C.S. Lewis addressed not only the evils of totalitarianism as manifested in fascism and communism, but the more subtle forms that face us on a daily basis, including the welfare, therapeutic, nanny, and scientistic states. “Of all tyrannies,” he stated, “a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
A Zen question. Sitting with my Koan. Contemplating human extinction. Other species long before us left the tour. Walked upright. They did not crawl to serve somebody like far too many of our quite civilized modern populations after the Enlightenment, these forefathers had speech, symbolic thought, fire, chipped flint to an edge, villages, maritime skills to an extent as seen with Homo Erectus in Japan. Therefore —a culture and probably free enterprise using objects of value. Who we are comes from this root called Adam. Now in light of Transhumanism well reasoned Pyrrhonnists drolly assert no Divinity need exist just a Demiurge. Pyrrhonists can be subdivided into those who are ephectic (engaged in suspension of judgment), aporetic (engaged in refutation) or zetetic (engaged in seeking). An ephectic merely suspends judgment on a matter, "balancing perceptions and thoughts against one another.” It is a less aggressive form of skepticism, in that sometimes "suspension of judgment evidently just happens to the sceptic".
An aporetic skeptic, in contrast, works more actively towards their goal, engaging in the refutation of arguments in favor of various possible beliefs in order to reach aporia, an impasse, or state of perplexity, which leads to suspension of judgement. Finally, the zetetic claims to be continually searching for the truth but to have thus far been unable to find it, and thus continues to suspend belief while also searching for reason to cease the suspension of belief. Stanford- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pyrrho/
Substack pleases me by showing how the logic game is played by contestants.
Really I like the game because it forces questions regarding assumptions. And once questions are asked one discovers pre-suppositions from the Hypothesis creep in as a close held truth. A Pyrrhonnist might walk by a house and respond to the friend that simply because what we see is Green with the house facing us, we do not know if indeed painted Green all around unless we go see. We may infer. We may cite probability. Unless we inspect the house paint on all sides we do not know. Now with X in the blood after Covid injections, we see Pyrrhonnism-in-Action.
Reasonable experts opine strange structures in blood are not only from Covid injections, also from a number of other sources: chemtrails, food, or if diabetic insulin. The action of the structures we do not know. We do not know if the microscopic structures and nano scale structures alone or together make people sick. We know these structures exist. What do we observe as nanotech? What do we observe as Dark Field microscopic tech? Why is this done? How is it that this technology is omnipresent, and that is to ask, how is it manufactured and by whom and for how long and in such great quantities? Is everything from Fosun?
The Pyrrhonist forces observers to be painfully exact, a bit less loose than a Surrealist who does not care. Personally speaking I agree more things in heaven and on Earth than dreamt by my philosophy, but it is my philosophy to be Ephectic and Surreal. Ko-fi.com/thejournaloflingeringsanity
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