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Man is part of reality

Since birth of Catholicism and especially since Immanuel Kant Western people consider 'ratio' as above reality and sense as 'white noise', and worship the virtual reality of 'ratio' (non-sense) as 'god' or 'understanding'.

Kant might be seen as the godfather the virtual reality of companies like IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Google

A malicious paradox

20th century Philosophy in a Nutshell
Ratio, Egoism and Atom Bombs

In WWII help of Lutheran GB+US was needed to beat Lutheran Nazi Germany. Cynical because Wallstreet funded Hitler, and Britain was looking for worldpower itself. Hitler admired and feared Churchill, as a copy of himself. America in this way discovered its own worldpower talents.

After WWI Great Britain and Russia in close cooperation (the great game) robbed an area much bigger than Europe of Ottoman Empire and Persian Empire. America did not react.

America had tolerated the grand theft of UK and Russia after WWI. And after WWII America was rewarded with unlimited influence in Japan, Korea, Philippines and Indonesia (the last 3 countries now have a big calvinist church). America had great power of skill, but lacked subtility. And in the 21st century still does.

This is asking for disaster
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After WWII Europe saw great thinkers like Sartre, Levinas, Foucault, ...
The US produced great do'ers, but qua social life the rest of the century got infected with in a resistant variant of positivism.
The huge influence of the US in Europe caused a return of ruthless 'rationalism', the 'Spirit of Capitalism'.
During Enlightenment this egoism in shape religion with the Lutherans had fled from Europe to The New World

Developments ON THE BORDER of Rationalism and Buddhism	What you see is SCIENTIFICALLY EXPLAINABLE	What you see is NOT ALL there is
What you LEARNED to see is ONLY RATIONAL	Fascism Western Democracy Freedom Of Speech	What you CAN'T FALSIFY is what you BELEAVE
What you beleave is NOT ONLY TRADITION	What you beleave is PART OF TRUTH	Part of TRUTH CHANGES in REVOLUTIONS

Still wet philosophy (after World War I)