As a Westerner, and follower of Aristocracy, I separate the True and the Meaningful, and let ideas ‘fight it out’ in my mind.
This is, what I believe, is the western tradition: deflation and competition.
And I believe, that, to the best of their linguistic ability, the chinese tried to do the same.
And I am fairly certain that the reason for the success of the eastern Chinese Reasoning-Buddhist-Bias/Japanese Shinto-Bias, and Western Reasoning-Literary/Mythic bias, and the ABJECT FAILURE of every civilization who adopts the iranian/indian/semitic conflationary bias, is this lack of competition IN THE MIND.
(I haven’t done the work at testing how negative an impact buddhism had on china, like I have with christianity on the west)
Now, I can understand how Anyone (you) would prefer instruction in a conflationary and static idea, rather than to learn to synthesize a pair of deflationary can competing forms of communication (law and literature).
People say that they prefer socialism (static prediction) over market competition. But they prefer the EXPERIENCE of one and the results of the other.
People say that they prefer authoritarian rule, over the results of a market for the production of commons, but they choose to migrate to markets for the production of commons.
But the practice at reconciling the law with the literary is EXACTLY what makes you, and a civilization great.
People may prefer to read conflationary literature. But they prefer to live under rule of law.
The result of the good (commons) is produced by efforts at production, not recreational reading.
The same for private (psychological) goods. One must put in effort whether stoic disciplines of contemplation and actions, shinto ritual, buddhist disciplines of meditation and ritual, christian prayer and ritual, muslim heavy-repetition prayer and ritual, or jewish social and literary ritual.
So when I say, yes, Hegel is right a lot, and Kant is right a lot, it is because they were searching to replace the comforting conflationary monopoly imposed by the church on our people, at the expense of our prior competition between polytheistic nature-worshipping myth, and our common aryan law (of torts).
Yet it is not the thoughts, words and deeds themselves that teach us to be western. It is that we must reconcile the competition between the specializations of thoughts (stoicism), words(literature), and deeds (law), so that we never are imprisoned by the comforting certainty of the stasis and conflation.
The gnostics were right. Only a ‘devil’ would teach monotheism.
And that is what the record of history tells us.
Monotheism = Statis, Submission, Dysgenia, and imprisonment.
Competition = innovation, empowerment, eugenia, and transformation.
Do you have the right to sell or pitch or advocate suicide cults? Communism/Socialism?
What about Monotheism?
What’s the difference whether you advocate murder-suicide in the near, medium, or long term?
Source date (UTC): 2017-04-11 10:46:00 UTC