Our survival wisdom

Human strength and dexterity are not as good as other animals, what makes people survive? It is mainly by spiritual wisdom. How does a man survive by wisdom? First of all, wisdom separates man from existence, and existence becomes the object of man's knowledge, choice, and use. By separating man from existence and objectifying it, man is free from the regulation and check of existence itself, and he can live selectively according to his own chosen mode of consciousness and behavior, i.e., he can effectively grasp certain things to gain some initiative.

Wisdom allows man to abandon the totality and multiplicity of existence and to take only a small number of things that are conducive to survival, in such a way that man can reorder things with an ethical logic that existence does not have. Since this order is artificially created, only man can effectively operate this order and navigate a world ordered by the logic of existence. Man used his intelligence to create a civilized world that did not conform to the original logic of existence, and man naturally became the master of this civilized world. Little did we know that this was an existential experiment at the expense of existential wholeness and at the expense of the ego's native rationality, the equivalent of what we call a big gamble, where we bet ourselves on whether the human-created model of existence is feasible. How long can the human world exist?

This experiment of existence has been going on for thousands and thousands of years, like a wave splashing in the ocean of existence, and the length of time it remains in a particular form of existence depends on our intellectual capacity. It can be said that it is our spiritual intelligence that allows the impossible ethics of human existence to remain in a civilized form, but it is a precarious form of existence that is vulnerable to collapse because it does not conform to the original ethical logic of existence, it is an alienating and transient gathering of energy, an alternative event that happens by chance in the process of existence. Because of the irrational logic of its operation, it is difficult to maintain its existence for a long time. Human society has existed for thousands and thousands of years, and the human mode of existence is a little longer, but still a short moment in the long river of time. Enabling this alienated human existence, i.e., abnormal existence depends on the operation of our intelligence and civilization. But this is the ultimate paradoxical game, that the more developed our intelligence, the more alienated we become, and the more alienated we become the closer we are to collapse, that is, the more intelligent we are the more dangerous we are, and the faster civilization accelerates the faster it destroys ...... This is a completely desperate march, and survival intelligence is sending us to our doom.

This is the deadly logic, the fact that the wisdom we are trying so hard to acquire is killing us more and more is almost completely ignored. When this issue is raised, everyone thinks it is about the development of civilization-destroying the ecological balance and thus harming our long-term interests. The truth is more than that. Our wisdom has directly harmed us from the very beginning, and we still do not know where this harm comes from. The harm comes from our wisdom to establish and maintain the human order, which is completely at the cost of human suffering in exchange for the existence and operation of human society, human beings are completely driven by suffering to seek the existence and development of civilization. Survival is like a long whip constantly beating on the back of people, so that people have to sweat, tears, and blood to survive. And the greatest suffering on earth is not to live, but to live in what form? What is the form that one is made to live in? The reason why we use wisdom is not only for ruling things but mainly for ruling people.

The meaning of ruling people is not to manage people and regulate their behavior, but the main use of ruling people is for people to deal with people. The competition for survival between people and what to carry out, of course, not as animals rely on brute force, but by wisdom. The most widely used human wisdom is to win over people, the interests of this world, which does not require wisdom to win. When does the survival of this world not require wisdom to obtain? Where on earth is wisdom not needed? When is wisdom not needed in this life? Who is the object of wisdom? Apart from objects, it is others. Most of our wisdom is used to win over others or to run human relationships, and the power of wisdom is between people and each other. Therefore, it can be said that human life is a race of wisdom that cannot be ended, and the most wisdom is used to win and succeed among others, to be one of the lucky few.

Wisdom is like an arrow that is shot to conquer either things or people. Wisdom is like the force that is exerted on others, what does this force manifest in others? Is it comfortable or unpleasant? Is it pleasure or pain? Who does not feel the presence of this "force" and who does not live by the force of others? Everyone is using wisdom, and everyone is using force, what is the result of the collision of this wisdom and forces? Is it not all the calamities and sufferings on earth? Is it not the sweet and sour, sadness and joy, love and hate of the world? The more people use their wisdom, the more they are divided; the more they use their wisdom, the higher the degree of suffering; the more they use their wisdom, the more difficult it is for human relationships to continue.

How can one not sigh when human spiritual wisdom is used in such a way that our survival depends on wisdom to be carried out, but the survival wisdom itself has to harm itself? Why does such a contradiction arise? This is the result of alienation from the original reason for existence, and, inevitably, such a contradiction will eventually make the life-like existence of human beings unsustainable. No matter how high the wave splashes, it must eventually return to the sea. It is the inevitable law that existence can exist for hundreds of millions of years, and we humans are no exception.