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Plato, by inverting the epistemological structure of the conscious cognitive process, by reversing the metaphysical relationship between reality (existence) and consciousness, succeeded, in effect, in giving the perceptivity-centered modality the highest and the ultimate cognitive status, while also providing mysticism a completely justified (and even dignified) "full-time job" in the inner workings of human awareness. Through Plato such false concepts as "God", "gods", or "the eternal soul", which has no metaphysically verifiable cognitive content, gained a well-justified philosophical foundation, for, according to him, anything that anyone could make up in his mind should exist because "that's the way it is".
Throughout his long career, Plato carried within him an intense political ambition and need to control others. His philosophy is largely a manifestation of that ambition and need. He played his politics and tried to control others not through an ordinary political channel but through the channel of philosophy. He tried to control others not physically but intellectually, for once people accepted his philosophy, then it was simpler and easier to control them physically. Although Plato died before he could witness his "dream" come true, the neocheaters throughout the world used his philosophy to bring his dream to fruition. Thus, as Plato's dream evolved into reality, a long and tragic nightmare unfolded.
Coinciding with the rise of the Romans around 200 B.C., the Western world saw the proliferation of religious/political master neocheaters along with the systematic application of their neocheating strategies. Their proliferation marked the decline of Greek culture and the fall of its highest intellectual manifestation -- Aristotelian philosophy. Aristotelian philosophy is the first complete system of philosophy ever developed on the basis of the primacy of existence. Aristotle evolved the system of logic -- the principle of noncontradictory identification -- only by means of which objective reality is identified and verified authentically. Aristotle also developed the first ethical philosophy based on the supremacy of a conscious human individual. Aristotelian philosophy indeed is the fountainhead of all knowledge and the antithesis of Platonistic philosophy.
It was Aristotle, not Plato, who epitomized the mind of the Greeks. It was Aristotelian philosophy, not Platonistic philosophy, which was the epitome of Greek consciousness and its intellectual achievements. Therefore, the fall of Aristotelian philosophy around 200 B.C. meant a rise of Platonistic philosophy or Platonistic-oriented philosophies, and a beginning of a dark intellectual obscurantism.
Although this intellectual obscurantism was finally broken during the Renaissance by the resurgence of Aristotelian philosophy and the newly discovered power of the zero, its roots had never been eradicated until the discovery of Neotech by Frank R. Wallace in the late 20th century. Aristotelian philosophy laid the foundation for all life enhancing discoveries and values culminating in the discovery of Neotech. Aristotelian philosophy fulfilled its function and destiny as the fountainhead of knowledge and antithesis of Platonism in the discovery and development of Neotech.
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