How can the mood of discrimination (of sources), exclusion (of lies), and judgments (of facts) which wisdom requires, be made compatible with the DEI mood it also requires?
Indeed, too much importance is given to tolerance. Tolerating lies is the road to irrationality. One should not again allow human sacrifices in the name of tolerance: besides being inhuman, human sacrifices have been amply demonstrated NOT to work. Romans outlawed such religions.
However, the moods of the times has been to tolerate anything in fashion. Hence the alarming number of posts in all philosophy forums about the proper attitude to have relative to an almighty Dog in Heavens ruling the universe according to ancient fables from out there in the desert… which spread out among primitives, long ago. This mood of tolerance for the intolerable has spread to Europe, where religious law has been applied in Sweden, France and Britain…
Now, of course, the search for truth has to rest on DEI, Diversity and Inclusion of facts and equal evaluation of certainty. But once a broad net has been thrown and one reels back the relevant facts and neurological networks of ideas, one has to xert judgment.
Wisdom is hierarchical and rests on TRUTH. Truth is in a sense relative: it is always relative to other concepts it builds logics among.
But those concepts which the logic articulates themselves depend upon TRUTH. In pure logic, truth is given by the system, using a METAlogic. In the real universe that METAuniverse of facts has to be established by EXCLUDING OBVIOUS FALSEHOODs.
So psychologically TRUTH requires the WILL to DISCRIMINATION, EXCLUSION, and ERADICATION.
These moods are very different from those haunting and harassing the West in these WOKE times. Let’s be blunt: DEI: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion do not apply to the search for truth. JUST THE OPPOSITE.
However human brains are dominated by MOODS. Once brains are imprinted to DEI about ethnicities, the danger is that this DEI mood spreads all over, and it has. Then one gets minds incapable of judgments, hence judgment.
This is in particular why so many crises, for example the CO2 crisis, have been handled in a very incompetent way (the Paris Accord is ridiculous and has failed; we are already ABOVE 1.5C!).
Another example of incompetence regards nuclear weapons (way too many of them around), etc. Or recognizing a “Palestinian State” which has Hamas for an army, no territory, and a head of part of an adminstration which denies the Shoah… While believing that would bring peace.
Wisdom is about finding the truth, or guessing where it lurks. Wisdom is not about being tolerant of mentally incompetent people [1]
In any case, through the THEORY OF MOODS, one can see that the obsession for DEI, has led to moods hostile to the fostering of wisdom.
Patrice Ayme
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[1] (I cannot use a more robust, but more appropriate vocabulary, as experience has shown that calling a cat a cat results in being blocked on social networks…)
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