Our World

This is a crazy world. Everyone has such irrational and crazy beliefs.

During the Greek and Roman eras, when reason and philosophy were invented, almost everyone followed one or more specific philosophies, such as Atomism, Aristotelianism, Epicureanism, Stoicism, Skepticism, Cynicism, Pythagoreanism, and Platonism. But in today’s world, or at least the Western part of it, virtually everybody follows one of only two general philosophies: Rightism or Leftism. These belief-systems can also be described as religious conservatism and collectivist progressivism. Altho' some people manage to combine the two, most folks adhere closely to one or the other, while pretty much passionately loathing the opposite faith and its followers.

Unfortunately, both major philosophies are highly irrational and foolish. Neither makes any sense. Rightists believe in the epistemology of dogma and faith, while Leftists believe in the epistemology of relativism and subjectivism. Both belief-systems largely reject the sound, solid, intellectual foundation of reason and science. Both largely oppose the ideas that Nature is all-powerful and that objective truth exists. Conservatives and progressives mostly reject the notion that everyone must fully respect and submit to the core values and standards of reason and science.

Hence Rightists and Leftists zealously command their followers to oppose and attack the Holy Individual. Instead, they are told to support and worship "the lord" or "the group". Conservatives and progressives want people to live for the sake of religion or the masses – not for themselves. They want you to self-sacrifice yourself and your precious life for these two abstract and unreal entities.

Rightists and Leftist don’t see you as an end in yourself, and don’t want you to live for your own sacred purposes and goals. They generally oppose you seeking to live up to your convictions and ideals, seeking to fulfill your hopes and dreams, and seeking to achieve greatness and your destiny. Instead, these two crazy philosophies demand that you serve as a kind of slave to the theoretical and non-existent phenomena of some deity or morass.

Such irrational, fundamental beliefs – with such suicidal moral codes – are a type of lunacy. Such false and evil philosophies can’t be defended using logic or common sense. In effect, the rational, comprehensible universe laughs at the nut-jobs who hold such bizarre beliefs.

The main reason Rightists and Leftists follow such bad philosophy – other than a fundamental commitment to self-deception – is because they see how false and evil the major alternative philosophy is. And because they think these two ideological possibilities are the only ones which exist, they’re convinced that theirs is the only true one.

Of course, the conservatives and progressives aren’t truly convinced. A small but serious part of their mind recognizes reality. So the faithful have to apply a lot of fanaticism and self-brain-washing to keep their natural doubts at bay. They quietly understand that basic reason and common sense reject Rightism and Leftism. So the somewhat frenetic religious conservatives, and rather unhinged collectivist progressives, have to generate a considerable amount of personal blindness and craziness to persuade themselves that their respective belief-system is actually true and good.

But it isn’t. Their philosophy is lunacy.

And so this is a crazy world. Virtually everyone in it is a lunatic.