Comments by "Hallands Menved" (@Hallands.) on "Academy of Ideas"
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Nietzsche was a mad, miserable, antisocial and pompous fool who, just like Descartes, never became aware of the consciousness as distinguished from the mind. That's why he was doomed to seek, seek, seek - and never find. He never discovered anything more than the thinking animal in himself and was stumped by the simplest social interactions.
The consciousness is not limited to awareness of our thoughts. It also is aware of the body! This awareness is what we label "feelings". But since somewhere around the mid nineteenth century, man became so blinded by his prosperous capacity for thought as to loose sight of the importance of understanding feelings. Children began to be schooled in such a way as to lose the awareness of the body, i.e. they didn't learn to understand their own feelings.
So, later on, despite huge advances in medicine, we didn't become more healthy. We just became more dependent on medications. By now the balance is beginning to shift back, but our emotions can seem almost foreign and overwhelming - sometimes gaining such momentum that we loose control. We have by determined educational tradition become emotionally moronic.
Kierkegaard is another matter. He sought God with unbridled passion, but sought him outside himself only. He of course didn't descend into madness and delusions of grandeur (Übermensch)
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Kop Ratte It's true I didn't have the inclination to study Nietzsche extensively, but his reference to the wisdom of the body will remain a discussion of survival instincts in lieu of the awareness of the consciousness. I do agree that our bodies are wise survivors, taught by millennia of evolution, but without conscious awareness existence easily becomes a battle between mind and body: One moment you think about your feelings, the next the clarity of your thoughts is muddled by feelings. Then you think that you think too much, but later the same day that you really ought to think before you act aso... Seeing this, you end up thinking that you must, like a superhuman, conquer your base nature - or indulge whatever feeling comes to the foreground - and you may begin writing handbooks on folly until you go bonkers from being quite the unrecognized genius - or, viewed from your surroundings, too obnoxious to socialize with...
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Kop Ratte No, I have a friend who has a masters in philosophy and likes Nietzsche very much. Since we met three decades ago, I've been presented with a lot of material which I've dutifully studied, but on this subject we differ profoundly. I really don't like Nietzsche's world view. I like Kierkegaard's and Leibnitz's better, but since I some 14 years ago had the awakening miracle happen to me, I no more believe that rationale in any form presented by any philosopher can grasp the eternal, yet real miracle of Life.
I now view different philosophies as trends of thoughts - more or less applicable to the current state of things - but no more than that. And as soon as they are adopted as guidelines for life, they fail - in my opinion.
My view on religions parallel this approach. I love and trust the words of Jesus, because they unerringly point to the eternal, timeless consciousness, but I view all religions as attempts at sociological rules, inferior to the true belief in God, our eternal and present Father.
But by "father" I understand the eternal, present and causative will that the forms in the universe be.
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Cohesion must be maintained in the unit of a country, lest it falls easy prey to foreign takeovers.
The main threats to cohesion are censorship, greed, corruption, lack of transparency, sloppy and overly complicated laws of favoritism and mendacious propaganda, not only on government levels but within corporations, banking and legacy media.
To avoid the unproductive and wasteful setbacks of cyclic revolutions triggered by oppression and exploitation of the common people, the people must have access to block all proposed new laws and to suspend and remove old laws which turned out harmful to the general trust in fairness by majority vote.
This access must be maintained during peace and war to a degree which always balances out the lawmaking of the political body. This is meant to ensure that the tremendous powers of lawmaking is never abused for biased gain or for anything other than to keep the playing field even.
The mutual respect necessary for a prosperous, balanced nation to remain healthy takes 3 to 4 generations to learn, but can be broken in less than 4 years as we’ve recently seen.
The deluded arrogance necessary for a government to become hostile towards its own population must have the consequence that all the politicians complicit in such overreach are permanently banned from government and public service for the rest of their days.
Salaries and benefits for our representatives must be given by laws and these laws may not be changed without the approval of the people by a majority vote with at least 70% participation.
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Everything we build and create is an externalization of our mind.
Thus the superstructure of rules and authorities will either reflect our overall state of mental health – if we have fair, election based governments – or be made artificially by self-appointed oligarchs, who will be motivated by that which made them powerful in the first place, which is essentially greed – at least for all those who would grab power without being elected.
They will rarely if ever see any interest in improving the public state of mental health, nor do they typically want to raise the level of general education or information.
The pendulum is now swinging from representative governments towards hyper national bureaucracies, ruled by hidden oligarchs – as bureaucrats cannot know how to rule.
The prevalent delusion of our time is that machine-like superstructures handled by Artificial Intelligence can improve human living conditions.
The oligarchs probably know this is an impossible illusion and the wise commoner most certainly knows, but the bureaucrats do not!
They believe in authorities, they are addicted to firm rules and shun any awareness of intricacies or dynamic problems. They just need orders they can obey.
It takes much more than the human mind to create and maintain happy and prosperous living conditions.
So until we, as a species, fully transcend the mind, we will dreamily keep creating enough suffering for ourselves to awaken us from the idle daydreams of the mind to full, enthusiastic awareness.
Then, and only then, will the worlds we create truly change for the better.
But until then we will keep setting ourselves up for successes so tremendous, they become our repeated downfalls.
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