The New Human Question: The “What is Me?” of the World
Philosophy Podium: The New Human Question: The “What is Me?” of the World
The question of an individual’s identity is new to the world even though it appears to be fundamental. That’s right: this question is not as old as we would like to think. It fell on our heads like other fruits of the new realities that our new societies are dropping on us. Individuals of three, four or even ten thousand years ago didn’t have to ask themselves this type of question because they were living in a world where everything had a philosophical and metaphysical meaning. The cosmogony of Thebes answered all human questions in a very satisfying way, from material perspectives to non-material perspectives.
The system we live in these days simply does not deserve our respect; all we need do is analyse it, and then we come away with more questions that it still has not answered.
It is the cosmogony of Thebes that introduced to human beings the ideas that the world was created, and that it had a beginning. That cosmogony made sure to reveal details of the stages of that creation, and of the identities of the creators of our world. I said the identities of the creators of the world!! Although some readers might be shocked because the modern individual was colonised by monotheistic theologies, the world, from its creation to today, operates only on a polytheistic basis.
Our modern problem started the day when the same groups of people assumed that they could redefine the world and its existential values with impunity. Or that they could just as safely recreate civilisation. The question of how the world came into being opens two more doors: one door shedding light on a world that is created, while the other door sheds light on a world that is not created. Driven by the desire to introduce a new perspective, the recreated civilisation found itself blocked by this fact: the door into a non-created world is simply absurd and far from our intellectual essence. (No wonder it was only as recently as the last few decades that a new generation of totally ignorant persons--ignoring the origin of our conceptual basis--decided to flirt with the idea of a non-created universe).
There is only one door left for this so-called modern civilisation: dishonour and intellectual dishonesty. Perhaps “intellectual grafting” and “spiritual grafting” will give the landlords of this system a chance to stretch their talents. If so, they will, from now on, introduce more ideas that are totally absurd and try to graft them onto the psychological and intellectual roots of a human being. This system wants to make us accept the thinking that destruction of the world is the destiny of everything that has a beginning.
This is one example of the techniques used to make us interiorise the logic of destruction: “every beginning leads to an end”. The logic of an end or the logic of a world that ends was introduced to the modern system only very recently, about the year 1200 of the Julian calendar. That logic was introduced along with the concept of emptiness, meaning the zero of things or philosophical absence. According to proponents of the new system, the concept of a philosophical absence creates room for new ideas. What a civilisational blunder!
The concept of philosophical emptiness has played and continues to play its role. It opened a new door to mathematical research: the aspects of the mathematics that lead to the zero sum of the world, meaning the destruction of the world. Of course, this modern discipline is nothing other than an intellectual adventure if they don’t tell you that it is just an intellectual game. If so, what would you say about a person who is ignorant enough to tell you that there is a place in this universe for things that do not affect the entire universe?
There are many profound reasons for our existential problems. And there are also many people who have created new jobs for themselves by trying to prevent individuals from seeing clearly the causes of their psychological problems. These people do so by simply helping them to accept the snakes that this system is forcing us to swallow.
One day, while visiting the temple of the God Tmu at Kapta (Memphis), Imenhotep, the first prophet of humanity, entertained a discussion with one Sekhmet priest who asked him, “Oh great prophet, you never stop repeating, while with me, that the whole humanity is in constant danger. I see only a world that is strongly built and enlightened by human genius and blessed by all the Gods. Tell me, oh prophet, where is the danger?” Imenhotep answered without hesitation, “Ambition”. The priest then said, “What are you saying, oh prophet? I believe that our ambition cannot obstruct the will of the Gods.”
The prophet then asked him to keep his door open that night; for he would bring him the answer to his question. When night came and while the priest was sleeping, the prophet asked another priest to grind garlic and rub it onto the moustache of the sleeping priest. When morning came, the prophet sent for the priest and asked him, “Tell me, what is the smell on my cloth?”
The priest smelled the cloth and told him that it smelled of garlic.
The prophet smiled and asked him again, “Tell me the smell of this temple”.
“It smells of garlic, oh prophet.”
The prophet then followed, “These temples smell of garlic. The world smells of garlic, even the universe, for you, will smell of garlic, because last night while you were sleeping, I asked someone to put garlic on your moustache.”
The whole world is under a constant threat from this kind of danger. What is the value of knowledge if at every moment of our evolution capable forces can redirect our values to serve the ambitions of interest groups? This is the challenge that is placed on every honest being: to preserve the genius of humanity. This is why the “Who am I?” question will remain unanswered until the day everything goes back to what has always been.
