The Tragedy of the French Revolution
After 1789, 233 years after the greatest revolution after the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, Encyclopedism, we are finally living fully the ideals of the French Revolution of 1789.
We are in the midst of an age of liberty, equality, and fraternity. This is the motto of the French Scouts, the Legion of Honor, the Jesuits, the Buddhist monasteries, the seminarians, and the Jehovah's Witnesses. But this is not what happened to the civilization that is so proud of the French Revolution.
How could we be celebrating the beheading on the guillotine of entire families just because they had the same last name, because they were very rich, and because they were powerful, as they were monarchs of the French Kingdom and Empire.
The mistake of the French revolution was not the one pointed out by Burke, but the naive, almost religious idealism.
Everything that happened was the result of the puerile thought of trying to improve the quality of humanity, as Jesus Christ, Buddha, Mohammed, Rousseau, Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler, Rosa de Luxembourg thought.
And what would have gone wrong?
Nothing and nobody can improve humanity.
How many more revolutions and ideological systems, religions and philosophical currents will we have to experience before we can conclude after how long and after how many attempts humanity will have to go through before prostrating itself before the inexorability of human nature?
The human being is not perfectible because of the dualogical nature that requires two complementary and contingent sides, inseparable pairs with light and darkness, positive and negative, the north magnetic pole and the south magnetic pole, good and evil.
Brotherhood can become a danger to the survival of humanity and people, we need a degree of hostility for there to be guaranteed survival among the members of the social group and for society in general.
Imagine that in the Andes tragedy or in the sinking of the Titanic everyone was in solidarity and decided that all the passengers of the plane that crashed in the Andes would be saved, or that all the passengers of the Titanic would all be saved and none of them would die, they would be in solidarity to the death, or the Apollo 11 module commander, Commander Collins, would return to earth because the astronauts who landed on the moon, Aldrin and Armstrong, had a breakdown in the lunar module's rocket engines and would be marooned on the moon waiting to die a slow death by running out of oxygen and food reserves.
So all passengers would stand up in the crowded bus to avoid some just sitting down while other passengers traveled standing up.
The ideal of solidarity embedded in the ideal of fraternity implies a very great risk for the survival of the social structure and becomes a very serious problem.
The ideal of freedom is in itself the greatest unnatural aberration in the entire universe, if we all had the same genetic load we could be running the risk of a congenital disease exterminating the entire human race because of the lack of genetic variation and diversity.
A vehicle with a total degree of freedom would be of no practical use, to be useful any vehicle needs to have restrictions on its three axes of motion in space, to be able to be controlled and go right, left, up, down, up and down, if the vehicle cannot be controlled it becomes not only useless but a danger.
As for equality only in mathematics does this symbol = become an obsession with corollaries whose goal would be to obtain the solution of an algebraic equation that makes the equation true.
But mathematicians know that the equality symbol is a theoretical abstraction that only exists in the cognitive world of the categorical imperatives of this science that uses rules for the manipulation of symbols that represent magnitudes through agreed signs.
In this mathematical world it doesn't matter the intrinsic nature of things, an animal can be 1 elephant or 1 dog, if 1 = 1 a dog is equal to 1 elephant, abstracting the nature of the entities represented by the numeral. The mathematical world abstracts the nature of the elements because it is a symbolic world.
Equality doesn't exist in nature according to Hieraclitus you can't take a bath in the river twice, the waters have changed and the body has changed losing or gaining millions of cells so the waters of the river have flowed, there aren't two equal tree leaves or two equal fingerprints in the world, and by a regression reduction to infinity nothing is repeated in the universe, therefore nothing is equal in the universe, much less people.
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