What wise being has anyone seen that uses their knowledge or power to harm their own race, fellow human or life in general?
You do not see any wise being using their power to harm their own race or life because if they have done such they would not be wise.
What does this say about the world, reality, government, people in ‘power’ now and in the past?
Is a person in power always wise? Of course not, so then why have them in power? Why let people do the job of wise men when they are not wise?
Women. I swear I’m not a misogynist, this just happens to be the factual answer to your question. Women choose conspicuous consumption aggression for sex, the way this expresses in humans is their contradiction frequency, the number of times the can contradict themselves in a phrase or behavior… so they are using sex to blackmail men to be assholes in charge.
True and pure wisdom is not the true nature of the universe.
We are all subject to natural law.
We also can not blame a God-figure.
Power has many shapes and sizes.
One type of power can even require the antithesis of another power.
Because existence is impure it is a battle.
There is struggle between types, to the point of destruction.
Or a point of unification.
Unified systems are stronger than fragmented incongruent forces.
So yes, there can be a point of unification too, if that is kinda what you meant.
Yes, that’s right, it must have lost something in the translation, ahem , i am translating.
Gravity is ever-lasting.
It does not dissipate.
Unification-power can be like gravity, or better.
Humans pool their powers together to make monolithic processes.
Humans can make huge mistakes too though.
I still think it all has to do with natural law and math.
To understand human life we must understand nature.
THANKS, THAT’S SOMETHING TO PONDER OVER THE NEW YEARS, HAVE A HAPPY ONE.
I don’t think women are the answer to why people take the roles of wise men. I am not sure it can be an answer at all since we cannot go back in time and change our evolutionary path and experiment with it.
You are conflating wisdom with morality.
There are people, who acquire knowledge, in order to rule others, in order to become more powerful. I will be frank and admit that the primary reason for my philosophical endeavors is to become more powerful, not politically or tyrannically, but more powerful as an entity, as a self. You know the cliche: " Knowledge is power ". I’m trying to become the best, the most powerful version of myself intellectually and physically, but mostly intellectually.
Don’t fall for that Christian/Yoda nonsense of the wise-man being identical with the moral man ( see Machiavelli ).
So what’s the paradox?
I see how through the centuries governments slaughter their own in civil wars how they will allow cancerous foods, how Monsanto are allowed to poison the world.
Governments will always harm their own if they gain jobs and money from it.
The paradox is that people think or believe there are people who are wise that have commit violent acts. When really it’s not wise at all. A wise being does not do that so it’s contradictory of people to think someone is wise if they have committed violence, no matter how intelligent.
Example, Person A thinks person B is wise, person B is intelligent yes but has intentionally harmed one another or intentionally tries to harm or put back it’s own race. This is contradictory since a wise being would not do that in the first place, not intentionally.
You can be powerful and not inflict harm upon anyone else intentionally unless absolutely needed or forced to. I am not conflating wisdom with morality. A wise being does not intentionally harm another or try to harm it’s own race. What is wise about that? You can have power without exercising it violently. Gandhi is but one person that has proven that. Nothing to do with religion or Christianity either. I believe in violence yes, but only if absolutely necessary. Life threatening and such. But intentional violence? No.
And yet, at times, it becomes wise to be violent if violence is actually needed and determined to be wise council by those afraid of acting without wisdom on the matter. There is no paradox between wisdom and violence, only a schism that states that we must free our selves from violent tendencies to become wise when wisdom is gained more from learning when best to make use of such tendencies to avoid repression and improper expression of such tendencies. Since there is improper placement, then there must also be proper placement, for every yin must have a yang until perfect balance is obtained.
It is similar to the belief that to be good, you must avidly deny evil and yet to avidly deny any part of yourself is to ignorantly repress such things in such a way as to harm you in the long-term of your own life, in ways that you may not be able to see at such a point in time as you began repressing such things and the repression of the urge to repress becomes harder and harder the more you repress; coming back to a healthier mode of mind from such repression becoming like moving through so much metaphorical molasses. The more good people try to be, the more bad they push out into the open and vice versa. If we were to balance it better, there would be no societal outbursts either way and we might actually come to acknowledge peace in itself through the embracing and thus taming of our own natures by our selves by bringing both sides of a dichotomy together and removing the seeming ‘paradox’ that we like to imagine exists between every extreme and yet those extremes are meant to cancel each other out and to bring closure in one way or another in eventuality.
Therefore, what is wisdom at all without violence since wisdom itself without violence would still need violence to protect it from the violence of others. What wisdom inhabits the violent except of martial arts and the natural flow of nature through us and with us as we become what we need to be when we need to be. What martial arts can stem from an unwise people whether they have violence or not and what martial arts could stem from violent people whether they have a few wise men or not? Neither can spread the flow of such wisdom of balance and discipline and yet both would try in their foolish fashion thinking one to be greater than the other when in turn each has their skills and strengths and their weaknesses. And that is just a simple back and forth matter much like tennis, not to mention the baseball game of competing nations, competing groups within nations and across nations borders.
At what point must wisdom encompass every part of life to actually merit its own existence, for wisdom without encompassing all of life is stupidity and folly in the long-term of long-terms. At what point are people merely perceiving someone to be wise that is not actually wise at all and to what end would they look upon a man who is wise and see him as wise instead of the idiot he appears to be for not having ever done something before? Wisdom states that even violence must be necessary to some degree and yet it must be the very last resort to be counted as wise, for to perform violence before trying everything else, if there is time to try everything else, is extremely idiotic.
There becomes a difference between being caught up in a moment and making concrete choices to go out and just be a violent person.