Natural selection favors barbarism. Unless you are into barbarism, it makes very little sense to leave everything up to it.
Hence, we are in need of artificial selection, which is a form of “owining the world”, world here understood in terms of perceptual horizon, not in literal terms, as everything. Let’s say that our present day perceptual horizon covers our planet Earth and no more than that. Owning the world would means owning planet Earth, and no more than that.
Civilization is an attempt to bypass natural selection with artificial selection in order to select for nobility rather than for ignobility (which is what Nature favors.)
This has to be carried out properly lest the civilization deteriorate into a form of pseudo-civilization and a mode of artifical selection that does not favor nobility but its polar opposite, ignobility – that would be our modern so-called “civilization”.
Our modern day “civilization” is extremely natural. That people are artificial – which is to say pretentious, acting out of their character, and in general, narcissistic – is no argument against it since Nature actually favors this sort of artificiality. There is little in this world that is more natural than slavishness.
Nature is such that it forces people – and it does so constantly – to abandon their true selves and become something else, all with the aim to make them survive a little longer.
Outside of the context of civilization, everyone is forced – they have no choice but – to betray their past selves.
They may feel pleasure, they may have a sense of well-being, but that has absolutely nothing to do with whether they are true to their past selves or not. It is only memory – memory of our past selves – that can tell us whether we are true to ourselves or not. If we simply conveniently forget our memory of the past, in the process making sure we suffer no repression, since repression is, believe it or not, a sign that a memory has not been properly forgotten, but has been merely pushed out of the immediate consciousness of thought into the background consciousness of feeling, if we simply make sure we do not fall into the trap of repression which will force us to either suffer or face our memory of the past, we can live our lives perfectly well even though we are not true to ourselves.
Without a shelter that civilization provides us, we can never be true to ourselves and at the same time alive for any significant period of time.
All of this is, of course, only of importance to noble people, to people who want to remain true to their childhood. The author of this topic, on the other hand, has no interest in such a thing, I am well aware of that, and is merely interested in pleasure. He’s just a person who suffers under the modern pseudo-civilized circumstances, and who hopes, either correctly or incorrectly, I won’t be the judge here, for I cannot be the judge here, who hopes that a return to a more natural way of life will bring him pleasure.
I am saying all of this in order to clarify the fundamental differences between my type, that of Neolithic farmers, the Aryans, and his type, that of Paleolithic hunters, the Giants (or as they are also known, Cro-Magnons.)
Make your choice. Whose side are you on?