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For all that, the author does not provide a definition of hypersanity by which an individual may be judged to be or not be hypersane. His examples of hypersane
by Causality1 7y ago
For all that, the author does not provide a definition of hypersanity by which an individual may be judged to be or not be hypersane. His examples of hypersane individuals are questionable. Nelson Mandela ordered the torture and murder of political enemies and their families, including teenage children. Tenzin Gyatso is a deposed theocratic dictator whose subjects toiled under abject serfdom before his exile. Jane Goodall is guilty of the admittedly minor sin of being a plagiarist.
It's not hard to win an argument that all of those people had a more positive effect on the world and on history than negative, and I would agree with you, but I believe it is an error to put them on a pedestal as examples of some sort of transcendental rationality.
- armitron 7y agoI stopped reading at Nelson Mandela. A white-washed caricature, a media construct of certain Western power structures, that entirely collapses the moment one pays even a little bit of attention at his deeds and the people he freely associated with (such as his notorious wife Winnie). Aeon having been on my shitlist for similar drivel in the past, I think I'll go ahead and completely excise it from my life.
- crawfordcomeaux 7y agoWho said transcendental rationality had to be something that completely aligned with sustainably contributing to life or honesty? He didn't make the word. I you don't like it, maybe propose a different one to describe people who intentionally shed the teachings from society?