Have you ever came up with an original philosophical idea? It can happen. It used to happen to me quite a lot, now only occasionally. But this one is great, only it seems difficult to write out.
I am a Christian as all good and intelligent people should be. Christianity and philosophy go together like, well like two things that go great together. Chocolate and peanut butter I suppose. Each one leads into the other, like an ouroboros. Philosophy and Christianity I mean. That is nicely symbolic of infinity as well. Don’t let yourself be fooled or let down by the bad philosophers or bad Christians, they are out there in droves. Just focus on the real thing and you will see what I mean.
American and European / “western” society used to have a primary Christian foundation, i.e. most people were Christians of one denomination or another. This provided for an incredibly stabilizing force. Higher levels of mutual understanding and trust, greater in-group cooperation, more pro-social behavior and swift punishments against criminals who broke that expectation; all of this led to a sharp increase economically, technologically, artistically, etc. because all of these qualities are GOOD for a society to possess. Christianity can be defined by the simple equation “God=Love=Truth”, and even if people didn’t understand this it nonetheless powerfully impacted them, families, and society generally. What is important to realize is how this is a philosophical equation. That is why this post is in Philosophy and not Religion. The equation itself and the underlying fundaments of Christianity are inherently philosophical in nature, providing for what became a semi-unconscious social basis of substance on which would quite naturally develop so many good qualities, values and meanings that led to the thriving expansion of the west.
Sadly, this primary substance of goodness that used to exist has waned over time and now is a minority rather than a primacy. What was once the majority and norm has become the somewhat rare exception. And even where it is found it is also often laced with inauthentic traces and suboptimal influences, harmful ignorances, sins, malicious codes and patterns, suspicions and radical doubtings, etc. The situation right now in 2023 for the west is very bad indeed. I could analyze the causes of this decline, but that isn’t the focus of this post. What is significant for now is that it has happened gradually over time and over that time the corrosion and corruption has been increasing in scope and speed. The erosion of the good and its replacement with what could best be described as neutral-lukewarm-apathetic, but often is altogether bad entirely, has led to this civilizational crisis we find ourselves in today. And yes it is a philosophical crisis as well, because it is manifesting within philosophy and also AS philosophy; and only a proper philosophical vantage would be capable of seeing this whole situation as I see it. But as I stated before, proper philosophizing comes only at the far end of philosophy which is to say at the point of its merger with spiritual substances, as into Christianity.
So which philosophy out there could achieve the salvation of the earth? We need not overly concern ourselves with the west anymore, it seems pretty well finished. And if it does rally before the final hour that is something great we can be thankful for but it is not something to expect or try to make happen, because there is no longer any kind of basis on which it could be influenced substantially in that direction. This is because of the lacking of the primary substance of goodness as I described above. Even an unconscious goodness is infinitely better and preferrable to a conscious dying. This is something the traditional philosophers never understood. Well Nietzsche hinted at something close to an understanding of it, but as usual he ends up missing by a long shot. He wrote out of vanity and ego and rage, he wrote to injure and whip the world into something like submission to his own will, rather than writing to make the world a better place. Hence truth became subverted by personal ego and one’s own mighty and unrestricted emotional needs, as one can easily verify by simply looking at his adherents today as well as the influences he has had over time.
Overall this post is meant to be about describing the philosophy that will save humanity, save the world, by correcting and removing the errors in order to return humanity (either our society or another in the future) to the right status of existing within and as a primary substance of goodness. I have never seen a formal (or otherwise) philosophy capable of doing this, not even close to it. Forget about questions of influence and reach for the time being, history seems somehow to solve those problems on its own (although given the situation of control that exists today in the world, we might not be able to count on that natural force anymore). So you are free here in this topic thread to propose whichever philosophy or philosophies or ideas you think might act as solutions for humanity in order to correct error and evil and return it to goodness and truth. This is the only way to avoid absolute disaster, at least in the short term and medium term. Long term I have no doubt that goodness and truth will auto-correct back into the human world, being that human consciousness is already deeply composed of and entwined with these anyway down to the chromosomal level and beyond, but the sheer magnitude of the evil and the errors today (even seeking to corrupt human DNA and to purge man of his very soul) should not be underestimated. If we fail in the short term, the long term correction might be a VERY long and VERY painful one.
