Egoism And Moderation

 

God works in mysterious ways. I feel I have a handle on morality, with this Mavellonialist-Egoist moral system, that is going to revolutionize everything for people, for the good.

 

God talks to me every day, but there is likely little or nothing I think or write which I did not learn from (perhaps subconsciously) Eric Hoffer, though this atheist’s not fully explicated moral system, fully displayed, would likely be very similar to mine. God did not talk to Eric every day, but somehow God did talk to him.

 

I go for months without a new idea, and then, out of the blue, ideas just well up in me. This is my third blog entry today, so let me lay it out.

 

I have long argued that good and evil are real, universal, eternal forces at work in the world, that they are metaphysically or spiritually real; they are not just social constructs. Good and evil operated in the natural world and in the supernatural world long before humans evolved, and will operate long after we as a race do vanish.

 

The Good Spirits have assigned to each of us, the job to self-realize and build love, cosmos, art, and more philosophy, while alive.

 

This divinely inspired duty, our telos, our calling, demands humans adopt egoist morality, the ethical system best enabling each person to do her thing as an individuator. Her primary but not sole moral motive and duty is to chase after her enlightened self-interest, but, her secondary but vital moral motive and duty is to serve others and their interests, to sacrifice herself for the good of the whole.

 

An ARI Objectivist would accuse me of self-contradiction by offering conflicting and mutually negating moral motives as one integrated ethical code; the result: I am, according to him, talking inconsistent gibberish and spouting irrational garbage, and his criticism has some bite, some merit.

 

My defense is that humans are complicated, complex creatures, born half-angel and half-beast. The nature of the world is such that mixedness and hybridization are real and of highest ethical and intellectual undertaking is to wend a middle way through all of this contradictories and contraries.

 

The black-and-white thinking of the uncompromising Christian or Buddhist altruist or the absolutist ARI Objectivist-egoist are not how the world works, and these lopsided, out-of-harmony worldviews will lead their proponents to espouse moral codes that are pure, one-dimensional, wrong, morally unproductive, stupid and increase evil in the world, the consequence they claim to wish to decrease, but cannot help contributing to the explosion of wickedness in the world.

 

Here was my flash of intuition. Humans are born wicked—mostly not entirely. Humans are born with low self-esteem and lots of self-hating. Hating is evil, so the agent that hates herself, born evil and addicted to sin, will if she refuses to become moral, will grow corruption and malevolence in the world, as she grows in hatred of herself and others, all while claiming to love what she is, addicted to what is killing her spiritually, intellectually, and even physically.

 

She is born sinful; she runs in packs and groups are evil, and the social scene is the locus of lying and wasted lives lived inside complexes and games riddled with illusion, deception, pain, and manipulation, all socially reinforced. When she group-lives and promotes group-pride, and she and others practice altruism-collectivism, they grow evil in themselves and each other. The joiner is demonic more than angelic, emotional more than logical, and fanatical or ultraist more than moderate and self-calibrating, her behaving is measured response.

 

My flash is that moderation, not in all things, but in most things, is the Good or Love or Truth or Beauty or Liberty. The avatar of free agency, of moderation, of loving, or reasoning, of ego-centeredness is the individual, the loner, not the groupist or joiner.

 

Satan, Lera, and the Evil Sprits will rule this world as long as basically evil people (naturally altruist, selfless and collectivist) group-live, practice altruist-ethics, preached at them by parents, the church, the government and the institutions. When the elites run government and business, and tyranny, class systems or stratification and communist economic systems prevail, the people must fail, suffering needlessly and excessively, though they convince themselves that they love what they secretly hate, and praise the status quote as liberating and enriching, when subconsciously they realize that it stifles, sickens, and kills the masses putting up with this rotten, dispensation.