Excerpt from the e-book “The General Theory of Morality“:
PRINCIPLE 23
From the point of view of the GTM, man is an emotionally vulnerable, impulsive, sophisticated, and therefore potentially dangerous creature with an irrational, cognitively biased mindset: he is an adult child who plays at childhood hopes and war; he is a pompous hybrid of vice and virtue who judges others solely by himself; he is a zealot of his own views and a sincere purist, and he himself is addicted to fornication, flattery, and gold; it is a touchy and flighty cauldron of conjecture, which has no idea how to live properly and gracefully [P. 19], but is very afraid of dying. He jumps out of his pants to impress those around him with the appearance of success. And every time he gets burned by the consequences [P. 43] of a personal lie (but that doesn’t mean anything to him…). Willing to believe any bullshit and prone to mistakes, he stubbornly avoids the detailed moral examination according to Table 1 of Appendix 3, which he desperately needs. And this situation is mainly the source of his big and small problems (which have surfaced at many members of the List No. 2): Principles 160–169, 195, and 201.
In its direct manifestations, the “protégé of nature” is a figurative bicycle that zigzags toward its goal: the Principle of 75. The role of the frame in this two-wheeled horse is played by the self-esteem and mood of the personality, the saddle is its advantages and disadvantages, the rudder is the dominant interests, the pedals are the arguments of reason, the drive chain is emotions and feelings, the wheels are actions and deeds.
