Scientific
Proof of the Existence of God Will Soon Be Announced by the
White House!
Chapter 3: Scientific Proof of the Existence of God Will
Not Be Announced by the White House
Cooperation and Doubt
The world is suffering from a wrong understanding of
human freedom and human politics.
Those who value the notion of human freedom tend to think
of it in terms of Narcissistic immunity from restraints.
That is, they think of freedom basically as separation from
parentlike demands, so that the “free man” is conceived of
as someone who can do whatever he likes, whenever he
likes.
But such freedom cannot be realized or practiced in the
world of human relationships. Indeed, it is founded on a
fundamental revulsion to the limiting power of relationships
and to the moral demands of love and self-sacrifice. It is a
false, childish, and ultimately antisocial point of view. It
is the viewpoint of private self-indulgence and ceaseless
self-meditation. It is the very principle that destroys
relationships, love, and the higher processes of personal,
social, and spiritual growth.
Yet, this childish point of view is the popular notion
that underlies the exercise of freedom in present-day
democracies. It characterizes the present popular version of
the “American spirit” and the present state of the “spirit”
of democratic and capitalistic free enterprise everywhere in
the world. It is the root of private and public
irresponsibility and vulgar exploitation of subhuman
possibilities everywhere in the modern technological world
of TV cultures.
Human freedom is not in principle about the ability to
randomly fulfill random desires. The true principle of human
freedom is a higher cultural concept of the status of
superior human individuals, not childish masses of vulgar
subhumanity. Human freedom is a mature realization of the
status of individual existence in relationship with all
other human beings and all aspects of the shared wo
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