Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel presented in October 1801, an astronomical explanation that no planetlike body could be between Mars and Jupiter. However, he did not know that in January 1801, in this area the Ceres asteroid was discovered.
Hegel, erstwhile he found out, said: “If facts contradict theory, it is worse for facts”. In practice, most people profess to any degree this ridiculous maxim.
Even worse for the facts
Onegdai was asked something by a man whose mother, by raising him, whispered in her ear: “If explanation disagrees with facts, the worse for facts”. The question of narcissism was: how do I feel about people, about my life in relation to my experience of reaching an old age? After getting a full answer from me, the guy was offended. Even though my answer wasn't personal. He was offended due to the fact that my answer active his false ideas. She wasn't consistent with them! Although my answer (with mention to a certain court case) was based on my own experiences, on the cognition I had accumulated decades ago in the deep PRL; on the cognition importantly different from the ‘knowledge’ of the question resulting from vague ideas and mentality formatted according to the Hebrew rule “If facts contradict theory, it is worse for facts”. Another time a young man wrote an highly negative comment under my column describing a realistic (based on my authentic experiences) socialist reality. Note beneI'm not a fan. A commenting, under thirty-year-old man, shrewdly accused me of not knowing life in the Polish People's Republic, in which, unlike the commentator, I survived most of my life, respective decades. On the another hand, he was born in a completely different strategy and "knowledge" drew from his delusions. From false ideas.
Glorification of past systems
I remember from the period of the Polish People's Republic "before the war it was better", criticizing reality in this way. And how was it truly –It's not that many people knew. The interwar period of Poland was frequently mentioned by my late mother-in-law, daughter of Captain of the Navy. She talked about the widespread poverty, illiteracy and rampant fascism after the coup of May in Poland by the marshal on 12–15 May 1926. Józef Piłsudski. The phenomenon of glorification of past systems was cultivated and cultivated by people who mostly did not live in the strategy they praised.
The fabricated “truths”
Concerning the fabrication of “truth”, it appeared interesting felietoneMaking up the truthPiotr Müldner-Neckowski (Academic Forum, No. 10 of 2015) reads, among another things: “The Stanford University has long specialized in the survey of blindness to facts. In 1 of the experiments conducted there, it was shown that even if it was shown to us in black and white, that the court given by us in a peculiar case was false, we were incapable to decently adapt our opinion to this fresh knowledge. From another experimentation comes an even more grim conclusion – that giving individual opinions contrary to his own might even radicalise his position.”.
Thomas Hobbes in the celebrated work of 1651 Leviathan, claims that people are inherently evil, false, and selfish, he presents his ideas about the social agreement and the laws in force in the society of evil beings (Book IV, chapters 44-47, About the Kingdom of Darkness). Much earlier Greek philosopher Diogenes of Synopa (Gr. Διογένης της Σινώπης, born c. 413 BC in Synopa, born c. 323 BC in Corinth) reportedly walked the streets of Athens in broad daylight with a lit lantern, claiming that “he is looking for a man”. His behaviour was a symbol of a cynical view of the planet and questioning the existence of true, virtuous humanity among social conventions. It was a criticism of humanity.
Birthday Questions
A timid effort to draw attention to the fact that in modern Poland people are cynical, angry; that they do not see their neighbor, that at the command – like a bare monkey, devoid of reason – the Slavs will go brotherly to kill the Slavs, I undertook in my column Naked monkey, which appeared exclusively in the printed version of “Polish Thought” (No. 21-22 of May 2025). This subject is becoming more and more current, due to the fact that more and more Poles declare their willingness to participate in the war announced by the rulers in Poland. In an unwinnable war, due to the fact that it is to take place with the east atomic power, with Russia. Acting on the principle: ‘if the explanation disagrees with the facts, the worse for the facts’, Poles will go to the front, regardless of the reality of Russia's possession of weapons of mass destruction. erstwhile again, we're going to find the defeat painfully. The question is, will we last biologically as a nation, as Poles after the atomic war? I compose these words on the anniversary of my birthday. As a consequence of the experience of the past 77 years of my life.
Eugeniusz Zinkiewicz
