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Neotech defines mysticism as: (1) Any attempt to recreate or alter reality, usually through dishonesty, feelings, non sequiturs, or rationalizations. (2) Any attempt to ignore, evade, or contradict reality. (3) The creation of problems where none exist. It defines neocheating as: Any intentional use of mysticism to create false realities and illusions in order to extract values from others. From these definitions it becomes quite clear why Platonistic philosophy became the prime tool for neocheaters to carry out the first substrategy of destroying the foundation of all valid human knowledge: reason.
Reason is the faculty of the mind that conceptually identifies and integrates the materials provided by senses, perceptions, and previous conceptions. Reason is the prime faculty of consciousness in reaching ever higher abstractions or broader conceptions, first by distinguishing the relevant from the nonrelevant within the entire realm of sensory, perceptual, and conceptual data-banks, and then by conceptually integrating the relevant in accordance with logic. Logic is the art and principle of noncontradictory identification. Reason functioning in the conceptuality-centered modality is reasoning, while reason functioning in the perceptivity-centered modality or in the mystical context is rationalization.
Reasoning is an intellectual process for achieving an integrated conceptual picture of reality by always starting from perceptual experiences and then making a logical connection between what is perceived and what is conceived. Rationalization is an intellectual process for fabricating an illusionary "reality" in concepts by disconnecting conception from perception. Reasoning is based on the primacy of existence, whereas rationalization is based on the primacy of consciousness. Both use reason, logic, and concepts. However, they are diametrically opposite to one another. Reasoning begins with logically non-contradictory premises based on the facts of reality, while rationalization begins with premises that contradict reality.
No matter how logical-sounding it might be, any conclusion that begins with a contradictory premise inescapably contradicts reality. The primacy of existence is the prime principle of reality. No valid knowledge is ever possible without observing the primacy of existence, for existence exists in the very act of living, reasoning, and even rationalizing. Platonistic philosophy stands upon a ground which does not exist in reality, i.e., upon nothing, and since it is nothing it could be anything. Platonistic philosophy is the philosophical system that rationalizes rationalization and "non sequiturs" non sequiturs.
The most devastating non sequitur/rationalization that arises directly from Platonistic philosophy is altruism. As mentioned before, according to Plato, what is "really" real are the Forms, disembodied abstractions which represent that which is in common among various groups of particulars in this world of concrete perceptual experiences. Therefore, in effect, individual human beings are merely particular instances of the universal "human being"; they are ultimately not real. What is "real" about human beings is only the Form that they share in common and reflect. To Platonism, all the seemingly individual human beings are "in reality" the same one Form in various reflections.
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