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«The Final Appeal to Mankind» by Nicolai Levashov
Because of the weakness of your logical foundation you are limited in your ability to
finely differentiate between objects and events, basing your distinctions upon a
variety of notations, which are quite chaotic and illogical even from the point of
view of your own logic. This is very easily proven, for instance, in the case of human
language, where the distinctions are quite inexact.
Your method of communication, which you claim as one of the superior achievements
of the human mind, is based upon the establishment of such meaningless
differentiations. If you calculate the number of meaningful sentences in your
language, you will see how primitive it is as a method of informational exchange,
and is, rather, a way to limit that process. And it is not an achievement of intellect,
only a transient, dysfunctional step in the early stage of human evolution.
Considering language as an instrument for both exchanging and conveying
information, you have not yet noticed how much it impacts your way of thinking, how
inevitably it forces you into the very same process of fragmentation and
compartmentalization. Thus your ethics and esthetics, particularly, contain a multitude
of conceptual pairs that are mutually contradictory, such as thesis and antithesis.
Your public and personal morals follow the same principles of polarizing ideas like
“love—hate,” “good—evil,” “life—death,” and so on...
Even your own observation, that different nations attach different meanings to those
antithetical concepts is of no help to you. In the course of time, the very meanings
themselves keep changing. Meanwhile you think of yourselves as a highly civilized
race, yet in a court of law you apply a “yes” or “no” criterion to determine whether a
verdict of guilt or innocence is appropriate for a single individual. Under no
circumstances would such criteria be acceptable for determining the fate of a nation.
But you permit the categorical principles of “yes” or “no” to dominate even there,
turning virtually the entire planet into an enormous jail for all nations.
Moreover, your binary system of logic allows you to entrust the destiny of all nations
and the entire human race to a handful of individuals. In international politics this is
your idea of “a state of peace” or “a state of war” with abrupt shifts of logic. You think
that this is perfectly natural, without even considering whether it is rational, and pursue
it with a truly absurd tenacity. The latest world war and the new one about to happen,
prove that your precipitous development of technology has not propelled you into
wisdom.
Because of the abrupt and almost instantaneous shifts of your social structures and
international politics from one state to another, it is very difficult for us to make any
prediction regarding your future development. For the last couple of thousand years,
the CGO has observed that you are almost continuously at war with each other: because
of the natural course of historical processes, it will take twelve thousand years before
your warring will begin to diminish.
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