Strange Facts and Amazing Articles
A36: GUANTANAMO BAY
COROLLARY THEOREMS: Mathematics is built on two basic operations only
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N. America life is different than anywhere else in the World. Try to
imagine a giant machine [the N. American society] running at full steam.
Each person/citizen is a tiny wheel that has to spin continuously,
according to the "program": this is one program/life/(way of life) for
everybody. If someone rebels against the machine, he/she is immediately
side-tracked. There is always a good reserve of "spare parts" [the
unemployment rate] therefore the machine keeps on working on and on, the
same, for
generations.Fact is, in reality, things are far more terrible than the impersonal comparison we presented above. This is the great problem in N. America and, somewhat less, in the rest of the World: INHUMANITY! The more developed technologically we are, the more inhuman we become. Note that there is a point beyond which there is no turning back. Unfortunately, N. America has passed that land-mark long time ago. The USA relies only on power: brute, physical and technological power--inhumanity is that high there. However, there are powers way beyond any technology, and our World is going to acknowledge that--unofficially, of course--pretty soon. We refer here to the power of the human mind taken as MENTAL POWER. Is that thing so great? Is it truly powerful? How does it work? What is it, exactly? What is our CREATOR going to do about that? What can we do about that? Sorry for this; we are not going to answer any of the above questions because, now, it would be totally futile. There is a huge gap in understanding between an average intelligence person and an idiot; however, there is a similar gap between high intelligence and the average. The best thing to do is to let the average mind/care its own average life; further, any explanations should take the form of average-ideas, normal-things, or "things that we all understand". |
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This "Guantanamo Bay" article is intended to present few social-psychology aspects. Unfortunately, psychology and social-psychology are, possibly, the toughest human, logic, mental activities, and only a few can handle them successfully--well, sort of. The vast majority of people are well aware they are not capable of that much logic, therefore they rely on "force", "technology", "experts" and whatever to deal with this kind of psychical things. That is the certain way leading only to disasters: great, terrible, social disasters. People are faced today with the following dilemma: is technology able to replace human intelligence or not. As it is explained in Logically Structured English Grammar, technology cannot replace human intelligence today, tomorrow, 1 000 years from now, and even 1 000 000 years from this time. Human intelligence was created by the GREAT CREATOR, and it is going to be way more powerful than anything we, the creations, will ever attempt to create. However, average people think that technology may replace at least partially human intelligence, and that should be sufficient for our needs--wrong again. When dealing with social structures or political situations one single apparently insignificant detail may have terrible consequences. We will not analyze the events leading to the Guantanamo Bay situation because they are way too complex. Seen for the Global Picture point of view, they were a chain of mistakes after mistakes. Now, this Guantanamo Bay requires particular attention because we have there a particular SOCIAL GROUP of people: the prisoners. Their statute is only one, WAR PRISONERS, in spite of all anti-human efforts of the Bush Administration. When dealing with social structures, the only people trained for the job are social psychologists. Note that official education does not guarantee a person is a good social psychologist. Any specialist, in any domain, must work by himself diligently for years to improve the knowledge he got in schools in order to understand "a little something". When we deal with psychology, a "specialist" is required: 1. to be very, very intelligent 2. to read an enormous amount of good books 3. to study the society by himself, experimentally, for few good decades 4. not to rely on known, theoretical, psychological concepts, except for the basic, fundamental principles [we suspect his last statement is a bit "too strong", therefore we will have to detail it in a future article] Note that there is no reference to school education in the above requirements--on the contrary: that means, ANY intelligent person could become an exceptional psychologist! Psychology may be understood only by the most intelligent individuals among us. However, if we do not have a mechanism to identify and promote those particular, most intelligent individuals then, when the need comes, we cannot benefit from their advice, and we are going to make mistakes--most likely bad, embarrassing mistakes. The official school system in N. America has collapsed catastrophically after 1974. N. American people do not sense this aspect as it is, in its maximum amplitude, but they do realize the educational system goes from bad to worse. As one, direct result, those who are supposed to be the guardians of the mentally-healthy society in N. America, the psychologists, do not know what they have to do in the first place; as for actually doing anything to improve things ... Well, they do look at Dalai Lama for the source of his fake happiness--nothing could be more limited than that.  No,
we cannot rely on psychologists for guidance when dealing with complex social-psychology aspects.
Then, what is the
solution? Two or three generations ago people were still reading books, and that activity IS THE ONLY WAY TO IMPROVE OUR
INTELLIGENCE. Sorry, not all books are the same: the vast majority may
take you to an even deeper state of
confusion, mental-lock, and even mental-depletion; few, however, could bring understanding and logic into your
brain. Good books work for your brain similar to the way you train your muscles: both your body and your brain
require daily, thorough "exercising" in order to achieve significant results. Amazingly, good books are
independent of their "type" (grammar, programming, SF, or even cooking books); only the amount of
logic and humanitarian principles they contain is important. You see, dear friend, good books are just
"good books". So, we have a bunch of people at Guantanamo Bay, and Mr. Bush is told the democratic USA society needs tougher methods of torture to "extract the secrets" of those unfortunate people. The problem is, the prisoners are protected by the Geneva Convention: it says, "... the prisoners must be treated humanely ..." Next, Mr. Bush asks: "What is 'humanely'? This is too vague!" When he said those words, the entire Human Civilization stopped frozen. In 2006, the leader of the most advanced social structure on our planet does not know what HUMANITY means! Even worse, his army of "advisors" have no idea what is HUMANITY! Those people have pushed our Civilization 10 000 years back into prehistory! The antonym of HUMANITY is BESTIALITY, which means behavior similar to animals; animals have no shame, no mercy, they do not think, and they do not care for anything except for killing, eating, and fighting. So much for 10 000 years of "social evolution"! HUMANITY is a term so great that IT INCLUDES DEMOCRACY, and thousands other advanced social concepts. EVERYTHING our human society does is directed ONLY TO INCREASE OUR LEVEL OF HUMANITY. HUMANITY is the final purpose of our Civilization, of all our social efforts: it was yesterday, it is today, and it will be the only purpose we will ever have for as long our Human Civilization will be allowed to exist. About one hundred years ago, few intelligent people have postulated the Geneva Convention, and that is a sacred document of our Civilization: one of the most important we will ever have. The formulation of the principles was INTENTIONALLY VAGUE, in order to allow people/governments to exercise MORE AND MORE HUMAN BEHAVIOR. Being catastrophically ill advised, Mr. Bush has made many political mistakes, but he will remain known in the History of our Civilization for these terrible words: "What is 'humanely'? This is too vague!" History is merciless, Sir. Now, it is possible Mr. Bush has no idea THERE IS NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN HUMANITY IS, FOR AS LONG OUR HUMAN SOCIETY WILL EVER EXIST. In fact, we are certain he has no idea what HUMANITY means, and we do not believe he will ever understand that. However, he has an army of advisors: they are the first ones to bear the blame. The duty each of us has towards protecting HUMANITY is beyond our jobs, beyond our families, beyond USA, and beyond our entire planet: it is the very essence, the definition of each of us, and of our entire HOMO SAPIENS SPECIES! Instead of torturing the prisoners at Gantanamo Bay, the USA Administration had the unique opportunity to treat those people HUMANELY, with dignity, to demonstrate the USA Democracy is better than anything else. Instead of looking for some lousy, long outdated secrets, the USA Administration had the chance to make friends with each prisoner; the results would have been truly beneficial. Instead of few thousands of tortured souls ready to sacrifice their lives again in the future--as revenge--USA could have had few thousands of true, trustful friends.  We do not want to be distracted by insignificant details, because we could lose the focus on Global Picture. Therefore, particular names and situations we used, as are "Mr. Bush", the "White House Administration", or "Guantanamo Bay" are just the average examples needed to highlight the principle: we have to behave HUMANELY, in order to be HUMAN in a civilized HUMAN SOCIETY. Otherwise, history will label us as "democratic beasts". *** First published on October 9, 2006 | ||||||||||||||
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