogy, even though it is already present at three stages of the French school curriculum. Once again, the myth is perpetuated that if something is not working, it is sufficient to do more of it for it to eventually function. This is illusory, and therefore worrying, because it is dangerous.

What is not said is that antisemitism, of which the Shoah is the climax, is only the tip of the iceberg of generalized nepotism. Moreover, eliminating the tip of an iceberg without addressing the submerged part is impossible. Why, then, is generalized nepotismnot pointed out, and cognitive dissonance that allows its unrestrained expression, as the root causes of evil? Because various studies on the Shoah, which did not pursue the analysis to its conclusion, did not do so. Indeed, 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 deep motivations, how general they are, and how to channel them through education and political organization. Why, then, stop halfway on such a fundamental question? Very likely because our elites, who are largely no longer racist at the beginning 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 in the study by intellectuals and researchers, and in dissemination to the general public, which is nevertheless necessary and now urgent, as populisms are again at the gates of power in the most established democracies. If we want to effectively reduce antisemitism, we must engage in pedagogy on problem-solving, which will reduce generalized nepotism and thus undermine the foundations of antisemitism.

By defining scientifically what human nature is, and in particular the concepts 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 preventing the reproduction of atrocities such as the Shoah.