Dear Friends,
It seems to me, as science advances the philosophy of people must advance as well, else a fundamental tension is set up, that must eventually catastrophically snap. When the growth in science outpaces the growth in moral philosophy, it can be said that our ability to do damage grows faster, than our ability to control ourselves from doing it. Moreover, if the ability to do harm is greater than the individual’s ability to not do harm, harm will result. It follows as certainly as wet ground after rain. This is why I find it so puzzling, why the Elite seem so intent to train out the civilization in Men and women, when if even a dimwit such as I, can see this obvious truth, the enlightened must also have access to it as well.
Science, and the way of thinking that science represents, asking what and how, instead of who and why, is itself a paradigm shift in logic. The study of the empirical world is the basis of science, the sensible universe if you will, not the intelligible world or the world as it can be imagined. In being not only a study but a way of perceiving reality, science can be said to be a philosophy itself, a philosophy about measurable reality. As such, it is an amoral philosophy, it is not concerned with the good or the bad, it has no interest in human suffering, it is blind to moral virtue and all morality, science is itself a two dimensional philosophy, it is terrific at evaluating the physical world, but it has huge blind spots where humanity is concerned.
As our knowledge of the empirical world grows our ability to manipulate it grows as well. That ability to manipulate carries with it great power to build, change, and destroy. But, as science takes only two of the three dimensions of human existence into consideration, there must be another philosophy to fill in that missing piece. That missing piece is moral philosophy. Religious philosophies of right living, right acting and human compassion, are nearly perfectly suited to fill the gap. If there is no morality then why should there be self control? The only other way to limit the actions of people, so that society can function, is by fear of the State. History has taught us, if it has taught us nothing else, that laws only effect those who are subject to them. The elite never subject themselves to their own laws, and so, live outside the limitation that fear of the State’s retribution provides, as well as morality.
As the power to manipulate and destroy grow, if those in political power are not held to human morality, and they are not subject to the State’s authority, they have little need of self control. The elite are more free to follow a course that is in their narrow personal interests than the average citizen. They can become so corrupted under these circumstances, they will use science’s power to destroy… to smash civilization. The complex system that is civilization, will produce a long tailed event, and the advances of science and the philosophy of morals will be lowered, perhaps forever.
If we take these things to be true, that if the morality of a people declines even as their ability to destroy grows… their fall will be unavoidable, then why are the elite in our society leading us to just that? The elite in culture show us that the good life is meaningless sex, the capitalist elite show that immediate personal gain outweighs any long term investment that will result in societal as well as personal gain, and the political elite are modeling the most despicable behavior possible. The main thrust of legislation today is mitigating the consequences of negative behavior. Laws lowering access to abortifactants, welfare, and a clear hostility to God, are but a few examples.
The people are not blind to these things, we see what they do, and we follow where our leaders lead us. They are leading us from morality, religion, and being rational maximisers, to become angry, self absorbed, children… with toys that can kill us all. The elite even pass deadly technology to the people on this planet with the lowest humanitarian philosophical growth! Giving the nuclear bomb to communists was a crime against humanity. Allowing such destructive power to fall into the hands of people who have no moral compass, as evidenced by the mass slaughter of human beings at their hands, is an act of anti humanity… Just as today’s political elite are doing in so many ways. Why do you suppose they are doing this, or, do you believe them ignorant and stupid?
Sincerely,
John Pepin
