29-01-2021
Amongst many truths and facts that the series of recent events as well as history have revealed and exposed, there is this:
Stupidity and ignorance are not only intellectual deficits but also moral defects. The stupid and the ignorant easily become complicit with or even enthusiastically support the immoral and the evil.
Stupidity is not lack of intelligence (such as IQ level) but lack of wisdom (both Sophia & Phronesis). Ignorance is not lack of information or knowledge (such as school learning) but lack of intellectual curiosity.
The stupid and the ignorant never leave the hive mind of which they are part. They do not question their own confirmation biases. They lack the ability to endure cognitive dissonance and escape into the comfort of cognitive consonance.
The rational and the moral are complementary; the true and the good (or the right) are aligned. The direction with which these two are aligned is the direction of liberty, freedom, and evolution.
The greater the degree of rationality and morality and their dynamic complementarity, the greater the magnitude of the vector toward liberty, freedom, and evolution. The search for truth, goodness, and beauty, and the pursuit of liberty, freedom, and evolution are completely aligned.
These three are aspects of the Nietzschean WILL TO POWER that is the very nature of Nature or Nature’s God, which Spinoza called CONATUS.
As the technological knowledge and expertise exponentially grow, so must our wisdom grow to make technology beneficial, instead of detrimental, to humanity and its development.
Unfortunately, this is not what is happening. We need to be even wiser than Lao Tzu or Socrates, and yet how many of us have actually reached their level of wisdom, which is more to do with the originality of knowledge than the amount, and with the ability to question rather than how many answers one knows.
Technology in and of itself is amoral; it is neither moral nor immoral. Yet, it becomes a powerful tool for either moral or immoral actions based on who uses it for what purpose. Immoral people will use technology for immoral purposes, while moral people will use it for moral purposes. Therefore, it can be used to facilitate greater liberty or tyranny depending on who uses it.
Tyranny obstructs the evolution of consciousness and the advancement of cognitive ability, and this is exactly what happened in the last (at least) 3000 years. The evolution of human consciousness and the advancement of human cognitive ability have been suspended for millennia.
Independent and freethinking sovereign individuals would never subjugate themselves to tyranny and thereby be controlled, and therefore such sovereign individuals pose existential threat and danger to the tyrannical power structure of the world.
Wisdom is a great friend of liberty, freedom, and evolution. And it is a mortal enemy of tyranny, oppression, and enslavement.
It is possible that humanity will continue in the same way, suspended in the evolutionary limbo, until its extinction without ever evolving any further in consciousness and cognitive ability. It is also possible that humanity will at long last be able to have an evolutionary breakthrough.
The elders of the world have a significant moral role to play in the creation of a technological cultural paradigm of liberty and freedom fit for evolutionary breakthroughs – the creation of what I call the High-Tech/High-Wisdom organization, society, and world.
Eternal Wisdom is beyond words, which means that on the one hand, only Silence can contain it and, on the other, in the beginning in time, there is Sound, of which our commitment, future-creating thought or intention, is a manifest articulation (the Word). Commitment as a whole is the same as Divine Will, of which our particular aligned commitments are always holo-fractals.
In this context, Silence is the unbirthed state of Sound. Sound is that which alters states of being. The Word is the self-utilization of Sound that frees the individual from the self that is bound by the mental language (beliefs or paradigms). Silence and Sound are eternal, and in the beginning, there is the Word.
The High-Wisdom of which we speak consists of the Trinity of Silence (“God”), Sound (“Spirit”), and Word (“Man”). In the 21st century, and forever, Silence and Sound will remain the Eternal Elements, while the Word will always be future-creatively contemporary.