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Democracy presents itself as decent mediocrity against the splendid corruption of preceding regimes and ruthlessly considers itself as in no need for transcendence. In it the thus pre-trans-trapping value-creating man is a plausible substitute for a good man. In the resulting pop relativism, now plainly an Americanization of the German pathos, substitutions prevent people from having to thinks about what they really are. In the prevailing politically correct context, people are merely sociometric units, not worth further investigation#2. Thus value positioning becomes the standard for a healthy person. With it people compete in making others other-directed on them as politicians, managers and salesmen; the motto is lowering others to rise oneself in self-directed value creation in return for an illusion of immediate c3-satisfaction.

However, already at the onset of the now fully developed trend, Nietzsche introduced an antirational and -universal approach. It became apparent with Heidegger out of which Weber turned reason and science into mere value commitments deprived of any truth beyond the conditioning of the indigenous culture with its claim to embed everything. This philosophy helps form collectives, in which in turn a new consensus evolves, e.g. we deal in the motor for the self-destruction of closed systems#2 in a down winding spiral.

Nietzsche revealed the effect of the intellect on history as the spectacle of its trivialization by opinions and by its democratic institutionalization. Thus personal healing becomes restoring the inner direction. Influenced by Nietzsche, Freud concentrated on the abnormal id, or unconscious with sex, its libido and the death principles as its drives, as well as its more or less politically correct ways of sublimation and where that fails, neurosis. Weber was most concerned with the normal and the problem of values, the role of religion in their formation, in view of the c3-power of collectives. Thus psychology pretended to making people happy and sociology to improving societies for a brave new world; an illusion shattered by the great wars of those who tried to implement it, Stalin and Hitler et. al...

After World Wart II almost everything became all right as long as it was not fascism and after September 11, 2001, terrorism. So the danger of "creative accounting" in terms of value destruction went unnoticed until the ENRON crash revealed the tip of the iceberg of value destruction. So what started with the Greek and the French philosophy as a universalistic intention depending on the faculty potentially possessed by all men, in time and space, seemingly reason, Nietzsche turned into mere values, the products of folk mind by. And to make it worse, the translation of which into other cultures was doubted by Heidegger. Thus people, classes, nations and persons could no longer understand each other as foreseen in the Bible in the context of the Tower of Babel. So the European Powers started the first bloody World War I, Lenin the Revolution and Hitler the Holocaust using World War II as the platform. The Allied victory was supposed to restore the good life and the just regime that knows no limit of race, nation, religion, climate or culture. And now we have to face global terrorism and climate changes...

Now the United States, set up as a non-culture of castoffs from the past real cultures, seeking only comfortable self-preservation lead the path to superficial cosmopolitanism in thought and deed in the trivialization of the German folk case against the universal Greek one. Allan Bloom the great observer of American Transformation realized how the US' postmodern language derived from Nietzsche's nihilism, although hardly anything but a pose to Americans. However, through their intellectuals and their greedy usage of words, it has become an undigested part of the American education and thus insinuated itself into their daily lives, and through its media dominance, world wide. It make us pursue happiness in ways determined by that language! With it there is neither principle nor will to impose an order or adhere to the one set up for us to be discovered as a guideline for lifefulfillment of as many as possible. Without it, anything goes and everyone can play on any stage in the wild costume ball of the passions with global extensions that corresponds to our mammalian mid-brain dividing people's head to rule them. In short the human mass mind cannot accept anything as it is, even if it is good and that is why IT drove us out of paradise! In their arrogance post-normal intellectuals blame God for it.

The advantage hoped for is the richness of expression and that the competitive tensions among people with different opinions might evolve to a more comprehensive New World Order. However, this game with the psychic entropy based on the evolution myth could go beyond the point of NO return after the frustration in thousands of years of inherited, unsatisfied religious and social longing, misuse and failures. The Palestinian suicide bombers pave the path. It has stripped most selves to the egos. That is all that is left of it in present mainstream theories with the bottom line of the economic imperative! So at large people are still savages, some evangelized, most without having experienced what came before and after the revelation, utterly dependent on intermediaries, mostly themselves without primary understanding and no bottom line#3 as physics provides in the science#1 of nature and thus technology, however, not about its usage ...

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