Reply #8: the Discourses [View All]

[wcepler]

Thank you for you correct reading of my piece and for the recommendation of Discourses. I have already ready much of that (some time ago) and interestingly it was recently recommended to me for just the same reasons.

I well knew this piece would be vulnerable to personal attack, but ironically the "personal element" is exactly what this view is indifferent to. Rather, this was, for me, simply objective intelligence struggling to get a big picture view (not "personal") of our heart breaking world.

The core intuition is that the elites (who control EVERYTHING on planet Earth, e.g. politics, religion, etc., etc.)are not after all the core dynamic of our world.

Rather, the "enablers" are the bottom, bottom line. Tragically, as a species, we are mostly made up of human dead weight, i.e., humans who are stupefied with television and bare minimum IQ neuroses (e.g., religious fanaticism) and make up (and always have made up!) the great majority of the human race.

Hence, the heart of my piece is the serious possibility that human nature itself is too defective to rise to the vast challenges of life. We have great artists, yes, and science, yes, and other wonderful human beings, but they are as rare in numbers as the elites (0.5%). And the other 99% is mostly enabling sludge.

So, that's a shot at the big picture of the human condition. Behind politics (and everything else) are the elites, but behind the elites are several billion deadbeats. Or more specifically, behind the elites is what is increasingly looking like a biologically defective life form which we should remember hasn't been around all that long and in the process of evolution is getting closer to being selected out. You have to hold up your end with evolution, and I now very much doubt that human nature can cut it.

I hope I'm wrong, but the world is such a trash heap of evil, raw stupidity, and unforgivable cowardice, that that probably all adds up to inevitable extinction. The trash heap is just too massive for science and creative human heroes to cancel it out.

The millstone of dead weight enablers just keep pulling the human experiment down, down, down . . .