Ethics and Truth

Daniel Natal, reader in philosophy and ethics, following current events  : Interview with Harrison Smith on The American Journal

Natal cites writers who have observed control of populations.

Monesque: 17th century. "When no external threat, men are encouraged to become effemenite."  Women replace men from positions of power.

Waler Litman:  ‘Public Opinion’ (1926) wrote about creating a pseudo reality.  Neurophysiologically, fear becomes habitual and becomes a cult (Covid cult).  The media proclamations throughout Covid times reinforced fear; coercing millions of people to take experimental vaccinations.  Fear is invoked through films.  '12 Monkeys' 1999 has biological weapons (remake from French film with nuclear weapons. 1962). [Note: find bioweapon films]

Aristotle Book 5:  Tyranny can’t work without censorship.  "The tyrant has to censor and send spies out".

After the rise of middle class from the industrial revolution, the balance of power shifted from aristocrats to middle class.  Now it’s reversed with big tech and big pharma corporatocracies having supreme control; sanctioned by governments, where governmental bodies often have CEOs of corporations, resulting in conflict of interest.  Global conflagration into a corporatocracy promotes equality of outcome. ‘End goal of democracy is equality’.  Social justice groups' ideas of equalisation is not possible: everyone cannot be equal in everything and competitiveness is necessary for healthy enterprise.

Plato: Animals will be equalised with people. Too hard to bring everyone up to better level, so easier to push everyone down.  (Bezos busted union efforts through ‘diversity’!)

H G Wells - (coined 'New World Order') 1899 ‘Anticipations’.

NOTE:  Ethics seems to have been of more consideration during the 18th Century.  Political thinkers like Edmund Burke.

"In a world grown paralised by distractions and anaesthetized by entertainment, precious little thought is dedicated to the pursuit of wisdom. Ethics used to be foundational to our educational system but has since gone by the wayside. This video is an exploration of what morality is and why ethics is important"

 

"Continuing our ethics series, we expand upon the difference between ethical behaviour and utilitarian behaviour"

"In this third part in the Ethics series, we cover the concept of Aristotle’s “telos,” or the purpose of a thing: Its end-goal. The telos of a knife is that it’s supposed to cut things. The telos of a refrigerator is that it’s mean to keep your food cold. Human beings have a telos, too. As do governments. What are they?"