Part
II: The Age of Reason: Love At
Every Sight !
Part
III: Scientific Earthquakes and Philosophic Tornados
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REASON AND
WISDOM
Various
Levels
a n d Degrees
of Consciousness
a n d
Self-Consciousness
, of Intellect
a n d Reason
Logically,
depending on our different patrian processes
of naturalization
a n d socialization, but also on our
different space a n d time
parameters, hic et nunc our
levels
a n d degrees of Consciousness
a n d Self Consciousness are distinct;
i.e., they are not identical; we are
not a n d we do not exist as a solid,
consolidated "mass", as a mass of
people, as the "masses".
However,
this is not a reason to identify oneself as
an individual vis-á-vis society,
and miraculously to hail oneself as a very
special
"human being", in relation to the billions of "Wretched of the Earth".
Consciousness, Self Consciousness and Identity are made of much
"sterner
stuff".
Hence,
to cognize a n d to recognize the
world in which we live cannot
be achieved on an officially specified level
of "education" or "alphabetization", or at a definite "mature" age, or
in a "favourable" social environment; the above depends on the
human
capacity and sanity of still being able to act a n d to
think
by a n d for oneself, in spite of all the imposed ideological,
indoctrinatory
and manipulatory measures, whether "rightist" or "leftist", "fascist"
or
"communist". Talking about "freedom of speech", still to be able to
act,
to think, to intellectualize and to reason, still to be able to be a n
d to exist as an historic being, forms the sine qua non
for
scientific cognition a n d philosophic recognition.
The Damocles Sword of Reason
Consequently,
the intellectual and rational qualification
to understand and
to criticize the previous critical lectures is very
demanding and challenging,
because, at first, "at heart and by mind", we must
study their epistemology,
logic and method; only thereafter comes the caustic
Critique of Reason.
We
are not existentialists, not nihilists, no pipe
dreamers and no "Heavenly Gate" sect; bravely we are storming the
"democratic" Bastille, the global
"Reign of Terror", the eternal Havens of Capital and
the Heavens of
Capitalism; not to annihilate them (this is not our
historic
task !), but to surpass, to transcend, to excel them. We should not
forget
that the ideals
of the contemporary bourgeoisie, as expressed by
itself,
are : Liberty,
Equality and Fraternity ; lately, it added
Democracy,
Justice, Welfare State, World Peace and Globalization to this sonorous
list of heavenly bliss..
Surely, these objectives are not inscribed in our
Historic Tricolore!
WE SHALL OVERCOME!!!
We need not liquidate Globalization; just as it was born, inexorably so it will perish; at least, this the Prussian State philosopher, Hegel, had taught us; and this bitter lesson of existence is also valid for the Global State, for the capitalist "Weltgeist"; out of sheer historic necessity it will vanish into absolute oblivion all by itself, generated by its own "progressive" and democratic moribund relations. Perhaps the only thing for us to do is to offer it the "Last Sacrament" and to wish it a happy geometric progression towards "peaceful" self destruction. Over the last three millennia, no "God", no individual, no masses, no force on Earth had ever halted the forward march of the "accumulation of capital", so, let us sing : "The Saints Are Marching On "! Also : "We Shall Overcome"!
At
least, even from patrian "history" we can learn
something, although, now
and then, "history repeats itself". No prayer had
halted Slavery, no
peasants and serfs had broken the backbone of
Feudalism,
also until now,
no proletarians gave Capitalism its death-blow.
Furthermore,
it was not Mandela
or the ANC who had overthrown Apartheid, it was
Globalization
itself which necessitated a new form of exploitation, oppression and
discrimination
in South Africa. Similarly, it was Globalization which had decided to
break
down its own "Wall of Berlin". Who still has brains to think, let them
reason the rest all by themselves!
Also,
we are not pacifists, not "traitors to the revolution",
atheists,
socialists, communists or terrorists; even
their
"dictatorship of the
proletariat", "class struggle", "world revolution",
"dialectics",
"revolutionary party" and "revolutionary masses"
have
to
bow below the emancipatory Damocles Sword of Reason.
We are simply cosmic
a n d we exist ontically, AND we
transcend
historically. There is
no more fuzz around us, and we make no fuss about
ourselves. What follows
now must be comprehended in this serious and
stringent
"spirit".
The Nineties : Earthquakes a n d Tornados
In the hard way, we learned:
1.
That all is not history that Great Gods, Great
Ideas, Great Men and
Great Races do.
2.
That, among other things, Formal Logic, Dialectics,
Scientific Method,
Empiricism and Pragmatism are not
the Alpha and Omega of Historic
Existence, of Intellect a
n d Reason. Also, that all great patrian thinkers,
with rigour, do not seriously
question
the Kantian intellectual categories,
Space and Time,
in spite of the remarkable "discoveries" made by
the Relativity Theory
of Einstein or the Quantum Theory of Planck or even
the "Uncertainty
Principle". Without much ado, as absolute truths, their
descriptions of processes, of
movement
or motion are based on space-time
relations, also their logical
arguments
and methodological approaches.
Nearly everything is measured in
terms of seconds or millimetres, in
zig-zag fashion,
whether it concerns an atomic
clock
or a distance of several light years.
Ideology, Manipulation and
Indoctrination
flourish in this
spatial-temporal formal-logical
cage. It is high "time" to "discover" the
"third" element: Space, Time,
....;
Rest, Motion, ... ? Or is Science or
Philosophy just a dualistic
two-by-two adventure? Is everything just
"good" or "bad"?
3.
That We have to act a n d think
AND excel all by and for ourselves,
here and now; if we
don't, then others will have to act, to think and to
transcend for us; in the
latter case, we end up being happy with our
earthly and heavenly lot,
with our destiny.
4.
That, in the first place, the brain, i.e.,
that Intellect a n d Reason "sees",
has a "vision", formulates a
"theory"
about totality, about reality; in
other words, only with eye-sight
we cannot consciously "see";
furthermore, that what we cannot
fathom, comprehend or recognize, we
cannot see; it does not
enter
in the magnetic spectrum of our "window"
of sense perception. The
"natives"
could not see the European
colonizers and for the reason
mentioned
above the "whites" were
"invisible" and
"invincible".
Also, the question remains: How on earth
will we ever be able to
conscientize,
mobilize and revolutionize the
billions of masses when
Capitalism
has done such a fine job, when "Big
Brother" already in "1984" had
captured the whole imagination of the
absolute majority of workers and
labourers. They just "see" Big Brother,
they speak and "think" Newspeak!
Exactly this Invisible
a n d Invulnerable AND Invincible Principle,
at last,
We See, We recognize it as Intellect
a n d
Reason
AND
Wisdom.
5.
That Language or Words, that Speaking, Hearing,
Saying and Writing
are not identical with
Thinking
a n d Reasoning. We do not think in
Words, Language does not think
for Us. Words or Language are just
very inefficient Vehicles or
Tools
of Acting, Thinking and Reasoning.
The above, Plato had already
indicated
in Kratylos. The more effective
cognositive "tools" are yet still
to be "discovered" and to be developed.
6.
That all across "History" Nature or Mother
Nature was massacred, in
the name of the "survival"
of the species homo sapiens sapiens , that
she must be dominated and
domesticated.
Homo, Man, elevated himself
arrogantly to the status of the
"Crown of Creation", of the "Highest
Blossom of Nature". The above is
the "red thread" throughout the
whole patriarchal superstructure,
whether it concerns religion,
philosophy, education, law or
arts.
Man, Society, Spirit, Weltgeist,
"Reason" had to replace Nature,
has to devour her. In all respects,
everywhere Man had applied and
ferociously is still applying the
watchword of Caesar:
veni, vidi, vici
! I came, I saw, I conquered !
7.
That consequently, Labour is the expression
of the Relation between
Nature and Man, between Nature
and Society. Nobody noticed
that Labour itself is the
fundamental
expression of Human Alienation,
and that Labour a n d
Capital, i.e., that Capital , the patrian productive
process is the umbilical cord of
"History", of the Patria. What occurs
in the basis of the Patria, Marx
had explained in "Capital", what
happens in the superstructure of
"History", Hegel had illustrated in
"The Phenomenology of Mind". None
of them, and, for that matter,
nobody else, scientifically
a n d philosophically could see that
Capital is just an advanced form
of Labour, and that Labour per se
is the maximum expression of
Alienation
in
rerum natura, and not as
Marxists claim that Labour
in Capitalism is "alienated", and therefore it
should be "disalienated", should
be emancipated. In the eyes of our erudite
scholars, the above is a heresy,
is a case for the burning stake.
Finally,
let us terminate the scientific earthquakes
and philosophic
tornados; it is a time to rejoice :
"It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief,
it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light,
it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope,
it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before
us, we had nothing before us,
we were all going direct
to Heaven, we were all going direct
the other way. ...."(Charles
Dickens)
Well, Happy Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy New Century, Happy New Millennium !
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! ! !
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