The question of existence, the problem of existence, is in part,
one of how do we understand experiences, how do we create
context for experiences, how do we classify the point and meaning
of experiences?
The experiences we have, from birth to death are the same experiences,
in other words, each of us is born and each of us will die. Each of us will
have experiences like school, family, society, government, indoctrinations…
As a man, I will have experiences that men have, like peeing standing up
and the male version of puberty and the awareness of other people being
sexual objects. I will not have the experiences of women. And the specific
experiences we have affects us as much as the general experiences.
The experiences are the same for us, life, death, puberty, love, marriage,
sex, but the difference is that each of us understands each experience
differently. My understanding of education is different then yours because
of social, psychology, economic and political differences but all of get educated
in some fashion. How we understand it is different, but the event is the same.
So how do we understand the question of “what ought we to do” in
terms of experience? If we stick with experience instead of ideology,
then we can understand better “what ought we to do”? Or said another way,
what factors, what is the nature of being human and how does that
relate to experiences?
We human beings are social creatures. We exist together, not separately,
we cannot exist alone. We must have other human beings to survive and any
construct of human society must include this aspect of human beings being
social creatures. This socialness is part of being human. It is, in a great part,
the reason why humans beings survived the long evolutionary period of
our youth. Our social nature is partly why we succeeded as animals
as we grew into human beings. Now some animals have other evolutionary
means of success like sharp teeth and claws or they can run fast or
they can hide… evolutionary success has many different parts to it,
but one of the reasons humans survived was this social nature we have.
This social nature is best exemplify by our need to cooperate.
The distinguishing factor of human survival is the ability to cooperate.
The modern ideology that proclaims rugged individualism and the myth
of the self created man is a lie. We do not self create. We are created
by the hands of thousands who have touched our lives and by the thousands
who touched those hands and the thousands who touched their hands.
We are the product of millions of years of evolution and training.
And in those millions of years, we were influenced by millions of lives.
Human success is not the result of our individual actions, but by
the actions of all those who came before us who cooperated and
created the modern world. I cannot emphasize this enough. We are the
creation of millions of years of cooperation between human beings.
If you fail to understand this, you fail to understand human beings.
The key to human success has been in the creation of our social
organizations like the family and the state. This is a another step
in the evolution of human cooperation. The social structure that
lies at the heart of human survival comes from the ability to
create social structures like education and protection of ourselves
by the means of government. This ability to create social structures
is done by our social skills. Social skills that is not linked to intelligence
but by emotional skills. Social structures are created over generations
and by emotional skills. This is the basis of our emotional skills.
The ability to work in and become part of social structures like the family
and society and the government. That is a vital part of being human.
The ability to use our social skills to allow us the ability to survive.
The key to our survival comes from our cooperation and that cooperation
comes from our social skills and that comes from our emotional skills.
One of the key factors of survival is by being social and being part of the group.
One of the next factors of survival for the human being is the rationality
or the individual intelligence AND the collective intelligence we have.
We combined not only in social structures but in common debate
in which we used our collective intelligence in debate to create
policy. In other words, the creation of modern human beings
came about over the million of years in which human beings debated
over campfires, past, present and future actions.
This rationality or use of intelligence that allow us to survive
without the tools of the animals like sharp teeth or claws
or not being able to run fast, is a key part of human survival.
So we have the social skills/emotional aspect of being human
which is the skills of cooperation and the creation of social
organizations and we have the intelligence aspect of survival.
thus we now understand how come we have two important
and crucial aspects of human ability. the social and the intellectual
aspect, the social skills to adapt within the group and the intellectual
aspect to create goals and a vision of who we are and where we
need to go next. The ability to create social organizations is an emotional
skill. It is this combination of emotional and intellectual skills that allowed
us to survive.
But what does this mean to us today? Let us take IQ45 attacks upon
both the social organizations and the intellectual aspects of human
existence. IQ45 has attacked social organizations that have successfully
allowed us to survive and grow as human beings, social organizations like
the government and social natures like kindness and cooperation that
has allowed us to succeed and grow. Plus he has attacked intelligence
which is the second part of the equation of human success. We must
have and use both the emotional skills and intellectual skills if we
want to survive and prosper going into the future. To attack
our key to survival which is cooperation and the creation of social
structures is dangerous to our future.
So let us relate this to another point I have made which is
system understanding. For a system to succeed, that system
must have energy going into it and every system must
have increasing energy going into it to maintain itself.
If IQ45 takes away energy from our social systems, then
he threaten to cause disorder and chaos within the systems
because disorder and chaos is caused by the loss of energy going
into a system. This energy helps a system maintain and grow
the order within that system. It takes energy to maintain order
within a system. To keep the solar system flowing on its
path, it takes energy to maintain the system. Every system
must have energy to maintain itself and without that energy,
the system begins to fail which is the growth of disorder
and chaos within the system. The term for this is entropy.
The loss of energy which maintains a system order.
So what IQ45 is doing is causing the system, the social system
of government and society to lose energy and thus become
unstable and increase disorder and chaos. That is why conservativism
is so dangerous. The basic premise of conservatism is based
on an idea that is dangerous to social organizations and government because
it drives energy from those social organizations and government which increases
disorder and chaos in those systems. The survival of human beings derive from
the strength of human social organizations and government. We are only
as strong as our social organizations. Social organizations which allows us to survive
and prosper. and then we return to the question, what of experiences?
How do we understand experiences? What does my explanation of
emotional and intellectual engagement in regards to our social
structures and organizations help you to understand experiences?
Kropotkin