Or, it terms I understand:

"Your shit's fucked up."
I said "Doctor, how"
He said "The shit that used to work?
Well, it don't work now."

I’m not a Democrat.

And don’t be patronizing while victim-blaming.

That belief is either pantheism or panentheism.

No man is an island,
Entire of itself;
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.

That’s a 400-year-old take. There are pre-Socratic philosophers and Taoist and Buddhist scriptures with similar messages that are far older (500 BCE or so), and Hindu ones a couple millennia older than those.

It’s a very bad faith (heh) argument to compare god to a mythological creature.

There is no difference.

There was no distinction between atheism and agnosticism until the early 1900s. Bertrand Russell made the distinction to signal that his motivation for not believing was scientific, not dogmatic.

Repetition of patterns at different scales is a sign that some aspects of reality are fractal, not evidence of a creator deity.

It also depends on which area of the brain is injured.

It’s been known for a long time: “I used to be all fucked on on drugs. Now I’m all fucked up on the Lord.”

Already in the early 70s, there were rightwing fundie groups operating in my middle school and high school, ostensibly to “save the souls” of delinquents and burnouts. One was sort of legit but run by well-meaning but misguided fundies. But another of those groups was the Tony Alamo cult. Along with the brainwashing, they regularly raped and beat the kids who got suckered into joining them. I had friends who got involved with them and helped two of them get out-- they got to a commune some friends of mine were in, and were able to go off-grid for a while. One of them got better, the other had a fatal mishap involving PCP a few years later.

Abuse during childhood can also induce PTSD and increase the risk of MAGAt brain. That’s why fascists are so fond of child-beating and other authoritarian parenting practices: it brings in new recruits.

Same happened to my uncle, in his case due to a stroke in the temporo-frontal region when he was in his late 50s. He was a kindhearted man of moderate habits. After the stroke, he went full Mr Hyde, seemingly intent on burning through his retirement in pursuit of cocaine and prostitutes. Luckily for his family, he had another stroke within a year and that was game over.

Yep. Almost certainly “became disillusioned” -> “was told to get her shit together or leave.”

Immanentizing the eschaton is a popular fundie objective, even among those who are too illiterate to know it by those words (i.e., almost all of them).

The contempt of the people it takes to inflict such cranks on us. And look at that, Second Amendment dweebs: we have an oppressive government that’s killing us, and the cosplay militias have either vanished in the haze or have joined the bad guys. How about that.

They’re fraudbros, not techbros.

And here’s how: it doesn’t.

“And today in Kakistocracy Now, we have…”

Nice shout-out, bro. But one of the most powerful manifestations of the class war as it exists in the US is racism, so it’s hard (maybe futile) to try disentangling them. (Which I think you implied in your post-- I’m writing this more as clarification for other readers than as a reply to you).

It is an hypothesis that posits that civilizations are like animals - they are born, mature, age, die, and replaced by their children.

It’s an obvious metaphor with no predictive power, even if it were well-founded, which it’s not. To the extent they can be said to have lifecyces, civilizations have more states than what are listed, “mature” is ill-defined, and “children” makes no sense at all. And what constitutes a “civilization”? Are some forms of human organization civilizations while others are not? Because when I read scholarly works regarding civilizations, they’re almost always empires or imperially-structured religions. And there are countless people in world history who were fortunate enough not to have lived under the heel of such macroparasites.

Don’t assume that what you are observing government do has any connection with the developmental stages of the people involved. You’re not seeing their actual interactions, plans, or lines of authority. You’re seeing what they choose to show, which may or may not be real.

For all we know, it may all be a kabuki show to keep us underestimating them or to provide distraction from the crimes they’re committing.

Focus on actions, not words, and base accountability on that.

So all we have to do is boil the ocean. Thanks for your helpful advice.