Everyone is a liar. Everyone
is a scumbag. When reason was invented around 585 B.C., it only took
about a century for the irreasonism of skepticism and religion to become solidly established. This was seen in the bizarre irrationality of
Parmenides and Zeno the Paradoxist, as well as the alien mystery
cults of Orpheus, Dionysus, and Demeter.
As for the strong reasonist thinkers of Anaxagoras, Socrates, and
Aristotle who came afterwards, they only moderately resisted these
false and evil epistemologies, metaphysics, and cosmologies. And they
essentially never noted how much skepticism devastates human
understanding and quality of life; nor did they note how clearly the
gods have no impact upon life and give no evidence of their existence.
Anaxagoras and Socrates were quizzical and ironic about this while
Aristotle was abstract and obscure. But there was evidently no
passion denunciation or call to arms against these two related and
horrific philosophical evils.
Thus
all three thinkers were liars. All three were scumbags. And so were their Greek and Roman offspring. Every one of
them was a skeptic of reason, or monotheist, or both.
Modern
philosophers are little better. From the religious philosophers of
Bacon, Locke, Smith, and Reid, to the skeptical philosophers of Hume,
Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche, to advocates of both, like Descartes and
Berkeley. The lone advocate of reasonism, who also opposed skepticism
and religion, was the very recent Ayn Rand.
But
Rand largely created a cult, not a full and robust philosophical school. She
had an aggressive and riveting style of written argumentation and
verbal public discussion. It promoted submissive deference to her
authority and blind faith in her words. Ayn Rand’s unnatural,
unhealthy, unhappy cult and community forbade serious discussion and debate. She
vigorously and viciously excommunicated intellectual dissidents –
even those who agreed with almost all of her radical ideas and who
loved her personally. Now that’s she’s dead, most of her serious
followers exhibit the same cult-type behavior, with ferocious moralizing and
psychologizing directed toward any honest or competent questioner or critic of
her philosophy. Thus Rand and the Randians are all liars and
scumbags too.
What
lowlifes and monsters human beings are! Or, at least, for the most
part.
Humans
deserve credit for being by far the smartest creatures on earth.
They’re at the top of the food chain and are the apex predators on
the planet. People also improve their culture and lifestyle over the
generations and centuries. This is a vivid contrast with their rival
wolves, whales, parakeets, and chimpanzees. And altho it’s true
that Homo erectoids and Neanderthals also raised their level of
civilization and culture over time, they’re long gone. Only humans
are left to progress and ascend.
Still,
what massive liars and scumbags people are today! Strong evidence
indicates they always have been and always will be thus. Skepticism
and religion are still with us after an inconceivable 2500 years. And
while human beings have significantly improved their lifestyles and
societies over the millennia, they seem to progress at only about
1/20th the speed they could and should. So humans are vermin.
I
study people like the anthropologist I’ve been forced to become.
And the objects of my observation and analysis seem to be remarkably
strange, contemptible, and disgusting demons. If humans can think,
say, or do something stupid or evil, they will. It’s the nature of
mankind to always exhibit a high level of fatuosity and depravity.