Claims

Culture, not technology or economics alone, is the primary driver of history and politics, because how we think and react shapes the way we see the world.

Cosmism was a 1920s Soviet movement claiming that for the revolution to succeed, science must physically resurrect all dead people, with the slogan 'Dead of the world, unite,' but this extraordinary ambition of modern science was subsequently abandoned

The intellectual history of the West can be understood as a braid formed by two traditions: Athens (representing liberated rationality and human freedom) and Jerusalem (representing reverence, piety, and faith in God), which are foundational to the mythology, orientation toward right and wrong, and metaphysical conceptions characteristic of Western culture.

What is unique and remarkable about Greek culture, compared to contemporaneous cultures, is the drive toward secular knowledge—a thorough turnaround from the earlier tradition organized entirely around myths, exemplified by the Greek pre-Socratic physicists and sophists.

The United States is unique in attempting to step outside normal evolutionary dynamics (in-group competition based on relatedness) and foster cooperation based on principle rather than kinship; abandoning this experiment to reinvigorate population-level conflict would mean returning to genocide and war.