Sharpen. Foreword

You are all lying (Greta Thunberg)

I intend to devote the rest of my life to clarifying only one question – why people, knowing how to act well, for good, still act badly, to their own detriment. (Socrates)

They say that the most difficult thing in writing a book is the first sentence, but why – have I already written it? (folk)

It is under this tricolor flag that I am going to start a campaign called “Sharpen”. The reason, of course, is also tricolor.

It all starts with the fact that a person is born, while not yet fully prepared, first he grows in body and mind. This growth is programmed: tens, hundreds of “why (what, how)?” in a day. The child asks, adults answer, the child takes note. But by the age of 15, a second birth occurs – self-awareness appears. A new wave of questions arises. But now it’s really bad with the answers: it’s no longer the child who can’t find anyone to ask, and when he asks, the adults don’t know what to say, and when they say, the questioner won’t take it on faith. Moreover, the answers to all those questions that relate to the life of society, generally under an unspoken ban in a truthful presentation, are only lies. As a result, questions with zero or vague understandings remain in the head of the young individual – this is whining, this is the first color of the reason to focus – because it hurts (red).

There are questions that whine only with curiosity, they are addressed to Nature itself, which is without man. There are few problems with them: today it is no longer forbidden to study the natural in its truth, there are textbooks. But everything else, everything that concerns a person and society, is unacceptable for free and unbiased analysis in any social organism. Therefore, such questions, in addition to curiosity, also whine with double pain – they are about what concerns the individual most of all, and they are under the violence of lies – this is the second color of the reason to focus – in which direction it hurts the most (yellow).

Sharpness gives science. Search and work through what is written about a person and society? But there are not only volumes, there are not even libraries – whole book Himalayas in one way or another about a person and society! However, in every science there is as much science as there is mathematics in it – not necessarily in the sense of formulas, there are enough models, albeit verbal ones. Do we have many models for a person, for society – coordinated, true to practice? I don’t remember right off the bat… On the other hand, everything is in front of your eyes, everything is big, is it really impossible to find the right answers with simple thinking? It is necessary to gain impudence and make an attempt (carefully so as not to fly into torture) – the third color of the reason – where does the reasonable impudence come from to take on a big one (green).

Red-yellow-green – Bolivia … well, the word “pain” fits)

I have a gift for putting simple things into intricate sentences. I know. I’m trying. I break it down into paragraphs. But you, too, must move a little from the usual, from the expectation of some kind of strict finality.

Knowledge does not grow like a house – first an underground floor of a gray foundation, and then cheerful colored floors above it. Knowledge grows rather like a madhouse – at first a few foundation stones, then an attempt to build something on them, a return to the foundation, its expansion, strengthening, after the continuation of the upper construction, then back to the foundation, etc. For building a house, it’s really crazy. But for the construction of knowledge, this is the norm – look at how a tree grows: first, a few roots, then a crown, then roots again, and so on. (TV).

Where can an educated person who is not a scientist help with the construction of Knowledge? Definitely not where the floors already stand above the sky. Yes, and built to the sky, too, stones from the earth no longer ask. But in the science of man-society, I somehow didn’t see floors, there are textbooks in many areas, you can even learn about the tribes of the Amazon at school – but not about your neighbors down the street, not about yourself, not about your parents, not about the country … – the most amazing fact: there is no textbook for the most important thing! So if an educated person scatters stones of understanding (in the question of man-society), then it will be good – the more stones, the faster they will gather into foundations and floors.

But what are the stones of knowledge? It is solid and can be used for masonry. It is also simple, clear and precise. The child is programmed for a period of many questions – is it good for a brick? Surely everyone will. There is a second period of many questions – is it a brick? Perhaps it will already begin here … and you will need to try not to recall other people’s words, but to give out words from your head, from your experience, from your thinking – they will be useful to everyone.

Just crushing can give a result – if crushing something potentially effective. Where there are floors up to the sky and above, earthly concepts will not cling to the necessary bonds – no matter how much you mix them. I understand that it is easy to turn on. And they are not punished for it. But still, if the mind is already an adult, is it not drawn into the strangely forbidden unknown? If you’re careful, why not give it a try?

What is my interest? To get acquainted, for starters) – I’m new.