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general_biology/mass-extinctions.md

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+- -445M Ordovician-Silurian extinction
+  - 49–60% of marine genera and nearly 85% of marine species
+  - Diversity gradually recovered to pre-extinction levels over the first 5 million years of the Silurian period.
+- -372M Late Devonian
+  - oceanic anoxia
+  - Oil source!
+- -252 M Permian–Triassic  
+  - 96 percent of marine species died
+  - massive volcanic eruptions in Siberia.
+  - global warming left ocean animals unable to breathe.
+- -201.4M Triassic–Jurassic (Tr-J)
+- -66M Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg)
+  - Asteroid hit
+- 0 Holocene / Anthropocene
+  - Human driven

sapiens/branches/Aryan/satem/indo-iranian/indo-aryan/jAti-varNa-practice/v1/articles/ritual_priesthood.md

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+Source: [TW](https://x.com/GhorAngirasa/status/1032664565056589824)
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+"brahmanism/brahmanical religion" are just dysphemisms for core features of Hindu polytheism:
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+1. Deep reverence for rituals & ritual specialists (the "priests") 
+2. intuitive recognition of the plurality of categories/distinctions, 
+3. From 1 & 2: Value for formalism/hierarchies
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+These 3 features are neither unique to brAhmaNas nor are they somehow "bad". The beauty & complexity of polytheist ritual was framed in missionary discourse as perverse "Priestcraft" (invokes the connotations of 'witchcraft')
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+Ritual, as a category of thought, is not a brAhmaNa monopoly in Hindu dharma. Every jAti had its priesthood & ritual tradition. But, like it or not, it was the brAhmaNa spearheading the preservation of the essential character of Hindu polytheism. In every great polytheist civilization, it was the respective priesthood that generated intellectual impetus for sustaining the overall "spirit" of the old religion, even as local & household cults flourished in their own spaces as miniature versions of the grander priesthoods.
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+That role in Hindu society was that of the brAhmaNa. He had to be undermined and vilified. When I said that these features are not only related to brAhmaNas, I meant that there was a whole host of jAtis which possessed ritual expertise & specialists.
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+Consider this example: The paRaiya priests of kerala. One sees many "brahmanical" memes (Basic mantrashAstra syntax: svAhA, the kavacha "format" of placing various beings on various sides of oneself, etc) being skillfully combined with their own deities/ideas.
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+The bauddha-s of nippanadesha borrowed generously from our mantrashAstra, the basic structure of homa ritual (goma) & even our deities . These "brahmanical" memes are what prevented bauddham there from becoming the counter-religious nuisance it became in other instances.
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+Western scholars did not attack only the brAhmaNas & the grand, complex, beautiful & often baroque conceptions of rituals, deities, mantras, mantras as deities and what not as “priestcraft” or “regressive superstition”.

sapiens/branches/articles/MT/subversion.md

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+Source: [TW](https://x.com/blog_supplement/status/1869256707030835207)
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+In a discussion with a friend, we wondered if: the Anglo-Abrahamistic (the Brits and CIA) intelligence agencies are best at sowing discord in the targeted nation  
+by inciting malcontents into rebellion and then arming them.  
+The pretamata is often used as a wedge in the process. 
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+In contrast, the rUs were more effective in the art of raising agent provocateurs and effective assassinations. 
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+The mUlavAtUla-s appear to have inherited their tradition primarily from rUs side, where some of their cousins were active.

sapiens/society/geopolitics/articles/MT/energetics.md

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+title = "Energetics"
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+Source: [TW](https://x.com/blog_supplement/status/1868882385455964456)
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+## Industrial revolution
+The Industrial Revolution was like a Permian extinction level event for many peoples around the world. Many parts of the world have still not entirely come to terms with it: it either created new faultlines or exacerbated old ones and continues to do so. 
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+### Artisans
+It was particularly brutal on the artisanal groups. Only these Japanese, to a degree, were able to balance this assault on their artisanal guilds. In India, it destroyed the service castes: leaders like the faux mahAtman never understood its real significance. 
+
+### Beneficiaries
+In contrast, certain castes/groups were either unaffected or enhanced by it. The English elite went through it with much diminution and a degree of enhancement despite facing societal degeneration. 
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+The Adyunmatta-s had a bonanza, but ironically, they also contributed to the explosion of rudhironmAda as a reaction to it. In India certain jAti-s weathered it like the English elite while others went down. 
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+India, as an old nation, had a huge downside from it, while America, as a young nation, saw a certain upside from it.
+
+## AI
+One of the questions that one frequently hears these days is whether AI will cause the same. Like the original IR, there will be phases. When people saw Watt's engine or read Sadi Carnot's papers, many probably did not think there was a revolution on the horizon. One could slip into such an attitude with AI.  While energetics remains a constraint, we are increasingly inclined to have a grim sense of it though the timeline still remains quite unpredictable. 
+
+## Reaction unmAda-s
+One question that we are unable to nail down properly is whether it will spawn a reaction like rudhironmAda. We believe that will happen but the shape of it is what we are finding hard to prognosticate. The degree of its success of course depends on whether it will subvert whole nations like the rUs or the shUlapuruSha-s and which would be those nations. The cognitive landscape of India combined with the more traditional millennium old problem of the older unmAda-s suggest that it will add new downside those introduced by the IR.
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+Continuing on this train of thought and the comparison with rudhironmAda, we find the following rather interesting: 
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+1. though rudhironmAda originated in shUlapuruShIyadesha which was at the vanguard of the second phase of the Industrial Revolution (the chemistry revolution) it took root in the weakly industrialized rUs. Thus, the place of origin of an unmAda might not be the same as where it takes deep root. Instead, a short-lived mirror image formation of National Socialism emerged among the shUlapuruSha-s. Likewise, we know that the unmAda-s emerging in reaction to AI will likely emerge in USA but where it will take over a country is unclear.
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