It's not prohibited to use own brains

Kimmo Huosionmaa

When he was at Swedish court René Descartes wrote a book, what has a very strange name "Rules for the direction of the natural intelligence". Sometimes I have thought that René Descartes was not this man real name, and I certainly believe that this man was not even visited in the court of Stockholm, and there are many stories about those famous philosophers what are not true. The name of that book will tell everything about the life and the soul of that man. The nucleus of this book is, that in every decision the person must remember, that independent way of thinking is not prohibited. This is seen very often when people are talking about defending the country.


When the superpowers like the USA and the Soviet Union made their nuclear arsenals, the leaders of those nations forgot, that everything, what the physics can create is not necessary to make in full function model. And this is the reason, why those nations have more nuclear weapons than another nation, and the bad thing is that they pushed many more nations to the "nuclear club". And then there would become the situation, that nuclear disarmament is not any more realistic answer.


And the most comical thing is that the USA and Russia, what is replaced the Soviet Union are the first states, what are talking about the nuclear weapons. But when we are going back to think about the name of the book, what Descartes wrote, we must think that there is nothing more dangerous thing than the human mind, what makes something in the impulsive condition, and those things might often be very devastating. When the human makes decisions, must this leader able to listen to another persons, when the orders are given.


In this scenario, I don't mean that the leader must do what the henchmen say, and the decision might stand, but the modal askings about the opinions of the action are not the bad thing at all. Of course, the leader makes the decision alone, but if other persons are heard, that would give the information, what might be very important. And if the landscape or water area is polluted, the price could be decreased for this reason. When he was in Swedish court Descartes sees what means absolute monarchy and the absolute power.


The king could execute anybody by given orders to execute some person, and if this man was angry, the results could be devastating for all nation. "What bigger the ruler is, that bigger is the damage, what the ruler can cause for the nation", is old fashion wisdom, and if the king were executed all his generals would that cause little problem in the military forces. When Descartes made that book, he probably got the king angry. The name of that book was mentioned, that someone in the kingdom needed instructions to use their own brains, and maybe the king was one of those people.


Who knows about the relationship with the Descartes and court. There are many things what is written about those men, and probably great philosopher René Descartes was actually some Gunnar Eriksson, who even saw the court of Stockholm. Sometimes I believe that this famous philosopher might be the artistic name, what was used the ordinary man, who spoke and wrote very good French, and that was the reason, why the king would not able to find that man.