Theme: Civilization

Q&A: PLATO IS EVIL?

—“Curt, I was discussing Plato with a friend, and remember you described him as “evil” – Can you expand on your thoughts on Plato?”— A Friend

Lets try to keep in mind that I have a very clear mission, and that is to eliminate frauds from the informational commons. So I look back into history from my (admittedly privileged position perched on the shoulders of giants) and I can clearly see the patterns of history and the techniques of communication, persuasion, and argument that have evolved over that time.

A number of traditions emerge in the west out of the first flowering in the ancient world. I”m going to describe them in an order, but not the order of their development.

0) Read up on Pilpul: the means by which ancient priests/lawyers used verbal obscurantism to find excuses for current action in past revelations. We call this “Hermenutics” today. But it is the same principle: find a way to interpret the words that can be applied to a task at hand, and therefore claim that past authoritarian wisdom exceeds present knowledge

1) The Semitic: The conflation of law, history, and myth. A demanding, authoritarian (evil) god of separatism.

2) The Augustinian: the conflation of the Semitic with the Platonic. An attempt to improve upon the Semitic by bringing in the ideas of the platonic.

3) The Platonic: instead of relying upon ancient scriptural law for authority, plato attempted to use the equivalent of ‘mathematical alternate reality’ to describe ‘forms’ or ‘ideal types’. He conflated mathematical mysticism, with law.

4) The aristotelian. He attempted the concrete. To explain the world without *conflation*. In other words, the analytic.

5) The Legal – aristotelian, stoic, roman, german incremental, empirical, common law.

6) The Historical – Especially in the Roman era.

7) The Literary. The literary evolved later but it is effectively aristotelian. Rather, literature is the application of aristotelianism to mythos. We no longer suggest that it is true, but only that it is parable to learn from.

So out of these traditions we have truth and lie. The innovations in lies were Semitic and Platonic and Augustinian. The innovations in truth were aristotelian and empirical.

Then we see history repeat itself in the enlightenment:

– The anglo empiricists tried to recreate aristotle.

– The french moralists the augustinian tradition.

– The german rationalists the platonic tradition.

– And the jewish cosmopolitans created pseudoscience – innovating heavily on pilpul, they were the last and most creative: the created an entirely new means of lying. (marx, freud, boaz, cantor, etc).

So in our current era, mostly because we failed to allow the germans to finish their transformation (not for the first time mind you) and therfore cut the second enlightenment short, the semitic (pseudoscientific lies) were made possible primarily because of the the civil war with germany as the more ‘backward’ people in the anglo, french, and russian worlds stopped the ascendence of the germans and therefore cut off the restoration of the west to its ancestral, stoic, aristotelian, pre-aristotelian, aryan love of life, man, and nature.

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine