[MD] Intellect Worship

[plattholden at gmail.com]

Hey Bo, 

On 5 Oct 2009 at 8:59, skutvik at online.no wrote:

> Good Morning Platt 
> 
> At least it's morning over here with a first snow dusting on the 
> mountaintops. The "global warming" hits hard  ;-)

"Global warming" is the biggest scientific fraud perpetrated on a gullible 
public since "eugenics." Like a watermelon, it's green on the outside, red 
on the inside. It has been cynically used to create yet another crisis so 
statists can gain more control over our lives, as if they don't have 
enough already. Unfortunately, they won't be satisfied until they 
completely impose their ideas of goodness and happiness, by force 
when necessary, on those who don't share them.   

> 4 Oct. 
> 
> I had said:
> > > Q-intellect has nothing to do with thinking per se, but
> > > about suppressing social values
> 
> Platt:
> > If this is true it supports my suggestion that the intellectual level
> > be thought of as the individual level. Suppressing the hob-nailed boot
> > of socialism is the cause celeb re of liberty-loving individualism. Or
> > in simpler terms: you and I vs. the state, e.g., free speech, free
> > religion, free travel, free trade, etc.
> 
> Yes, in a sense the 4th. is the individual level, very much so. Social 
> moral is about the biological individual sacrificing itself for the 
> common cause, while intellectual moral is that society is made for the 
> individual (very simplified). When it comes to socialism .... one way 
> seen it's about society - the state - dominating the individual, but it' all 
> takes place on the the intellectual level, if the individual is best served 
> with a strong state or with "liberty".  The  secular - political - "state" 
> arose along with the intellectual level (the Greek Polis) while their 
> surrounding  foes - for instance  the Persian Empire - was not a 
> secular state at all, rather the ach-social configuration of despotism. 
> You see how the present day "social value" defenders - the Islamists - 
> first and foremost target is the  civilian, state and its institutions. Their 
> ideal is the God-ruled society, no schools (except koran such), no 
> health care, no nothing except for Sharia Law. 

I don't know which is worse, the God-ruled society of Islam or the 
fascist/socialist religions of European and Asian totalitarian states. Both 
are immoral. But Islam has yet to reach the degree of human  
slaughtering accomplished by State-gods.

Platt