From Humanoid Faults to Manipulated Consensus, 42

Life is a group effort by a network of living nodes; each node must contribute with what is needed for the effort to succeed. This means originating something good when it’s lacking and needed, as well as passing on what is already there and good instead of altering it or stopping it, as well as stopping what is bad instead of propagating it; all this requires that each and every node is fully aware of what the actual place of self−importance is, and that each and every node exercises it accordingly. This said, I’ll leave up to you to observe real examples of how successfully self−importance, once it short−circuits into each one of its opposite “buttons”, egocentricity and self−abnegation, can be exploited.

We’re blasphemous – particularly against ourselves:

Blasphemy consists in undermining through degradation, in easing destruction with downgrading. The term and its best example come from the religious sphere: blasphemy consists in debasing a higher entity by playing it off as a lesser entity, such as a god as an idol, or a spirit as a brain. One is a higher entity because it has a metaphysical (the “meta” prefix meaning beyond), spiritual (spiritual meaning not subject to and beyond material limits, among other things) nature and attributes, while the other is a material entity carrying earthly issues strictly bound within those limits. A god or a spirit is a being, an idol or a brain is a thing, and a being and his/her attributes are senior to a thing and its attributes. Hence the blasphemy, and its seriousness lies in the disrespect, in the deception, and in their vast serious consequences as well. But the seriousness of the consequences of what we call blasphemy and deception is not limited to the religious sphere.