Nov 18, 2019, 10:23 AM
The reason we need a Sun Tzu a Machiavelli, and a Doolittle, is because we are civilized and moral people and do not grasp the limit beyond which the immoral is necessary for group success.
Conversely the reason for Jewish and Muslim success in underming, weakening, conquest, destruction by consumption, and failure of creating a civilization of their own as a growing, going concern, is their immorality.
In other words. Law may be a moral discipline, but war by genetic, informational, financial, economic, and military means is not a moral discipline.
You cannot simply, like a pet, learn habits, without reason. Because other people do not learn moral habits. They learn immoral habits and call them ‘good’.
We live in an era of SCALE. The world, the universe, the very large and the very small. Our minds evolved to habituate almost everything and reason only when necessary. But we live in an era where reason is always necessary.
ANd this is why democracy fails. Not enough of us have knowledge. Not enough skill, and far too few of us reason, and fewer still who reason across time.
Most of us are still semi-domesticated, well trained animals.
That does not mean that like the herd we must tolerate being led to slaughter.