Determinism is the idea that people’s lives are already preset and unchangeable before they are born. Their thoughts, their behavior, their likes and dislikes, and whether they are good or evil have already been determined by external forces, and their own actions cannot change anything. They cannot “change.”
Some ideologies, traditions, or religions apply deterministic ideas where a person’s or people’s fate is considered fixed, though the fate itself tends to take ridiculous natures. For example, Marxism believes there is an “end of history,” basically the hive-mind humanity Marx envisioned. Some megalomaniacal people believe they have the right to rule over other because it was determined beforehand. Some societies (backward villages for example) believe that people are predetermined to be cursed and bring them bad luck, so they have to kill or at least put out these people even if these don’t do anything wrong. This is the mindset of the barbarically simplistic and eliminationist Wokes.
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It leads to the idea that, since good and evil people have already been determined beforehand, the good must find out the evil ones and eliminate them in order to have a perfect world. Politicians’ shills use this rhetoric to say that their candidate is good and the other is corrupt and evil. They will hide their own candidate’s corruption, thereby hiding the fact that all politicians are actually capable of evil acts or at least are not perfect as claimed. As I have said, people cycle from good to evil and vice versa all their lives; it’s all grey.
The White Fragility Baloney
In the US, one of the worst adaptations of determinism is the White Fragility idea by author Robin DiAngelo. She writes that white people are naturally racist and evil – their nature has been predetermined. This is what is meant by systemic racism. But they have a chance of “salvation:” in order to make up, they just need to side with with the “oppressed” and let them take over. And this applies not only to white people, but also to people who are “friends” with white people, like Asians and Filipinos who adhere to American values, who are then called “white adjacent” and are complicit to the “white sin.” If they don’t side with the “oppressed,” they must be eliminated.
Another book that demonstrates this is “Not My Idea” by Anastasia Higginbotham, which describes the story of a white girl, while doing nothing wrong, getting indoctrinated by people around her that her whiteness is evil. Along with DiAngelo’s book, it says any attempt to defend western values is considered “white fragility” and must be vehemently opposed.
Both books mentioned are terrible propaganda books that push and unjust and actually racist ideas. And they apply terrible, fallacy-ridden determinism which has no logical or scientific support at all. It is just irrational “toyo” (the illogical and unreasonable irritability associated with menstruating women).
These books also encourage self-loathing, which is TIKHistory noticed as common attitudes in Lenin, Stalin, Marx, and other purveyors of these “overthrow normal society” ideas.
Lately, however, DiAngelo has become the subject of plagiarism charges, meaning she just stole someone else’s ideas. Yet, whoever she plagiarized, if they actually carry the same belief, still promote a bad and evil idea.
Determinism in “Christian” Doctrine
In Christian belief, one deterministic idea is that God decided already who goes to heaven or hell before they are born. This is a core belief of what has been dubbed Calvinism. However, this is considered heresy as it contradicts biblical passages that talk of the existence of choice and God providing humanity the ability to choose.
Perhaps one of contributors to the spread of bad deterministic ideas is a misunderstanding of Christian belief on Original Sin. Perhaps most Christians hold the belief that Adam and Eve, after eating the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil which signified their rejection of their own creator, passed this guilt to the rest of humanity. This belief is often used as a model for the non-Christian beliefs that mark people as born evil and therefore deserve violence done to them even if they actually did nothing wrong.
The late Michael S. Heiser however said the idea that guilt is passed is a misreading of a later Biblical passage, Roman 5:12. Most read this as “one man’s guilt became the guilt of all humanity.” However, Heiser said that the verse actually says death, not guilt, became the result of Adam’s sin. It is more of the effect of what Adam did rather than the passing of guilt itself. This misunderstanding need to be cleared up, because if critics say, Christians are against injustice but their doctrine that the guilt of sin is passed from ancestor to descendant is a double standard, then the critics are right. So the idea of guilt being passed from Adam to all humanity is wrong! (As a side comment, Dr. Heiser said that the Eastern Orthodox Church got this right)
Applying this to the broader world, the idea that guilt can be passed from one person to another is injustice, even in Christianity. But this deterministic idea of passed guilt is used by the White Fragility believers to force the idea that the descendants who commit no wrongdoing are still as guilty as their ancestors or other people who committed such. It’s like backward villages condemning children because of what their parents did, without giving them a chance. Backward village justice.
Where “Determinism” may be a bit true
I do acknowledge that some form of determinism might be true, if you think of it as people being born with defects due to genetics, or in squalid or difficult conditions due to the decisions of their parents or ancestors. However, this does not define people, because they are more defined by how they act in light of these conditions and how they change their own condition. A person with a “predetermined” genetic disease or disability could still achieve things, like be a successful artist or businessperson despite their condition. And there are the tales of rags to riches and even riches to rags.
Perhaps the only real deterministic fate is that we all die at the end of our lifespans. But before that, most of what we do is at our discretion and not pre-determined.
I’ve also heard that determinism is being explored in quantum science. However, there are many criticizing it as a pseudo-science.
Determinism in Filipino Culture
Being mostly old-fashioned and backward, Filipino culture to me has some deterministic ideas, like:
1. Their greatness or talent are inborn, so they should be given power and/or prestige and adulations without need to do anything.
2. Some Filipinos (likely those still in backward tribal societies)follow the belief that people should not free and should simply be vessels of their government’s or society’s (village’s) will. Freedom and the ability to decide one’s own actions should be taken away.
3. They perpetuate the self-fulfilling prophecy often in the tribal or rural setting, so if a parent is a criminal, the child is treated as a criminal, etc.
And not just from traditional culture. People when they start a business, get into marriage, or whatever endeavor, believe “things will fall into place” for them, that they’re predetermined to succeed. It carries the idea of Philosophical Idealism or The Secret, something that was long proven to be bunk.
Why am I against determinism? It’s obviously not the truth. Determinism is actually a gaslight tool to abuse people with the idea that they are not following the “determined” path, just like Marxists who want to kill Capitalists or others who are obstructing the “end of history.” It is being used as a rationale for taking control of other people. Determinists say people have no real control over their lives. For example, if I like Japanese superheroes rather than American ones, it’s because someone influenced my taste, I have no control over it.
Their rationale is, since I don’t have control over my like and dislikes, I should give control of me over to them. They can program me with the “right” thoughts to make me compliant with my predetermined “superiors.” That’s what became Mao Ze Dong’s Struggle Sessions and his gang’s evil attempt to control people’s thoughts.
So determinism is more of a misinterpretation of reality used to rationalize dictatorship and despotism. It’s actually ironic, as people use determinism to claim that they have rightful control over other people’s lives, but they are actually taking control of others using their own free will. Determinism breeds hypocrisy.
Classical Liberalism vs Determinism
I support Classical liberalism, the belief that each individual human has the right to run their own lives as they see fit while balancing this with the concept that one’s rights ends where another’s begins, and this should be the guiding principle for a stable, just, and fair society. Determinism goes against classical liberalism because the latter encourages personal responsibility. Under determinism, because one’s actions are predetermined before they are born, they have no responsibility.
Some would say, but free will is an illusion because your choices are limited; that means outcomes are limited and that is deterministic. No, that is a logical fallacy. Limits in reality do not prove determinism. Rather, we recognize human limits; a meeting between the out-of-control and what humans can control. One can dream of being a comic book artist or writer, but realizing it is subject to these limits. Knowing this is the key to true determination of one’s own life and our lives as a whole.
People already being born good or bad is false. There is no end to history as Marx claims. And there is no predetermined fate of humanity that humans can seize for themselves or speed up by eliminating those who fail to comply. The fate of individuals can be changed by the same individuals, and it is their right to do so.
Deterministic ideas are a load of crock, pseudo-science, a product of a time when pseudo-intellectuals saw themselves as having greater knowledge than other people and able to see a pattern that the “unenlightened” can’t. A concoction based on a severe misreading of reality. Pushers of this, White Fragility, critical race theory, and similar are among those that Isaac Asimov described as anti-intellectuals who believe their ignorance is just as good as our knowledge.
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