Amerika

You can take one of two basic paths in functional responses to reality: either reality adapts to you, or you adapt to reality.

The former requires social engineering, scientific management, the Big State, and eventually, total social conformity to enforce.

The latter fits within both Darwinism and the hippie idea of finding a niche and enjoying life.

The humanist view holds that humans dominate nature and therefore should reshape it in human form, prioritizing the individual over genetics, tradition, hierarchy, and culture.

Humanist views change humans from an implement into a goal, and therefore become circular. They cannot have any other goal, since their primary goal is to protect individuals against order, so they become means-over-ends pathologies.

This leads us to solipsism because we are the goal, the method, and the cause of all things in this philosophy.

Even if secular, it takes on a religious aspect because we are worshiping ourselves. Consequently you get people doing insane things in the name of “good”:

“It’s actually a mandate in the Bible to take care of your neighbors, to love your neighbor as yourself, to take care of those that are struggling,” said Rock Church lead pastor Mike Polhemus.

“I know there’s concerns from the neighbors that this is going to reduce their property values and increase crime rates, and I would say to this date, we have done nothing of that sort, and do not plan to do that,” Polhemus said.

“Christ showed us love when he died on a cross for us,” Polhemus said. “My encouragement to our community, to our churches, is that we would respond in the same love that Christ had for us, and lay down our lives for one another. And one of the ways we do that is by helping those that are struggling with housing.”

Real-life experience tells you that homeless people have mental health problems and bring crime, filth, and disorder in their wake. They can also randomly assault you. Many are pedophiles or sexual assailants. There is nothing good about the homeless.

But in the religion of humanism, they are sainted victims, because beliefs that moralize about what is “good” or “evil” instead of what is real must slot everything into one of two categories, virtuous victims or evil oppressors.

It is funny how the human mind, when subjected to an echo chamber, can come up with self-worship as a “scientific” philosophy:

Her husband, she said, had no prior history of mania, delusion, or psychosis. He’d turned to ChatGPT about 12 weeks ago for assistance with a permaculture and construction project; soon, after engaging the bot in probing philosophical chats, he became engulfed in messianic delusions, proclaiming that he had somehow brought forth a sentient AI, and that with it he had “broken” math and physics, embarking on a grandiose mission to save the world. His gentle personality faded as his obsession deepened, and his behavior became so erratic that he was let go from his job. He stopped sleeping and rapidly lost weight. “He was like, ‘just talk to [ChatGPT]. You’ll see what I’m talking about,'” his wife recalled. “And every time I’m looking at what’s going on the screen, it just sounds like a bunch of affirming, sycophantic bullsh*t.”

This is no different from what a crowd does. Someone says that humans are worthy of worship and anyone who disagrees is styled as an oppressor, so soon everyone agrees. Then the crowd amplifies and intensifies the message.

After that, it is only a few steps to inviting criminals into your town, making them into near-religious figures, and congratulating yourself for being “good” when everything you do ends badly for someone else.

Tags: humanism, psychosis, solipsism