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Aristotle's claim to fame, as the mother of this trend, is his corruption of the thinking of society that started a degenerating process that is still ongoing. Aristotle's influence on the course of humanity, therefore, went far beyond the influence of a mere theory. His pig became a self-fulfilling prophesy, that, although it had no foundation, became a convolution of lies that took on a life of its own under Aristotle's great name. This mother of pigs brought forth children in the form of ever greater lies with faces ever more ugly than the face of that first pig of Aristotle own creation.
Modern 'scholars' call Aristotle's 'contribution' to the stall of pigs, "the theory of natural slavery." In reality that pig has became the Trojan Horse of all times.
By its very design, this 'theory' is a concocted notion that divides humanity into subhuman beings, and superhuman beings. The subhuman beings, Aristotle described as the natural slaves of the world, who, as he argues, have no other uses in life but to serve as slaves, since these (people) haven't got it all in their noodle where it really counts. The superhuman beings on the other hand (a tiny minority), whom Aristotle calls the natural masters, are of a vastly higher status that rests on the strength of their superior intellect. From this position of carefully constructed lies, Aristotle argues, that the slaves and society are both greatly benefited by the process of slavery, because the slaves come thereby under the benign guidance of their master beings, who in turn makes the slaves better human beings in the process. Naturally, every slave owner in the world, and every empire that ever existed since Aristotle, loved Aristotle for his 'famous' formulation.
It appears to me that the ghost of Aristotle still lives strongly today. The superman image, and the subhuman image of society, is still very much alive today and is hailed by all who seek power to dominate. who evidently fell fatefully under the spell of that corruption. Perhaps the first of this line were the war philosophers of 16th Century, who had conspired on behalf of their imperial masters to destroy the Renaissance spirit in the world. Their deed, reaching deeply into the world of shadows, it appears, had awoken the ghost of Aristotle in a big way. Neither has any man as yet been able to shut this ghost down again.That is of course where our own story of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings begins.
The mother of the process of thinking that grossly distorts the image of man, that Aristotle gave his name to, has brought forth countless offspring in the manner of a sau. One of these pigs was the ideology of Thomas Hobbes who typifies most of the above mentioned war philosophers of the 16th Century time period. Hobbes took Aristotle's distortion of the image of man and created a process of thinking in its shadow, in which the whole of humanity is defined as intrinsically evil. Hobbes and his fellows argued that humanity must therefore, for its own protection, give up its sovereignty into the hands of a sovereign emperor, and allow itself to be ruled by him.
This dirty pig of an ideological process that Hobbes so proudly typified, and is still hailed for to the very day, opened the doors to eighty years of war in which the Thirty Years War was but the final showdown that didn't end until half of the population of Europe was killed.John Locke, in later years built an economic platform on the Hobbesian ideology. He said that society's wealth lies not in what is being produced by the human being, but is found in the land, to which the worthless human being may be enslaved. Adam Smith than destroyed of the human image still further when he declared that the vice of unrestrained greed is the foundation for a rich society (2% of the population).
In historic terms, Tolkien's choice of the name Sauron as the mother of pigs, evidently proved to be right on the mark.
The later pigs in history, that all can be traced to this mother, also represented their mother well. For instance, the Venetian monk Giamaria Ortes, gave his name to the swinish concept that man is an animal, and as such, threatens to overgraze the earth unless society is culled (managed) like a herd of animals, which is usually carried out by means of a targeted slaughtering. Haven't we seen a lot of this already, in many places? The noble Parson Thomas Malthus, for instance, a man of the cloth, a loyal servant of the British East India Company, did all that and more. He plagiarized Ortes pig and 'invented' from it his own Malthusian system of economics. This new Malthus grown pig became proudly manifested in the British work houses in which the poor were worked to death, and in the British Poor Laws which forbade any notion of social support for the poor. The good parson Thomas Malthus further argued that the dwelling places of society should be made so terribly insanitary that as many people as possible become ill and suffer an early death.
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