Rune Østgård on Nostr: Generalization is one of the greatest threats to the human intellect and the human ...

Generalization is one of the greatest threats to the human intellect and the human species.

Worst among the various types of generalization are:

- equalizing political rulers and state laws with the nations' peoples,

- equalizing religious leaders and religious texts with the religions' followers,

- equalizing nations' history with the present day nations' peoples' morals, and

- equalizing the evil deeds of some men with a certain skin colour with the ethics of other men with the same skin colour.

These narratives fuel all kinds of wars, all kinds of terror, and all kinds of evil actions at an individual level.

Furthermore, I truly believe that ignoring these terrible forms of generalization is the greatest and most widespread sin committed by intellectuals throughout history.

This intellectual bankruptcy has fuelled a hatred that political leaders all over the planet and throughout all of our history continually exploit in order to achieve their evil objectives.

The war of ideas must be fought, and if we don't succeed with weeding out these false beliefs, we will never see an end to politicians' ambitions to steal our freedom.