sj_zero on Nostr: They're not even human beings, because human beings think for themselves. Even most ...
They're not even human beings, because human beings think for themselves. Even most animals think for themselves.
In premodern times, it was expected for a person to be strong, and while it was expected one would accept the given truths of the emperor or the oracle, it was also expected that one think for themselves to the extent that they would not be foolish. Even if you were taking truth as presented by a pastor or bishop, it was understood that theological truths were complex and layered, and that's why a pastor or a bishop was required.
In modern times, rationality was king, and it was always demanded that humans fully act as the rational beings the enlightenment incorrectly assumed we were. You were to follow the simpleminded modern ideology whatever it was, but that ideology was intended to be "rational" and often "scientific", and so you were expected to also be "rational" or scientific. To be irrational or hypocritical was a cardinal sin under rationalism, meaning that a modern man is intended to think for themselves, only rationally.
The postmodern eras we live in has reacted to modernism by claiming the grand narrative is that there is no grand narrative, the objective truth is that there is no objective truth, and that power is the only real thing. For fools like these, they might think that this means that no truth is real, and they should just switch to whatever they're told to believe this week, but in reality it also means that power is real, and to shut down your mind is to give up your power to whoever programmed you last is to give up whatever power you have as an individual and hand it to someone else (presumably someone more powerful, and since hierarchy is considered evil you're submitting to an oppressive hierarchy by refusing to think for yourself). Therefore, even under postmodernism, a man is intended to think for themselves perhaps more than ever to ensure they are making proper use of their own personal power.
In all eras, great men think, and ants don't.
For another animal example, I always like this one: They tested the intelligence of dogs and wolves. It turns out that the two have basically the same neuralogical structures and so if they have to they can both utilize intelligence to the same degree, but a dog will heel to its master and let the master do the thinking while it does the dog things, and a wolf will try to use its own intelligence first. If the dog's master dies, the dog had better learn to think like a wolf, or it will cease to exist.
Fitting, we live in a world where most people's entire bloodlines will cease to exist because they're doing as they're told instead of what's best for them. Population collapses in most countries. A near majority of women childless by 40. A supermajority of men childless by 40. And the ants keep following the path they've been laid.
I have shown that while each era of knowledge demands some adherence to current thought, each era also demands individuals think for themselves because in fact a man is not a piano key and a civilization of unthinking dogs is actually not very useful because while a dog can follow commands, it won't do the things it needs to survive without its masters orders. If you have a situation like today where the masters are powerful but have no care whatsoever for their dogs, then the dogs will die out.
In premodern times, it was expected for a person to be strong, and while it was expected one would accept the given truths of the emperor or the oracle, it was also expected that one think for themselves to the extent that they would not be foolish. Even if you were taking truth as presented by a pastor or bishop, it was understood that theological truths were complex and layered, and that's why a pastor or a bishop was required.
In modern times, rationality was king, and it was always demanded that humans fully act as the rational beings the enlightenment incorrectly assumed we were. You were to follow the simpleminded modern ideology whatever it was, but that ideology was intended to be "rational" and often "scientific", and so you were expected to also be "rational" or scientific. To be irrational or hypocritical was a cardinal sin under rationalism, meaning that a modern man is intended to think for themselves, only rationally.
The postmodern eras we live in has reacted to modernism by claiming the grand narrative is that there is no grand narrative, the objective truth is that there is no objective truth, and that power is the only real thing. For fools like these, they might think that this means that no truth is real, and they should just switch to whatever they're told to believe this week, but in reality it also means that power is real, and to shut down your mind is to give up your power to whoever programmed you last is to give up whatever power you have as an individual and hand it to someone else (presumably someone more powerful, and since hierarchy is considered evil you're submitting to an oppressive hierarchy by refusing to think for yourself). Therefore, even under postmodernism, a man is intended to think for themselves perhaps more than ever to ensure they are making proper use of their own personal power.
In all eras, great men think, and ants don't.
For another animal example, I always like this one: They tested the intelligence of dogs and wolves. It turns out that the two have basically the same neuralogical structures and so if they have to they can both utilize intelligence to the same degree, but a dog will heel to its master and let the master do the thinking while it does the dog things, and a wolf will try to use its own intelligence first. If the dog's master dies, the dog had better learn to think like a wolf, or it will cease to exist.
Fitting, we live in a world where most people's entire bloodlines will cease to exist because they're doing as they're told instead of what's best for them. Population collapses in most countries. A near majority of women childless by 40. A supermajority of men childless by 40. And the ants keep following the path they've been laid.
I have shown that while each era of knowledge demands some adherence to current thought, each era also demands individuals think for themselves because in fact a man is not a piano key and a civilization of unthinking dogs is actually not very useful because while a dog can follow commands, it won't do the things it needs to survive without its masters orders. If you have a situation like today where the masters are powerful but have no care whatsoever for their dogs, then the dogs will die out.