transnational body like the UN, or by some small group equipped with high technology and bearing responsibility for the world. I find those fears to be obvious misconceptions in the light of history. When wars and the contractual slaughter of people have ceased, societies have returned to the normal day to day routine after a brief period of transition. The massive thinning operations of Stalin and Hitler, even the most gruesomely realistic tortures of security polices, detailedly explained to the audience of the world, have not ruined the ethical norms at any rate. Actually, in the block next to the state police's house people are writing poetry and philosophizing, and neighbours helping an ill elder. We all do currently live the time after the gas chambers and midst local torture practices. But the clearance sale of human worth isn't surely the problem in the whole situation of the world, but its overt praise growing ever more mindless. Hanging on the inalienable right to live of fetuses, premature infants and braindead is a kind of collective mental disease. The same phenomenon is observable in the absurd history of capital punishment. When there were five million people on Earth, death sentence for the last twisted members of the community was self-evident. Now that there are five billion of them, a society after another yields from executing even the most diabolical of criminals; Amnesty International shrieks all the more piercingly against the last countries that have preserved capital punishment. And more and more unrelentingly machineries of rescue services are being developed, so that a helicopter would buzz over every raving mad fisherman, who has ventured into a ten Beaufort storm with a bark vessel, to fish out this unique and irreplaceable individual from the embrace of the waves. Reason drifts ever further. Legalizing medical death assistance, restoring capital punishment and abolishing the oversized rescue service surely do not significantly sway the population growth statistics by themselves. But in a principal prospect they are extremely important. As long as a distorted practice prevails within them, an insane respect towards the human life reigns: and so long even the possibility of solution to population explosion is amiss, and so all lifeboats sink into the depths.
If man does not grow humble...
It is in fact peculiar that so few thinkers have been able to question the philosophical foundations of our culture. Most of who attempt to perceive the world get badly stuck half-way trying to keep solidarity within species, human rights, individual freedom, equality and democracy as inviolable values. They refuse to realize that the world has not shattered regardless of them, but because of them. The old truth, that thinking is unyieldingly dependent on values and very rarely truly free, applies here in the most dreadful of manners. It ought to be obvious by pure logic that exactly the base values are questionable when a culture is discovered walking towards its doom. I find myself to be a rarity among thinkers in this central aspect. It is not difficult for me to return man to its place in a harmonious biocenosis. Would the differences arise from the clarity of the human concept? To me, man is an infinitely grand species: with claw and tooth I fight for its survival as well, but its brilliance is evident only in flashes and rare individuals. For that it is 124
