the question becomes this: it is not a question of what I know,
but a question of, what am I to do?
but perhaps, perhaps the question runs deeper then that…
perhaps it becomes a question of the values we use when
we act upon the question, “what am I to do?”
I can do something, say, get married… the act of marriage
is a good action… but the real heart of the matter lies
within the values I have used to engage in marriage…
am I marrying because I love the other person, or
am I marrying the other person because of perceived
value gained by marrying that person. Let us say, I marry
because the other person family has wealth and power…
I married because of the value to me that the other family
has money, power, prestige…love is, at best, a secondary
consideration to marriage given the wealth gained by marrying
into this family…so, what values are exposed when I marry for
possible money and power vs marriage with love? to marry because
of the wealth of the family brings us different values then to marry
because of love…
when we commit an action, regardless of the action, what values
presuppose that action? when we act, what values underline
that action? when we make a choice, what values underline that choice?
If I were to help an old women cross the street, what values underline
my helping a old women crossing the street? quite often, the values prompting
an action are vain, selfish, “modern” values. I helped that old woman cross the
street to confirm my vain belief that I am a “good” person…Or perhaps
I helped that old women cross the street to impress someone, a girl perhaps…
another example of vanity is the drive, the action of becoming a
manager in a store, or becoming an corporate executive…
the vanity of thinking I am the only one who can “lead” the store or
the corporation…
think of how many actions you have done because of vanity?
of course one doesn’t think this way. We always think our motives for
actions taken or not taken, we think our motives are far purer then they actually
are. Rare are the times when we acknowledge our “true” motives for actions taken,
even to ourselves. to take an extreme example, very extreme, if I were to rape
a woman, I would find excuses to free myself of any culpability of such an action…
my motives for such an heinous act would be to blame the victim, she was asking
for it, I couldn’t help my self, she was wearing clothes that forced me to rape her…
anything, any excuse to absolve myself from my horrible action of rape…
my motives must be pure in my eyes… thus I blame any other party available to
absolve myself from crimes committed… I have committed actions that are
by any standards, horrible actions, but to preserve my vanity, my ego, I must
find blame everywhere else besides the one place where blame resides, me…
thus we can now see evil in action… an evil person wouldn’t care if their
motive are pure or not, they simply act regardless of any pretense of
motives… a true psychopath wouldn’t even acknowledge that their actions
were horrible or wrong… a true psychopath like IQ45 isn’t even aware
that his actions are a violation of human standards of decency…
and IQ45 followers also are so caught up in their own personal attempts
to sanitize their motives for hatred and anger and greed and lust,
that they can’t see the idea that actions like concentration camps are
wrong or why concentration camps are inherently evil……
the followers of IQ45 must maintain the fiction that their motives
are pure, authentic, unclouded… to be able to maintain that fiction,
they engage in wild and implausible thoughts that the other, in this
case, immigrants, are subhuman, not normal, rapist and killers…
by this fiction, followers of IQ45 can maintain the fiction that
they are patriots and exemplary American’s………
these “patriots” are convinced that their actions are purely in defense
of “America” but their evil actions really exists because they are
unable or unwilling to examine their own motives as to why they
want to dehumanize other human beings…
for to dehumanize, to negate other human beings and their values
is nihilism…………followers of IQ45 are practicing nihilism…
the negation of human beings and their values…
any practice of negation or dehumanizing human beings occur,
that is nihilism… thus we have seen large scale nihilism occur over
the last 120 years… World War One is a large scale
practice of dehumanization and negation of human beings and their values,
capitalism is another example, the concentration camps of the Nazi’s is
another example of the negation and dehumanization of human beings
and their values, World War 2 is another example of the negation
and devaluing of human beings and their values…the entire cold war
is one long act in the dehumanization and devaluing human beings…
communism vs capitalism is simply two “opposing”
ism’s that devalue and dehumanize human beings and their values…
it really falls down the fact that the leadership of the two
“opposing” ism’s are at war because the ism’s and ideologies
of both devalue and deny human beings and their values…
there is no difference between the two ism’s which suggest that
they are at war due to their competition to export their brand
of nihilism under their leadership… their motives are once again
pure, at least to themselves, but their real motives are grounded
in envy, hate, lust, power, but to mask their motives, even to themselves,
they hide behind such lofty words as patriotism and nationalism and
dialectical materialism… but their motives, hidden even from themselves
is about the lower, base instincts of human behavior…
the lower values which drives the negation and devaluation
of human beings and their values…
and not the higher level of human behavior, the level of
love, peace, charity, justice, values which uphold and supports
the affirmation of human beings and their values………
the will to an ism is to be able to negate and deny
human beings and their values… this ism allows one to deny
and negate under the aegis of the ism/ideology…
we take actions and we may or may not create values in support
of that action, but we certainly create motives that to us anyway,
are pure and honorable……….
so look to your motives for an action… do those motives hide
and distort your values or do your motives explain
and uphold your values?
questions we must ask ourselves.
Kropotkin