Popeye wrote in the World Savior Pandemic OP:
We've learned in the three day grace period thread that secular Man denies objective value so the value of the cycles of life is determined by "might makes right" and the laws of government. The life of a fetus has no objective value so its subjective value is determined by others.Change however requires something humanity is apparently in want of, that lacking is self-control. Other life forms lack this self-control as well, but nature has always checked naturally other animal forms to keep the balance. With humanity, humanity has managed to override these checks with its science and tecnologies, as a result, we have a planet that in the not to distant a future, will not support life, will cease to be a living planet. Without this said self-control we leave it to nature, which no doubt could mean a planet without humanity. Arise, pandemic, perhaps this and what is to follow is natures trump card, a planet saver, but the cost will be the decimation of humanity worldwide. What are your thoughts on this, do you think this pandemic is just a warning shot across the bow of the space ship earth?
It is the same with the planet earth. Since it has no objective value for secular Man, we are free to do with it as we will. It makes no difference since Man determines value so we worry about it tomorrow. Of course, belief in tomorrow continues and sustains all the cycles of life. It is only natural when fetuses and the world lack objective value and pragmatism determines their value. Do what we will to it and we'll worry about it tomorrow.. If we are oblivious of the lawful cycles of life for the earth and humanity, why be concerned about fetuses or the needs of our earth? Man determines their value
Change requires today rather than tomorrow. When Man is oblivious of objective value, the value of today is based on personal subjective values. When Man has become incapable of experiencing objective value made known through his conscience, what is more natural than pragmatism?
Simone is right. It is partial satisfaction to know why we are crushed. Unfortunately there is nothing to be done as long as our species believes in relative man made values and the pragmatic efforts which sustain them.
The cosmic man may be Man's conscious evolutionary future but for now, Man's immediate future, lacking any awareness of objective values, is determined by "might makes right" and the participation in the lawful cycles of nature including war and peace. The dominance of the contradictory attitudes of society governed by pragmatism assures that nothing can change except the hypocrisy of the speeches defending pragmatism given in Plato's Cave."We must make the individual man aware of his conscience so that he understands what it means that only a few will survive the next war. This man will be the cosmic man." Albert Einstein, in Einstein and the Poet – In Search of the Cosmic Man by William Hermanns (Branden Press, 1983, p. 99.)