this will be an extremely long post… as I wrote it out, it took
15 pages…….
we have events, for example, the dishwasher was started, the clothes washer
was started and a package was retrieved from the front porch…
three isolated events and what is their commonality? me… I started
the laundry and the dishwasher and got the package… they could have
been done in any order, the order was irrelevant…so time was not a question…
we have random events occuring all the time, a tree falls in the forest,
a cat walked down the street and the garbage is being picked up…
what connects those three events? those three events exists in time and space
they are specific events here on earth… you cannot get these events in the ocean
or in the desert or up in the air…these events require certain conditions to occur
for these events to happen… how are to connect/understand these events? what
method shall we use to connect these events? a tree falls, a garbage truck picks
up garbage, a cat walks down the street… how would we connect these events?
the tree falling is a natural event, the garbage truck picking up garbage is a
man made event and the cat walking down is a natural event but on the
man made street…so we can divide up events into catagories of some sort
thus connecting them into catagories…we could also explain these events
by a religious context, there is a god who directs each and every single event…
or we could explain these events by science and scientific laws, the science method…
we can describe/understand events using these two methods, the religious or the
scientific… however if we had a completely random event, say, pigs flying…
then we can use the religious explanation but the reality is, we must use the scientific
explanation because the religious explanation is too subjective, which religion
would we use, which god would we credit, the choices in a religious
explanation are vast and bewildering… which explanation would we and could
we use? the only clear answer is the scientific method… just because science
doesn’t yet have an answer doesn’t mean it won’t have an answer, it just mean
it doesn’t have one yet…… there are no metaphysical explanations and no
metaphysical events… in time we can explain everything scientifically…
but that explanation of everything doesn’t mean we can explain
certain questions like who are we and what are our possibilities?
science cannot explain those questions and religious pretends to
explain those questions but we fall back into the extreme subjectivity
of religion which creates difficulties in our answers…
religion is about extremes…… for the requirement that we must
put faith above reason, is an extreme position………….
but the rise of science has created its own problems…
for science cannot answer certain question, the Kantian/Kropotkin
questions…
what can we know?
what shall we do?
what ought we hope for?
what should our values be?
what should we expand our energy on?
how do we express and how?
as science rises, we must become ever aware of what our soul needs…
for science cannot speak to our inner needs which is the function of the soul…
we cannot accept science and ignore who we are……
the rise of existentialism in the midst of the 20th century
rise in science was not an accident…as science and technology
increases, the soul demands equal time
we must become aware of connections and what is the connection
between the rise of science and rationality and the discord of the
last 150 years?
science is the rational and the soul is the emotional
and we must, must acknowledge both the rational and
the emotional… they are part of an equation……
and in any equation, you must have equal sides for the equation
to work… you have mathematical equations and you have the
human equation and both must equal out…
there is a reason that Nazism rose in the most scientifically
advance country on earth………
science tells us that for every action there is an equal and opposite
reaction……… the rise of science means a rise in the opposite,
the irrational…the equations must equal out…
and as we exists in a world where we have scientific equations
we also have human equations which must too balance out…
so, for every action is an opposite and equal reaction is true
of rocket ships, it is true of us… we exists as equations just
as space and time and motion are equations…we must have
an equation that equal on both side for us to exists as human beings…
a human being is an equation… if on one side exists logic and science,
we must balance the other side of the equation with emotions…
the equation must balance…
this understanding/connection of an equation to us as human beings
explains the modern age current extreme partisanship……
the equation must stand… so if the right goes to an extreme
position, the left to maintain the equation must go to an extreme
position… the left/right split is an attempt to maintain the equation
in the political as it is in the human being itself……
for all aspects of human existence must maintain the equation,
what ever that equation is…for society to operate as currently
constructed, we must have balance between the parties…
however if we remove the party system, there is no need
to maintain balance/equality between them………
for society to operate/function as is, we must keep the equation equal…
the dramatic increase gains by science/technology has create
an imbalance in the equation that society has…… which the conservative
tries to hold the balance by extreme idealization of the past…….
the conservative tries/wants to return to an idealized past because
the equation seems right in that era……. as science/technology increases
the more that the conservative wants to return to a ever idealized past…
the conservative wants to return to the middle ages because it fits
the criteria of a balanced society… not a fair society, but a balanced one…
the middle ages was a stable, slow moving society which we don’t have
today… the conservative sees our fast moving society as a threat
to the stability of society………the equation must be held in human
actions as well as human behavior… which is why conservatives
try to hold growth of society/science/technology to tradition
this is an attempt to create an equation…by slowing down growth and progress…
so we have Darwin, for example, how do we keep the equation with
Darwin? you have science + Darwin = ?
If Darwin is right, then how do we maintain the equation or hold the balance?
the fight to maintain and increase religion is the fight to maintain
the equation…… to force religion to be separate but equal to science
thus the use of religious idea’s and language to understand secular idea’s…….
this is to keep the equation, the balance in society……………
so how do we keep the balance/equation in society?
Kropotkin