Part 2.11  “This understanding of the human condition will end all prejudices like racism forever”

What will now be demonstrated is that the Instinct vs Intellect explanation demystifies not just the human condition but all aspects of human behaviour, however before doing that, what has just been explained in Part 2.10 needs to be emphasised: now that our corrupted human condition has been explained and defended we can survive ‘exposure day’ or ‘judgment day’ of that corrupted condition. The reality is that the human race would never have had the tenacity and courage it has had to keep on going with the corrupting search for the redeeming understanding of our corrupted condition if it didn’t believe that when that understanding was finally found, as it has now been, we wouldn’t be able to cope with the exposure of it—and, as has now been explained, there is a way to cope, which is to support the understanding without overly confronting it. The human race can now leave Plato’s dark cave of denial and live in the warm healing ‘sunshine’ of redeeming understanding.

Truth is possible now, and that honesty makes a world of relieving difference to every human situation. As was described in paragraph 90, the true merits of the right-wing in politics, and the true liabilities of the left-wing, have finally been able to be revealed, and most relievingly the whole stressful business of politics has been brought to an end. As was outlined in paragraph 135, the true heroic role of men and the true naive situation of women have finally been able to be recognised and the historic rift and misunderstanding between men and women is finally able to be reconciled and unified. As outlined in paragraph 61, the religious concept of ‘God’ has finally been able to be truthfully explained and demystified. And as explained in paragraphs 212-213, being able to explain and end the underlying insecurity in us humans ends the need to have faith in a religion’s prophet. Indeed, as mentioned in paragraph 208, being able to heal the corrupted human condition makes possible the real therapy of the human race that all the pseudo idealistic forms of therapy described in Death by Dogma have for so long unsuccessfully tried to achieve. In the case of science, as was mentioned in paragraphs 237-239 about EQ/​SQ, soundness-recognising holistic, teleological truthful science can replace human-condition-avoiding reductionist, mechanistic, truthless, blind science.

And the human-race-saving redeeming and healing understandings and demystifications go on and on. One more very important demystification needed to save the human race is acknowledgement of the differences in alienation/​soul-corruption/​loss-of-innocence between ‘races’ (ethnic groups) of humans. How this truthful acknowledgement ends all prejudices like racism forever is described in chapters 8:16E-F of FREEDOM, and is also summarised in Freedom Essay 28, which the following description of how the problem of racism is brought to an end is taken from.

While we couldn’t explain the corrupted state of the human condition, one of the most unbearably condemning truths we had no choice but to live in denial of—even though it is an extremely obvious truth—is that the more and/​or longer an individual human, or a race of humans, was exposed to the great battle that humanity has been heroically waging against the ignorance of our instinctive self, the more they would suffer from the psychologically upset angry, egocentric and alienated state of the human condition.

The particular reason this truth of the differences in upset between individuals and races has been intolerable while we couldn’t explain, defend and transform our corrupted condition is that it left those more upset feeling, and even portrayed as, less worthwhile and inferior to those who weren’t as upset. Now that we can explain and defend the human condition we can see how unjustly condemning and dangerous this prejudice against upset has been. This is because what is revealed by the redeeming understanding of our species’ corrupted condition is that while humans do naturally vary in their degree of upset as a result of their different encounters with humanity’s heroic but upsetting battle to find that redeeming understanding, ALL HUMANS ARE EQUALLY GOOD. Upset is not a bad, evil state, but a good, heroic one. But again, until we could explain this truth that all humans are equally good there was the danger of unfair and destructive individualist, racist, ageist and sexist prejudice and discrimination against the more upset, and also retaliatory prejudice and discrimination by the more upset towards the less upset for their either direct or implied condemnation of them.

In the relationship between individuals in the social structure of societies we saw in the previous Part 2.10 how the more soul-sound and innocent were ignored and all the emphasis was on intellectual cleverness. Those with high EQ (emotional/​soul/​soundness quotient) were totally, ruthlessly and murderously-of-soul discriminated and prejudiced against in favour of those with high IQ (intelligence quotient). As Christ was quoted as saying in paragraph 238, the soul-sound, innocent ‘meek’ were ‘last’ and ‘rejected’.

In the case of the interaction between races, the Holocaust where 6 million Jews were exterminated by the Nazis during World War II, and in more recent times, the attempted ‘ethnic cleansing’ by the Bantu Hutu of some 800,000 of the tall, elitist Nilotic Tutsi in 100 days of bloodshed in Rwanda in 1994, are two horrific instances of the endless horrific-beyond-description examples in history of the effects of prejudice and discrimination between races.

 

 

It is an immense relief then that understanding of the human condition finally brings an end to all forms of prejudices like racism, because, clearly, without the clarifying explanation for why all humans are equally good, it was far too exposing, confronting, condemning, distressing and dangerous to differentiate individuals, races, genders, ages, generations, countries, civilisations and cultures according to how innocent or upset they were. It is no wonder that, to quote an article in New Scientist, when ascribing ‘genes for negative traits’ to ‘ethnic groups’ there has been concerned debate over ‘whether some avenues of research are best left un-trodden because what they reveal is bound to be socially and culturally incendiary…​Or is it intellectually dishonest, even cowardly, not to investigate all aspects of the human condition?’ (Andy Coghlan, ‘Bun fight over warrior gene’, New Scientist ‘Short Sharp Science’ blog, 10 Aug. 2006; see www.wtmsources.com/147).

While we couldn’t explain and defend the upset state of the human condition it certainly has been ‘incendiary’, far too hurtful and dangerous to acknowledge differences in where individuals, races, genders, ages, generations, countries, civilisations or cultures were in their progression from innocence to upset in humanity’s heroic journey from ignorance to enlightenment. And so the extremely ‘dishonest’ attitude of not allowing differentiation simply had to be enforced.

HOWEVER, most importantly, now that all this ‘dishonest’ denial has been defied and ‘all aspects of the human condition’ have been truthfully ‘investigate[d]’ and, as a result, the explanation of why all humans are equally good has been found and presented in FREEDOM, this situation completely changes. As emphasised in the previous Parts 2.9 and 2.10, with the defence of upset found, it finally becomes psychologically safe to acknowledge differences in upset—AND ALSO NECESSARY to acknowledge it if we are to truly understand ourselves and stop the march to terminal levels of psychosis and our species’ extinction, and to free ourselves from living in Plato’s horrible cave of soul-deadening darkness.

The obvious, and in truth only significant behavioural difference that exists between humans is their degree of upset anger, egocentricity and alienation. In the case of races, there are obviously more innocent races who have been relatively isolated from the immensely heroic but immensely upsetting battle humanity has been waging against the ignorance of our instinctive self or soul, and who are thus relatively unadapted to and thus naive about the difficulties of living with the human condition. And there are obviously going to be other races who are more instinctively adapted to upset and can thus manage and cope better with it. And there are obviously going to be other races who are so instinctively adapted to upset that they are too aware of the reality of life under the duress of the human condition and who are thus overly cynical about being ideally cooperatively, selflessly and lovingly behaved, and are thus overly selfish and opportunistic and thus socially uncooperative. The result of all this variation in upset is that some races have been effective in living with the human condition while others have been either too innocent and naive, or too upset, soul-corrupted and cynical.

Again, although we have had to avoid it, it is an obvious truth that humans became increasingly adapted to life under the duress of the human condition, with some races becoming more or less adapted than others. Just as individual humans vary in their degree of alienation from our species’ original instinctive, all-loving, all-sensitive, selfless and trusting soulful self, so races of humans naturally vary in their degree of alienation. The longer and/​or more intensely an individual or a race of people were subjected to life under the duress of the human condition, the more they naturally became adapted to that upset existence.

While a relatively innocent person or relatively innocent race still behave relatively ideally themselves and expect others to do the same, other individuals and races have become so adapted to the upset/​corrupt world that they no longer behave ideally themselves and no longer expect others to behave ideally. The longer humans were exposed to the human-condition-afflicted state the more cynical they became about human existence—a ‘cynic’ being ‘one who doubts or denies the goodness of human motives’. The psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich wrote honestly about the effects of the different levels of upset in the human race when he described how ‘The living [those relatively free of exposure to upset and thus more soul-alive/​innocent]…​is naively kindly…​It assumes that the fellow human also follows the laws of the living and is kindly, helpful and giving. As long as there is the emotional plague [the flood of upset in the world], this natural basic attitude, that of the healthy child or the primitive [innocent race]…​[is subject to] the greatest danger…​For the plague individual also ascribes to his fellow beings the characteristics of his own thinking and acting. The kindly individual believes that all people are kindly and act accordingly. The plague individual believes that all people lie, swindle, steal and crave power. Clearly, then, the living [the innocent] is at a disadvantage and in danger’ (Listen, Little Man!, 1948, p.8 of 109).

The consequences for a society of its people becoming overly cynical was that it meant that there would be too little soulful, selfless idealism and too much upset-adapted cynicism-derived selfishness for the society to function effectively. In the situation where it wasn’t possible to explain and thus defend upset, the closest people could come to admitting and talking about this fact that people became adapted to the human condition was to describe individuals or families or races or countries or civilisations as having become ‘dysfunctional’ and ‘decadent’, and—especially in the case of civilisations—as having ‘passed their prime’ or ‘peaked’ in terms of their creative powers.

Conversely, some races, like some individual humans, have been too innocent to function effectively in the extremely upset-adapted, human-condition-afflicted, soul-corrupted world. For example, in the extreme, the aforementioned immensely truthful-thinking, prophetic South African philosopher Sir Laurens van der Post described how a member of the relatively innocent Bushmen or San people, some of whom still survive in the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa, found it impossible to cope with having his innocent, natural spirit compromised: ‘You know I once saw a little Bushman imprisoned in one of our gaols because he killed a giant bustard which according to the police, was a crime, since the bird was royal game and protected. He was dying because he couldn’t bear being shut up and having his freedom of movement stopped. When asked why he was ill he could only say that he missed seeing the sun set over the Kalahari. Physically the doctor couldn’t find anything wrong with him but he died none the less!’ (The Lost World of the Kalahari, 1958, p.236 of 253). And Sir Laurens was even more specific when he stated that ‘mere contact with twentieth-century life seemed lethal to the Bushman. He was essentially so innocent and natural a person that he had only to come near us for a sort of radioactive fall-out from our unnatural world to produce a fatal leukaemia in his spirit’ (The Heart of the Hunter, 1961, p.111 of 233). While still members of the extremely upset stage of humanity, Homo sapiens sapiens, the honey-coloured Bushmen are probably the most instinctively/​genetically innocent group of people living today. They are more innocent, less soul-corrupted, less adapted to upset, less toughened, than dark-skinned Bantu Africans, but in turn Bantus are not as toughened and thus as operational and successful in the human-condition-afflicted corrupted world as Caucasians from Europe. For example, I once saw a documentary in which a Bantu African said something to the effect that ‘My people can’t compete with white people, you go to sleep at night only to wake up in the morning to find white people own everything.’ In turn, European Caucasians aren’t as cynical, toughened and opportunistic—selfish—as people from even more ancient civilisations who have been involved for the longest amount of time in the upsetting battle humanity has been waging against ignorance, like the Chinese from the ancient Yellow and Yangtze River valley civilisations, the Indians and Pakistanis from the ancient Indus and Ganges River valley civilisations, and the Arabs and Jews from the ancient Tigress, Euphrates and Nile River valley civilisations.

This is a description by leading psychiatrist Dr Clancy McKenzie of how much the less socially and materially successful can envy the more socially and materially successful, which can lead to angry resentment and distress and then breakdown of traditions in those less socially and materially successful societies, and then mass migration by them to the ‘successful’ countries, which can then lead to social breakdown of those once ‘successful’ countries—which are developments that have been greatly accelerated by advances in communication technology: ‘While visiting Machu Picchu in Peru in 1979 I noted very poor persons, living in the mountains, who had only the clothes they wore and perhaps a lama or two, but had beautiful, warm smiles and seemed content and happy. Days later I was in Bogota in Colombia. It was a very hot day and we asked the driver to stop at an outdoor tavern to buy cold beer. The people were very impoverished, but there was a TV playing and they were able to view the “outside world” where everyone seemed to have more, and luxury was abundant. I offered to go in with the driver and he urged me to wait in the car. I soon learned why. The absolute hatred was so intense that it was palpable. These people did not have less than those in Machu Picchu but they saw others who had more, and their needs were intensified’ (Letter to Prof. Harry Prosen, 27 Mar. 2006).

Many examples of the tragic consequences of these inevitable differences in adaption to the human condition of different races—of the overly naive, the most operational, and the overly cynical—are given in the aforementioned chapters 8:16E-F of FREEDOM, and in the helpful summary of those chapters in Freedom Essay 28, which I strongly recommend reading.

What is so wonderful for the human race now that we have the redeeming, reconciling and human-race-transforming understanding of the human condition, is that EVERYONE CAN LOOK AFTER EACH OTHER NOW ACCORDING TO THEIR ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES—in a world of truth instead of human-race-destroying lies. No longer will the more innocent and naive have to steal wealth (and leave the rest of their people in poverty) because they are unable to compete with the more upset-adapted; or the more operational who are neither overly innocent or overly upset be resented or envied for their social and material success; or the overly upset who are too cynical and opportunistic have to live either in corruption-endemic, dysfunctional societies or in rigid, freedom-denying, authoritarian, extremely oppressive and brutal societies. Instead, prejudice will go and the human race will live in transformed harmony. As Franklin Mukakanga, a former advertising director and radio host in Zambia, said, ‘From my own experience I can say with absolute certainty that, as the word gets out, FREEDOM will provide the key to healing poor or strained ‘race relations’ throughout the world. Basically, this understanding of the human condition will end all prejudices like racism forever’ (2017).

 

 

Yes, we leave the old effectively dead, dishonest world behind and enter an indescribably happy and free Transformed World, which the songwriter and singer Bono (of the band U2) described when he sang: ‘I’ve conquered my past [found the dignifying, human race liberating understanding of the human condition] / The future is here at last / I stand at the entrance to a new world I can see / The ruins to the right of me / Will soon have lost sight of me’ (Love Rescue Me, 1988). And which Beethoven’s famous Ninth Symphony similarly anticipated: ‘Joy!’, ‘Joyful, as a hero to victory!’, ‘Join in our jubilation!’, ‘We enter, drunk with fire, into your [human-condition-understood] sanctuary…​Your magic reunites…​All men become brothers…​All good, all bad…​Be embraced, millions! This kiss [of understanding] for the whole world!’ (1824; lyrics from Friedrich Schiller’s 1785 poem Ode to Joy). And there’s also Martin Luther King Jr’s stirring speech ‘I have a dream’ in which he looked forward to the time when the human race is able to ‘allow freedom to ring…​from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city’ because ‘all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics’ can finally ‘join hands and sing’, ‘Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’ (‘I Have A Dream’ speech, 28 Aug. 1963).

Also, as that fabulously creative and prophetic Beatle member John Lennon anticipated in his 1971 song Imagine—which polls regularly rank as the best ever written—when he asks us to imagine a world without the condemning differentiation of good and evil, a world liberated from the uncertainty and insecurity of the human condition: ‘Imagine there’s no heaven / It’s easy if you try / No hell below us / Above us only sky [imagine the end of the duality of good and evil, the reconciliation and amelioration of the human condition] / Imagine all the people / Living for today / Imagine there’s no countries / It isn’t hard to do / Nothing to kill or die for / And no religion too [imagine the world free of the human-condition-produced insecurities that necessitated religious faith, or New Age/​PC/​Woke deluded dogma, or the egocentric compensations of power, fame, fortune and glory] / Imagine all the people / Living life in peace / Imagine no possessions / I wonder if you can / No need for greed or hunger / A brotherhood of man / Imagine all the people / Sharing all the world / You may say I’m a dreamer / But I’m not the only one / I hope some day you’ll join us / And the world will be as one [imagine a world free of the human condition and all the resulting alienation].’ (Again, more prophetic songs about the arrival of understanding of the human condition are included in Freedom Essay 45.)