Let's first talk about the instrumental purpose of intolerance.
Intolerance makes people straighten up and fly right. It makes people conceal they're inadequacies. It makes people "mask" their mental health issues. It makes gay people lead straight lives. It makes mentally ill people pretend to be functional, get married, and have children. In short, intolerance keeps people with bad genes in the gene pool. Human society did this for reasons that will become apparent in a minute.
Tolerance does the opposite. It baits people with bad jeans into exposing all their inadequacies so that women can judge them and refuse to have children with them. Paradoxically these same women also don't believe in having children and want to lead the "child-free lifestyle." Tolerance is all the runts of the litter encouraging each other to expose their weaknesses and inadequacies so they may be judges lacking.
Males who make the mistake of believing that tolerance is real don't breed unless they already have hot and handsome genetics. Only females get to enjoy the benefits of tolerance, although these benefits are superficial and a false economy. What is a false economy? A false economy is when you buy a cheap pair of shoes that wear out quickly and have to buy more shoes as a result. A false economy is when something looks cheap but actually cost more in the long term. Tolerance is a false economy for females, because in the short term, yes, men will fuck them no matter what—a hole is a hole—but in the long term men don't want to marry a vegan women with two mental diseases, a chronic illness, and a lot of excuses. They don't really want to breed with her and certainly can't stand living with her. The "child free life" becomes a glamorous cope for rejection.
Why do people do this? Well if you think about it, there are two worlds. There is the world prior to the invention of birth control and the world after it. These worlds operate in two completely different modes. Before birth control life is a death struggle against malthusian conditions. The population is going to constantly grow and you're going to outgrow your resource base. You're going to have to conquer your neighbors in order to get food to feed your growing population. In this situation you want to keep as many people in the gene pool as possible, you want even the most inadequate person to have children. It doesn't matter if they have bad genetics because the next famine or war will take care of that. It's not your job to judge whether they have good or bad genetics. Nature is so harsh, so brutal, so utterly terrifying, that all you have to do is sit back and let nature do its work. Nobody has to organize a regime of tolerance. Everybody is incredibly harsh and expects you to straighten up and fly right and conceal your mental illnesses and this thing and the other thing. Who knows? Maybe that bipolar guy who's occasionally manic will lead his nation to victory. Nature is the one that decides. This is the first mode of human existence, it is Mode 1, and it strives with futility to defeat nature while brutal natural selection does it's work.
But then you invent birth control and the population is no longer growing relentlessly. This means you're no longer outstripping your resources, famine and war are no longer inevitable. For a brief period of time in the 1980s you enjoy a blissful period of complete relaxation of both nature and society's rules. They're still sort of telling you to straighten up and fly right, you're still being encouraged to conceal bad genetics. Women are still normal and don't necessarily have a bunch of mental illnesses. Or at least they don't look like they have a bunch of mental illnesses. Whatever the case, they're more or less tolerable to be around. They are nice, and feminine, and demure, and caring. The men are basically competent, and heroic, and functional with money. You think nature has been banished so you get the best of both worlds, but little do you know you're entering the era of Mode 2.
In Mode 1 they force you to stay in the gene pool and nature kills you off if you're inadequate. In Mode 2 they usher as many people out of the gene pool as possible since nature is no longer doing it. Mode 2 weaponizes tolerance to remove mutants from the gene pool. It baits people into advertising their inadequacies. It kind of makes sense that the baby boomers would sabotage their own mutant offspring. In Mode 2 the whole culture is low-key subversion.
But Mode 2 suffers from a bunch of problems. One is that because of birth control the population is imploding and subverting everyone is going to drastically exacerbate that. This could lead to extinction if not careful. The second is that it is untethered from reality. How do we know the bipolar guy is genetically inadequate? He might have stormed at the beaches of Normandy in a previous era. He might have been the most effective killer in his Roman cavalry unit. The doctors tell us what's normal and abnormal. But what the fuck do the doctors know? They won't even deal honestly with the subject of eugenics. And what is eugenics other than natural selection untethered to nature? In the Mode 2 subversion era the 1940s are the hidden standard everyone references since that was the last time selection mattered. Therefore you are worthy of breeding with if you would have fought against Hiller. Why? Because that's the last time natural selection mattered and that's what they did. Or maybe it's just decades of Hollywood propaganda, or maybe the Holocaust really is the thing all ideology should be centered around and against, and no new ideological inventions that are indifferent to it should ever be invented, because the liberal worldview is magnificently perfect and explains the entire universe with zero gaps in knowledge, and nothing better will ever succeed it.
Mode 2 is really a secret other thing called Mode 3. What is Mode 3? It is ideological natural selection. In this system society fragments into competing tribes and cults. Natural selection works by favoring some of these cults and destroying others. The feedback loop is all about having the right mindset for navigating the world. Not necessarily even a functional mindset, not even necessarily a sane mindset. Just "right" enough to get you to breed.
Ideology becomes the point of natural selection and this becomes increasingly true as designer babies and genetic engineering are introduced. In fact an ideology might turn out to be a blind cul-de-sac, meaning that for the first few generations you think you're going in the right direction and everything seems to be going well. A cul-de-sac is a point of termination. You are practicing genetic modifications according to your ideology and it seems to be working fantastically. But this process is recursive and maybe you push one trait too far and the result is you get people who don't want to have children of their own, or who insist on designing their children in maladaptive ways. Mode 3 is all about avoiding both visible and invisible cul-de-sacs. It's not enough to have the right ideology you have to also have the right meta ideology, your ideology has to work not just today but after centuries of recursive self modification.
Of course in all Modes ideology is a weapon to destroy others. In Mode 1 you use ideology to hype up your own tribe to destroy the other. In Mode 2 you weaponize ideology to subvert people you hate, even people within your own tribe, even future generations. In Mode 3 you concentrate the most on having the correct meta ideology for your own survival and treat all ideology with suspicion, especially outside ideologies. The goal is long-term survival and reproduction, you must not only have the right ideology, your children must also want to adopt this ideology without being forced, and it must not lead them into a cul-de-sac of self-termination. It's really really really important to get it right. You might barrow from other ideologies when you see something working. You might even have ideological trade secrets and conduct the religious version of corporate espionage. In the beginning of Mode 3 the landscape is pretty relaxed and it's easy to get a foothold since there aren't any competitors. As time goes on this landscape of competition will become increasingly vicious and cut throat, with ideology crafted lovingly to guarantee the survival of one's own tribe, and counter ideologies crafted viciously to drive opponents to extinction, with spys stealing meta ideological trade secrets, and entryists sent in to confuse and destroy opponents. It goes without saying that public school won't exactly work in this landscape since the ideologies taught to children is itself part of the battlescape. Since Mode 2 is really Mode 3 in disguise it already doesn't work and public school teachers are too often high mutational load subversives who hate children.
The formalized version of this system is some sort of meta-election where first voters choose left or right, then with all the voters (or only the subset that has the majority) chooses another category (libertarian or nationalist if right, socialist or social democracy if they chose left), into increasingly smaller and more fragmented niche ideologies.
Or maybe formalization of the process takes the form of start up cities who's governance continuously forms, fractures, and reforms according to a war of all against all. Even when a monopoly emerges it behooves one to run competing city state or neighborhood or ideological experiments least one fall into complacency and be upstaged by a new arrival. When one buys out and destroys the competition the smart thing might not even be to consolidate, but rather to fracture again on purpose by modifying the opponents ideology / city state / neighborhood into a more potent or healthy form and then strategically replacing some of the population with persons more fit to propagate. In this formalized version of Mode 3 the government landscape itself is reconfigured to facilitate the ideological war of all against all and prevent consolidation, since consolidation is fatal by destroying natural selection.
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