Ants Tigers 2x.The Machine Ayn
Rand		 Mao
Tse.Tung		 The.hard.drug
Rationalism		 Industrialization or Industrialism Sects.and Families Human Herds Threat Challenge The.Human Warrior.Ant Small Worries We shall
Overcome


WEgo instead of Ego / Harmony and Symmetry opposite of Conflict and Struggle)
Collectivity vs Individuality / Families without Creativity easily end in dull Fascism / See things in a different way

Cultures (super-paradigms) are balanced by the 'perpendicular' yin-yang 'forces' of detaillism and generalism/overview (skill vs creativity; inner focus vs outreaching; individualism vs collectivism; absolutism vs relativism).
Western Society since Aristotle stresses 'aristocrat' individuals as creative force. This might be seen as lone tiger behavior, playing king of the jungle in an absolute subreality (individualism), ending in supremacy views and destructive Wars on Terrorism. Asian Buddhism stresses collectives as families of individuals with different creative talents. This might be seen as ant behavior, undervaluing the unique leadership qualities of some rare individuals. Leaders are needed for: STOP or GO.
Families are needed to limit individuals. BOTH individualism and collectivism heavily suffer under egoism. I exploit it all (The Investors) and We share it all (The Creatives), individualism and collectivism respect in individual collectivism and collective individualism












Capitalism may be temporarily dominant, but without any doubt both forces are essential. This is symbolized in the Circus Dragon (not the male symbol 'dragon').
Individualism + Collectivism: There are 3 tigers inside The Dragon, cooperating like giant ants. But one tiger is The Leader. looking for victims inside territory and defense of family against enemies, individualism and collectivism Individualism + Collectivism: There are 3 tigers inside The Dragon, cooperating like giant ants. But one tiger is The Leader.











The Machine
'Rational' TRUE-FALSE logic

Maybe that is because individuals tends to optimize the happiness of own family in ways with maximum own happiness, and real Collectivism optimizes the happiness of the family with minimum differences in individual happiness (think of European egoism and African hospitality). Rational egoists even only optimize 'rational' goals, and neglect emotions.
So people who feel social have to limit others who are egoist, and vice versa. Otherwise 'individualism' in the extreme becomes fascism and tries to eat 'collectivism'. Collective females showed to be able to live together with individualist males, so why not in political 'marriages'?

Individualism tends to: Egoism + Being introvert (acting like supreme machine)
Collectivism tends to: Rule of the Average (acting like army of zombies)
BOTH individualism and collectivism tend to: Corruption + Bureaucracy (the Chinese empire died in rigid beauty and in the 21st century Western World filling in forms is a major part of every project)

Corruption must be a trace of egoism, bureaucracy is a system that got stuck in rules and lost creativity.
The 21st century software multinational "Microsoft" is a fine example. What started as a flash of creativity ended in bureaucracy and egoism
A mix of Individualism and Collectivism can get rid Egoism, Rule of the Average, Corruption and Bureaucracy.
There is only a talent difference between say a white judge and a black toilet cleaner. Of course the judge might have white friends in 'high places'. And the toilet cleaner might have a powerful trade-union. Friends are there to highlight your positive talent, NOT to cover your weaknesses.
In case of uncertainty, realize that toilet cleaners are useful, as well as judges who can take wise decisions.





part 2











Supremacy


In world history already three times the overdone individualism of Greek spirit-body SPLIT thinking showed it's EXTREME danger (supremacy).

1. The Hellenist Empire: Iskander the Cursed (Alexander the Great) annihilated in his eyes 'evil' common sense Zoroastrian Culture (Persian Empire).
2. British Empire and Stalin Russia after WWI ripped completely ridiculous pieces from the Ottoman Empire and the impartial Persian Empire (Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Bahrain, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan).
3. Third Reich or Greater German Empire: In WWII recently Hitler tried to establish his own Western world.

The body spirit thinking (spirit circus) is THE pilar of the Roman egoist variant of ZOROASTRIAN Christanity. African cultures, North and South American Indian cultures, Eskimo culture, Asian Cultures, Polynesian culture and Aboriginal culture are based on unity of body and world (chi, qi, rei ki, etc.). Only buddhist culture in Asia survived the attempt of Roman Christianity to colonize earth



In the Western World rationalism caused egoism (corruption). 'Rationalism was 'exported' by Dutch Calvinists to South Africa (Apartheid), and by 'the early colonists' to America (slavery). Much later rationality entered Japan (as 'Forschung' or 'Untersuchung') via Japanese students studying in Germany, and was a HUGE factor in WWII in the Pacific).
In Buddhist Asia HEAVILY overdone egoism led to herds of 'zombies' following mediocre leaders (also resulting in corruption).

The Chinese Early Religion was a variant of Zoroastrianism (just like Judean Christianity). But this type of 'christianity' was ESSENTIALLY different from Catholicism. Present Christianity in China and Korea is Protestantism as imported by the British and in the 20st century by the US.
Anyway Buddhism without egoism is a fine social ethics, and rational logic in collective hands is a superb technological tool.












Ayn Rand, terrorist for individualism

People from 'individualistic' cultures (like USA 1st rank), fighting for individual success, tend to think only of themselves as individuals.
People in 'collective' societies like China (outside individualist Han-China) feel individualistic behavior as emotionless and not supportive. Collectivistic cultures think more in terms of "we". Harmony and loyalty is very important.

Chinese in general perform best when operating as a team. Chinese perform worst when operating individually, and with their name marked on their work.
Americans perform best as group of individuals and with their work attributed to them personally. Americans perform lousy when operating anonymously in a team.
Zarah II: Lesson: Collectivism might lack leaders, Individualism raises egoistic leaders

If you want to find all prejudices about collectivism together in the work of 1 writer, then read Ayn Rand.
Some quotes of Ayn Rand (most caused by the bruteness of the egoistic individual Stalin) and comments:

(1) Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to class or state or ... Comment of Zarah II: Non-sense, people who feel life is about 'all together' see individuals (talented or not) as part of a herd
(2) Collectivism requires self-sacrifice. Zarah II: Indeed collectivism highly values the brave sheep that save the herd.
(3) Collectivism sees the power of the collective as unlimited. Zarah II: non-sense
(4) Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights.[..]. A doctrine of that kind uses brute force. Zarah II: non-sense
(5) Collectivism is the ancient principle of savagery. [...] It is the order of a very dark yesterday. Zarah II: non-sense, pure individualism is the order of a very dark today.
(6) Totalitarianism is collectivism. Zarah II: why not say that Hitler was a communist?
(7) Racism is the lowest, most primitive form of collectivism.
(8) Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; Zarah II: well that is close to totarianism.
(9)America's abundance was created by the productive genius of free men who pursued [..] their own private fortunes. Zarah II: Who produced the poverty in the subburbs of the US cities? See US-empire or War on Terrorism
(10) The moral base of collectivism is self-sacrifice, as of all dictatorships Zarah II: So the US president out of self-sacrifice plays war for oil in Iraq?




Mao Tse Tung, mistaking 'collective' for 'the masses'


If there was one person who made Western people afraid of collectivism, then it was Mao Tse Tung. Mao made collectivism into totalitairianism of the masses. A herd following the wishes of the sheep.
Probably Mao Tse Tung had many fine leaders of future China killed or 'reeducated'.

Some quotes of Mao Tse Tung and comments.

(1) Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Zarah II: Collectivism is about 'all together', not about crushing critics.

(2) Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
Zarah II: The masses are sheep in some herd, you don't learn much by the way of talking with sheep. Better observe their shepherds.

(3) The organs of state must practice democratic centralism.
Zarah II: A sneaky way of introducing dictatorship.

(4) The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
Zarah II: Not if 'the people' means 'the masses'. Change comes out of 'the masses', but by the way of successful leading variants.

(5) The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant
Zarah II: Most sheep are not heroes, and certainly not fit for leadership

(6) We, the communist Chinese nation, have the spirit to fight the enemy to the last drop of our blood, the determination to recover our lost territory by our efforts, and the ability to stand on our own feet in the family of nations
Zarah II: Frightening



The Hard Drug 'Rationalism'
I use the Rest replaces Family Behavior

Family behavior = Behavior around Common Sense (People all are Similar), 'Rationalism = the engineering approach (A World full Differences)

It is VERY important that Buddhist and Christian cultures realize that Roman Christian Egoism/Individualism is not just an inbalance WITHIN the unity of mind and body. Roman Christian Individualism (in the US called 'liberty', and resulting in genocide of many millions of Red Indians) is a result of SPLIT of mind and body.
Thus softening (compromising) the Western engineering approach to whatever level doesn't help. The body mind split should be repaired.
The engineering approach looks for differences (differential calculus). Like in a forest seeing thousands of different trees, each with millions of different leaves. Such a split of reality (like in the whole Roman Christian World) leads to observations like 'apartheid' of body characteristics, good versus terrorist. Instead of realizing that people are mainly similar, only member of different families (cultures), with sometimes peculiar traditions Suddenly 'social engineers' see ABSTRACT divisions like: masters and slaves, beautiful and ugly, managers and workers, BIG gamblers and OBEDIENT servants, rich and beautiful versus poor suckers etcetera.
It results in doctrines like capitalism, not aiming for progress of the collective, but using the idea individual freedom to aim (relatively) at making individuals more rich (and INHERENTLY at making poor individuals relatively more poor, though absolutely less poor). Progress in the Christian World is enlarging the gap between 'the poor' and 'the rich'.
Split of Mind and Body was formalized during European Enlightenment in the logic rationalism. Rationalism is a valuable logic in technology, IF handled with care and made useful for the collective. In social ethics the logic of differences 'rationalism' after a slow start proved to be EXTREMELY DESTRUCTIVE .

Zarah II: UNbreak mind and body. Don't act like a spiritual mind is playing with a complex but dum gamebox. The mind is part of the gamebox. And many gameboxes together programmed in similar way make a super-gamebox or culture.

At present China as one of the last bloccades for 'rationalism' is at rapid speed 'rationalized' (industrialism, capitalism, western democray, law and order, freedom of speech, individualism). Already infected areas (Hong Kong) work like an 'rationalism chemical weapon' (sorry, however good meaning).
It help to realize that 'rationalism' attacks like the drug 'meth' (amphetamine), only stealthier and without clear bodily damage. Users of 'rationalism' gradually arrive in ever more virtual worlds. Such worlds finally practice good-evil thinking, resulting like in the Western World in industrialism, capitalism, western democray, law and order, freedom of speech, individualism. 'Rationalism' junks hallucinate terrorism everywhere, like 'meth' addicts imagine alien people all around. Children/parents having father/son and/or mother/daughter addicted to 'meth' will recognize the hopeless situation.







Industrialization or Industrialism


Life on earth inevitably is getting more 'artificial'. That means that tiny ants in wheelchairs will also be part of nature.

Industrializing can be done in 'nature is a unity' way (take care of earth environment), or in individual profit way (industrialism).

China as last HUGE Buddhist culture is under attack of multinationals (attack units of the Western World, think of the treacherous rol of IBM in supporting the fascism of Hitler during the WWII Holocaust).
Result: China after the USA became the second biggest polluter on earth. And the capitalist shareholders of such multinationals get the profit, at the cost of totally destroying nature.
It makes one wonder if the government of China is really buddhist. Especially when realizing the this government buys oil from a Sudanese government that commits genocide. But remember the biggest pro environment investment ever made is also done in China (the magnetic train).

The Western World industry by asking for ever more lower 'prices' forces rapidly developing China to produce below 'evolutional costs', that means it asks from the Chinese to use dirty production methods, exploit limited resources and ruin environment.

Multinationals though in itself can help improving the unity 'life'. Few big multinationals from Buddhist Japan respect 'community' and 'environment'. These big firms are heavily infected by abstract capitalist principles, but also still cherish their natural Buddhist origins.


Zarah IIA dubious fantasy: Everybody lives his/her own life, and should take care of him/her-self.
Another dubious fantasy: clans like maffia, yakuza, army, nation are all important, and above individual responsibility.

Families (cultures) are influential, decisive is their ethics.








Sects and Families

a) Extreme individualism leads to sectarian groups. Important contact with the outer world is done by the sectarian guru (often 'presidents').
b) Overdone family feeling leads to cultures that lack leaders. Because of lack of leadership egoism has free play.
c) Families with abstract organization are like shadows.

In 1 thing Individualism (inherently) makes sense: every human is totally UNIQUE in behavior.
In 1 thing Collectivism (inherently) makes sense: all humans for 99% are similar in behavior.
Families that internally tolerate moderate subfamilies (sects) are a fine balance (not a compromise). Individual cultures might locally organize surroundings like a subfamily (branch). In the end the overall goal (family tree) is totally decisive (but the goals on long term are free for open debate).
The former British metropole Hong Kong faces a fine challenge. To design a local balanced democracy of 'rule of the wise' (= more relative wisdom, more vote, Buddhism) and rule of the average (1 man - 1 vote = western democracy).
And to find useful jobs for those intelligent people who have abstract 'capitalist' jobs (earn a living by 'thinking). These people now have virtual jobs because of the capitalist myth 'inflation'. In common sense reality 'win' of one entity means equal 'loss' of other entity. If all stocks 'go up' than that is allways paid by 'inflation', or letting environment bleed. Hopeful consequence is that 'on the long run' winning cultures are allways the flexible 'living' ones, and produce the goods needed by happiness. Better set 'inflation' = 0%.
The Age of Defense, with Cold Wars and LOCALLY millions of soldiers, many thousands of armoured vehicles, thousands of combat aircrafts, hundreds of submarines, major surface vessels and nuclear bombs, is OVER..














The Human Animal:Member of Herd

Killing is part of 'the ritual', nevertheless I notice that few animals kill for fun. Such egoism was since the 'execution' of Julius Caesar typical in the Roman Empire. Even some Roman historians wrote: until Julius Caesar Italians were noble, afterwards greed and egoism grabbed control and took the name Senate.
Zarah II; selfanswering question on internet: "if you have a Senate, who needs the Maffia?"

What we see in the US, Europe, Russia, and the Muslim world is heritage of The Roman Empire: rituals around 'greed', 'power' and 'politics'. The Islam variant of Mohammed (Mohammedan Islam) was Roman inspired. Original Mekka Islam prohibits 'greed'.
At around 200 BC the Chinese Qing dynasty showed extremely cruel ritual behavior, but afterwards China step by step became Buddhist, and at present though still egoistic in essence is peaceful.

So I don't agree with the power-thinking that "life always will be ruled by force and violence". It was exactly this 'dual' ritual power-thinking that caused shapes of fascism and 'dirty wars'. Ritually dividing the world in 'we' the good and 'they' the evil, the pagans, the communists, the terrorists' is typically Roman behavior. Such rituals are only found in 2 or 3 religions. In 'natural' rituals life is taken as a unity, balancing around 'better' and 'worse'. Often this ritual view is expressed as "The One".

That "there is no future for all human beings beyond the flesh", and accepting poverty, hunger and slavery, is a maffia view (sorry) of life that is typical typical Roman Christian. All beings are one family, and can do MUCH better. Ritually believing in a 'Creator' (creationism=THE Word of God) or in 'understanding' ('rationality' or 'intelligent design'), is placing the human animal apart from other beings. It is VERY difficult when growing up with Roman Christian rituals, to think of 'earth evolution' as creator.

Herd For Roman Christians and Muslims, and especially for Protestants and Mohammedans, seeing Earth Environment as the home of ONE family of families is the challenge of the 21st century.











Threat and Challenge

The English word 'behavior' is a construct of 'to be' (a 'spiritual being) and 'to have' (a body)
You are member of a family and use common sense, and you are an individual and act 'spiritual'. Balance is needed.

In Chinese language 'behavior' is a construct of 'to act' (creativity) and 'to obey law' (ethics = tradition = practical rules).
Such laws come from sense experience evoluated (in millions of ages) in common sense behavior, and are behavior made consistent by 'rules'.

Egoism was kept within borders by common sense (limits to behavior).
Ethics that ignores common sense is 'wishfull dreaming'

The myth 'pure reason = thinking = understanding'. Western people since Aristotle and especially since Immanuel Kant imagine 'human' animals to be no animals. They imagine beings with a immaterial divine 'spirits' and material 'sinful' bodies.
'Spirits' that need to follow 'reason', to be able to practice 'thinking' or 'understanding. They believe humans need to 'think' to survive.
Most natives though know that if you meet a tiger and start 'analizing', you won't survive.

Values are created by acting, not by 'reason'.
It's not 'reason that produces happiness, but living in families.
Two brilliant tricks in the ethics 'rationality' were valueing polarization in debate as 'not ethical', and introducing the good-evil split 'objective-subjective'.
The ancient Greek common sense debaters Socrates and Plato were masters in using polarization.
That was not considered to be offending by their audiences because common sense does not have the notion 'individual IMMATERIAL spirit',
but considers everyBODY as member of the same collective.
Evading polarization easily results in endless compromising. And in stealthily moving towards fascism.

Start World War 2 the 'rich and powerful' in Western Europe were very afraid of socialism (and loosing their power), and sympathized with fascism (Mussolini, Franco, ...Churchill).
In 2007 the 'rich and powerful' in the Western World are very afraid of terrorism, and in the US and in Europe in leading circles fascism is growing like wildfire (ironically least in former Western Germany).

The Threat is WWIII and The Challenge is Balancing Individualism and Collectivism
(start 21st century Western Individualism moves towards Extreme Egoism = Fascism)








The Human Warrior Ant
2 related Side Steps in History

The great human thinker Friedrich Nietzsche already pointed at the dubious influence of the puritan Immanuel Kant. Since European Enlightenment (17th and 18th age) and especially Kant under influence of Puritan Logic The Western World started deviating from The Rest. That heavily decreased after that the most fanatic protestants (Puritans) fled to the US part of The New world (America). There the puritans ('with God on their side') directed a genocide (of 'godless human animals') on never before seen industrial scale. And the American puritans invented 'slavery' ('giving work to the godless'). In continental Europe the fanatic puritan view on life faded, atheism became accepted as closer to reality. But after the 20th century WWI and especially WWII the in earlier times hated discriminating Puritan view on life (WE the angels of God) was stealthily coming back to Continental Europe. After a slow start Continental Europe is 'americanizing' (puritanizing) in awsome speed, in Great Britain puritan thinking as State Church never left.

The basis of Puritan Logic was the Split of Mind and Body. Already existent in Catholicism and invented by the Roman Senate in times of Julius Cesar.
The Roman Senate ripped 'democracy' from the Greek city states. This to get the support of Roman people for removing the immensely popular nobleman Caesar (who has married with the pagan Empress Cleopatra). This without losing the supprt of the Roman people for continuation of 'slavery'.

The goverment system in the ancient Greek City States of course was more than democracy (power to the people) alone. It was called 'politeia', a balanced mix of 'aristocracy' en 'democracy'.
Democracy is daydreaming by 'The People' (mania or structured fascism). Plato spoke about "the democratic beast". This mania made the weak and corrupt Roman Senate arrogantly see itself as Divine Rulers and opponents as heathen pagans.

 Or WE the Reasonables and THEY the terrorists .
Because Split of Mind and Body allows totally weird fantasies. Split of Mind and Body is the opposite of Unity of Body and Senses (seeing all life on earth as undividible Unity)
WE The Puritans (with 'god' and/or 'understanding' on our side) against THEY in the terrorist Axis of Evil (sensing that something got completely berserk).
WE The Western World against THEY the unreliable Muslims and the ununderstandable Buddhists.

Muhammad:
The weakened Roman Senated in around 620 AC failed to stop the addictive 'troublemaker' Muhammed in peaceful Arabian Mecca.
It even accepted the agressive Mohammed (who denied all other gods than his own Koran version of 'Allah') becoming extremely popular.
The rich trader Muhammed escaped to Medina and afterwards his brainwashed Jihadees conquered large parts of the world.

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The positive side of these 2 sidesteps in history were: acquiring of 'extreme skill' and uncompromising 'total war mentality'.







Small Worries
question marks

The Chinese Government is a mix of Chinese communism and Chinese capitalism, and doesn't SEEM to behave Buddhist.
Chinese Government is too communist and too capitalist, resulting in lack of common sense leaders, massive corruption, and overdone egoism.
Communism and Capitalism are western made ethics based on the western 'conflict model' (good-evil). Alien to common sense Asia and extremely addictive.
Examples: Communist China still in military way suppresses Buddhism in Tibet; Communist China buys oil in Sudan; Communist China tolerates military dictatorship in Miyanmar.
China as a whole seems a federalist union of states that are VERY different (close to central dictatorship), just like Russia and US. The central government of the United States of China in some ways behaves wise, in other ways like a dogmatic 'sect' (no offense, nice black suits).
A central government only has use if it adds leadership in balanced WISDOM. In rural Asia, rural Africa and rural South America the original common sense (Buddhism or whatever is still very strong). Examples: rural Thailand, rural Malaysia, rural Philippines, rural Nigeria, rural Congo, rural Bolivia.
If central government only adds 'power', and rules dogmatic with a central army, then it's totally confusing.

In times of the Vietnam war Birma was a very successful Asian Tiger country, very pure Buddhism.
Then the armytop was infiltrated by the terrorist organisation CIA
This released the egoist brain addiction 'rational behavior' in an influential subculture of a totally common sense culture.
That's like introducing poisonous snakes in a corner of paradise. Wealthy Birma transformed in very poor Miyanmar.
In the same way the Couphing Zombies with Rifles on Horse of the King of Spain destroyed an in many ways superior Inca empire with locally unknown simple viruses.
The armytop in Miyanmar is not 'evil', but behaves like a 'law and order' sect totally addicted to 'meth' (amphetamines)
Something similar must have happened in North Korea.
Resulting in agressive behavior simular to that of the US, and in paranoid behavior also like seen in the US.
Protestantism (a 'fundamental' variant of egoist Roman Christianity) settled through US in Korea, and through UK in China.
What brings Korean protestant aid-workers in Afghanistan. Protestantism is as 'alien' to 'eastern' cultures, as is the Mohammedan version of Islam to American soldiers.

But let's not particularly focus on local setbacks, however tragic.
Folk dancing is a fine example of ritual balancing of Individuality and Performing as a Group.
And dancing communicates without words, only with emotion.
If you have Java enabled look here: Scottish Folk Dance (patience, takes some time)
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We shall overcome
Squirming out into Space

Looking from a space-lab to earth starts resembling looking at a very slow slow-motion movie of a blue balloon being eaten by armies of killer ants. Killer ants in reality don't destroy. These ferocious ant armies make room for new life.

The Roman version of Christianity and the Muhammedan verson of Islam were temporary sidesteps.
The Western dominance of Individualism in the Catholic virtual world 'understanding' learned us a lot in 'technology', but 'socially' tends towards fascism and ends in suffering, and collapse.
Individualism and Collectivism in harmony tend towards 'healthy' common sense.
Anyway: The sizable balloon Earth starts getting too small for The Human Warrior Ant. In trying to progress humans start ruining nature. Time too split up things. Respectfully trying to find a natural way of life on earth, and equally respectful start looking for fresh challenges in space.

Humans are complex copiers of behavior. Long term in DNA, short term in common sense.
Humans need role models, to learn how to behave in a family. Stimulating effectful common sense individuals and long term effectful cultures.
Role models who are egoist, arrogant, destroy earth environment, fight wars on terrorism are local leaders of temporary mental-drug gangs.
Language is young 'behavior', and still very tricky. When young humans copy the behavior of someone like Britney Spears, they copy her stimulating dancing talent. Mimicking her language or her belief in 'god' is only religion.
stephen hawkins and simpsons The disabled scientist Stephen Hawkins stimulates by being an example of what partially disabled people might accomplish. The Simpsons can't make any sense of his wizardlike 'rational' talking.
To combine the evolutional ethics common sense with technological 'rationality'. China is already infected by murderous 'rationality' (Hong Kong, Beijing, Sjanghai, the brute 'economic' forces behind the Olympic Games) ), but still largely common sense. Asia can save The West. The Western World can offer its its amazing skill (technology). To make an open 21th century ethics that is ready for entering space.
Common Sense Stability: ALL of earth is Collective Good, and Community Concern.
Melodies: Joanna give me Hope, Lambada, Where is the Love and The Sound of Freedom
mighty collective with beautiful individuals
Paradigm Shift Zarah II
Return to Common Sense
Zarah II,