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Human nature // Utopian man // Idealistic man // Real man // Role models // Man bad by nature / Man more Hobbes than Rousseau
Religious leaders, from Jesus to Moses, Mahomet, Buddha, Confucius, Lao-Tse, all appealed to an ideal and utopian man. The basis of almost all religions and the prevalent concepts of human ethics expect that everybody should follow the respective commandments of their churches and be good, be correct, be straightforward, be human.
Most of the philosophers, since the ancient Greeks or Chinese base their school of thoughts on a man how he should be, not how he really is.
Human nature, for the majority of humanity, however, is different. Statistically, the number of good people is irrelevant. The numbers of people that become good because of the commandments of whatever church are even less. The influence of philosophers is almost nil.
Most of us are still guided by our reptile inner cortex, the remnants of our heritance as we left the waters to adventure in firm ground. We humans all compete ferociously in the jungle of the fittest, with some cooperation among our brothers in peal color or in religion or in nationality, but always to defeat the outsider. If in the beginning we fought with clubs and spears, now we are more subtle, we use indebtedness, derivatives, offer and demand laws to rip the bread from the mouths of “inferior” human beings.
We all know that much is wrong in the world. The easiest books and articles to write are those pointing out what is wrong. Very few and almost none indicate new directions based on reality or on real men how they effectively are. The ones that would have to implement it.
Most writers ask us to be good/unselfish and do this or that for the environment, to avoid global warming, to distribute wealth, to integrate the nations or the races, to throw away the weapons, to see other human beings as brothers. If you remove the specification to “be good/unselfish” and let us be as we are, the suggested directions lead us to nothing. The receipts for change are all full wishful thinking and no reality.
Do you know of a religious leader, a philosopher, a politician who has ideas to set new directions to a world with real selfish and sinning men? In fact, I do not thing they exists and if he would be able to formulate such ideas, it would not change a thing, because we are guided by chance and necessity (not destiny). Nobody is able to push the whole of the collective unconscious of 6 billion souls in one direction or another.
These provocative and synthetic thoughts through this media (an Internet blog) are like classic music in a metro station. The metro musician, like me, the internet philosopher, is not for the big stages, but shows the intent of an unripe expression. Your thoughts and ideas are welcome and will be alms to nourish this limited thinker.
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Posted by braatz on 2008-03-31 08:50:00 | Rating: | Views: 77
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