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82. CARPATHIA - THE SEQUEL:

A person can't go around blaming others for everything which transpires seemingly against them nor can one point fingers constantly or pick at this or that trait here or there to show explanations for the nature of things - the reason one CANNOT do that is because it is too simple a means of ferocity and too transparent a manner of pushing onto others the things that one should deal with personally and any disorders of such nature are at root now found to be chemical anyway (as my aunt used to say of my father - and something to the effect of 'he should not be so proud and protective of himself it CAN be treated with medicine it's all chemical and it's just something out of balance - but he of course won't listen') and maybe so : neuroscientists and evolutionary psychologists and social scientists have made huge strides in understanding now why people do the things they do - even murderers for that matter - and it's probably important knowledge but it's had the effect of reducing the scope of the 'human' self - 'Man is the measure of all things' declared the Greek philosopher Protagoras milleniums ago but in the age here of new science the individual is found to be like a cork bobbing on the currents of giant forces of evolution brain chemistry stress and upbringing and human consciousness therefore is declared to be merely an 'epiphenomena' of the deep and controlling mental processes that lie within and this goes so far as to having many scientists now doubting that there is anything like FREE WILL or as they put it 'free will does exist but it's a perception and not a power or a driving force - people experience free will and they have a 'sense' that they are free but the more it's scrutinized the more you realize they don't have it' - so therefore the scope for individual action as free will and choice has been reduced and with it so too has the scope for morality - the language of which has been reduced to a language of 'determinism' ('what MADE him do it' or 'why they kill') - ideas which run down the background factors that lead people to become mass murderers and the like and responsibility is then shifted outward from the individual to wider forces (guns environment place etc.) or they wind up merely calling a perpetrator 'troubled' - more ACTED UPON than ACTING so it seems that ALL OF SOCIETY at this time is 'renegotiating' what might be called the 'Morality Line' the spot where background forces stop and individual choice and individual responsiblity begins and now we are at the strange point (in these very late days) when the people who explain behavior by talking about individual character are confused and losing ground while (societal forces again) the poeple who 'explain' behavior by talking about biology and chemistry and social science are assertive and on the march and I SURELY KNOW IT they will triumph in the end and our resultant society will bear all the newer earmarks of fear and paranoia and restrictions and checks 'against' instead of 'for' and this straitjacket will descend and be used against the larger will of all the things which once passed for creativity and individual power and people shall be coerced and meek and powerless dull and stupid and they won't even know it and the powers above them who hold these reins and pull these strings shall have complete and utter control over everything and to make it ALL WORSE they SHALL learn and have and control and use the means of manipulation upon millions by the weird new power of their words and actions : mark me the world will suffer and be made the worse for it : for it's true and we are NOT going back and this idea of chemistry and science and/or brain or evolution will NOT be put back into the bottle and we'll have to listen to them endlessly and all their horrid screeds against reality - for they now seek an unrealizable ideal state and their entire means of LIFE and MANIPULATION are to be set up in the quest for it (unattainable though it be) and they shall then LIE enough to make others believe it can be and perhaps HAS BEEN attained - we are helpless poor and pitiful now and shall be so forever - and they shall talk about it as if it was nothing.