Because of the rules, forces at play, there seems to be
a uniformity to human lives, to nature, to reality.
Think of the game of chess. Because of the rules of chess,
there is a basic structure to the game. All games of chess
are similar in structure. The very rules of chess force all the games
to resemble each other. The rules/ structure of chess prevent
any moves that destabilizes the game. You can’t have Kings moving
more then one square at a time or knights moving like bishops.
That would destroy chess as we know it. It becomes unrecognizable,
no longer a game, but a free for all and then chess is done as a game,
no longer played because it has no structure, no rules.
Life has its rules/structure and that keeps life playing by the
same rules and that means life is very similar…
Biologists say life must have certain rules to be considered life.
That structure allows life to succeed because the rules in place
allow life to survive its environment. And that is the point of life,
to propagate and continue, according to the rules, the structure
of life.
these rules prevent, for example, pigs from growing wings.
These rules, allow life to have structure. The pigs must exist in
a certain way because of the rules, they cannot do anything else.
They cannot fly because of the biological rules. The biological forces,
the rules means we humans can only exists in a certain way. We cannot do
anything else. Our lives are structure in a certain way. We are born
and we must have certain length of time to learn the things we need to
learn to survive. Most animals only need a short length of time to learn
the rules they need to know to survive. A lion for example, only requires
a short time to learn everything it needs to know to survive, whereas
human beings need, require, a much longer time to learn the requirement
of survival. This extended learning period is one of the major differences
between human beings and animals. The rules, the structure of being human
is what creates this length of time that human beings need to learn the
understanding to survival.
The rules, the structure of human existence is what makes
human existence so similar to each other. The rules/structure
of human existence has been the same since the beginning of human
existence. Thus we human beings act and think and feel in remarkable
similar ways because the rules are the same for all of us. Just the subject
matter, the ism’s and the myths and biases and prejudices and superstitions
change from society to society. What the stone age child learns and the
Roman child learns and what the modern child learns is different because
the enviroment is different in each society. The same society requires similar
teaching of values and things needed to know to survive that society.
The rules/structure of human existence means human beings has
the same type of existence. We might learn different things, but
our existence is similar. We cannot escape the contraints of of the rules,
the structure of our lives. This is the basis of the idea of innate idea’s.
Because the structure, the rules are the same for all of us,
we have to exist in a similar manner. This makes it looks like
we have innate idea’s but it is the identical rules and structure
of our lives that mean we must have similar idea’s. Not because they
are innate, but because they are the rules. Once again take chess.
You might argue that because the rules in chess are the same,
that the rules are innate in everyone. No, it just means we must
play chess within the bounds of certain rules and if we go out of bounds
of those rules, we are no longer playing chess. It is the rules/ the stucture
of human existence that we cannot change that makes it look like we
have innate idea’s.
Now are idea’s like god, freedom or immortality innate?
No, those are part of the myths, habits, prejudices
and biases and superstitions that we are taught to survive.
The idea of god is not part of the structure needed to survive
biological. it is a social rule, not a biological rule.
thus it is not innate. So how do we begin to respond to
the nature of human beings?
We must follow certain rules/ structures to exists as human beings,
the biological rules, not the social rules and we must keep the two,
distinct and separate. the social rules and the biological rules.
We cannot change the biological rules, but we can change,
adapt, drop or add social rules/ social structure.
Because the environment changes for every person,
the social rules changes. What I do to survive is different
then what you do for survival because our situation, our
environment is different. The myths, habits, biases, prejudices
and superstitions we are taught as children is meant as a guideline
to survival. But people mistake those guidelines as written in
stone and they are not. society teaches certain rules, creates
certain structure because of society need to survive
survive and the rules/structure of society is meant to
allow society to survive. The rules of personal survival is
the same for a society as it is for a personal individual.
so what is next?
Kropotkin