The Nature of Man

People frequently question whether man is mostly, or fundamentally, good or evil. Intellectuals and philosophers especially discuss and debate this. But it may be that man is essentially neutral. Or quite possibly he’s both good and evil, with large elements of these opposites inside of him, as part of his nature. The classical Greeks and Romans often claimed man was "part god, part beast".

Mankind must be significantly good in some senses or he wouldn’t have achieved so much, or risen so far above the animals, over the millennia. Still, he must be considerably evil too given his obvious propensity to irrational thought, senseless behavior, self-destruction, and harm to those he lives with and loves. And we musn’t forget his tendency toward suicide and war.

Looking further, it may be that the massman is especially inherently corrupt and low, while the elite man is much less so. The vulgate may be naturally vulgar and despicable. Many powerful thinkers over the centuries have denounced the hoi polloi, mob, philistines, and rabble for their base intellectual, moral, and spiritual qualities. These seem to complement their naturally weak minds, poor educations, and bad upbringing, as well as their inferior philosophies, cultures, lifestyles, and attitudes.

So it may be the case that the superior man of interior loftiness is inherently inclined to work long, hard, and well at all that he does, while the inferior man of interior lowliness is inherently inclined to sloth, lack of focus, and incompetence on this. Elite men may naturally take pride in themselves and their learning, manners, polish, and personal honor, while the crude man in the street is slovenly, careless, and lackadaisical here. Plato looked down upon "the common herd" while Aristotle said the masses "preferred a life suitable to beasts".

Even so, the massman and the elite both seem to be massively, or even overwhelmingly, controlled by the intellectuals and their dominant theories. If the philosophers and deep thinkers of a given society are profoundly irrational and nonsensical in their beliefs – such as by being nihilist, religious, socialist, or sacrificial – then the destructiveness and wickedness of both the common man and the superior one seems to rise exponentially. Neither can resist thinking, saying, and doing some truly heinous things.

So if someone is serious about uplifting human beings, and their society and culture, he very probably needs to focus on improving philosophy, and not human nature. People are likely morally neutral, or mixed, or unpredictably heterogeneous. But they’re highly subject to intellectual manipulation and control. If someone wants the vulgar masses and lofty elite to think, live, and behave better, he needs to give them much more rational and liberal theories and ideas to work with.

Heavenly Slaughterfest

 

Philosophically and psychologically, mankind hungers for a thunderous victory of Good over Evil. None of these ambiguous, half-ass, sissy-boy wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. People want a repeat of World War II Germany and Japan. Or a real live version of Mike Hammer, Dirty Harry, John Wick, or Jack Reacher. Humanity desperately wants to see the Good Guys laugh at, spit in the face of, and then beat the living hell out of the Bad Guys. This alone will satisfy the spiritual needs of almost all of us, which is extreme.

Mankind quietly hungers for Western Civilization to resoundingly triumph over the miserable, lowly, disgusting Communists, Moslems, and Third Worlders of China, Russia, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Cuba, and many more. People also privately want the liberal reasonists (as I call them) to ferociously smash the double-talking Leftist nihilists and nonsense-spouting Rightist theists. The educated world even secretly hopes that the individualist freedom-fighters will crush the life out of the collectivist progressives and religious conservatives. And pretty much everyone decent yearns for the anti-Western, anti-American, anti-Enlightenment, anti-capitalist, anti-freedom, Antifa-supporting, B.L.M.-loving Woke monsters to be wiped off the face of the earth.

But along with all this good stuff, cutting-edge liberals also know we need for the real libertarians to cruelly ravage the libertarian conservatives and libertarian anarchists; as well as for the real Objectivists to ruthlessly savage the unprincipled, mediocre, wimp Objectivists, and the malicious, weird, cult Objectivists.

No more namby-pamby, effeminate, weak, partial victories! No more shameful, disgusting, uncertain semi-triumphs!

Philosophically and psychologically, mankind desperately hungers for the genuinely rational and liberal Good Guys to meet the irrational and illiberal Bad Guys in open combat and then annihilate them.

Humiliation

 

Everyone is humiliated. Everybody feels shame and horror. The normal confidence, masculinity, and testicular fortitude of everyone is gone.

So we don’t fight back against the forces of evil. Indeed, we join with them to help defeat the forces of good. Our fighting spirit has been taken away.

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Practically no-one today truly believes the leftist dogma that reality is unknowable, or the rightist dogma that god exists. No-one really believes the leftist or rightist nonsense that self-sacrifice is a moral good. No-one believes that the welfare state is a noble political ideal. No-one believes that the different races and sexes are fundamentally the same in their natures and nurtures. And no-one believes that leftist abstract paintings and rightist church music constitute fine art.

And yet that’s what almost all of today’s intellectuals teach us. These types of absurdities and depravities are what they work to indoctrinate us with.

It doesn’t work. At least, not all the way.

But it does work some. Their false and evil propaganda does manage to intimidate most people into passivity and silence. Or even into active support and pretend public agreement. Few people today dare to stand up for what’s right or state the obvious on these issues.

And so everyone is humiliated. Almost everybody feels private shame and secret horror at their refusal to speak up and fight back.

But the reason for this public submission to intellectual and cultural evil is easy to understand. If you do choose to deny the leftist or rightist dogmas, and the awful ideals of today, pretty much everyone will hate you. Your friends and acquaintances will abuse and persecute you personally, while society will crush you socially and economically.

So almost all fairly rational, decently good, and semi-liberal people fall silent in the face of powerful leftist and rightist wickedness. The forces of today’s collectivist progressives and religious conservatives ruthlessly take away the honor and pride of the individualist liberals. They effectively strip away their spirit, self-respect, and will to resist.

And even tho the good guy liberals generally hate their illiberal persecutors – and privately vow to fight them ferociously – still, the fact that the good guys are almost always forced into public silence, acquiescence, and submission is profoundly humiliating to them. Their spirit is broken. Hence they hold out and fight back much less than normal. And even much less than they quietly believe of themselves.

So if you’re a properly rational, liberal, and good person, and wish to escape this dismal fate, it’s important that you openly express your views and publicly state the truth. Even if no-one openly agrees with you, or even refrains from publicly damning you.

However much surface pain you suffer, this still avoids the psychological devastation and personal misery resulting from surrender and submission to the forces of evil. Loyalty to reality and self avoids humiliation, self-hatred, and the destruction of your soul.

Bad to the Bone

 

Some people are born bad. They’re weak and inferior in their biology and genetics. Moral goodness and ability to civilize aren’t simply a matter of will or individual choice. These capacities are partially inherent and inborn.

Some people tend not to work hard, smart, and slick. Like children and animals, they also can’t much delay gratification, for long-term pleasures and benefits. Others naturally work too hard and delay gratification too much. They don’t know how to enjoy themselves or life very well.

Some people by nature tend to beg, borrow, and steal. They’re inclined to also commit crime and violence. Others tend to mindlessly slave away without purpose or profit. They don't treat themselves very well.

Ultimately, some individuals, families, communities, societies, ethnicities, and races are naturally evil. Compared to their rivals, they’re inherently weak and inferior. To prevent such people from overly harming themselves or others they need an especially strong, strict, clear, simple moral code.

Dark Matter

 

Maybe scientists are going about the search for dark matter all wrong. Instead of just looking for matter which neither emits nor reflects light (or photons) – but which evidently does exert a (positive) gravitational force and possesses dark energy – maybe they should try to make it. Perhaps they should take a look at the 36 or so known particles – such as quarks, gluons, and neutrinos – and then attempt to combine them in some novel way. This might yield a recipe for darkness. And if physicists can create a pure anti-photonic glob of something, Occam’s razor suggests that this is the most likely form of it in the cosmos. So scientists can focus most of their sensing devices on that.

Once dark matter is manufactured, its nature should provide all kinds of clues as to what dark energy is too. Of course, scientists might want to try to create dark energy before dark matter, or concoct them simultaneously. Scientists might also search for some kind of mathematical formula or physics equation to suggest how dark matter or energy might exist in theory. This could help in the struggle to create dark matter and thence find it in our galaxy and universe.

Of course, it may simply be that dark matter is black holes. That alone would explain the too-rapid revolution of stars, galaxies, and galaxy clusters. And maybe some of the black holes consist of anti-matter or even some version of "right-handed" matter. Partially repulsive black holes of this type may explain the accelerating expansion of the universe.

The Early History of Irrationality

 

Humans have almost certainly thought, spoken, and acted irrationally since they essentially reached their current biological state, around 60,000 years ago in eastern Africa. Irrational belief and activity were likely common phenomena then. Even high-order animals occasionally think and behave irrationally. So superstition – or arbitrary, false conclusions about cause and effect – is evidently a standard human error. Mythical stories and explanations of various types were very probably typical for the tribal people of that era.

But when human beings changed their lifestyle and started to live together permanently in large cities around 5,300 years ago in Sumaria, and 200 years later in Egypt, they no doubt compared and contrasted the many irrational beliefs and myths that they all had. The intellectually and esthetically best probably soon came to dominate. The poor and weak ones were deliberately forgotten. Very likely the most wise and entertaining mythological tales were improved, elaborated on, and spread wide.

Soon enough there were superhumans, supernatural powers, magical creatures, and gods all over the place. They performed miracles of goodness, badness, and strangeness. And these fanciful entities engaged in all kinds of mischief – to educate and amuse us. Irrational nonsense was institutionalized and gained a prominent place in the culture of the West.

Meanwhile, nation-states and elaborate mythology or polytheism also emerged in India around 2500 B.C. and in China around 1800 B.C.

But 2,600 years ago, reason was discovered and invented in Greece. With it came science to explain the physical and natural world, along with philosophy to explain the intellectual and human world. The old Greek mythologies involving Zeus, Apollo, Athena, and the like were radically changed. They were made more simple and yet more profound. The primitive irrationality and superstition of mythology was updated and improved to the sophisticated irrationality and superstition of religion.

The newly-invented monotheism – however fraudulent and absurd – could at least somewhat stand up to science and philosophy. Reason didn’t immediately extinguish this belief-system, high-level irrationality, and destroyer of man. However false and evil the new phenomenon was, it didn’t succumb to the powerful intellectual and cultural forces of rational observation and analysis.

This was almost certainly the result of the preachers and cultists brazenly promising an "afterlife" and "immortality in paradise" to their followers. The Greeks created a variety of such "mystery cults" starting around 2,500 years ago. Many were based in Eleusis – about 20 miles from Athens and the first "Jerusalem".

However openly irrational and nonsensical, these "mysteries" were often exalted by Greek intellectuals, playwrights, and others of social and political prominence. And this way of thinking, so to speak, quickly made its way to Greece’s closest advanced neighbor, Persia. The Persians used it to invent Zarathustraism, the world’s first fairly elaborate and well-thought-out monotheism or religion.

A century or so later came Plato. His ideas made their way to another advanced culture on the border of an expanding Greece: Judea. The thinkers of that nation combined traditional Hebrew mythology, independent new-style monotheism, Zarathustraism, and Platonism to create Judaism. This irrational idea-system was the first truly sophisticated religion.

The Hebrew nation’s powerful belief-system eradicated all other competing polytheistic and mythological gods in their area. The Jewish religion with their one omnipotent god was magnificent. Or at least as close to magnificent as something so devastatingly irrational, harmful, poisonous, and evil can be.

But all the foregoing, important history and interpretation needs to be established thru scholarship and historical research. It needs to be verified with original sources and careful citations.

And I’m a cultural analyst – not a scholar. So someone else needs to do it!

Ruination

 

Blacks, Hispanics, and Moslems are ruining America. They ruin virtually every neighborhood, city, province, and country they take over. Everyone knows this. But these days no-one is allowed to admit it publicly. And maybe not even privately to themselves.

The reason Blacks, Hispanics, and Moslems radically degrade the culture and quality of life in America is because they’re inferior to whites. They’re considerably baser and more animal-like in their nature, nurture, and volition. This is sometimes known as their biology, culture, and morality. Everyone knows this too. But, again, no-one is allowed to admit it publicly. And maybe not privately either.

Americans are almost completely brainwashed on these issues. And willingly so.

But however damaging the growing invasion and conquest of America by blacks, Hispanics, and Moslems is, the real problem isn’t them per se. It’s the evil white Americans that protect and promote them. It’s the universally-accepted authorites – the white intellectual and political leaders of the country – who ferociously won’t permit the truth to be spoken about these predatory and destructive minorities.

So blacks, Hispanics, and Moslems aren’t really the driving or controlling edge of America’s demographic and cultural decline. Evil, racist, self-hating whites are responsible. The minorities are merely guilty of acting in their predictable, monkey-like manner and availing themselves of the opportunities thrust before their eyes. The ennablers of these destroyers are the ignorant, depraved, suicidal whites guiding them. If blacks, Hispanics, and Moslems choose to richly exploit the foolish, gullible, corrupt, self-hating, self-destructive white Americans in their midst – who can blame them?

These minorities note the obvious. They see a golden opportunity to take advantage of naive, deluded, falsely guilt-ridden, white Americans. And so they logically decide to invade the country, whether legally or illegally. Then they do their minority thing – their low intellectual, moral, and spiritual thing. Blacks, Hispanics, and Moslems get to work committing crime, going on welfare, parasitizing off the welfare state, voting for Big Brother, and abusing whites. They do this while openly hating and damaging Western values, America, capitalism, and freedom; and while openly practicing racism against their white benefactors.

All of this everyone knows and no-one admits. But once these minority cancers are inside America, the blacks, Hispanics, and Moslems then brazenly claim that white people are abusing them! This Big Lie defies belief. But minorities do learn to effectively make this asinine and depraved charge. They learn it from America’s white leaders.

Shockingly, no-one is more anti-white than white people. The "systemic racism" they believe and practice against themselves is simply astonishing.

Thinkers of the World, Unite!

The virtuous and high-quality intellectual and philosophical leaders of America, Britain, France, Germany, and Japan should get together and demand that the Western nations break off all diplomatic, social, and economic relations with the powerful, evil, enemy, slave nations of China and Russia. These two monster peoples – who essentially seek to enslave or destroy all of mankind – need to be summarily expelled from the United Nations, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, World Health Organization, Group of Twenty, Olympics, International space Station, and the like.

The leading Western thinkers should also issue ferocious intellectual refutations and scathing moral condemnations of the loathsome Chinese and Russian polities, cultures, and societies. This should devastate them spiritually. It should also kill off most of their honor, pride, self-esteem, self-confidence, will to fight, will to resist, and will to live.

And without all the current, massive transfers of Western wealth, technology, and weaponry to these Chinese and Russian slave societies, they should quickly start to wither and die.

No doubt the wicked and low-quality intellectual and philosophical leaders of the West will resist and fight these liberal statements and declarations. But such thinkers are fundamentally weak, wrong, and depraved. They can be defeated.

Then the populations of America, Britain, France, Germany, and Japan will follow the intellectuals' lead. And so will the political leaders. Nuclear and bio-chemical war will be avoided. Good will defeat evil.

Our Savior, Jesus

 

Many good people today call for a return to religion, or to traditional religious culture, in order to defeat the rising philosophy of Wokism or new-style leftist progressivism. Even some Objectivists, libertarians, and classical liberals call for it. This is because they see right-wing religiosity and left-wing Wokism as the only two viable philosophical alternatives today. They observe that by far the best current supporters of social, economic, and political freedom are the religious. Hence some relatively intelligent, educated, and virtuous people look to them for partial salvation, or at least for an emergency stop-gap.

But Western Civilization first became great in the Greco-Roman era before religion was powerful, maybe around 450 B.C. to 100 A.D. Then the evil godly got to work, eventually crushing reasonism and liberalism. A thousand-year Dark Age ensued.

The West only became great again after religion was massively driven back down. The corrupting, debilitating, culturally-devastating belief in "god" had to be hammered during the Renaissance and Enlightenment before the magnificent world of liberalism could rise to a new height. So it's more logical to think a new and improved version of rationality, individualism, and liberty needs to destroy both the collectivist left and the religious right.

A new ascendency of religious conservatism also seems far too weak intellectually to defeat the hideous Woke philosophy. And even if it could, this would not be a good thing. The victory of such an alien and wicked philosophy in our Greco-Roman world would likely only temporarily improve Western society, and only by a small amount. And over time the religious right, if allowed to dominate, would likely plunge us all into another irrational, illiberal Dark Age.

Theists

 

Belief in god is immensely immoral. The religious are lying thru their teeth when they claim god exists, when all the known facts and evidence indicate the opposite. They’re lying even worse when they claim this fictional god-fellow is all-knowing and all-powerful, also lacking any facts or evidence to back their assertions. And they’re lying still worse when they say he intervenes in human life; and men should slavishly serve him; and he will judge, reward, and punish people upon their death.

This is all made-up nonsense and without a scintilla of reason or proof to support it. Belief in the massively important idea and potential entity of "god" necessarily involves the rejection of reality, truth, reason, life, happiness, and hope. And you can’t get more evil than that! Humans desperately need all six of these ideals and values.

Religious belief also invites and motivates people to do as many wicked things as they wish and to be as wicked as they care to be. None of their horrors matter since the god-believer can escape all proper punishment merely by 1) "believing" in god, and 2) confessing his sins, and 3) offering an apology. Then god cancels out all his depravity and the evil-doer gets to live in Paradise forever. This contrasts vividly with a man who is a thousand times better, but who neglects the three acts above, and thus gets to burn in Hell forever. What injustice and stupendous evil!

Religiosos are such demons. Meanwhile, people who believe in reason tend to behave, and are almost always decent and good. They’re often heroic and noble. Rational folk generally make something of themselves and their lives. Reasonists simply don’t trash themselves and their fellow man as the religious usually do. But the god-believers are almost invariably lying scum and destructive monsters.