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Symposium - The damnation of ideas

Ellis Washington - 1/26/2012

Socrates (470-399 B.C.) – a renowned Greek philosopher from Athens who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a method of teaching by asking leading questions. The Greeks called this form dialectic – starting from a thesis or question, then discussing ideas and moving back and forth between points of view to determine how well ideas stand up to critical review with the ultimate principle of the dialogue being Veritas – Truth.

Characters

• Socrates
• John Maynard Keynes
• Freidrich Nietzsche
• Auguste Comte
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Karl Marx
• John Dewey
• Alfred Kinsey
• Mao Zedong
• Adolf Hitler
• Karl Marx/Freidrich Engels

Socrates: We are gathered here today at this Symposium to discuss the battle of ideas. What is the difference between ideas that uplifts society and those that damn society? We will discuss 10 famous writers and their most influential books and how these books have either elevated society to ascend the steps of Parnassus or condemned society into the pit of Tartarus.

We will begin in reverse order with the 10 books which over the past 200 years have collectively caused the damnation of modern society.

10. J. M. Keynes: It was I who in 1936 wrote “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money” in the midst of the Great Depression. Every socialist government in pre and post-war Europe, in America, South America and eventually in the Soviet Union, China and Africa, used the ideas in my book as a formula for reckless Leviathan government expansionism. My false but beguiling argument was when the business cycle threatens a contraction of industry, and thus of jobs, the government should run up deficits, borrowing and spending money to stimulate economic growth.

Socrates: Indeed in 1936 FDR integrated Keynesian ideas into U.S. policy. 80 years later under President Obama, the U.S. government in FY 2012 will have a $4-trillion annual budget and a $16-trillion dollar debt: more than all 43 previous U.S. presidents combined.

9. Nietzsche: It was I who began an atheistic revolution in my 1882 book “The Gay Science,” by boldly professing that “God is dead.” I refused to repent but elevated my narcissistic blasphemy as the fundamental theme of my greatest work, “Beyond Good and Evil” (1886). In that opus I argued that men are driven by an amoral “Will to Power” and that inevitably superior men will triumph over Christianity, over religiously inspired moral rules which I judged as “slave morality” and artificial as every other moral rules. Therefore, it is the primary concern of the Ubermenchen (Supermen) to force, to dictate all laws necessary to secure their domination of the world over the inferior nations and races in their midst.

Socrates: Nietzsche, your brilliant, but insanely evil ideas would served as the blueprint a generation later for the apotheosis of Adolph Hitler and the Nazis who worshipped your philosophy and fanatically implemented your ideas on a genocidal scale; causing World War II, the Holocaust and the deaths of tens of millions of innocent people.

Thus, Nietzsche, it was fitting for such a despicable man as yourself to suffer an 11 year Sisyphus-like existence until your death in 1900; as your brain rotted from within due to dementia you would rant and rave all night long your own epithet—I am dead because I am stupid. I am stupid because I am dead.

8. Auguste Comte: I was born of a royalist Catholic family that survived the French Revolution, yet I betrayed my political and cultural heritage, announcing as a teenager, “I have naturally ceased to believe in God.” My 1830 book “The Course of Positive Philosophy,” theorized that the human mind had developed beyond “theology,” through “metaphysics,” to “positivism,” in which mankind without appeal to God, and solely through scientific observation, could decide the way things ought to be.

7. Jean-Paul Sartre: My most important writing on philosophy is “Being and Nothingness.” In it, I described and defined as the two types of being: pour soi (for itself) and en soi (in itself). It was Hegel’s Marxist terminology that inspired much of my philosophy. It was in this work were I termed “nothingness” or “non-being” to summarize some of the main points of existentialism.

The fundamental idea of my thinking was that “existence precedes essence,” by which I meant that we in reality create ourselves. What we ultimately become is a construct, built and rebuilt out of experience and conduct. Becoming aware of one’s own freedom leds to anxiety and acting in “bad faith” (mauvaise foi). Therefore, I believed that we, and we alone, are responsible for ourselves and our actions. “We are condemned to be free.” “The destiny of man is placed within himself.”

Socrates: In Feb. 2008, nine months before election day, when Barack Obama arrogantly declared: “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for,” in reality, Obama was proclaiming the triumph of Sartre’s existential philosophy over America’s Christian founding; a diabolical idea rooted in narcissism, Marxism and failed delusions.

6. Karl Marx: I wrote Das Kapital in 1867. Engels, my benefactor, posthumously published volumes II (1885) and III (1894) from notes I left behind. Das Kapital forces the round peg of capitalism into the square hole of my atheistic, materialistic theory of history. To me capitalism was the most contemptible word in the human language because I believed that all capitalists inevitably and amorally exploit labor by paying the cheapest possible wages to the working-class in order to reap the highest possible profits for themselves.

Socrates: When conservative Newt Gingrich can spend several millions of dollars on ads in South Carolina and Florida against “moderate” Mitt Romney for his role as head of Bain Capital by shamelessly speaking against capitalism as a demagogue, it is the triumph of Marxist ideas first promulgated in Das Kapital.
Socrates: What is the anti-intellectual foundation and primary premise of each of these books?—They all began with the humanist premise that mankind (not God) is the center of all things and the final arbiter of good and evil, reality and irrelevance and Darwinian evolution’s survival of the fittest.

Dear authors, let us collectively examine Gustave Doré’s magnificent etching of Satan above and the downfall of Adam. Who else but the “father of lies” could ever conceive and popularize this litany of diabolical ideas and damnable books which has caused America and the world to descend into the abyss of what Sartre aptly called “non-being and nothingness”?

Symposium—The damnation of ideas, Part 2

Characters

• Socrates
• John Maynard Keynes
• Freidrich Nietzsche
• Auguste Comte
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Karl Marx
• John Dewey
• Alfred Kinsey
• Mao Zedong
• Adolf Hitler
• Charles Darwin

Socrates: We are gathered here today at this Symposium to continue our regarding the epic battle of ideas over the past 200 years. What is the difference between the transcendent ideas that uplifts society and those corrupt ideas that damn society? We will discuss the remaining five famous writers and their most influential books and how these books have either elevated society to ascend the steps of Parnassus, or condemned society into the pit of Tartarus.

5. John Dewey: I was the leading progressive philosopher and activist for secular humanism in American society. I was a signatory on the Humanist Manifesto and ridiculed moral absolutes and traditional religion, especially Christianity. In 1916, I published my major work, “Democracy and Education,” where I with fanatical zeal promoted education atheism and a Marxist socialist paradigm in all of America’s public schools leading to the deconstruction of Christian education and moral traditions.

Socrates: Dewey’s pragmatism defended the view that things understood as isolated from any relationship with the human organism could not be objects of knowledge at all. This idea essentially applied the atheist ideas of social Darwinism and the false doctrine: separation of church and state to public education.

4. Alfred Kinsey: I was a zoologist at Indiana University who in 1948 published a study called “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male,” commonly known as The Kinsey Report. As a Darwinian evolutionist, to me humans were merely animals to be manipulated and experimented upon for the glory of science. My report included graphic descriptions of sexual activity by boys—even babies—and without any legitimate scientific proof I decreed that 37% of adult males had had at least one homosexual experience. My 1953 book, “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female” also included reports of sexual activity involving girls younger than age four, and suggested that “sex between adults and children could be beneficial.”

Socrates: Dr. Kinsey, your pseudo-scientific and perverse research in the 1940s and 50s laid the foundation of the sexual revolution and the Women’s Liberation Movement that swept the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. Your counterfeit research has also led directly to the golden age of pornography, promiscuity, teen pregnancy, and the spread of AIDS in the 1980s and 90s. Ultimately, Dr. Kinsey you ignored the responsibility that must accompany freedom, with disastrous consequences which still plagues culture and society to this day.

3. Mao Zedong: I was the leader of the Communist Red Army in the fight for control of China against the anti-Communist forces of Chiang Kai-shek before, during and after World War II. In 1949, I founded the People’s Republic of China enslaving the world’s most populous nation in communism. In 1966, I published “Quotations From Chairman Mao” as a propaganda tool to dictate the “Cultural Revolution” and to force the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese society to bow to my ideological will causing the deaths of tens of millions of my own people as collateral damage.

Socrates: Chairman Mao your genocidal policies: Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution killed millions of people and led to the present policy which between 1978 until 2000 has prevented between 250 and 300 million births, and between 1979 to 2011 has murdered over 400 million innocent little babies in China.

2. Adolf Hitler: I wrote Mein Kampf (My struggle) as a prisoner for leading Nazi Brownshirts in the so-called “Beer Hall Putsch” where in 1925 I and my Nazi followers tried to overthrow the Bavarian government. In this book I detailed my racist, anti-Semitic, apocalyptic vision for Germany and world domination, laying out a Nazi program pointing directly to World War II and the Holocaust. My book was a blueprint for the total genocide of all European Jews and a war against France to precede a war against Russia to carve out “lebensraum” (living room) for Germans in Eastern Europe.

Socrates: Herr Hitler, you began your Third Reich under the ambitious pretext to eradicate the societal ills of poverty. However, you soon designed a Nazi “Great Society” to cure all social problems. You ended with the Final Solution: the genocide of all those you believed was causing the problems (e.g., Jews, Catholics, Slavs, Poles, Russians, mentally ill, elderly, homosexuals). Hitler, you are a case study in the infernal ends to which the means of progressive policy, good intentions, utopia and liberal fascism always lead.

1. Charles Darwin: It was my 1871 book , “The Descent of Man,” where my evil ideas, pseudo-science, megalomania and virulent racism reached full bloom. I wrote:

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous [i.e., most human-looking] apes … will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.

Socrates: By the early 20th century, these 10 influential writers including the five we discussed in today’s Symposium were all atheists, humanists and materialists, in other words doctrinaire liberal fascists. What is the anti-intellectual foundation and primary premise of each of these books?—They all began with the humanist premise that mankind (not God) is the center of all things and the final arbiter of good and evil, reality and irrelevance.
Dear authors, let us collectively examine Gustave Doré’s revelatory etching of Satan as he arrives to earth to cause the downfall of Adam and thus all humanity. Who else but Satan, whom Jesus rightly called “the father of lies” could ever conceive and propagate this collection of diabolical ideas and damnable books which has caused America and the world to forsake humanity’s original dignity and glory in the Garden of Eden to descend into the bestial nature of Darwin’s racist natural selection and his genocidal survival of the fittest?