Welkin of Humanity

 By my count there are fifty heavens. The term god is a good as term of any english word for the major inhabitants of each heaven. Earth is the lowest heaven, meaning despite everything humans are gods. It's why humans have ecological dominance. Physical reality can't diverge too far from spiritual reality. While it's indeed degenerate for a god to try worshipping itself, humans are divine authorities relative to animals. If your dog worships you, it's because your dog should worship you. However, lots has gone wrong.

 Rather than expressing their divinity by projecting it against the world, humans turned to Satan to try to appear to have more divinity than other humans. "I want to treated as if I have more divinity than I have." They became embroiled in the relative rat-race. Even if a human wins against his rival, his rival can simply also turn to Satan, returning the apparent hierarchy to exactly the same ordering as the underlying true hierarchy. In an attempt to subvert this, humans have now turned to competing to be as profane as possible. Revolution: attempt to turn the hierarchy completely upside-down. Naturally it turns out the most divine humans have the most to desecrate, so, insofar as you're stupid enough to play this game, the hierarchy is exactly the same as a Satan-free hierarchy. 

 Great sound and fury, signifying nothing (that wasn't already signified). 

 Farmers generally outnumber hunters 100:1. However, who is the 99%? Of necessity, it's all men who wouldn't otherwise have survived.

 It is not hard to make the case the 99 are all men who shouldn't have survived. After all, look at the state of post-farmer society. Farmers are mutants and criminals; genetic rejects.
 The wag @lolicongress once described Japanese history as a war between the nobles and peasants. What he failed to notice was the result: decisive victory for the peasants. Japanese society is based on pandering to peasant superstitions and atropia. Even their writing symbols are optimized for minimal cognition, and secondly for pointless zero-sum internecine conflicts. "I memorized more kanji than you, neener neener." "But if the words appear the same, how am I supposed to know they have different substances? From context? I can't read context, lol."
 I wonder if the Japanese ever make up kanji and pretend they're obscure, the way Westerners make up words and pretend they're real?
 Even Japanese myths are about how it's fine, good, or at least unavoidable to surrender to your obsolete emotional impulses. The Japanese underworld goddess, Izanami, is a bitch because she can't get over dying in childbirth. Their son the fire god, Kagu-tsuchi, died because Izanagi blamed him for Izanami dying in childbirth. You dumb cunt, who do you think impregnated her? The Japanese apparently can't even imagine anyone noble enough to blame themselves for their own mistakes. In Japan, blame is desperately to be avoided, as accepting blame is considered feminine or even childish. "You were so weak you couldn't force it onto a scapegoat? Loser, lol." "He's down! Get him!" It's amazing they manage to accomplish anything at all. Functional Japanese companies have to come up with elaborate (expensive) rituals so that leaders can change plans without accepting any blame. Have to find some newborn to behead instead.
 The meiji restoration guy must have had some absolutely brilliant blame-hacking. I wonder why it wasn't nihonjin's fault that nihon needed to modernize?
 Note that in this context [modernize] means to adopt Capitalism. Capitalism is about not being Communist; about being responsible instead of irresponsible. Had earlier Japan embraced responsibility without being forced by intolerable humiliation, perhaps it would have been English mercantilists who had their policies forced open by a Japanese merchant marine. 

 Metaphorically, Japan couldn't come up with steamships or cars because they killed off their own fire god. Deprecated their own energy. Atropia.

 Of course, Japan is hardly alone in having issues with accepting responsibility. 

 Europeans have gods who suffer hardship when they try to weasel out of the consequences of their own actions. Cronus also tried to kill his male heir but, uh, it didn't work out for him.
 This is due to the fact pastoralists had better military technology than farmers. Pasture can't support nearly the population densities of farming. This means pastoralist anti-mutant selection is much stronger, like the other protein-enthusiasts, hunters. Europe wasn't nearly as badly flooded by peasants as the Orient was. Not until Rome and Christianity.