Ye Ol’ Rationality…
Hi… Name’s ‘Rationality’__and I’ve been around a long time, but I don’t think you realize just how long, or who I truly am__so, let me see if I may clear up this mystery a bit, just a bit. You may have me confused with my younger brother/sister ‘Reason’__No__I am not ‘Reason’__not even close__I am ‘Ratio-Logic’ leaning toward ‘Wisdom-Logic’. First off, my younger sibling thinks more about the reasons for things; whereas, I think more about the ‘Universal Mechanics’ of things, based on only the existing facts__My younger brother/sister thinks more about beliefs, opinions, feelings and judgments of such, and I more about the logical interactions of intellectual ideas and their effects, all the way from the community, state, national and international levels, but even more importantly__to the fully ‘Universal Level’. I’m in no way meaning my younger brother/sister is not just as important as I, as s/he certainly is, since s/he more thinks about the deeper, necessary and important issues of personal, family and moral community relationships, much closer to the heart, personal compassion, empathy and honesty, even though I also do consider this, but less so. We’d certainly have a far less rational world without the kind help of my younger brother/sister, and many of his/her still younger siblings, brothers, sisters and cousins alike…
‘Rationality’ is the hardest essence agent to write about, as it requires the use of rationality, or at the least some form of general cognition__whether psychological, rhetorical or logical and rational, to even begin to speak about the subject of self-rationality. The second problem is ‘Rationality’ attempts to approach the mountain-top heights of ‘Moral Wisdom’, while holding itself to some semblance of humility, not to drift into that oh so useless area of the omniscient ego, which is just as much an enemy to itself, as it also is to its younger sibling and cousin, ‘Reason’ and ‘Rhetoric’__which all, when taking the ball too far over the scrimmage line, have the habit of drifting far too far into that all too useless area of the irrational omniscient ego. Few realize both sides must be balanced by each other’s differences, along with as much middle-mental-state outside or inside support, as can be mustered__such as natural law, morality, aesthetics, esthetics and ethics__as without these extra supports, it’s far too easy to drift off the proper course of civil discourse, and on out into the barren areas of the dark egos… Whether ‘Rationality’, ‘Rhetoric’ or ‘Reason’__none of us want to be caught in the darkness__as we can’t see in the darkness__we all like the light of illumination…
And, this brings up a question; Why isn’t ‘Universal Moral Wisdom’ a more talked about subject these days, as it was years ago…? Have people become incapable of seeing above the personal, family, community, national and international levels__into the ‘Universal’? Or, what is it…? ‘Rationality’ looks at politics and law, and sees nothing but debates and arguments, or where philosophers and other intellectuals are concerned, nothing but dialectic and dialogic levels reaching no higher than the personal to the international, or as could be stated ‘The U.N.’, ‘W.T.O.’ and ‘The International Courts’ of settlements, whether law, politics or money__and never reaching into the thoroughly ‘Universal Rationale…’ Has the world of citizens completely forgot, there’s a higher level than the ‘International?’ Do they think the mind stops at the borders of the ‘International?’ This just isn’t being very creative, in my opinion. Is it because the last few hundred years’ philosophies, academicians and psychologies, etc., have totally convinced everyone on Earth, that ‘Universal Moral Wisdom’ is some foolish metaphysical utopian non-sense, or something even more dire? Can’t people any longer separate the simple metaphysical from the truer form of honest ‘Universal Thinking?’__where metaphysical has more to do with context, meaning, motives and intents, and ‘Universal Moral Wisdom’ has far more to do with the entire history of the nations’ and planet’s ‘Common Laws’ and ‘Rationality’ combined, over time, as a truly workable ‘Visual Effects Logic’ of our real world’s total actions, over time. Have people totally forgot how to ‘Reason’ and ‘Rationalize’ law’s, politics’ and economies’ goals and effects into real conceptual ideas contributing to our future betterments of our ‘Political Actions…?’
Let’s just take a quick look at one powerful ‘Universally Rational Example’__to see if we can make some sense of this. We all know there’s a major and dangerous problem developing between ‘The Western Religions’, politics and economies; and that of ‘The Muslim East’s Religious Views’__but, how many have truly looked for a ‘Higher Than International Solution?’ ‘Oh, everybody’s brains just quit working right here'__Well, let me help you out, if I may... We presently have a global problem of the ‘International Thinking’ on top, squashing most all ‘The Important Individual Thinking’ on the bottom__It’s like a pressure-cooker, where the entire world is fighting for resources, in an ever decreasing shortage of global resources, including thinking resources, and people limiting themselves to the false heights of ‘International Thinking’ is forcing the pressure-cooker to near global explosion of severe head-butting, and most likely, somewhere out in the near future, nuclear head-butting__but, does this truly need to be? If we can recover a bit of our ‘Universal Thinking’ of years’ gone by__I don’t think so. OK__we have an oil shortage, or is it really a refinery shortage? ‘News-Flash’__It’s really a refinery shortage__so, where’s the most sensible location on Earth, to place new oil refineries, to reduce Global and mainly Mid-East tensions? Israel__Think about it. If new oil-refineries, enough to over-supply all the needy nations of the Earth, were placed in Israel, just what do you think that would do to the Mid-East dynamic of ‘Radical Islamic Thought and Power?’ ‘Radical Islam’, instead of hating Israel, as much as they presently do, just may be awakened to the fact, that should the ‘Free-World’s’ supply of fully refined oil-products depend on keeping Israel safe, long out into the World’s future__they just may have to do some serious soul-searching re-thinking about that ‘Big Ol’ Satan of the West, America’ defending Israel, and wake up and realize, NOW, the entire ‘Free-World’s’ supply of fully refined oil-products and market-price dynamics would depend on Israel being protected and kept safe, by ‘Even’ such enemies as Al-Qaeda and Iran__as the ‘Dynamic of Global Protection’ would then be such a ‘Great Community of Nations’ ‘oil-necessity-locked’ against them, unless they changed their thinking toward such a new state of ‘Dynamic Universal Moral Wisdom’s, New Necessities of Self-Survival…’
The seemed ‘Great Satan’ can protect himself/herself in just such a way__Is this not a useful example of ‘New Universal Thinking…?’__’All for one, and one for all’__and yet, it simply seems to be the old, sufficiently applied to the new…
