How Pragmatism Destroyed a World - Robert Villegas - Bog

How Pragmatism Destroyed a World is a powerful book about how ideas influence the most tragic events of history. It holds that everyone in the world has the same disease - and we are all dying from it. This is because much of man's institutional knowledge descended from myths that ignored reality and existence. This so-called knowledge led to pragmatism and existential incompetence and this led to the brainwashing of the human mind. Since pragmatism is incapable of leading to understanding, and most of our leaders are educated in today's universities, they are, almost as a group, incapable of understanding reality and this makes them poor leaders. There is nothing we can do about incompetent leadership until we reject the myths and build knowledge upon an objective foundation. Yet, that requires a leader too and it is unlikely such a leader will show himself for some time, if ever. Until that happens, it will not be surprising that we hear leaders say something like this: "This not about theory or empty philosophy; this is about the reality of a pandemic." This kind of statement is always made by people who do not understand the importance of ideas and the role they play in human life. For some reason, they think that matters of emergencies (or human crises), require that we ignore the existence of the ideas that created the emergencies. With that approach, we will never solve the most monumental of emergencies.I submit that we need the right ideas during emergencies even more than we need them in our everyday living. If we ignore ideas, especially those that got us here, we ignore solutions and drift upon a stream of nonsense made up of vacuous trial and error. The end of this road can only be starvation and destruction. If we don't plant the right ideas in the mind, we won't plant the right foods in the earth.A reader writes: "Robert, I truly like your book on the destructiveness of pragmatism. It is such a great blend of historic reality and present distortion in thinking. I am curious about your thinking process that put it all together. This would even be a great study guide for upper high school and college students - demonstrating how historic truth can be put to use. Anyway, my congratulations on a rich work."