Tzohar: the Charity for "any human being"

 When someone we know received a "thank you" for a token gift to a charity, and read what must have been the fine print he missed, he found its charitable object is "any human being" whose "ability to communicate" is impaired, makes the giver a special person "who will not ignore any human being...."

Here's what he wrote back and didn't send. I appreciate $ doesn’t buy one the privilege of complaining. But I am taking it. I don’t recall seeing the “any child” proviso.

I appreciate you must suppose, giving to "any human being" is some notion of a super, end all charity Charity. In fact this notion of “charity” is vile. I am sure you don't know why this is so for if you knew why, you would not be participating in anything "vile."

My guess is you will not take my advice or check some pertinent items. You will continue to think you are doing the right and good thing, dismissing objections of this kind as wrong --if only because "everyone has his right to any opinion."  And if I tell you that's really the sum and substance of what is borne in your notion of "any human being", this will only prompt the remainder of this script as solace and demonstration to you. But just for the record, here's what you should know and consider.

The conception of Universal, along with its pairing with the Particular is what inform what is called (by its conceiver, also its actual concretizer) the “universal and homogeneous state”. Hegel’s idea, institutionalizing Robespierre’s Terror, turns upon what intentionally collapsed the substance of Christianity, its Intellectuals in and out of the Church. This served a founding purpose in the setting aside of transcendence, and its replacement with the World State. This is what constitutes Western societies today; in two phases. The passive and the active phases. 

This was not clear to even smart people for three centuries (although it was effectual in the French Revolution --and in subsequent ones including Russian Revolution and the German Revolution, i.e., communism and nazism). If you will read Hegel's greatest expositor, Kojeve, himself a supporter of this correct understanding of the phases of the OpenSociety or democracy toward the realization of "any human being", you will see he supports these two revolutions, and all modern revolutions as democratic or what is the essentiality of your charity's purpose.

A clue to your problem, and the explicit justification of Hegel-Kojeve, is the basis of human order in "zero toleration for discriminacy." The only difference between your Charity and this combined image of Robespierre is he knew exactly what he was doing in "negating" the basis of this order in unreason; or which is the same thing, in reason made identical with Time and Speech, and finally with History and with the Human simply. What you call "any human being." 

Our Western Afflictions window of tomorrow about the "Black Lady" spells some of this out a bit.

DP

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