Had enough with politics? Then,
listen.
The second principle of thermodynamics teaches that nature is entropic.
That is: it tends toward chaos. Thus, chaos is the natural way.
Life, family and
reproduction are anti-entropic, because they tend toward constructive organization.
On the other hand, individual life invariably tends toward death.
Thus: individuals are ultimately entropic.
But human life brings society, with its comforts and facilitations, plus
politics, power, leaders, kings, dictators, culminating in Marxism and murderous
communism, after the catastrophe of the French Revolution (heralded as the apex
of evolution).
So, life itself can become entropic, while reproduction is anti-entropic beyond
life.
Provided reproduction (life's primary characteristic) never stops.
How do we know? After all, life is not a spectator sport; so, how do we decide
between life and death?
We don't decide: we refer to the Chinese Yin/Yank unstoppable coexistence of
evil/good & death/life beyond approval/disapproval.
Democracy is reputed to be significantly better, but it is still a bubble that
ultimately swells into
monopolies and suffocating bureaucracies (like communist commissariats), which
inevitably grow and burst like the skeptical relativism of the Sophists, Greek
skeptical philosophers of about 24
centuries ago.
That disintegrated the Greek and other civilizations, and menaces to burst now again
in its modern version of entropic nihilism, sexual perversion (both homo and
hetero), man-hating feminism ("feminazism"), Balkanizing multiculturalism,
leftist
“postmodernism” and corollaries.
Like the Scandinavian lemmings, rodents who end their
overpopulation-migrations by running into the sea and drowning, we may
obliterate ourselves if we refuse to wake up or to adopt a harmonizing solution
like the one formulated by Siddharta Gautama, the Buddha, about 2500 years ago
(presumably the Sophists didn’t notice it. Probably the human Jesus did about 5
centuries later).
His solution was stunning, based on
the four “pillars of wisdom”:
(1) Life is suffering (any doubt?).
(2) Desire is the cause of suffering
(survival, love, cravings, needs, ambition).
(3) To eliminate suffering we must eliminate desire.
(4) This method of liberation exists.
The liberation path became what was later known also as Yoga, a life-long self-training
discipline to master the body and its functions, then progressively detaching
our consciousness from our person (starting, for example, from "my body feels
hunger", in place of "I am hungry", and developing more sophisticated
detachments year after year...) until our perception and control of life and death can converge without any
conclusive desires and differences. Hard to imagine, but some ascetic Buddhist
monks ("Yogis") seem to master it.
That is the solution which could fuse life/death and entropy
(and extinction would become an ontological insignificance), but Buddha
did not live on (good for him) to witness the interpretation of the average
people, who diluted it into one of today’s religions.
We have done -and are
doing- the same to Jesus Christ.
We will end up reducing any religion to a
fanatical superstition that any amoral nitwit can accept.
What if Jesus had met Buddhists
during the 30 mysteriously unrecorded years of his life?
It is true that Buddhism was not formulated as a religion, but Jesus may have
Westernized it into what could have been his teachings before they were adapted
by Paul, who is to Christ what Plato was to Socrates, in the sense that Socrates
did not write his teachings, but inspired Plato, who wrote just about all we
know about Socrates.
A fact loaded with inscrutable meaning is
that Christ, Buddha, Confucius, and Socrates left no writings.
It is not unthinkable that they, and who knows how many more superior human
(and super-human) beings, developed so far beyond what normal humans can comprehend, that leaving
writings or any other messages for us would have been like our leaving messages
for third-rate cockroaches.
But there is another angle.
What if life itself is a cancerous geometrical
progression that menaces the integrity of entropic chaos?
Is a death wish entropic?
There we go again...
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