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The Living Force
I find this to be a precious conceptual finding! Thank you! I have been stumbling upon this aspect and believe it ties to the principle of "lack of knowledge" (if I was to remain "conceptual").associated naivety
I stumbled upon this idea ("lack of knowledge" being the culprit) here:
Andrew M. Lobaczewski - "Political ponerology"
Ever since ancient times, philosophers and religious thinkers representing various attitudes in different cultures have been searching for the truth regarding moral values, attempting to find criteria for what is right, and what constitutes good advice. They have described the virtues of human character at length and suggested these be acquired. They have created a heritage containing centuries of experience and reflection. In spite of the obvious differences of originating cultures and attitudes, even though they worked in widely divergent times and places, the similarity, or complementary nature, of the conclusions reached by famous ancient philosophers are striking. It demonstrates that whatever is valuable is conditioned and caused by the laws of nature acting upon the personalities of both individual human beings and collective societies. It is equally thought-provoking to see how relatively little has been said about the opposite side of the coin; the nature, causes, and genesis of evil. These matters are usually cloaked behind the above generalized conclusions with a certain amount of secrecy. Such a state of affairs can be partially ascribed to the social conditions and historical circumstances under which these thinkers worked; their modus operandi may have been dictated at least in part by personal fate, inherited traditions, or even prudishness. After all, justice and virtue are the opposites of force and perversity; the same applies to truthfulness vs. mendacity, similarly like health is the opposite of an illness. It is also possible that whatever they thought or said about the true nature of evil was later expunged and hidden by those very forces they sought to expose.
The character and genesis of evil thus remained hidden in discreet shadows, leaving it to literature to deal with the subject in highly expressive language. But, expressive though the literary language might be, it has never reached the primeval source of the phenomena. A certain cognitive space remained as an uninvestigated thicket of moral questions which resist understanding and philosophical generalizations.
It shows troubles arising because of "an un-investigated thicket", and the lack of conscience on a certain amount of things. Evil, pathology, etc - all the things that A. Lobaczewski points out. People dedicated efforts on "love", beauty and the positive aspects of things.
A scrambler in regard of my idea is the fact that STS would of course opt for preventing the knowledge to be spread.
This lays down a sort of equation I could not get out of, but hinting at "lack of knowledge" and "preventing knowledge"; a sort of loop, obviously. "Associated naïvety" may originate here, in midst of a process manipulating a positive aspect of human beings.
(That is my quest on "the how's & why's". Trying to get at the root of things)
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