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Gary Novak Basic Reality |
Fundamentalist Values Destroyed Constructivity Constructivity is not in the dictionary; destructivity is. I don't view the dictionary as sacred; I correct it when necessary. For example, conservatism is not correctly spelled. There are rules involved. Negativism is not spelled negatism. Spiro Agnew did not call his enemies Nadering nabobs of negatism. So constructivity is not recognized as a valid endeavor in the world, while destructivity is. But destructivity is self-contradictory. Validity is definable in terms of non-contradiction. What a person expects and demands under most conditions defines validity. People expect their problems to be solved, while they create problems for others. Therefore, solving problems is valid, while creating them is invalid. This much never needed to be said, until the conservative overthrow of the social order changed the operating premises of society over the past thirty years. The starting point of everything used to be that constructivity was assumed; now the starting point is destructivity. There is supposedly a mysterious basis for the value of destructivity. All elements of constructivity are interrelated, and all elements of destructivity are interrelated. Mysterious reasons create the nihilism which promotes destructivity. Constructivity requires the rationality of correct and accountable logic. This is because constructivity is complex and demanding. It's ordered complexity. Life is ordered complexity. There is no way to get complexities ordered properly in a dark pit. This is what Christ taught as morality. He taught eternal life based on rationality. He said to look and listen to acquire evidence for correct knowledge as the basis for judgment. Eventually, this standard created the basis for modern science. It no longer exists&$151not in science or elsewhere in society. Before constructivity disappeared in science, it disappeared in so-called Christianity. A fake version of Christianity was constructed around Paul's theology. It is an anti-theology with the purpose of negating the morality or constructivity of the Christianity which Christ taught. In it's place is nothing but emptiness. Destructivity does not have a consistent logic. Any old way of destroying will do. Destroyers only need to prevent others from being constructive. Destructivity is easy enough for incompetents to accomplish, because producing ordered complexity is highly demanding, while tearing it down requires nothing more than random and accidental acts of violence. There's no wrong way to screw something up. Fundamentalism became the name for the fake Christianity. It has no real relationship to Christianity or religion. It's purpose is to create an absence of something. What it destroys is everything related to morality based on constructivity. Fundamentalism is the promotion of anti-morality. One of its most notable characteristics is speaking in opposites. Lowering taxes means bankrupting the government with deficit spending. Small government means erasing civil liberties and putting spies in every house and around every corner. The anti-morality of fundamentalism is totally dependent upon an absence of rationality, because open and accountable logic produces a force which can never be defeatedthe power of truth. In place of rationality is mysterious reasons for doing things. No one quite knows what the reasons are or cares. Motion flows like a river in whatever direction seems right. What seems right is what replaces open and accountable logic. Describing the "what seems right" alternative is not difficult, but describing abstract concepts is part of the open and accountable logic which is opposed by the destroyers. The largest part of what seems right is power. Power is the positive reinforcement for the psychological conditioning of destructivity. All patterns of behavior (repetition which forms habits) result in subconscious forces which function on a stimulus-response basis, unless there is enough awareness to expose them. Awareness ends corruption. But an unconscious war against awareness is part of the conscious war against open and accountable logic. Replacing logic with mysterious effects reduces awareness. In fact, awareness is something which has to be developed through study. A conscious and concerted effort is required to increase awareness. This is the essence of Christ's message, and destroying it is the essence of fundamentalism. The essence of morality and life is constructivity vs. destructivity. |