Scientific idealism is not possible without the fanatical and extreme intervention of ideologies. It is a phenomenon that manifests itself periodically in history, leaving a aftermath of frustration, impotence, and resentment, whose vengeance, against the sciences, is immediately assumed by religion, philosophy, and the most irascible ideological self-help. The anxiety provoked by nineteenth-century positivism was settled with the success of Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger, among other gurus and sorcerers from beyond who prophesied - apocalyptic - in the here and now.
The weaker psychologically a human being is, the more vulnerable they are to falling into the web woven for them by religions, philosophies, and ideologies. Strong individuals are not susceptible in the same way to these rhetorical forms of domination and submission. In fact, they are hardly susceptible in any way: they ignore and disdain them. Religion condemns those who do not profess it, philosophy undervalues those who do not appreciate it, and ideologies declare war on those who do not support them. Some offer eternal salvation, others promise a superior and conceited way of life, and the latter ensure guild rights to those who join them. They are ways to incur in megalomanias, narcissisms, and gregarisms. They are the three historical genres of collective self-deception: religion, philosophy, and ideologies. Placebos of outer and gregarious strength that disguise a superlative individual and intimately inconfessable psychological weakness.
Some people consider, not without reason, that there is something worse than a totalitarian state, and they think of Plato's Republic, Augustine of Hippo's City of God, or Karl Marx's socialist utopia. Let us not forget, either, the globalization outlined today by the "friends of commerce." All of them are different masks of the same totalitarianism, in which again and again religions, philosophies, and ideologies shake hands in a hidden and permanent way.
Today ideologies demand that sciences go against nature. Commerce has found here an important market. Unlike what happened in the nineteenth century, today the imperative is not to go beyond the possible, but against the necessary. This is the postmodern precept: to make believe that it is scientifically feasible to invest without consequences the course of nature. Foucault, far from solving the problem, legitimized it in one of his most fanatical formulations: the narcissism of a sexually idealistic and absolute ego, with its own right to everything, including the right to alter, in its individualistic and exclusive benefit, the natural course of nature, fabulously ignoring all real consequences.
Human beings are a design of nature, not a design of science. The interaction between science and nature cannot be gratuitously taken to extremes that lead to the destruction of one of both poles. The engineering of nature provides that human beings complement each other in their anatomy, psychology, and physiology. Note that religions, philosophies, and ideologies have always been born and grown with the pathological obsession of intervening in human sexual relations in an obstinate and insatiable way.
There is no religion, philosophy, or ideology that has not tried to pontificate how the relationships - especially sexual ones - between human beings should be, imperatively. And they have always done so to spoil everything, that is, to spoil and adulterate - with their beliefs, ideas, and prejudices - the unity that, after all, the natural and biological male and female protagonize in their vital development. This unity that the male and female seek, naturally, and by essential human instinct, is what makes life possible on Earth.
One of the most sophisticatedly cunning and recurring ways of destroying life on Earth is to intervene in the sexual relations of species - especially the human species - to harm them, spoil them, and ruin them. Always in the name of a religion, a philosophy, or an ideology. It is difficult to exterminate life, because biology finds a way through all things, and, of course, through the poisons of religion, philosophy, and ideologies, which, it must be noted, historically transform, again and again, to continue annoying each and every one of us, that is - bluntly said - screwing everything up.
Jesús G. Maestro