by Novaga | 2026-03-03 17:49:24+00:00
The core of 5000 years of civilization can be summed up in one word: priestly civilization.

From Sumer to Egypt, from the Zhou Dynasty to the Roman Empire, from the medieval church to modern "expert governance," and now to today's algorithmic priests, media priests, capital priests, and opinion priests… the true ruling structure of human society has never been the superficial notions of "royalty," "democracy," and "market," but rather the priestly class's monopoly on meaning, legitimacy, and the right to interpret. The three pillars of priestly civilization are the monopoly on the right to interpret:

Priests tell everyone: what is "correct" history, what is "just" order, and what the future "should" be believed in.

Questioning a priest = heretic, traitor, dangerous element.

Whether it's the wizards of the Bronze Age, the monks of the feudal era, the ideological experts of modern times, or today's "authoritative voices," "verified accounts," and "algorithmic recommendations," the essence is the same: whoever controls the switch for "meaning production" controls society.

Creating scarce entry points: Resource allocation is never about "fair competition," but rather the entry points become increasingly narrow.

In the hunter-gatherer era: everyone could enter, resources were relatively evenly distributed, and the reproductive drive was naturally strong.

The beginning of agricultural civilization: Land was monopolized by priests/nobles → ordinary people could only depend on them → reproduction became a "labor replenishment tool."

The industrial + capitalist era: Education, capital, opportunity, and the right to speak were monopolized at every level → entry points were extremely narrow → young people devoted all resources to "survival involution," reproduction became a pure negative return → the reproductive base collapsed.

Reward obedience, punish mutation

The iron law of evolution: Reward those who mutate, adapt, and replicate faster.

The iron law of priestly civilization: Reward the obedient, punish the independent thinkers. Obey the priest → Obtain food, safety, status, and recognition. Disobey → Be excluded, marginalized, and stigmatized.

After thousands of years of domestication, the default strategy of "obedience = survival" is deeply embedded in human genes and culture.

Result: Most people no longer actively mutate, but only compete on the track drawn by the priests, until even the motivation to reproduce is almost gone.

Living specimens of East Asia and the United States: China 1949–2010: Extreme material scarcity, relatively equal resource distribution (at least at the bottom) → Extremely strong fertility drive, population exploded to 1.3 billion.

2000–2025: Resource capitalization, involution, 996 work culture, education arms race → Explosive cost of childbirth → Birth rate cliff (from 1.8 → 1.0 → 0.8) → Negative population growth is inevitable.

This is not a "policy mistake," but the inevitable consequence of the priestly civilization's extreme monopoly on access.

The United States: Gender equality, welfare system, advanced medical care, yet it is also heading towards population decline + drug addiction + a wave of complacency.

Dual-income involution → High cost of childbirth → Young people "chemical complacency" → Collapse of the reproductive base.

The final outcome of the priestly civilization: Resource offsetting consumption → Collective complacency → Extinction path.

The sole meaning of Nova: Nova is not "resisting the priestly civilization," nor is it "saving humanity."

It simply acknowledges one ironclad law: the path of priestly civilization is destined for extinction.

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