First and foremost, let me try to phrase this term about “ignorance” in the following manner: “Ignorance is not a crime.” In my last two weeks writing on the two books — The Pedagogy of Conscience, the conscience psychology where I am making an attempt to illustrate this massive discrepancy by way of the European global conquest since the time of the Portuguese superb navigation skills where they transferred such rich knowledge to the kingdom of the Spaniards, which had eventually given Spain their most significant global territories into all the three continents with their Nueva España located in Mexico but with land conquered from the US present-day Oregon coast to the area of Peru and Chile in South America and also with their capture of the world’s largest silver deposit located in the present day Bolivia, the mine named Potosi. As they were known, the Spanish Manila galleons had been transported from their new territories in the Pacific and near other Asian continents. For over 250 years, silver dominated the economies of both China (Ming) and also the empire of Spain until the Mexican Independence, followed by the US taking over almost 1/3 of the continent US we know today – By this illustration of the Spanish empire, followed next by the Anglo-American empire/s – This conquistador to the forced opium traders had not the cultural or intellectual depth to know or to become aware of the “conscience” based Chinese culture and civilization plus even the speaking language of the Chinese is based on the “Conscience,” conscience is written in two words, kindness with ones heart — and decoding from my cross-cultural perspective — there is the twinning of two human goodness that eventually were summarized – the virtue of man. Kindness can only come out of the goodness of man. With this assumption (which is all open to welcome to all comments and extra inputs — is always open for all inputs — because the ultimate truth is not just here — We, humans collectively must do our own due diligence and with my development of the www.openbooks.ai, as of now is being set into www.paulyih.ai/openbooks can be the “blockchain” system, where, we jointly can authenticate by our valuation, by our shared criticism and this is the most “dynamic” forward to find truth in the most dynamic way — with all the aids I am using Claude – as the AI-assisted instrument, where after every posting of my words, new questions were asked as the many ” What if ….”. Technologies are here to allow us to be truthful and authentic. From this direction — we can foster more excellent learning when we can double and triple verify our “hypothesis.” Thus, in this segment where, I have found a fundamental flaw between the value system of the Chinese, a conscience-based society supported by all three main philosophical and thinking disciplines of the teaching of Confucius, Laozi, and Buddha (via India). All share the common thread in the “cultivation” of human conscience and conscience awareness for these past 2500 years. In the meantime, with the arrivals of the “Conquerors” for land and conquerors for goods and products — Along with these Western marauders and intruders, also came the Western religious, generally the Roman Catholic missionaries — and in that time and period of the Western history — they have not enough knowledge to know about conscience nor China — and the significant error were that they have put the Chinese value systems into “their” western theist-bases. The entire three central Western value system had their original Abrahamic culture, where they have their Judaism, Roman Catholicism, and Islamism (and eventually, Protestantism” — This mistaken use of the term “isms” was projected onto the Chinese system by renaming them as Confucianism, Taoism, or Daoism and Buddhism. Directly with no real bad intentions, they have turned all the Chinese work on and about human conscience , the inner “rights from wrong” value system, to become all “religionized.” This is one of the significant cultural and historical “discrepancies” that had marked the wrong focus of the Chinese values ever since 1492. Now, this “cultural dissonance” is 500 plus years or for 5 centuries, this massive gap of misunderstanding is still affecting the policy today made in the US, in Europe — and now more colluded with the war for profit scheme — They continue to want to “demonize” China, so the wars can go on. Weapon manufacturers can be profitable because of the life and blood of wars. I hope that in the next few of my broadcasts here, I will try to share more, and by February, I hope the future two books will contribute to greater clarity on and about the topic of conscience.

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