Most likely to be published later this summer of 2022, my 12th book entitled appropriately; Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover a slightly modified yet appropriate version of the 10th and 11th books...
As logically noted by Aristotle (384-322 BC) per the section Posterior Analytics of his work Organon…
"Now since the required ground of our knowledge---i.e. of our conviction---of a fact is the possession of such a syllogism... and the ground of the syllogism is the facts constituting its premises, we must not only know the primary premises---some if not all---beforehand, but know them better than the conclusion... So since the primary premises are the cause of our knowledge---i.e. of our conviction---it follows that we know them better---that is, are more convinced of them---than their consequences, precisely our knowledge of the latter is the effect of our knowledge of the premises."
Mere conclusions are the priorities of the 21st century mind, often to the exclusion of the laborious, arduous yet necessary process(es) of premises, observations, evidences, tests, determinations, propositions, syllogisms (logic), consistencies, ethics and more. Consequently, the adult mind remains entirely adolescent, far too deficient to exercise any meaningful analysis particularly complex as well regularly simplistic even commonly routine.
So it follows, sentimentally attached, emotionally guarded even passionately acquired (as inspired) preferences, opinions, assumptions, quotes, anecdotes, whims and fancies erroneously while speciously equate to knowledge. Dangerously unquestionably elevated are the same erroneous, specious conclusions when concocted in the minds of politic and/or charismatic leaders, as though to say in Latin vox humana vox dei; the voice of God.
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O the silent bleed from coercively inoculated veins,
sunken the eyes
Drunken the tongues, feigned per lies unapologetically
o’er the sighs
Wry the cries yet sublime upon the fantastically
fraudulent assurance
Contrarily odd per the observable occurrences of
oligarchic prurience
The hierarchic esurience as those reject the factual
for the emotional
Refuse the truthful for the sentimental, repel the
ethical for the lustful
Distrustful all as pell-mell the popular mulling, amid
self-wallowing
While pelf-pilfering neighbors’ shelves, strangers too
soon following
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.
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