SUNDAY FOOD FOR THOUGHT: QUO VADIS?
We have reached a point that you can't get around it anymore. The old order has collapsed. Difficult questions need to be asked. It's not just that the paradigm we accepted for the last 80 years no longer works for new generations; the entire perception of reality and how we think about it, needs a revolution. The law of opposites is a teaching tool to help us understand a concept by contrasting it to its opposite. But this way of thinking now dominates the entire public discourse and how we think about the world. It has led to a form of partisanship that will soon wrap Western democracies into tribal warfare.
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Personally, I often blame the Hegelian dialectic. The fact that politics is dominated by lawyers does not help. The political Left versus Right dichotomy is certainly emblematic for this type of partisan, adversarial discourse.
It's not just that there are two or more opposing points of view that demand total purity; it also approaches the parties in terms of absolute morality, making the positions mutually exclusive. You can't reconcile moral absolutes.
That means not just that everyone is in a permanent state of war with the inpure and the dissenters, it turns them into evil human beings as well -- with one's own tribe by default cast in the role of the good guys.
Both parties blindly follow their respective ideologies, or parrot the manipulations of 'influencers'. This tribal way of thinking belongs in the Stone Age. As Pageau is pointing out, even the Bronze Age warriors of the Iliad were far more sophisticated than we are today!
The basic task and idea behind modernism (or at least the Scientific Revolution) was the discovery of the universe in order to take control of it, and use it to our advantage. The ultimate end of the process is for man to take control of his own destiny as a species, to become our own gods and finally recreate the universe as we want it to be.
And here we get to the root of the problem, which is exacerbated by a philosophy called Nominalism (link). It holds that reality is not real, but just a construct of conventions. This turns men and women into mere 'gender roles' and therefore custom that can be changed by society at will.
Et voila, transgenderism, transhumanism. The idea that the body is a worthless cocoon that can be discarded at will goes even deeper into the history of philosophy than medieval Nominalism. In order not to confuse the issues, we leave that aside for now. Let's just say, the idea has been playing an outsized role in Western thought since its inception.
Et voila, transgenderism, transhumanism. The idea that the body is a worthless cocoon that can be discarded at will goes even deeper into the history of philosophy than medieval Nominalism. In order not to confuse the issues, we leave that aside for now. Let's just say, the idea has been playing an outsized role in Western thought since its inception.
Reality is never black or white. Everything in the universe is partly that, but also partly a lot of other things, including its opposite. We will have to learn to get back to the middle ground, the golden mean, to common sense where most things in the universe are and where wisdom lives.
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