Boethius believed that reason is highest manifestation of human nature,

and that pursuit of understanding, based on the order of nature, is the

highest pleasure. He says that other pleasures are crass in comparison.

There is something I want to ask him retroactively. Isn't human nature
supposed to be, like, fallen, and isn't whatever is appropriate to
human nature not right by, like, God or something?

The societies that believe similar things - societies that suppress
emotions - result in cruelty, heartlessness and coldness. As Nietzsce,
consummating the WASP character, said, "Man is that which must be
overcome" - resulting of course in a society that, as he himself
ordained it, must be always at war, finding more and more merely-men to

feed on.

People with emotions are needed to feed the society; but of course
these people are despised and treated like garbage. Thus, class
develops of scapegoeats - of people who are used to feed everyone
emotionally but get treated like dirt. This, in and of itself,
completely demolishes the pretense of such societies toward morality,
and the only honest response is: REMOVE THE SCAPEGOAT AND MAKE THE
PLACE COLLAPSE ON ITSELF.

AS IT SHOULD.

When I was in Tucson, I ran into a man named Scott, the publisher of
Tucson Poet. He said that the poetic imagery for the civilization is
eros being extracted from people through advertisement to financially
power the civilization ("Man sees naked woman, says want to breed with
naked woman, buys refrigerator.") Question: WHAT LEGACY - WHAT
CONSUMMATION OF EFFORT OF MAN - DO YOU SEEK? Refrigerators? The
consummation of human endeavor, that? OR something that lasts?

Is man tool of machine or is machine tool of something perhaps better?
Is consummation of human project society - an arrangement of fulfilling

of wants, a machine? Or is there perhaps better destiny: Creation of
civilization: A blossoming of the inspired and the wise and the
principled: A legacy comparable to that of Renaissance, with
masterpieces in every area of human endeavor, that future generations
will be proud of?

MAKE SOCIETY TOOL OF CIVILIZATION.

To elaborate on Scott's idea. THe utilitarian society uses every
emotion as tool of machinery. Solution to make this produce something
higher:

Consummate the social enterprise with brilliant effort in every
endeavor.

And thus put society in its place - as a tool of a higher purpose and a

means to a legacy that will make all proud. Now and for centuries to
come.

Society in service of civilization.

Ilya Shambat.
http://www.geocities.com/ilya_=ADshambat2005/poems.htm
http://www.geocities.com/ilya_=ADshambat2005



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