Asking what is THE perfect form of reason is like asking what the perfect form of corn is. We have the technology to make all corn exactly the same, but we would have to decide what form that might be.
Likewise, we seemingly have the technology to make the world say and do the same things, but would that make the world more perfect? How? Why?
Some emotionally disconnected people seem to feel, in what appears to them as thoughts, that if something is reasonable everyone should think it, and CONVERSELY that if everyone is thinking something, it must be reasonable. The Bandwagon Effect. The “consensus”. This is obviously a propaganda tool, but many seem to take it seriously nonetheless even among those who are manipulating us.
Here is the thing: the biological NEED for diversity in the ecosystem is really proven and indisputable. Diverse, complex systems are inherently more stable, less prone to lasting major disruption, and more resilient and healthy in all respects. One species of corn would wreak all sorts of havoc the world over.
And I would argue that just as there are and should be as many moralities as people on the planet–related moralities, speaking the same languages, but forming different conclusions, and all of which include negotiation and compromise as core values–so too should there be as many ways of reasoning and as many conclusions formed.
The core critique of “Western Culture”–which ironically is a construct using Western ideas, which is then critiqued using Western ideas, making the whole process functionally solipsistic and expressive mainly of self loathing emotionally–is that our notions of Big Ideas, like God, Religion, Human Rights, Reason, etc., were used to dominate and oppress and rob people innocent relative to crimes committed against us (although rarely against each other, with war being endemic the planet over for all of recorded history and no doubt before). Yes, the Nigerians may have enslaved competing tribes to sell into slavery to US (or more likely Arab slavers, to sell to us), but we bought the slaves, and we are supposed to regard Nigerians otherwise as culturally uniform and innocent.
Now, this whole thing uses the techniques it condemns to reach its conclusions. If we abused language to delude ourselves about the humanity of the Other, so too we abuse language NOW to delude ourselves about the capacity for EVIL of the Other, and also to denigrate what was and is GOOD in us.
CRT, rather than denigrating the process of Essentializing, actually simply shifts the target, from everyone else, to themselves (most of them are white), but not REALLY to themselves, but to all competing whites who are not them, and not on their team. All of THEM are evil, as a result both of crimes their ancestors may or may not have committed (all my ancestors came over after the Civil War, and almost nobodies ancestors ANYWHERE in America owned slaves EVER), and of abstract linguistic crimes cooked up in the Faculty Lounge over cocktails. They are guilty of “White Supremacy”, which calls deeply for a hero like Wittgenstein to come riding up on a white horse and remind them that “whereof we cannot speak, we must remain silent”.
There is no such thing as white supremacy. There may be white people who won’t hire black people, but they are few and far between. There may be shitty schools in black neighborhoods, but nobody wants to talk about them as long as the discussion is conducted by white people in what amounts to a gossip session to condemn other white people. The people everyone hated in Grade and High School are now trying to get their revenge. I literally think that is the emotional reality. Most of these people can’t dance, possess zero charm or charisma, have no sense of humor, and are unlikeable in every possible way.
Literally everything CRT does is tear down existing social bonds, while making real solutions to real problems less likely.
And obviously the words good and evil, likewise, are deconstructed in ways which are logically indefensible, and to ends which make coherent morality of any sort outright impossible. You lose in the process all the true benefits of reason, while amplifying all the horrors and cruelties to which human unhappiness has always made us prone.
And again, before long, you have the same emotionally disconnected, morally superior abusiveness being directed at people innocent of any crimes. We have teachers in our classrooms TODAY, in 2021, making innocent white kids cry over crimes they DID NOT COMMIT, and not only that, making very general claims that they are inferior, in precisely the same way white people used to call black people inferior by birth. This is clinical racism, but if you denude language of the accuracy needed to perform useful reasoning, all that is left is all the meanness, pettiness, sadism, and violence in the soul of any particular abuser. And there is OBVIOUSLY a lot of cruelty still out there.
And I will append a comment that could perhaps properly go in another post.
BDSM is Bondage, Domination, Sadism, Masochism. (It is also the acronym, by the way, of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Movement, which I continue to argue constitutes a sick inside joke).
Within this world there is apparently something called a “Sub”, for Submissive. I watched one video on PornHub (I actually find just about everything on there gross, with a high percentage of it incestuous in storyline; maybe I clicked on some link long ago because I liked the look of the woman and they decided that was my thing, or maybe that is something a lot of people are interested in. Personally, I find my imagination much more satisfying, so that is by far my default), and this woman came over after an ad on some social media thing (is it Tinder? I think?) and was telling these two guys they could do anything they wanted, that they were in charge, and there were like “no, we’re not, just so we are clear”, and she insisted no they could make her do ANYTHING.
Here is what I will suggest: the people wearing masks NOW, that don’t have to, that wear them in cars, while walking outside, and that wore double masks, are political Subs. They have some emotional need to be manipulated and told what to do. Something is missing in them, some dignity and some love of freedom from coercion.
And I think it goes without saying that in the right context Subs will become Doms. They are two sides of the same coin.