Then stupidville suits you.

Tell me what my agenda was.

yes.

I think I’m going to tune my feed.

I just posted a nice post

I asked for speculations. I received nitpicking.

Then my post was removed. Citing “sealioning and having an agenda”. No details offered about what or how.

But it was suggested that I contact the moderator who removed it if I have any questions.

But the name of the moderator was not provided.

Stupid upon stupid. Stupid membership and moderators. Stupid meat between 2 slices of stupid bread.

You people are too stupid to pour piss out of a boot.

In my state, getting certain government benefits, over the past decade, was a matter of five minutes on the phone with an official.

As of this year it’s a scary maze of a paper application. The online application process is “temporarily out of service”. Conversation with a relevant official is no longer offered. And while you were trying to make sense of all that we stopped your benefits.

What we’re seeing here is a way to stop providing benefits, but without the legislative hassles.

Yes, “humanity” is heavily tied to those hormones. And humanity is also motivated by much other than those hormones. So to conclude that without hormonal influences we would necessarily abandon important projects like “keeping the population maintained” seems rather hasty.

So let’s consider some more interesting results than “we would all just die”. Because no doubt they exist.

Come on, exercise your speculation muscles.

One example of the power of sex hormones : our obsession with titties (and related sexy stuff). A huge amount of popular music and advertising treats that obsession as its foundational strength. A glance of nipple is like lightning. A bared breast becomes the talk of the town. Porn is massive. Why? Because our sex hormones told us to think that way. Whole multibilliondollar industries depend on it. My mind reprogrammed. My aesthetics turned.

I don’t know about you, but I find the idea that my mind has been manipulated like that to be concerning.

And then when it’s an entire population being affected like that. It’s huge. Like beyond the internet scale huge.

I meant sex hormones. Creating this powerful mental influence, coloring how we see and think. Urges to fight and fuck. Aggression. Obsession. All that.

I guess I wasn’t as clear as I thought.

(In my title, I’m trying to be clear yet succinct. Stick to terms everybody can understand. Deliver it all inside 50 characters or whatever the limit is because everybody skips the text. So I’m honing that craft)

Woah, I didn’t know that. Ya I definitely don’t want that stuff running around in my head.

Have you heard the one about St Augustine?

I think that St Augustine cut off his balls. Puberty was coming on. He didn’t like what it was doing to his clarity of mind. So he grabbed the scissors.

He was an impressive guy.

Born 1700 years ago. He adapted Classical thought to Christian teaching and created a powerful theological system of lasting influence. He also shaped the practice of biblical exegesis and helped lay the foundation for much of medieval and modern Christian thought.

So there’s one argument for. If he was born today he might have written a nice video game.

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well aren’t you charming.

I said remove the mental influences of T and E. Not remove T and E completely.

Because powerful uncontrolled mental influences are something that we don’t like.

I swear. It’s like you people actually seek the most combative, problematic interpretation. Is that what you literally do?

The influence of these hormones, it could be likened to being drunk all the time. But everybody’s drunk, so it’s normal.

Maybe later generations will invent a switch or a therapy.

Well now that you are clear as to my point, could you give me your speculations?

There was a whole explanatory block of text after the title that you missed.

I’m referring to the big famous mind-altering hormones. Testosterone, estrogen. The fighting and fucking urge that shapes 99% of politics, advertising and popular music.

We successfully complete many projects that arguably have nothing to do with our hormonal fight/fuck imperative.

Why do you think that the “maintaining the population” project would be different?

Ok I’ll bite. What’s my hidden agenda?

Well now that we’ve survived long enough. What if we did it today? What if we removed the aggression and the fixation on titties and the rest. Just extracted the whole mental influence there.