Any system of decidability that is not explicitly right will, by increment, evolve into explicitly left, fully discretionary, and fully incalculable.
Natural law is explicitly right, and non-discretionary, and fully calculable.
In this sense I see religion as having the permission of the Sovereignty and the Court, but that is all. Religion does not get a pass on lying.
Via-negativa removes falsehoods that allow us to more cost effectively discover a value system – especially by avoiding those that will fail, and those that are predatory.
In other words, once you have surpassed human scale it is more beneficial to use via-negativa and markets than via-positiva and concentration of capital.
Just as we need multiple languages to talk to multiple layers of ability (classes), and just as we need multiple states to serve the interests of multiple layers of tribes; and just as we need multiple sciences to break the world into parts that we can disassemble; and just as we need multiple economies (military (slave), commons (serf), union(unskilled labor), market (producers), and finance (gamblers), we need multiple NARRATIVES just as we always have: the religious for the weak, the philosophical for the able, and the heroic for the superior.
Those narratives already exist. The problem is thinking Your’re everyone (democracy and equality) rather than the member of a class.
The universe may be beyond human scale, but the scope of action available to humans of different ability varies dramatically from those who can barely care for themselves, to those that can care for others, to those that can manage others, to those that can organize others, to those that can organize many, to those that can advocate for as many as they can serve.
Choose the tool that serves the scale that is possible for you.
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-06 00:16:00 UTC
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