Good, Evil, Babel, Faith

A continuation of an earlier post, https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2510721759458783546/1625062377490533115

This will just be short, maybe quite random points rather than any kind of an essay.

Besides the biological aspects, the two most core aspects to us I mentioned being the instinct for language and the intellect as a whole; and also love and the instinct for moral truth, for a sense of good, and a wish for good to triumph over evil. The mind and the heart. The heart or emotional world is much the more powerful one, and even an intellectual ideal must go out of its way to harness the emotional drives to acquire any real force.

Evil isn’t simply a deficit of goodness, but is a pole of attraction in itself. Try explaining things like extreme child abuse or extermination camps without it. The nature of such phenomena lie way beyond things like intellectual error.  

 The Tower of Babel instinct: to create truth and ascend to heaven through our own independent efforts. The further one ‘ascends’ such towers, the more divorced from the heart, and the more artificial and ultimately diabolical the towers become. The deeper truth of socialism is atheism, and which is precisely such a tower.

Think of by contrast breathing. We are not creating this sustenance through our efforts. It is given which we accept on faith. So faith doesn’t mean overcoming of doubt. It is simply acceptance of being. Similarly language if used right is imbued with truth by its nature. It is not creating truth. Even mathematics discovers intrinsic truths, it doesn’t create them. If it created them, that would imply they were not truths before their ‘creation’ - for example, Pi or the circumference of a circle. This truth is unveiled, not created.