D174 Sending letters to unstable people. Risk of dogmatism

UMMO-AELEWEE
Language: Spanish
Number of copies: ONE
Date: 15/01/1981

Sir: First of all, a distinguished greeting to your YIIE (wife), on whose noble breast we would wish to lay our hand if such a possibility were feasible…

We earnestly beg you not to regard the conduct of your other brothers towards us as a source giving rise to discord among you. Sincerely, we do not feel troubled by indiscreet attitudes, since when they appear we have a versatile system of self-defence that protects us from such risks. It is not easy to ask the oemii of Earth for rational and sensible patterns of conduct, and most of the time this is not a matter of guilt but of neuroencephalic functional deficiency. Do not be demanding with your good human brothers, who sometimes work carried away by an understandable enthusiasm, since at other times you yourselves make serious mistakes through inadvertence, and also because, in such circumstances, you would feel humiliated by harshly demanding criticism from others. We prefer to judge them by their passionate honesty and their enthusiasm for a set of ideas which, given their intellectual frameworks, seem to us equally respectable. This is the trivial explanation of the fact, which you have verified, that we have sometimes chosen from among your human brothers an oemii who is often intellectually immature, inclined to an irrational or magical philosophy, impulsive in his reactive behaviour, perhaps incapable of keeping a secret and of following simple and anucleate rules of life.

Sometimes, among you, intellectually rigid frameworks can paradoxically act as a brake on free reflection and on the acceptance of transcendent ideas. If a mentality inclined to magic can no doubt stifle a conception of the universe based on rational laws, a brain excessively boxed in by the prevailing scientific models sometimes strangles paths open to a correct cosmological conception. Never violate the sacred right of others to think, even at the risk of yielding, as has happened in your present critical social network, to very dangerous irrational currents. Let us use an example: someone tries to correct orogenic movements in order to prevent an earthquake. He may cause even more serious disturbances in the geological crust of this cold star. We do not think that the effective formula for combating these very dangerous ideological currents comes down to intimidating by force the right of any brain to express its mental frameworks freely, however sick they may seem, but rather to oppose them, with convincing arguments accessible to the majority of the social body, which is poorly endowed intellectually, with other frameworks based on the rational sciences but free of scientific dogmatism.