THE CHOOSERS OF HISTORY: To revitalize moral philosophy, it needs to be clearly or reasonably demonstrated that: (1) a basis for guiding moral choices exists; (2) substance-based, quantitatively-tested science is fundamentally inadequate by itself for guiding moral choices; and (3) qualitative-based moral philosophy can clarify the practical moral choices and goals that regularly relate to society (empathy), economics (trust), and politics (force).
Rather than to violently and anarchistically destroy all vestiges of theological beliefs, mores, and customs, thereby to sacrifice thinking idealists to plunderering materialists, it would be better, morally, to inspire and teach thinkers and leaders how to improve their moral notions by subjecting them to a clarifying light of philosophical analysis. The better course of moral progress would not be to subjugate moral idealism to the impossibility of deriving mores from mere matter, nor to the impossibility of precisely correlating quantitative prices to qualitative values.
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There has always abided a class for whom their beingness is too itchy to bear, unless they can subjugate their selfness within a tight web. It concerns them little whether they be master or slave, so long as they feel snug within their callous web. There abides another class for whom the web is enlisted as their ally, to expand their degrees of freedom of enterprise and self expression. These two classes are fundamentally antagonistic. One is the class of crony capitalists and their useful idiots; the other is the class of free enterprisers. What rubs their sores is the trade between them. Because free enterprisers have naively slept, while charitably and wrongly imagining their mores were also the mores of the cronies, they now wake and find themselves in headlong retreat, worldwide. It’s as if most of Substance and Information had coagulated into the blood of Borgdom, congealed out of Duped Communists, Fascist Muslims, and Crony Capitalists, curdling into strings to tie all of human consciousness down to a state of indifferent impotence and merit-less, moral hazard. It’s as if some fundament had mistakenly misplaced its vital core. Thus are technologically-enhanced moral-Zombies gathering, seeking to reduce all to hollow men. Unless we can invent and put wake-up pills (analytic moral philosophy for Choosers of History?) into the water, or impose firebreaks, we’re lost. We’re not in the shadow of dialectical materialism, but the shadow of Duped Will, duped to believe in the unavoidability of elitist rule and historical determinacy. As omens rub, sparks bespeak a champion.
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OF MORAL GUIDANCE IN A NOETIC UNIVERSE: Each person should struggle to be a leader, to take his place, to teach others, by deed and words, to honor the place of one another's dignity and freedom, in such a way as to enhance intuition, appreciation, and understanding of the unfolding skills, arts, and purposes of the Source of consciousness. This is sort of like a consolidation of the Great Commandment and the Golden Rule, except that it looks beyond love, to concepts of intuiton, empathy, and appreciation. Envision the purpose of God as less in the vein of a moral, material absolutist and more in the vein of a consciously choosing, appreciating, and unfolding work in progress.
Rather than to violently and anarchistically destroy all vestiges of theological beliefs, mores, and customs, thereby to sacrifice thinking idealists to plunderering materialists, it would be better, morally, to inspire and teach thinkers and leaders how to improve their moral notions by subjecting them to a clarifying light of philosophical analysis. The better course of moral progress would not be to subjugate moral idealism to the impossibility of deriving mores from mere matter, nor to the impossibility of precisely correlating quantitative prices to qualitative values.
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There has always abided a class for whom their beingness is too itchy to bear, unless they can subjugate their selfness within a tight web. It concerns them little whether they be master or slave, so long as they feel snug within their callous web. There abides another class for whom the web is enlisted as their ally, to expand their degrees of freedom of enterprise and self expression. These two classes are fundamentally antagonistic. One is the class of crony capitalists and their useful idiots; the other is the class of free enterprisers. What rubs their sores is the trade between them. Because free enterprisers have naively slept, while charitably and wrongly imagining their mores were also the mores of the cronies, they now wake and find themselves in headlong retreat, worldwide. It’s as if most of Substance and Information had coagulated into the blood of Borgdom, congealed out of Duped Communists, Fascist Muslims, and Crony Capitalists, curdling into strings to tie all of human consciousness down to a state of indifferent impotence and merit-less, moral hazard. It’s as if some fundament had mistakenly misplaced its vital core. Thus are technologically-enhanced moral-Zombies gathering, seeking to reduce all to hollow men. Unless we can invent and put wake-up pills (analytic moral philosophy for Choosers of History?) into the water, or impose firebreaks, we’re lost. We’re not in the shadow of dialectical materialism, but the shadow of Duped Will, duped to believe in the unavoidability of elitist rule and historical determinacy. As omens rub, sparks bespeak a champion.
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OF MORAL GUIDANCE IN A NOETIC UNIVERSE: Each person should struggle to be a leader, to take his place, to teach others, by deed and words, to honor the place of one another's dignity and freedom, in such a way as to enhance intuition, appreciation, and understanding of the unfolding skills, arts, and purposes of the Source of consciousness. This is sort of like a consolidation of the Great Commandment and the Golden Rule, except that it looks beyond love, to concepts of intuiton, empathy, and appreciation. Envision the purpose of God as less in the vein of a moral, material absolutist and more in the vein of a consciously choosing, appreciating, and unfolding work in progress.
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Obama is a stooge. He was flattered into serving as a stooge, for interests so cynical as to have passed into the evil. As a stooge, evil will abandon Obama's carcass when it no longer serves. However, just because evil abandons a stooge does not mean evil will not find replacements. The dying of one stooge of darkness does not, by itself, pave the way for a bringer of light.
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