This is Stefan Molyneux, host of Free Domain, the largest and most popular philosophy show in the world,

freedomain.com, and this is the greatest essay in the history of philosophy.

Humanity evolves through accumulated wisdom from endless trial and error.

This wisdom has been transmitted through fiction, stories, superstitions, commandments, and ancestor worship,

which has created the considerable problem that these fictions can be easily intercepted

and replaced by other lies.

Children absorb their moral and cultural wisdom from parents, priests, and teachers.

When governments take over education, foreign thoughts easily transmit themselves to the young,

displacing parents and priests.

In a fast-changing world, parents represent the past and are easily displaced by propaganda.

Government education thus facilitates cultural takeovers, a soft invasion that displaces existing

thought patterns and destroys all prior values.

The strength of intergenerational cultural transmission of values only exists when

authority is exercised by elders. When that authority transfers to the state, children adapt to the new

leaders, scorning their parents in the process. This is an evolutionary adaptation that resulted

from the constant, brutal takeovers of human history and prehistory.

If your tribe was conquered, you had to adapt to the values of your new master's or risk genetic death through murder or ostracism.

When a new overlord who represents the future inflicts his values on the young, they scorn their parents and cleave to the new ruler in order to survive.

Government instruction of the young is thus the portal through which alien ideas conquer the young as if a violent overthrow had occurred

which in fact it did since government education is funded through force.

This is the weakness of the cultural transmission of values.

By using authority instead of philosophy, reason and evidence, new authorities can easily displace the accumulated wisdom of thousands of years.

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