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RingingSword · Mar 20, 2005, 11:31 pm

morality – the complex system of (perceptual) filters through which a picture of reality emerges; morality is the lens through which reality must pass; to assert moral absolutes is to conflate the lens of reality with reality itself.

the moral filter – bloomin’ creation is too full to be manageable for humans, so we screen out 99% of reality in order to cope with the 1% remnant, which is still unmanageable all too often. Since the (manageable) picture of reality is the result of heavy filtration, it follows that reality and morality are, more or less, one. What’s immoral is merely the contrary to what’s moral. But if what’s moral is only a tiny fragment of what’s real, then its contrary is confined to an equally tiny slice of what’s real. Constant moral tension in human life stems from the fact that bloomin’ creation is always pressing in upon the tiny slice of life that human eyes can bear to see. When a new wild flower of bloomin’ creation breaks through the netting of approved hothouse flowers, we shudder as a new fragrance – and new pollen – fills our lungs.

growing up means showing up for your date with infinity; it’s the moment when you face the fact that the universe involves limitless quantities, with their ecstasies and insoluble problems entailed; it’s the moment when you concede that throwing morality at certain problems will have no effect; we all love a good love story, when the love of the lovers feels justified; as adults, we know that love is never justified (for one century and one half, audiences rejected Shakespeare’s ending for King Lear, substituting a version wherein Cordelia lives), that no one is good enough, no one deserves it; when we’re ready for a great love story, we toss justification onto the side of the road and surrender.

after the German holocaust, the wise ones taught us that humans are capable of anything; we can learn nothing from the experience because no low is too despicable and no high too lofty for humanity; beyond our need for order and authority, we can learn nothing about ourselves from morality; moral principles inform a game of catch-up wherein the real human identity is always just beyond the reach of what we can accept.

conclusion – we don’t want to embody our moral principles because that would mean the arsenal of our new states of being has become exhausted. When morality stands beside human vitality, it will harden into a shell and suffocate us, thus paving the way for the entrance of homo-superior, the real evil.

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RingingSword Molten Ash Posts: 86	The Moral Filter morality – the complex system of (perceptual) filters through which a picture of reality emerges; morality is the lens through which reality must pass; to assert moral absolutes is to conflate the lens of reality with reality itself. the moral filter – bloomin’ creation is too full to be manageable for humans, so we screen out 99% of reality in order to cope with the 1% remnant, which is still unmanageable all too often. Since the (manageable) picture of reality is the result of heavy filtration, it follows that reality and morality are, more or less, one. What’s immoral is merely the contrary to what’s moral. But if what’s moral is only a tiny fragment of what’s real, then its contrary is confined to an equally tiny slice of what’s real. Constant moral tension in human life stems from the fact that bloomin’ creation is always pressing in upon the tiny slice of life that human eyes can bear to see. When a new wild flower of bloomin’ creation breaks through the netting of approved hothouse flowers, we shudder as a new fragrance – and new pollen – fills our lungs. growing up means showing up for your date with infinity; it’s the moment when you face the fact that the universe involves limitless quantities, with their ecstasies and insoluble problems entailed; it’s the moment when you concede that throwing morality at certain problems will have no effect; we all love a good love story, when the love of the lovers feels justified; as adults, we know that love is never justified (for one century and one half, audiences rejected Shakespeare’s ending for King Lear, substituting a version wherein Cordelia lives), that no one is good enough, no one deserves it; when we’re ready for a great love story, we toss justification onto the side of the road and surrender. after the German holocaust, the wise ones taught us that humans are capable of anything; we can learn nothing from the experience because no low is too despicable and no high too lofty for humanity; beyond our need for order and authority, we can learn nothing about ourselves from morality; moral principles inform a game of catch-up wherein the real human identity is always just beyond the reach of what we can accept. conclusion – we don’t want to embody our moral principles because that would mean the arsenal of our new states of being has become exhausted. When morality stands beside human vitality, it will harden into a shell and suffocate us, thus paving the way for the entrance of homo-superior, the real evil.