A.G. Gardiner wrote of Winston Churchill’s attitude towards his political party:
He would no more think of consulting a party than the chauffeur would of consulting the motor car.
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The common argument today is that our civilization is but an expression of our fundamental human nature and that any attempts to parry such a phenomenon is a fruitless blow to basic humanity. What rubbish! What this short-sighted view fails to take into account is the inculcating forces of culture, forces which cause men to behave in ways far removed from their natural inclinations. Culture is no doubt the result of the expression of humanity, but its foundations are born of an unnatural explosion of the human population which has resulted in bloated community populations of which man is not suited. As such, culture is no longer interested in merely mirroring the natural facets of humanity and has instead engendered the responsibility of containing man’s inherent of behavioral expressions in a fashion that accords to the abstract wishes of civilization in its efforts to propagate that same civilization at the cost of individual contentedness. In other words, as man has been forced to accord himself to the wants of society, his basic instincts are no longer the driving force of human expression, resulting in a culture which is not so much an expression of pure humanity but is instead an expression of an aberrant humanity that is stressed beyond comprehension. It is this distorted expression that deserves our attention here in our plight, our disheveled search for a means to find a social structure upon which consummate contentedness is to be the order of the day.
Tags: Apostasy, culture, Discontent, Human Nature, Inculcation, Philosophy, Truth
Why am I not only compelled to reinvent the wheel, but also insist on the addition of corners?
Genruk
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Another take on the old nature versus nurture debate, or might something of value come from another beating of this moribund horse? Check back to hear the last dying gasps.
Genruk
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The definition of apotheosis is exaltation to divine status or stature; deification. The purpose of today’s little rant is to make known man’s ubiquitous guilt in this arena of self worship. Most all of civilized man is guilty of such a bizarre claim. T o begin with, the West’s worship of Jesus is a disguised attempt of self-worship. If Jesus was the son of God, was in fact God in the flesh, and was as well a man, then man too must be as such. The worship of a man makes for the easy next step to consider all of man divine.
Primitive men used to worship nature as a conglomeration spiritual entities which in their totality comprised the Great Spirit. But as man advanced his understanding of the natural world, he came to find himself at the helms of great powers, powers to control, and to create. These great powers, previously relegated to the divine form of nature, came to define the incredible mind that man had, a mind that overcame the need to worship the unknown as found in nature, and instead came to worship the unknown that has become the phenomena of the great self-aware creature that is the human being.
The concept of self-awareness is the one concept that has yet to find repose in science. We all know that we exist, but to define what that consciousness confounds scientific thought to this day. What exactly is the mind, and why is it that man is the one creature that is overwhelmingly self-aware? In this sense, man has not lost his capacity to worship the unknown, but has transferred his worship from that of natural phenomena to that of which he cannot objectively define, the self. Of course , this is but another back-roads that leads to the worship of the self, the worship of the unknown, the worship of man: apotheosis.
Genruk
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No great country was ever saved by good men, because good men will not go to the lengths that may be necessary.
Horace Walpole
“I Am Not an Animal. I Am a Human Being. I Am a Man.” And therein lies the problem. This quote, wrongfully taken out of context from the inimitable David Lynch’s Elephant Man, still well serves our purposes, for we at Bad Natured feel that this intimation to be true of most human beings, disfigured or not. We can blame it on our amplified sense of self-awareness if we want, but this notion is true nonetheless. Coupling extreme intelligence with our obtrusive self-awareness, and adding in a dash of human nature gone awry to connote the presence of evil, all with the occasional vociferous prophet that easily gleans our attention by ingeniously saying what we merely wish to hear, we have the perfect ingredients for apotheosis, or self-elevated divinity.
While this is all good and dandy, the problems that result are born through our election of the self to the holding of office of God’s children, for we conveniently relegate our behaviors to that of sidereal spirits, frowning upon any notion that hints of basic biology. We are merely souls trapped within bio-bags, at least that is the fantasy. In believing as such, we somehow dismiss that our genetic codes are curiously similar to chimpanzees, that our instinctual behaviors are merely an extension of these creatures. Try as we might to think ourselves different, special even, we point to our iPhones and Blackberries as proof to our divinity, as if. Our cultural inculcation only fuels our dreams of sublimity, and when our innate behaviors leak out, as they will invariably will, we point to Satan as the agent of deviation, replacing the notion of hard-wired human nature with evil.
What is worse, using the word biological to describe a human being becomes an affront to the spiritual, as if these two notions could not sit in the same room without starting a fight, as if they were so antagonistic to each other as to be akin to matter and antimatter, with any and all intimacy bringing to fruition chaos and destruction with cold emptiness the bambino of their intimacy.
For the record, human beings are animals; they are driven by primal inclinations; they are brainwashed by their culture to believe the predominant mythology; and biological verity does not preclude the possibility of some spiritual existence.
Tags: Apostasy, culture, Human Nature, Inculcation, Philosophy, Truth
Next week we will consider Man- an animal, or something divined for greater deeds?
Plus,
A quote from a certain, notably obscure, Earl of Orford.
Stay tuned!
Genruk
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The American process of government found its initial success due to the sheer nascence as a social system, but enough time has passed that vested interests and methods of corruption have been discovered and intertwined into our politics and will not be extricated without an unfair fight.
Genruk
Tags: Philosophy, Truth
Bad Natured is, yep, the first cultural step, the grand announcement, that man has a problem. Be it addiction to drink, drug, sex, or convenient rationalization and self-centered behavior at the expense of humanity, one must first realize that one has in his gritty little palms the pink slip of shame before congruent action can be taken. But unlike the drunk that needs to fall to bottom of the barrel to find that his lot might be bettered by abandoning the bottle before action is taken to correct his wayward ways, civilization has no such luxury of time. By the time the West discovers that its errant ways are leading to its own utter extirpation it will be too late to take action. It may in fact already be too late, but defeatism is not to be tolerated as policy, and hence the message must continue to be perpetuated.
The West has a problem, a problem that is leading to its downfall, and unless man owns up to this fact , having moved past the age of universal empire, his lot will soon succumb to the age of full-blown social decay. This will not be as pretty as it sounds, and it sounds awful. The reality is that man needs to face the mirror of his nature and own up to what he what he sees, not that which he wishes to see. Bad Natured is simple a transitional aid which serves to help man to truthfully appreciate the equivocations that he has come to believe as opposed to the truths that he has yet to face. Bad Natured : Why Humans Cannot Behave, does this with minimal judgment and with open arms to help face those dogmas that have obnubilated reality with specious philosophies which have only served up a plate of strife and discontent in the guise of social nutrients. It is time to take the poison out of social dogma by joining what might be thought of as my social program, aptly called Cultural Inculcation Anonymous.
Tags: Apostasy, Civilization, Discontent, Inculcation, Social, Truth
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