How Evil Triumphs (Theoretical Framework)

The Cycle of Cohesion and Power

  1. Crisis & Forced Coordination
    • A small group of people is forced to coordinate in order to survive.
  2. Breaking Taboos
    • They commit taboo or horrible acts that alienate them from outsiders.
    • These acts strengthen their internal cohesion, giving them energy and power.
    • Examples include: genocide, child sacrifice, incest
  3. Rituals & Near-Telepathy
    • Through shared struggle, they develop deep cohesion, even a sense of near-telepathy.
    • Shared rituals emerge, reinforcing identity and unity.
  4. Survival Against the Odds
    • They endure and survive their back-against-the-wall predicament.
  5. Return & Storytelling
    • Once back in “normal” life, they pass on their stories and rituals.
  6. From Survival to Myth-Making
    • Their cohesion, willingness to die for comrades, and shared stories give them the power to create broader myths of society.
    • Core principle: Cohesion and coordination are the most powerful forces enabling people to achieve what they want.
  7. Generational Transmission
    • They pass these stories, rituals, and cohesion to their offspring, who inherit the group’s power.
    • Over time, they become the most powerful groups in society.
  8. Maintaining Power
    • To preserve their dominance, they denounce the spiritual and exalt the material as the only reality.
    • In doing so, they dismiss messengers of God—Plato, Dante, Jesus, Buddha, and others.

This theory maps onto the state of Israel and the Jews fairly well.

  1. Crisis + Forced coordination
    1. throughout history, Jews found themselves under threat
      1. exile (babylon)
      2. persecution (medieval europe)
      3. pogroms (russia)
      4. holocaust
  2. Breaking Taboos
    1. survival for Jews often required breaking norms]
      1. sabbath, kosher laws, circumcision
      2. moneylending, trade, finance
    2. Now they are breaking taboos through genocide of Gaza, 47% whose population is under 18
  3. Rituals
    1. jewish law rituals and study traditions
    2. shared language, texts, and memory of exile
  4. Survival
    1. endured exile, persecution, genocide, etc
  5. Core Stories
    1. exodus, exile, return to zion
    2. zionist project turned political
  6. Myth making
    1. The Jewish willingness to sacrifice for each other (e.g., in underground movements, defense of early settlements, Israel’s wars) created a foundation of societal cohesion.
    2. narrative of a persecuted people returning to their land became a powerful national myth legitimizing the state of Israel
  7. Generational Transmission
    • Jewish identity has been passed on through ritual, story, and education (bar mitzvah, Torah study, holidays).
    • This continuity made the Jewish people unusually resilient, able to “restart” as a people even after dispersal.
  8. Maintain power
    1. cohesion is maintained partly through material reality (military defense, national service, state institutions)

Why this is important

This gives us key insights into power dynamics and helps us understand the different forces at play in our world. Even if we don't believe these groups are morally right, or doing positive things for humanity as a whole, we can see how they have become successful at pursuing their own goals and how they have evolved. We can use this framework/theory to predict and strategize to give us new possibilities to move towards a kinder, more aligned humanity.

Source

I have sourced this theory from Professor Jiang's lecture in the Secret History series.
Link --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlWoqWLm9Q

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start with a small group of people forced to coordinate together to survive
they break taboos and commit horrible acts, which bring others against them, but strengthens their own cohesion and sense of energy and power
they develop great cohesion and almost telepathy. they develop shared rituals
they manage to survive their back-against-the-wall predicament
once they return to normal life they pass on their stories and rituals
this greater cohesion and shared stories as well as being willing to die to save their comrades leads to them being able to have more power to create shared myths of society
this is because cohesion and coordination are the most powerful things for people to achieve what they want
they pass this on to their offspring and become the most powerful groups
to maintain their power, they denounce the spiritual and hold the material as the only real thing, despite messengers of God, such as Plato, Dante, Jesus, Buddha, etc.