We did not originate in Sameness.

I can't really take credit for the idea of Sameness as a goal or a philosophy. Lois Lowry's award-winning JV novel, The Giver, details a society centered on Sameness. Every aspect of each person's life is carefully measured and controlled by a central governing authority. All possible differences have been erased from human society. Not only are there no differences in physical appearance, such as hair, eye, and skin color; the people are genetically engineered to literally see the world in shades of grey. Color itself has been removed from the world - not by erasing the existence of color, but by erasing our ability to perceive it.

The goal in all this is Sameness, because Differences cause problems. Differences lead to conflict and disagreement. Differences make it possible for people to do the "wrong thing." Differences add far too much nuance to our material reality. When everyone conforms to a single standard of Sameness, what is right and wrong can be clearly defined and enforced.

The real message of The Giver is that we aren't living when our lives aren't in our own hands, when all possible outcomes are accounted for and proactively mitigated. Enforced Sameness, by definition, deprives individuals of their own identity. Each human is reduced to an identical cog in a self-feeding machine.

More crucially, Sameness requires tyranny to maintain. In The Giver, children are discouraged from asking too many questions, and the town elders keep many secrets from the common people to maintain the illusion of Sameness. In our own history, all attempts to unite disparate groups of people under one banner - be it social, religious, economic, political, or anything else - has required violence to establish and maintain dominance. This alone is proof positive that humans did not originate in Sameness. If we originated in Sameness, we should naturally adapt toward a return to our natural state. Instead, it's provably impossible to ensure perpetual peace among disparate ethnic groups.

What is Sameness?

What does this really mean, in our practical reality? What is this so-called "Sameness"?

Sameness is the idea that every human on Earth shares enough in common that our differences are exclusively superficial, and can therefore be conquered and transcended to establish worldwide unity among all peoples.

If our differences are only skin-deep, and our differences are the source of persistent conflict and violence in the world, then the next logical step is to promote the deconstruction and erasure of our differences, so we can all live in peace and harmony - in Sameness. This is the central thesis of Marxism, modern progressivism, postmodernism, and leftism. It is also the central thesis of Christianity.

In reality, our differences run far deeper than what we can perceive with our five physical senses. We are not all the same inside. We are different, inside and out. This isn't a bad thing, though! It's a beautiful thing! Our differences are what make each nation and tribe of people unique, distinct, and special.

Origins in Sameness or Difference?

The most commonly believed dogma about our origins as humans is that of Darwinian evolution. The theory claims that humans didn't start out as humans. Instead, we started out as some sort of lesser life form. Originally, this was presumed to be a primate, like the great ape or chimpanzee.

As scientific discoveries have expanded our understanding of the reality we inhabit, the basic theory that we evolved from a lesser life form has further extrapolated that we evolved from decreasingly complex life forms, right down to a single-celled protozoa of some kind.

The theory of evolution presupposes that humans originated in Sameness - that there is a single point of origin for our species, from which all other humans spawned. This is consistently reflected in how new evidence is presented to the public: a given set of human or "proto-human" remains is established as the link for all humans everywhere for all time.

This assumption is based on nothing concrete, and it is not a scientifically-proven claim by any stretch. Like all religions, adherence to evolution's unfalsifiable and unverifiable claims is a necessary foundation for interpreting all available and future evidence.

What if evolution...isn't accurate at all? What if our understanding of adaptation within a species can't actually be extrapolated to conclude that all life forms necessarily originated from lesser and lesser life forms? What if humans have always existed, and our differences have always existed?

Modern genetic research posits that this or that "genetic anomaly" which produced some meaningful outward change - like a change in eye color or hair texture, or lactose tolerance - appeared spontaneously and inexplicably. We can't possibly make such a conclusion from our evidence, which amounts to degraded fragments of genetic material (DNA, etc.) that only tell a tiny part of their story. These assumptions by genetic researchers have become "fact" for most, which means new information is always interpreted through the lens of these presuppositions.

Thus, since we must have all evolved from a single point of origin, all genetic differences were spontaneous mutations that didn't previously exist.

What if this isn't true? What if we were once more different and distinct than the ethnic groups which exist today? What if our differences have always existed, and there is no primal "proto-human" from whom all modern humans originate?

We aren't all the same. We aren't all the same today; we weren't all the same a hundred thousand years ago. We've never been genetically united as a single race of creatures. We've always been different - fundamentally and essentially different.

This claim requires faith, as all unfalsifiable, unverifiable claims do. However, I believe it to be as rational as a claim based on faith can be: we are not the same today. There is no empirical evidence that we used to be more similar around the world than we are today. Ergo, our differences have existed as long as we have existed, until evidence can conclusively prove otherwise.

It's a radical idea, to be sure. We've all been taught that all humans originated from proto-humans in Africa, but there is really nothing to support this claim. It largely depends on presuppositions regarding the origins of humanity that are, ultimately, based in Judeo-Christian scripture (the Torah and its Genesis narrative existed as Jewish scripture before it was canonized by the Christian church as part of the words of god himself, and can correctly be characterized as "Judeo-Christian").

Our ancestors didn't assume a common origin for all mankind until the spread of universalist ideologies of Sameness. It's only when we're taught the moral and ethical imperative to erase our Differences that we're led to believe we share one, universal origin.

Human Worth as a Function of Sameness

This is an extraordinarily difficult concept for the average modern white person to understand. We've long been taught that things like intelligence and income potential define the basic human worth of a person, when nothing is further from the truth.

That means that people can't "become worthless" over time. It means that your worth as a person is not based on your accomplishments, failures, skills, incompetencies, abilities, inabilites, or anything else you do in your entire life. We aren't meant to all be the same, so the fact that we're not cannot possibly be a justification for devaluing others - as individuals or collectives.

This also means you do not need supernatural intervention to have worth. Christianity falsely teaches that your worth is derived from your acceptance of the gospel message. Your worth exists because you exist. You are not meaningless without Jesus; your life has meaning because you are alive!

Sameness in Culture and Global Politics

Our innate differences are why universalism and globalism have been such catastrophic failures throughout recorded human history. Every time anyone has attempted to "unite" completely disparate nations or tribes of people under a single banner, it has led to persistent conflict and violence between warring groups of people who are arbitrarily expected to live in peace together as one nation.

This is no accident. The reason these ethnic conflicts persist, even in 2024, is not because people are sinful, evil is in the world, or someone external is making them do it. It's because we're not all the same, and some of our differences render us fundamentally incompatible with each other.

Nations exist to preserve their people, not to expand their reach to become empires. At some point, we run into a wall, against which no more compromise can be made in the name of growth, because our innate and natural differences cannot be erased.

This means we must preserve the existence of distinct and sovereign nations, who answer to nobody but themselves, and have no obligations to anyone but themselves. We cannot expect the world's nations to unite in common cause under a single banner of any kind. We are simply too different.

Each nation must protect its own existence and its own people, in its own homelands. This is the only way we can possibly permit Differences in the world, without also constantly engaging in senseless bloody conflict.

This was the key legitimate grievance which drove decolonization efforts, starting in the 20th century. While it may be credibly argued that many of the individuals involved at the top of political movements, and in establishing new governments to oversee decolonized countries, were not acting in the interests of the natives of those nations, the fact remains that those natives have a right to their sovereign existence in their own homelands.

We are not all the same: this is explicitly why the entire world doesn't actually want to be colonized by any race, be they European, American, Chinese, or anything else. It's why we can't "just get along" with people who are nothing like us. It's why culture is so different in each nation on Earth, and why supposedly unifying ideologies - like Christianity and Islam - are practiced so dramatically differently worldwide. It's also why those same unifying ideologies have inevitably relied on violence and tyrannical oppression to ensure their dominance in the hearts and minds of the masses.

Sameness in Religion

Abrahamism has, without question, been the single greatest unifying ideology in recorded human history. That is in part because of Abrahamism's habit of erasing historical records preceding its conquest of nations of people. As a people is converted to Christianity, they are taught that their "old ways" were evil and wicked, and it's best to erase them for the good of the people, so they don't falter and return to the evil, apostate ways of their own flesh-and-blood ancestors.

In this way, evangelizing branches of Abrahamism - both Christianity and Islam - unify the people's very history. Every element that is preserved is affected, which we can easily see by the Christian elements added to pre-Christian pagan myths and scriptures, such as Beowulf and the eddas of Northern Europe.

Beyond this revisionism, these religions very clearly establish universal Sameness. Both declare that all humans are equally wicked and equally in need of salvation. Both declare their gospel is the only gospel which assures an individual's salvation from their naturally depraved state. This is, and has always been, a form of equity doctrine.

Where Marxism and globalist socialism demand universal socioeconomic equity, through global wealth, land, and population redistribution schemes, Christianity and Islam demand universal moral equity, by assigning the same moral value to all humans. Rather than redistribute wealth, these ideologies engage in a form of redistribution of morality: no matter how innately good you are as a person, you are just as depraved and in need of salvation as the most vile person imaginable. When we die, nothing in our lives has any bearing on the fate of our immortal souls, except whether or not we accepted salvation (whether through Jesus or Muhammad is immaterial here).

This can't be described as anything but an equity scheme. The worst people on Earth are equated with the best people on Earth, and an individual's actions and choices are immaterial to their existence. Even worse, moral equity necessarily reduces us all to the worst of the worst - since nobody can claim to be perfect, everyone is declared equally evil, and equally predisposed to the same abhorrent behaviors and impulses found in the very worst people imaginable.

This is obviously untrue. All societies are not identical, and all societies do not conform to the same standards, expectations, and norms. Maladaptive, antisocial, and degenerate behaviors are not the universal natural state of being for humans worldwide. Most people are generally decent, at least toward their own folk, and most organically-formed societies serve the interests of their members, including the fundamental need to survive from generation to generation.

Once you accept that the human species did not originate in material Sameness, it's a bit difficult to argue in favor of the belief that we share spiritual Sameness. How can we be the same inside, when we so clearly are not the same outside? If we don't all share a single origin, why do we share a single afterlife and a single eternal fate? Why is the concept of our soul or spirit presented as a sort of undifferentiated piece of a universal consciousness which transcends our physical form?

More importantly, why should we believe in spiritual Sameness? What is the end goal of such an ideology?

It really wasn't until the spread of Abrahamism - Christianity among the white Europeans, and Islam among the Arab tribes of the Middle East - that it was decided on our behalf that our destiny was universal, global Sameness. On a long enough timeline, both these religions seek to "save the world" - that is, convert all peoples worldwide to conform to the religious orthodoxy.

In practice, these religions have been used for large-scale conquest and genocide. The perpetrators are convinced of not only the rightness of their beliefs, but the guarantee that their god promised them the whole world, if they claim it all in his name.

Spiritual Sameness erases all the uniqueness of a given people's beliefs, cosmology, myths, and worldview. When each nation or tribe's religion is just a rehash of the One Universal Truth, a lot of nuance is either incorrectly reinterpreted...or tossed out as incompatible with the new orthodoxy, under which all history must be resubmitted for evaluation.

This has been catastrophically destructive everywhere it's been applied. The almighty Catholic Church has infamously completely destroyed countless artifacts and records related to the many tribes of white people who were thriving in Europe for many millennia before the spread of the Christian cult. Arab Muslims today know precious little about their own ethnic history - only that their ancestors were degenerates in need of salvation from themselves. These beliefs are not at all constructive to a nation of people. The premise that we started as horribly defective, wicked sinners is a terrible one. This idea can be found in both Abrahamism and modern Wokeism, the latter focusing its sights on specific demographics as the most wicked, instead of blanketly condemning the entire human species. Note, however, that the umbrella of demographics deemed "part of the problem" - that is, oppressive and privileged - continues to expand, and now includes Asians, white women, and gay men.

Sameness inevitably leads to destruction - of both self and people.

To equalize everyone along the same baselines, everything that strays too far from the baseline has to be removed. Not only that, but self-destruction becomes the logical conclusion, because we will never achieve adequate Sameness to declare victory over ourselves. Sameness requires so much tyranny and oppression that it is functionally impossible to maintain. Nature doesn't allow it - meaning human nature and instinct. Sameness is so unnatural, it has only ever been an "aspirational goal" for those who promote it. Everyone knows it's impossible, but for some reason, we must continue to pursue it, instead of stopping to ask why it's so unattainable.

When you realize your own personal failures in the quest for Sameness, the final conclusion is that you are part of the problem, because the problem is a lack of enough Sameness to ensure the whole world adheres to a single ideology, worldview, religion, and way-of-life. Every human is the enemy of Sameness, because we're not all the same.

Meanwhile, as the individual is psychologically broken by the endless quest for the unattainable, the society as a whole is dismantled in the name of Sameness. Every white nation on Earth has been forced to import large numbers of foreign nationals from completely different parts of the world, and we have been expected to adapt our culture and way-of-life to accommodate these newcomers. We have been forced to silence our own self-interest so that outsiders can be more comfortable in our homelands. It is incredibly damaging for a people to be deprived of their own natural ways, to be told their culture is immoral and must be overwritten for their own good.

This is the quest of Sameness. Sameness can only be achieved by steamrolling all which precedes it, because no evidence can be left behind of what life was like when Differences were allowed. It's too dangerous. People are too predisposed to reject Sameness when offered an alternative, so the only way to maintain Sameness is to hide all evidence of the validity of Differences. Culture and history are erased, rewritten, revised, and scrutinized until little is left of the original artifacts and stories. Eventually, the people themselves forget what they once were, accepting the new standard of Sameness as sacred and eternal.

We are not all the same. We are not meant to achieve Sameness. Our Differences exist for a reason, and our existence should not be dedicated to attempting to find that reason, because it's at that point when insidious bad actors will find reasons to justify erasing our Differences. Instead, accept that our Differences are real, matter, and are worth preserving, because the purpose of our existence is survival, not self-destruction.

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