An alien perspective is useful because it is not, at least not obviously, influenced by the ideas that are loose in the world today. - Curtis Yarvin

How do you anesthetize a population? When it reacts normally, convince it that it's being hysterical.

Hominids crave power, and they rationalize it as responsibility. No one ever achieved power by promising to enslave his followers. It is always about improving the world, at least from the perspective of prospective supporters. And it is almost always sincere. Insincere leaders are very rare, because hominids are very good at detecting insincerity. It is much easier to delude others if at the same time you delude yourself.

People think at least as much about breeding each other as they do about breeding animals.