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| WEEK 12, 2008 |
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Sunday, March 16, 2008 About 2500 years ago, in Athens during the great Hellenic Civilization, lived a strange philosopher named Diogenes [412 BC - 323 BC]. Among his life achievements, it is suspected Diogenes has inspired in our Civilization the notorious adjective "cynical". Highlights of Diogenes' cynical philosophy may be found in many places on the Internet; for example, check this one. Anyway, the point to note is, 2500 years ago, social life was corrupt, vulgar, senseless, miserable, exactly as it is today. Diogenes used to search the crowds of people holding a lit candle in plain daylight. When he was asked why he needed that much light, Diogenes answered: "I am looking for an honest man." Diogenes is only a philosophical reference, not an example of a good man. The man is almost not important today; (some of) his words, on the other hand, are very important. Note this, please: Diogenes was a social-psychologist! SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Social-psychology is the most important discipline in our Civilization. Up to roughly 1974, social-psychology was intensively stimulated in most countries on our planet. After 1974, social-psychology has been abruptly side-tracked or sat aside. It happened that, in 1974, social-psychologists have discovered the vast majority of the persons in power (Managers, Directors, CEOs, communist Secretaries, etc.) had strong anti-social characteristics! Of course, the results of those psychological investigations were forwarded exactly to the same persons in power. Therefore, what followed next was a vast action--though uncoordinated socially--of wiping out any trace of logic thinking/reasoning from children's education, allover the world. Let's take an example from our current, day-to-day life: global economic recession. This week Mr. Bush assured the world that the USA economy is still strong, therefore there should be little worries about an economic recession. In reality, Mr. Bush was very modest; the USA economy today is stronger than ever! As for the much ventured idea of "USA economic recession", objectively, there is no such thing--it cannot be. However, think of it this way. Suppose you give a nice, perfect car--say, a brand-new Rolls Royce--to a young, 16 years old drugs addict, and you advice him to drive carefully. The chances our uneducated and mentally impaired subject has to handle that wonderful machine well are slim. Should the USA economy be, say, 10 times stronger than it is today, rest assured the existing hordes of rapacious CEOs, Managers, and speculates were going to ruin it in no time. THAT is the true danger our world faces these days, people. Stupidity is capable of ruining anything, regardless of how perfect any "anything" could be--consider it, the USA economy. People have absolutely no idea about the countless social analyses marked "TOP TOP-SECRET" ordered by most governments in the world: all of them show an alarming degrading trend. Education is failing catastrophically allover the world despite millions of new PCs hooked to the Interned they have introduced in schools, in spite of programs, plans, and whatever(s). UK, for example, intends to do something about that. Unfortunately, nothing is going to work. Fact is, "things" are going to be far worse in the near future. Of course, pointing fingers cannot help anybody achieve anything. Therefore, the great question is: "WHY?" Corollary Theorems gives answers to that thorny question in our Amazing Articles, in our books, and in these Global Picture in News pages. All they have to do is INVESTIGATE, though ... we know they have way too little brains for that. ***
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