Singularity of contradiction vs. essentiality of man.
A reflection about the idea of man.

Joachim Wehovz

A meditating citizen

Introduction

The singularity of contradiction as an equalizer and a destroyer

Given that the potential goals of people and nations are immeasurable, it takes them selective and personality–driven dynamics to get their objectives, either by cooperation or by power (monopoly). Let’s try to show the dynamics of power monopoly as a fundamental contradiction. Contradiction is something like a reflection of human being as such that is perception-based and thought-based. Contradiction cannot be accepted because it cannot be true. It is inexistence (singularity), but mobilizes, however, two remote actions. On the one hand, contradiction induces a grouping of entities among themselves, in pros and cons. On the other hand, by dealing with entities, that singularity is absorbing them into its inexistence - by destabilization - all that comes too close. It’s a kind of conquest machine. First we’ll consider the most obvious manifestations of contradiction in finance and business, such as speculation in debt money. Then we’ll look at the inconsistencies in wars and destabilization of nations, such as a (supposedly justified) war of aggression, which beyond that is mixed with exploitation of resources and institutions of the occupied land. We come then to the subtlest, but most influential manifestation of the contradiction, called lie. Finally, we’ll clarify the idea of man, in order to explore how a peaceful cooperation among people and nations may be possible.

I. Are history and ideology hiding, in opposite directions, their self-image as indoctrination?

1) Disparity in finance and economy

a.) There is a contradiction in debt money

Even two centuries ago, one could have guessed that someday the loan granting business in fractional reserve banking, with money in reserve, would lead to paper money as debt money. If, in addition, the monetary system has no real backing, it is a debt money system. Then confidence is required in private liability and additional securities. Money flow means a flow of debts or claims to be negotiated as tradable securities and may produce only an economic bubble, the impression of an economic boom. Absence of the expected values makes the bubbles burst, produces stagnation in the money flow and credit flow. That means impoverishment of people. We then have a Domino effect of bankruptcies: one bank becomes insolvent and the others follow. It took the dollar two World Wars, which erased 61 million lives and entailed unspeakable misery through shortage of resources and credits, to conquer its strategic position as world reserve currency. The nations involved in that World Wars didn’t know that they all had only one enemy in common: the international finance, as warmonger.

b.) National economy without nation

Banks are bailed out by governments and the money flow is going into the large banks that are not interested, neither in converting it into credit for the people, nor are they interested in market transparency. They continue to invest in money and stock markets. Banks obviously want - and are able to afford it through their market speculations - an economy without the middle class. Bank bailout is the deathblow to middle class. Fewer corporations will control market and global economy by unfair practices, distorting market equilibrium, influence on governments and capitalizing on privatizations, but also by involvement in money laundering of the huge drug cartels.

c.) World food crisis is also caused by speculation in commodity markets

Speculation in commodity markets a few years ago caused an artificial demand shock in the grain and food market, by steady buying (going long). Falling supply multiplied grain prices and that of related products. Hunger in the world is drastically increasing. According to UN estimates, at least 8 million people annually (21,000 die every day) die from hunger and 852 million are starving. Are those corporations ever accountable?
Big investment banks have also destroyed India’s agricultural industry by their practices in law of intellectual property. Biopiracy and seed monopolies took place, the farmers have gone bankrupt and committed massively suicide. Greed alone can’t explain such an extreme, systematic and predictable work of destruction.

2) Double standards in conflicts, destabilizations and wars

a.) Aggressions against nations and plundering of their land as the great powers ‘gut reactions, despite lack of mandate.

Double standard has made the world at the mercy of its interests. What reason does, e.g., U.S. special forces have for a geostrategic stratification of Africa beyond the so-called “stability operations ‘? They admit, that resource wealth of the continent is one of the reasons. Almost always, you can see an aggression of a superpower against a country that is driven by interests.
In 2001, the U.S. assumed al-Qaida was in Afghanistan. They invaded that Islamic nation without a clear UN mandate, setting up a transitional government and fighting their “Operation enduring freedom”, which killed tens of thousands. Opium production increased under this U.S. occupation to 90% of world consumption and hundreds of thousands of addicts will die annually. There had been no conditions for an Iraq war neither. The U.S. government launched ‘Iraqi Freedom’ as a preventive war that claimed one million lives . At the same time Iraq was seen as an investment because of its oil reserves, the second largest in the world.

b.) The ally is always right; the rest of the world never

A contradictory modus operandi is a biased intervention in conflicts. The cause of the conflict between North and South Korea, a US ally, had not yet been resolved objectively, but the US feel already free to accuse and threaten North Korea. The case of North Korea is pretty much like the case of North Vietnam: threat of military intervention, almost a declaration of war. US’ and Israel’s foreign policy interests are contrary to the interest and the dignity of their own citizens. Both countries have serious existence problems: US is a puppet state of the lobby of a foreign nation, i.e. Israel, while Israel on its part is invader and looter of Palestine, a foreign nation. Israel is trying to force its right to exist by fact creating on a daily basis, through annexation and expansion of land, through violence, racial cleansing, persecution, imprisonment, torture and murder among the Palestinians, which are the rightful owners of the land. The Gaza-preemptive war is not one of isolated massacres, but a planned war of extermination. Israel threatens sometimes with success their neighboring states, in order to prevent an alliance between them and Palestine. The United Arab Emirates are influenced by Israel. They ignored Palestine’s cry for help during Gaza war and made only empty promises after the event. Also the Arab League’s double-minded attitude almost borders on nomadic betrayal. The US support Israel financially by $ 3 billion annually, besides massive military aid. Thus, Israel has nuclear weapons without signing the Non-Proliferation Treaty and dares to threaten its neighbors with those illegal weapons. UN Security Council is tolerating, through U.S. pressure, all crimes and illegalities committed by Israel, lashing Iran at the same time despite its legitimate right as a signer of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to use nuclear energy in its industry.

c.) A super power’s policy of peace is: first aggression, then diplomacy

Iran offered in terms of cooperation precisely that, what the great powers required. Their answer was a new round of crippling sanctions and - beyond that - additional sanctions, imposed by the EU and the US. They insist on a supposed right to conduct a pre-emptive action against Iran, which is a peaceful nation. The US had even promised not to attack with atomic bombs any member state of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, except Iran and North Korea. Aggression comes first, in Afghanistan war as well. Drone attacks have killed many civilians, because operators decide on the basis of arbitrary findings. Then they call this a legitimate act of self-defense.

3) Lie is the most influential manifestation of a contradiction.

a.) Aesthetics makes us believe that personhood should be feelings and apperceptions.

Essence of man stands for an ambiguous perceptive-reflective totality. If the inner world of comprehension is pushed back, then the sole perception is left over to fill the gap. Suggestive imagery, language degeneration and think decline will exert destabilizing effects on human behavior. In extreme cases people acquire compulsive behavior tendencies that lead into a world of mental disorders and crimes. The whole world is in danger by the global spread of addiction, mental disorders and organized crime. It’s going too far already, when nations consider for tax purpose - so did the Netherlands - the legalization of all drugs.

b.) Emancipation of sensuality

There is a latent and dangerous - often overlooked - lie that can destroy mankind. We find it sometimes in our uncritical exaggerations.
We go, e.g., with great enthusiasm after every anti-discrimination and emancipation rally, without exploring the type of emancipation and its consequences. The danger may run in the subversion of social order. The seemingly harmless global emancipation endeavor of same-gender couples for marriage is trying to constitute equality of status with marriage of husband and wife, as if equal-gender orientation was biologically anchored, globally accepted in history and furthermore a social mandate. Since those impossibilities are fully understood, emancipation endeavor belittles the importance of distinct-gender marriage, denies any significance of continuity and transmission of life by unification of husband and wife, denies any role of distinct-gender partners and later on parents, in cultivating mind, personality and even vocation for a spiritual life inside the family. For the sake of this all -human’s -vocation for essentiality, there should be a mutual support between family and religion, mediated by spiritual and celibate priests (absolute compromised with essentiality). By degradation of distinct-gender marriage - apart from insoluble administration problems for the state - man and woman fall prey to perverse exploitations in a sexualized world. That would be the end of family, nation and humanity.

c.) The instrumentalization of a myth

If world order could be liberated from pandemonium that still remains ascendant, then conditions should be created that adapt to the dignity and the needs of people and not vice versa. That calling “… fill the earth and subdue it” (AT, 1.Mose 1.28) is to say that we should manage this world responsibly for the benefit of all mankind, without causing irreversible damage to nature or people. There are a couple of fatal lies that derive from archaic myths, which led to baleful contradictions in the course of history. The most disastrous lie is in the historicity-rhetoric of the alleged self-image of Israel as a ,chosen people’ among all nations, whose enemy is the whole world. This self-image acted as a justification of bloody-minded conquests, didn’t it?
That deified chosenness has been instrumentalized as a strategy of massive military actions. Israel as patriarchal nomad tribe, and as such belligerent and predatory, managed it to control an extremely impressive, matriarchal Neolithic, presence-centered adoration-cult (congregation of adorers as ‘chosenness’), kind of a humane-divine encounter. That Neolithic cult is verifiable through the self-portrayal of the gathered faithful. What do we find in Neolithic sanctuaries of Crete in place of an idol? There are only self-portrayals of the worshipers, typified in terracotta. Why did that faithful people reproduce their adoration? A portrayal of the faithful, being more important than a picture of the deity, means that divine presence and revelation occurs through the congregation of the faithful, through unification of humanity. The whole humanity per se is that chosen people that makes divinity appear. Those nomad tribes saw a very strong unifying power, a strategic instrument and nation-maker in that awe-inspiring adoration-cult. In this way, a spiritual cult of ‘chosenness of humanity’ has been ‘stolen’, profaned and perverted in a murder weapon for destruction - instead of deification - of humanity.

d.) Religion as an instrument and an excuse

There is a baneful misinterpretation in a Christian (catholic) dogma, called ‘infallibility’ (of the religious leader). It goes back to an hierarchic-ecclesiastic interpretation of a biblical quotation of Son of Man’s joyous blessing for his ‘top disciple’, owing to that disciple’s commitment and insight. That blessing was in fact, as we may notice it by the ‘fruits’ of that dogma, a blessing for the whole humanity and an invitation to a timeless world that is not from this earth. The infallibility of the Pope - the Pope as a religious leader (”ex cathedra”) and at the same time a world statesman - is used in an indirect and understated form, namely as a tool to legitimize the establishment of world powers. One third of all mankind (Christianity) is made available to the big geopolitical interests by the very attitude or opinion of the Pope. After Israel’s genocidal Gaza massacre, the pope visited a synagogue in Rome, where he spoke about the holocaust of the past century and Israel’s eternal victimhood. Instead of calling Israel to account he deified Israel. He didn’t even mention Gaza war. He himself finds his attitude courageous. By his silence and omission he withdrew in public opinion Israel of all responsibility, worldwide. World opinion was now biased and even the Chief Rabbi was embarrassed.

e.) A new freedom was designed to be retrograde.

The fundamental lemma of the bourgeois-revolutionary ‘liberty’ turned out to be a sham, a pretext for constructing a uni-polar world power. It’s visible in the planning stage of the French Revolution. The lemma of 1789 said ‘freedom’, ‘equality’ and, property’(instead of brotherliness). Philosopher Marx called that exclamation a ,bourgeois egoism’. Later, instead of, property, the slogan ‘brotherliness’ completed the lemma. Robespierre himself continued to repeat full guarantee of the right to accumulate unrestricted property. The French Revolution, the irrevocable upheaval of opportunism, means the takeover by the business oligarchy and the emancipation of the big money-and-power interests that was secretly planned. From that moment on, every ideology will be necessarily bound to fail, through opportunism and radicalization that doesn’t see the human being, but only the system of classes. However, despite all arrogant exclusion, enslavement and mechanization of human beings over the centuries, human essentiality has survived and is groundwork for a just and friendly living together of all peoples, in true peace.

f.) Vatican and Israel say society ‘STILL’ needs religion.

It seems incredible that those two ancient institutions, the Vatican and the Israeli rabbinate, band together in order to develop and promulgate so shallow interpretations for the concepts of ‘freedom’ and ‘religion’. In 2007, both institutions wrote and signed, as is well known, a declaration of “freedom of religion, conscience and their limits”. Both terms were defined quasi as means, so vague that they are missing man’s nature. They define ‘Liberty’ merely as an ability to choose and ‘religion’ as a means of preserving moral values that secular society ‘STILL’ needs. Isn’t ‘freedom’ and ‘religion’ the true nature of human life? Isn’t freedom as unity-maker the provident substantiality of society and religion the eternal substantiality of human being? Superficial religious leaders seem to live in a merely perceptive world, strutting around with arrogant self-satisfaction and in the aesthetic experiences of beauty. They plan a neo-proselytization of the world. Do they want to establish a power-cult in the world? Perhaps they want to introduce the ‘Noahide laws’ or prohibitions ( idolatry, murder, etc.) that would easily ban all religions of the world, by declaring them idolatries and establish the power cult, called “holocaust-cult for humanity as perpetual self-denunciation and adoration of the ‘Elected People”, because - as they are saying - “power never backs away, not even from God”.

II. Substantiality and insignificance in the idea of man

1) Substantiality is a world of inner being, the contrary to an outward proclamation

Thinking and intuition are first off dismissed as non-operationalisable phenomena, but, at the same time promoted as a key competence. It is argued, that mentally viewed relationships of entities may lead to greater knowledge (breakthrough) and in a faster way than routine application of a methodology. Linguistic usage as such enables transference of structure representations of essential facts, relations and insights. However, our ever-present inner world, conferrer of meaning, is a non-representable ‘unmoved mover’ that is think-centered but spans and induces ‘event-centered’ temporal procedures. Conceptual insights or physical phenomena and processes generate ever-new entities for linguistic anchoring in the world of perception. Thus, our exterior speech-world has an interior counterpart, a timeless world of being and meaning. ‘Being’ is remaining in this inner world, while ‘existing’ is staying in that speech- communication world, that grows continuous-and independently like a storehouse and is even gaining life opposite to our inner world.

2.) Language becomes persuasion, hides the truth and does what it wants.

A constant routine language usage means that our think-centered world is neglected and we are less prepared to resist media brainwashing. Lie becomes truth; virtue is crime, disrespect for human dignity and genocide become humaneness. We live in a world of linguistic terror that is an instrument brought to life by the mere presence of any person, who fills in given forms of communication. It is like a mythical vampire that revives by the blood of the victim. Most of our communications are already automatic speech processes, no true conversation and we are acting in the same way as robots do. Once our inner world is marginalized, then language deterioration becomes more audacious and dares to establish an entire mechanized standard world, even based on a person-free truth concept. Truth is appreciation, an integrating essentiality, truth is person. Truth cannot live in an unessential mechanical world that has no respect for personhood. Today’s world doesn’t even have an idea of man. People and nations are nothing more than autonomous systems, not to be dealt with friendly but with strong and threatening signals.

III. Implementation work of an idea of man

1) Is world- terrorism as self-defense of humanity avoidable?

We should prepare ourselves for difficult times, because humanity and peaceful cooperation throughout the world will have its price. The world is experiencing the perhaps worst time of atrocious wars and tribulations of human history. This is the terminal threat to the very existence and nature of man, because of the end- goals of the combatants that are absolutely antithetic one another, empire (elite & allies) vs. humanity. They are diametrically different and incompatible each other and have to be unforgiving and exterminating in order to prevail, two irreconcilable worlds, each pushing fiercely to its ultimate object. The phenomenon of terrorism seems not to be the question but the answer of a right to self-defense. The very personhood, people and nation has to be defended by all means, just as the Son of Man has defended and cleaned the temple - He himself turning violent – in order to convert it into a place of adoration. Truth, as personhood, is vulnerable and has to be protected against destruction and oblivion. Inasmuch as truth must not give way to lie, right must not lose ground to wrong and the nations of the world will band together to form one humankind and fight against the empire, in order not to be absorbed and oppressed. Finally, the established corrupt world-elite - may God have mercy on them - will go down just the same as the microorganisms in wine fermentation. Now, we can’t help but compare the very old allegory and symbolic meaning of wine (essence) and blood (life) to personhood, sharing and mankind, explaining especially the meaning of wine. And at once all falls into place and we realize that the violent effervescence in fermentation is just the present battle for personhood and dignity of man. The inessential is removed from the essential of humanity that is destined for eternity. Consumption of wine then means sharing, unity and even eternalization of humanity and ultimate essentiality. That’s what Son of Man (NT, Mat.26, 29) is indicating when he says: “I will drink from now on no more from this wine to that day on which I will drink it anew with YOU in the kingdom of my Father”. That ‘YOU’ means the whole humanity that stands its ground.

2) The basis for a definite peace among nations equals prevailing essential personhood and mankind in a non - gender specific social order, but with a special appreciation for the woman.

Implementation work of that essentialization in society could not take place without a resolute transformation of the patriarchal social order. This must not take us to a new gender order, but to a very special all-time and non-function-centered appreciation of woman in society, just out of gratitude. Humanity is indebted to the woman for her discovery of the inner human being and the rise of the spiritual life, for the peaceful and equality-oriented coexistence, for her love of nature, for the sustainability without accumulation of goods and for their care.

Greetings, JW