METAMORALITY INTEGRATES CRUELTY As Part of ULTIMATE HUMANISM

As if cruelty and viciousness were forlorn orphans, traditional humanism tends to excuse and infantilize them. Confronted with the inexcusable… traditional humanists make excuses. Surely they would not have done it, with a proper education involving nature, as Sade pointed out. If cruelty always came from fear and insecurity, it would always be excused. For example one could apply the logic to mass murderers such as Kaiser Wilhelm II, Stalin or Hitler. The poor little ones felt afraid and insecure, so they had to invade and kill millions. Poor Kaiser, self-declared preferred grandson of queen Victoria, yet… with a crippled arm.

If one believed that fear and insecurity bred cruelty, one could say: Putin is very short, and he had a hard life, so he was very afraid and insecure. Now he is even more afraid and insecure, turning him even more cruel. Putin killed hundreds of thousands, soon he will kill millions. And guess what? It’s because he feels afraid and insecure!

So what to do? Send Putin flowers, express our undying love for him, make him feel safe and secure. Resisting the invasion of Ukraine was all wrong! We should have turned the other cheek! Made Putin feel good! We are the problem: we made Putin feel bad!

In truth, when Obama “reset” with Putin, the wittingly naive US president deliberately ignored Putin’s cruelty, blatant since 1999 with his holocaust in Chechnya. Later Obama turned fully conspiratorial, confidently informing fellow war criminal Medvedev: ”Tell Vladimir I’ll have more freedom after the election”. That’s how denial of cruelty is instrumentalized as an accomplice of cruelty.  

Not understanding the roots, importance and justifications of viciousness and cruelty makes it impossible to understand, and thus stop, Putin’s Russia, a brutalist state based on the worst dark side, lived and thus, expected by its deluded, raging folks.

Trying to explain viciousness and cruelty as the result of mistreatment is to try to deprive viciousness and cruelty of their own free will, and to devalue those primary agents into secondary effects.. 

In truth, cruelty is its own neurological space. It does make sense. Sometimes it has to do with fear and insecurity. Most often it is sourced by greed and viciousness. Even worse, it is sometimes a legitimate and optimal reaction.  

Greed, that’s the territory one wants to seize. Chimps do it. Obsessively. So do lions. And elephant seals. Sometimes, seizing territory is a matter of survival.

 

Viciousness is what one needs to re-establish ecological balance, as a last resort. Too many people somewhere, and eliminating some of them becomes an ecological virtue. The latter point became dominant when humans became dominant, two million years ago. It’s not pleasant, but it must be done: cruelty may as well be fun. I am not condoning, just describing. Those who refuse to describe, cover-up and become accomplices.

 

Greed and viciousness are parts of human nature, and the human brain. Denying that they exist, is a clear and present danger, and a moral pitfall. Indeed, deniers become their accomplice, wittingly or not. Metamorality requires to integrate those dark angels of behavior. Be it in the name of mental diversity, and prudent anticipation, accept them in the human community. The purpose? Debate and question them into oblivion… As much as possible.. 

Patrice Ayme

 

What do you mean you don’t love me?

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NOTES:

And what of Will To Power in all this? (Nietzsche made a big deal of it!)

Will To Power is an enabler of humanity, good and evil. In that sense, WTP is beyond good and evil. But WTP can also serve only the Dark Side as when Napoleon said that Washington would be the greatest man who ever lived, if he left power of his own volition. Apparently, Napoleon had never heard of Solon, showing that his cognition was small…In the case of Hitler and Lenin, Will To Power was greatly a way to exact vengeance. And what does vengeance serve? Human culling, an absolute ecological, and, to a point, progressive good… As probably, overall, the war of all against all fosters a supplement of evolutionary pressure .

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Real life data was given by the Marquis de Sade, who played an important role in the French revolution, both as an instigator and administrator. Sade’s role was not as expected by naifs, in the later case… I mentioned this in essays, long ago. More later.

Tags: Cruelty, Metamorality, Viciousness, Will To Power