We can tie people into two different types of people,
this can be done dozens of different ways:
Dog people vs cat people, mustard people vs Ketchup people,
(I am from Chicago and I think Ketchup is a crime against humanity)
football (American) people vs baseball people, liberal people vs
other, not so bright conservative people… the way the world can
be divided is practically limitless… if you got two people, you
can divide them up in a million ways, and there is another way
we can divide up people…
People who want a unified whole, in their world, their is no division,
all is one and unified, vs the other type of people who hold that
any attempt at unity, is doomed to failure… we can philosophically,
reduce this to two types of people, one is Plato… with his world of
one, the world of forms… and within his world, there is no change…
only forms that are eternal and forever…and the impermanent,
the world around us where there is no permanence… all is change,
but not real, at least according to Plato…This world, our world of change,
is not the real world…
the second person is Aristotle, who did accept and felt that
change was the essential aspect of the universe… there is no
permanence, just change… and a unified world view, doesn’t really
exists because the world itself isn’t unified…
so you have these two types of people, one who wants permanence
and unity of thought and the other type, they are about the change
and the very lack of unity within the world…The ones who stand with
Plato, tend to be, tend… are usually conservatives…that is why they
believe in and accept the bible and god… it creates that unified world
they so crave… that there is one world and we live, under god, within
that one world… that would be the conservative motto…
and their problem is change… what is change and how does one
account for change within a one world scenario of Plato…This
drive for a unified world, it is a human desire, it allows us to
know our place within the universe, we have a set place in
the universe and that makes people happy, by having a
world that is understandable and accountable…
Whereas the other people, the ones who can live within a
universe where the primary action is not a set and stable universe,
but a universe of change and ‘‘ad hoc’’ we are of the moment,
and this time, this exact time is also ‘‘ad hoc’’… of the moment…
There is no set and identifiable universe in a ‘‘ad hoc’’ universe…
Modern science and physics, has made it clear that there is no
center of the universe, that there is no set place upon which we
can stand and say, this is the place where we can know all/everything…
the fact is, there is no center of the universe, and thus there is no
set place upon which we can declare to be home for us…
each point of the universe is as good a center for the universe
as any other point… and in this moment, the allege uniqueness
of human beings goes away… this point, this point in the galaxy
is the same as any other point in the galaxy… and this is the real
problem for the unified universe set, for it denies them a unique place
in the universe… people want to feel special, they want to be
and feel unique, special within the universe… and having a personal
god, a heaven and angels, is one such way to feel a uniqueness,
god loves me… and I am part of his plan for the universe, that
certainly, falls into the Platonic viewpoint…
but as I said, science and physics, say something else altogether,
they say that we are individual, for a lack of a better word, atoms…
I am today, and tomorrow, I am not…and my own death, will
simply be another death of another human being in the midst
of billions of human beings… I am a discrete, isolated, atom
that, like all other atoms, change and become something else…
But I do have connections with other human beings, in that
we, as human beings, must meet our needs of food, water,
shelter, education, health care, love as our bodily needs,
and as our psychological needs of a sense of belonging,
of safety/security, of having self-esteem, of the course, the only
need that comes across both the physical and the psychological,
that of love…
If I were to describe the difference between people before
the two political revolutions, the American and the French, is
that people felt some unifying connection, be it religious,
or our connection to our ‘‘tribe’’ we belong to, we felt part
of the universe… and today, today we don’t…this lack
of connections that we suffer from today, it is the reason,
one of anyway that people have been so engaged with isms
and ideologies… it is an attempt to reconnect with the universe,
a connection we lost around 1800, or the start of the modern age…
The desperate nature of people, engaging in MAGA for example,
is an attempt to reconnect, to reunify themselves and the society
around them…the various isms that has gone on over the last
two centuries, from nationalism, to Marxism to conservativism,
to MAGAism, this are attempts to become part of a whole,
no matter how evil, Nazism is just another attempt to unify
people in an attempt to overcome the lost connections that
has plagued our modern age…
the question becomes, how do we overcome our own individual
discrete, isolated self/atom? I am part of the universe, instead of
the reality which is our connection to the universe lies only in
the atoms that make up our bodies… that change is the natural
and only path we have into the future…
This ‘‘ad hocness’’ of human reality, of human nature, we of the
moment and when that moment is gone, so are we…
the essential aspect of the universe lies in its change, not
in its allege permanence… for there is no permanence within
the universe… it’s just us…for we are, as human beings, ‘‘ad hoc’’
and many, many, many people find that very disturbing …
you often hear of people saying that they want to be part of
something bigger than themselves, and this is part of the avoidance
of the ‘‘ad hoc’’ nature of the universe… and the ‘‘ad hoc’’ nature
of human existence… change is ‘‘ad hoc’’ entropy is ‘‘ad hoc’’
the basis of the scientific universe is the temporary and ‘‘ad hoc’’
existence of reality…
But Kropotkin, will we ever find ourselves back into the Plato’s universe
of permanence and theory of forms? the bottom line is no…
as is mentioned by the nursery rhyme, Humpty Dumpty, even all
the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty back together again…
but that is again, ‘‘ad hoc’’ at some point in the future, another
ism will arise that will unite us into an ism or an ideology, one
that allows us to be whole again, one with the universe…
which is in fact, no possible… for we are discrete, isolated
beings alive in a universe that has no values, no readily available
reason or meaning to it… or as a book I was reading, its title, was this:
''Values in a universe of chance""
How do we find values in a universe of chance?
indeed, that is the question… and in a universe of chance,
the only constant is change and its ‘‘ad hoc’’ nature… and how
do we discover our place in a universe that is chance, ‘‘ad hoc?’’
that is the question… and I am not sure we can find our place
via a fixed and set universe like the one supposed by the
Christian universe…
Kropotkin, Who are you? It seems that I am an isolated, discrete
atom floating about in the universe… which leaves us questions,
like the Kantian questions, ''What am I to do?" ''what can I believe in?"
and ''What can I know?"…and what answer can I find for those
questions given that we live in a universe of chance, of randomness,
a universe where probabilities rules, not certainty…
Kropotkin
