Zahir
Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
December
09, 2009 | Updated Friday, October 29, 2010
This
is Project Humanbeingsfirst's response to the moral reflections of an
ordinary mortal using the nom de plume 'lwtc247' on the web, in “The
importance and benefits of self honesty”
where he mused:
'When
you stand before God to be judged, do you really think at that time
you will be able to enter a debate with God about your behavior?
Playing with or bending some words to cover-up or justify your bad
deeds? Perhaps a little “white lie” here and there? Do
you really think you can deceive God?'
Hi
-
This
problem was solved by Nietzsche a long time ago! Where have you been?
There
used to be a prominent T-Shirt worn around campus when I was an
undergrad, it said in bold:
God
is Dead -- Nietzsche
(of
course I am not going to provide you the punch-line
that was printed in very fine letters just underneath that)
More
pertinently however, morality and intellect are two separate things.
It is mixing them where people become misled!
Intellect
cannot confer upon morality any view other than subjective, and hence
relative and arbitrary. The following
statement from an 'uber intellect' is a good evidence of this:
“Nothing
is more certain in modern society than the principle that there are
no absolutes, that a name, a phrases, a standard has meaning only
when associated with the considerations which give birth to
nomenclature. To those who would paralyze our Government in the face
of impending threat by encasing it in a semantic strait-jacket, we
must reply that all concepts are relative.” -- Justice
Vinson, U.S. Supreme Court, 1951 AD
However,
the following algorithm is not just evidence of what I say, but its
outright proof. This proof is furnished by the 'uber uber' atheist of
the 20th century, i.e., the most fanatical God is Dead exponent, Mr.
Bertrand Russell. I can't recall the exact
chapter and verse, but it goes something like this.
Bertrand
Russell's morality synthesis exclusively from the intellect:
~'Maximize
individual happiness (pleasures) while minimizing social conflict
(not hitting on another's spouse) to optimize the overall happiness
of the people composing the social unit who agree to live by the set
of laws which implement this operations-research calculus.'
-- Bertrand Russell also noted some caveats for protection of minors
and those unable to make choices so that one could not maximize one's
pleasures upon them without some institutional safeguards.
Using
that highly intellectual morality equation – and I will confess
that I have not encountered a more profound synthesis of morality and
law anywhere, and which, on the surface at least, appears rather full
of brilliance and minimalism – it would be perfectly
acceptable, for instance, to spread Black-death every other
generation for population control among other 'untermensch'
societies. Or, to create a draconian police-state by re-defining what
individual happiness might mean, and conditioning
the people to get used to it. As Goethe had observed, “none
are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are
free”. In such a society, the
people could be kept quite content in their voluntary servitude thus
leaving no social conflict whatsoever – and thus culminating in
a perfectly stable and rational society.
In
this highly intellectual system, also called Secular Humanism,
enslaving the populace by a bunch of wily 'ubermensch' who have
craftily chosen not to be constrained in the “semantic
strait-jacket” alluded to by Judge Vinson quoted above
and who accept “that all concepts are relative”,
that state of affairs would be a perfectly moral outcome. It
certainly satisfies Bertrand Russell's
intellect-derived morality calculus. And if someone thinks I am
making all this up, Bertrand Russell himself concluded in his
epiphany to 'uber' intellectual morality, in his 1952 book “Impact
of Science on Society”, that a Scientific Society, meaning
one built on intellect – as obviously imbeciles can't do
high-tech science – will automatically culminate in “World
government [which] could only be kept in being by force”.
We
can brazenly observe this exercise of the 'uber' intellect for
instance, not just in the world government under construction which
of course no one believes is happening, but in the Talmud among its
very moral followers which no one can ever deny unless their lips are
moving in chutzpatic confabulations. The Ten Commandments of Moses
are intellectually particularized from their universal moral form, by
adding an implied “Jew” at the end. Thus, as has been
amply exposed by many recovering Jews themselves, “Thou
Shall Not Kill” is read by many an adherent Talmudic Rabbi
as: “Thou Shall Not Kill
[a Jew; killing goy is OK]”.
And
as evidence that this “hegelian mind fck”
isn't just some historical baggage which happened in the Dark Ages
with no bearing to modernity, here is the latest version of the Law
Book of Israel: 'The
King's Torah':
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/the-complete-guide-to-killing-non-jews.html!
For
additional examples of this ongoing “hegelian mind fck”,
please see:
http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2009/11/genesis-to-genocide-golem-not-jewish.html
Fundamentally,
the problems outlined by lwtc247
have been long solved philosophically, i.e., by using the intellect.
Here is a short passage from Leo Strauss which shows just how
remarkably it is has been solved:
'Political
Zionism has repeatedly characterized itself as the will to normalize
the existence of the Jewish people, to normalize the Jewish people.
By this self-definition it has exposed itself to a grave
misunderstanding, namely, the misunderstanding that the will to
normality was the first word of political Zionism; the most effective
criticism of political Zionism rests on this misunderstanding. In
truth, the presupposition of the Zionist will to normalization, that
is, of the Zionist negation of galut [exile], is the conviction that
"the power of religion has been broken". Because the break
with religion has been resolutely effected by many individual Jews,
and only because of this reason, it is possible for these individuals
to raise the question on behalf of their people, how the people is to
live from now on. Not that they prostrate themselves before the idol
of normality; on the contrary: they no longer see any reason for the
lack of normality. And this is decisive: in the age of atheism, the
Jewish people can no longer base its existence on God but only on
itself alone, on its labor, on its land, and on its state. ...' --
page 202, Leo Strauss, The Early Writings 1921-1932
See
its fuller exposition at the link below, but here is the core essence
of that morality:
'In
simple language which peels off the philosophical-gibberish of “will
to normality” and such, straightforwardly speaking: god
gave the Jews the land grants, anointed them as the 'chosen peoples',
and then Nietzsche killed god, and now it's up to the Jewish people
who “can no longer base its existence on God but only on
itself alone, on its labor, on its land, and on its state”,
in order to construct their own future “because the break
with religion has been resolutely effected by many individual Jews”
who must now lead their flock!!!' --
http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2009/02/letterto-dalitvoice-which-god.html
See
how wonderful a solution it is mes amis? I hope no one is too sarcasm
impaired here.
Not
to be outdone by atheists in defining their own super-morality with
their uber-intellect, god's chosen theists can even outdo that with
learned confabulations – become god themselves:
'...
The point is that a Jew has strength, ability and power to create the
desire within G-d to accept and become King over the entire creation.
It's
understood, that the existence of the entire creation, in truth, is
brought about by the Jew's coronation of G-d, and through which He
becomes a King over the entire creation, which ultimately results in
the fact that all of creation comes from the Primary being, G-d.
It's
obvious that since every Jew, men and even women and children, brings
about the existence of the entire creation, they become masters over
the world, and thus every single creation owes them recognition for
this good.
Being
that through the Jew, all beings were created, he therefore becomes
the master over all of them.
This
is especially so in regards to what needs to be accomplished on erev
[every?] Rosh Hashana.
Since
the judgment of Rosh Hashana is primarily regarding physical matters,
as explained in Likutei Torah, therefore the Jew is in complete
control, particularly over physical matters.
The
physicality of the world itself has to recognize the good that the
Jew has accomplished.
Through
the Jews they came into being, and their true existence is through
their unity with the True Being.
Since
G-d and the Jews are one, each Jew becomes a True Being, and is thus
able to bring about all of creation.
He
therefore has control over all of creation and not only that, but
they owe him thanks and are indeed thankful, for being provided
with abundance in physical and especially spiritual matters.' --
http://bloghumanbeingsfirst.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/on-jews-becoming-the-masters-of-the-world-the-coronation-of-hashem-from-the-torah/#masters-of-the-world
Such
is the natural culmination of morality when the superior intellect is
put in charge of it! The sociopaths will always justify the
ubermensch.
It
would of course be a travesty of thought to end this missive without
giving the punch-line that was printed on
the T-Shirt noted above. I wish I had bought one – at the time
it was only humorous. It read:
Nietzsche
is Dead -- God!
I
can hear someone laughing...
Because
I can actually feel that laugh down my spine without any physical
sound waves impinging upon my eardrums from
across the ethernet, it shows me that,
inter alia: Morality likewise is naturally
felt, not naturally thought.
Morality
originates from the heart where feelings reside, not the mind –
Plato's virtuous philosopher-king notwithstanding. Such abstract
intellectualism, including his Shapes,
appear to reside in the vast immanent-space of the philosopher's mind
alone since they can find no empirical verification in the far more
constrained existential reality-space. The only morality that the
intellect is empirically shown to beget through time immemorial, is
the Nietzscheian-Hegelian variety explored above, of might has
rights! It is also known as the
divinely ordained moral law of the jungle to some. To others, it
constitutes the categorical imperatives which are beyond good and
evil. To still others, it is simply amoral precision of
“military-style objectivity”.
Whereas,
interestingly, as in all lovers' happy or tragic tales also since
time immemorial, the Heart also is where the Almighty resides! Read
both the Qur'an and the Bible and one sees references to the heart as
the container for morality, for spiritual
eyes, for cleanliness of the heart begetting the cleanliness of the
soul, for cognitively incomprehensible admonitions of none shall
approach the truth unless they approach it with a cleansed heart, for
there being a seal put on the heart of those who are heedless and who
are the purveyors of falsehoods, who bring misery upon mankind by
their 'uber' clever planning, etceteras. I
have yet to recall knowing anyone who fell in love through their mind
as opposed to through their heart. Or even recall reading any
literature, sacred or divine, and I am an indefatigable
reader, that alluded to the mind for matters of love, faith, courage,
self-sacrifice, and yes, the notorious jihad – jihad-un-nafs –
the primordial inner struggle of the soul to overcome the “banality
of evil” only upon the conquest of which, the sword is
automagically both found and comes unsheathed! And when I used to
read comparative religions, I recall also the case of appeal to the
heart being true of Hindu scriptures as well as others.
In
conclusion, “Cogito Ergo Sum” might have
taken a tiny lesson from Zen were it not so imbued in its own
arrogance of the intellect and so blinded by its own brilliance
to actually have missed the commonsense. Watch Zen Master
Bruce Lee so simply teach it
here:
Caption
“We need emotional content. Don't think,
feeeel; it is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't
concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory”!
It
should be patently obvious to anyone that an intellect voluntarily
serving under the command of morality can be the only possible
solution for equitable and peaceable “Cogito Ergo Sum”
for all mankind, rather than for the 'uber' few when it's put the
other way around.
I
will humbly further suggest that the clincher empirical proof that
morality and intellect are separate entities, that morality is
primarily rooted in feelings rather than in the intellect, is that
had ordinary people simply retained even an iota of humanity in them,
even a tiny feeling of empathy for the suffering of fellowman, for
their own natural tribe of mankind, then, instead of intellectually
watching the decimation of their own kith and kin all unfold on
television looking
from the side,
at best going tsk tsk, and at worst cheering,
we would have collectively marched in formation and forcibly neutered
all the hectoring hegemons now so boldly munching on their victims no
differently than the lowly wildebeest and
buffaloes do against the hectoring hegemons
of their jungle!
And
no scientist in the universe can argue with a straight face that the
poor buffaloes who feel the pain so immensely for their own
humble kith and kin as depicted in the video
below, are a very cognitive species – a fact also brazenly
recognized by our own hectoring hegemons which is perhaps why they
work so assiduously on desensitizing our feelings of empathy
for our fellowman, including for our ownselves, by
continually bringing us all the manufactured Hollywood violence and
other baser entertainment:
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End
Also
see: Allama Iqbal - marde-momin or superman? Part-I
Short
URL: http://tinyurl.com/Allama-Iqbal-ubermensch
Source
URL:
http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2009/12/morality-from-intellect-is-enslavement.html
Morality
derived from the Intellect leads to Enslavement! By Zahir Ebrahim
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