"Sensing the power vacuum of this imbalance, the string-pullers of the ‘empirical’ clan filled the void by restructuring our world into a ‘cult of science’ as new religion. "
"Science" as defined by them. Science that fits the political narrative. Fauci comes to mind: "If you disagree with me, you are disagreeing with science.". Science is being bent to fit the objectives of the elite in this world. Climate science. Zero Emissions science. Health science. Today 'science' goes where the money is for research, fellowships, etc. And who has the money and the power to publish?
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Sometimes, if you want to make sense of what's going on, you don't get up close and study every detail. You step back and try to figure out how all the different elements work together and connect.
Though these days, if you are one of those kids interested in everything, you will be diagnosed as attention deficient and medicated, until your mind fits back in the box.
Just remember, though, the people leading armies are called generals, while specialist is about one rank above private. When the world is run by the specialists, it becomes a global Tower of Babel.
First off, this sentient interface our bodies have with their situation functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our experience of time is as the point of the present, moving past to future. The evident reality though, is that activity and the resulting change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.
There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.
Energy is "conserved," because it manifests this presence, creating time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.
Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but we don't confuse them with space, even though they are as foundational to our emotions and bodily functions, as sequence is to thought.
The function of culture is to synchronize society into a larger communal organism, using the same languages, rules and measures, so it might seem there should be one universal frequency, but the reality is multicultural, not monocultural. Turtles and rabbits.
The energy goes past to future, because the patterns generated coalesce and dissolve, future to past. Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall.
Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Though it's the digestive system processing the energy, the nervous system sorting the information and the circulation system as feedback between the two.
The gut decides, the head advises.
Galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.
Government, as executive and regulatory function, is analogous to a central nervous system, while money and banking mirror blood and the circulation system. With public government and private banking, the banks rule, since they are not subject to as much oversight, don't have to plan around election cycles and control the finances of anyone presuming to run for office.
Consequently the flunkies in office really only have one job, to create the debt the banks need to function.
As these linear, tactile, goal oriented organisms, people see money as signal to extract and store, while markets need it to circulate. So Econ 101 describes money as both medium of exchange and store of value, but one is inherently dynamic, while the other is static. Blood is a medium, while fat is a store. Roads are a medium, parking lots are a store. The hallway is a medium, the hall closet is a store. The average five year old can figure out the difference, but economists are educated.
So to store the asset side of the ledger, a debt has to exist on the other side. The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth. The wars are just a way to make it go away, so more can be borrowed. The military industrial complex is really just the trophy wife of the banks. It can burn through the money and not question where it comes from.
Consequently the stage actors have devolved into psychopaths, because they are given enormous power, but have no real responsibility or moral authority to guide it. Basically delinquent children with matches and gasoline to play with.
As a medium, we own money like we own the section of road we are using, or the air and water flowing through our bodies. It's not our picture on it, we don't hold the copyrights and are not responsible for its value, like a personal check.
So either humanity moves onto recognizing the financial system needs to function as a public utility, like government, or it has to go back to government as some private entity, much as Russia and China have done, with Putin and Xi, as respective CEO's.
When the medium enabling markets is privately held, we are all tenant farmers to the banks.
Another tour-de-force! For me, this paragraph is the heart of this essay:
"In essence, the modern age has devolved into a cult of moralizing science-based tyranny. The ruling class believe they should control humanity’s progress and very direction, based on their having the moral and ‘empirical justification’ to do so."
Just so! The tentacles of this ruling class rich into our primary schools where they subject children to their decadent obsession with "gender" - best if it's 'trans' - to universities which don't teach anything anymore except woke, gender, and how to be offended. Add the perversion of what science really is as seen in 'climate catastrophe' and mRNA vaccines for everybody ... unto creating a society where one simply vanishes from public life if one doesn't have a 'smartphone'.
It's not without irony to note that the lockdown fanatics,e specially the politicians and 'experts' - at least in the UK - have been shown up , the myth of their benevolent, allknowing expertise dispelled by the 'Lockdown Files', published in the UK's Daily Telegraph:, i.e. the 'WhatsApp' chats of the relevant minister, the PM, the 'scientists' and top civil servants: all exposed, all exposing their scientific illiteracy, the innumeracy, their lack of plain english and their lack of manners as well as plain humanity, never mind common sense. That, I suggest, will have given another kick to the mistrus of the public in 'experts' in tech 'solutions' and in the media.
As I mentioned in a comment in an earlier post, it's called "cyberpunk."
While the majority may view technology as a weapon of oppression - and it is, just as firearms are both a weapon of self-defense and a weapon of oppressive armies and police - there are those who view technology - and firearms - as liberation.
"The street finds its own uses for things", as the trope goes.
The kicker is that as the public recoils from the elite agenda they also recoil into attitudes and behavior that operate against their own best interests. Does anyone think a reduction in sexual behavior is a Good Thing? Seriously?
The "Red Pill" guys on Youtube are claiming that this is a result of entitled female attitudes brought about by feminism and more importantly "Wokeism". They have a point. It's a sign of the break-down in human relations which is also represented by the massive social and political fracture of the population in the US.
I follow - or used to follow (and still do occasionally) - the "prepper" Youtube channels. They're all getting ready for the Apocalypse (probably WWIII with Russia and/or China). They have the right attitude - look after yourself and be prepared - but they are incorrect in their choices - running to the woods will not save anyone .
Another example of turning back the wrong way is the Trump-inspired skepticism of the pandemic and the vaccines that helped minimize the catastrophe. The conspiracy theories that emerged since may have correctly increased distrust in the government, but the theories themselves merely lead to an incorrect assessment of medical risk, thus prolonging the pandemic and increasing damage to people's lives. We still have scores of thousands of cases a day and several hundred deaths , not to mention millions of people with Long Covid - the MSM just doesn't cover it any more, while the government refuses to fund oral vaccines and a pan-coronavirus vaccine.
Being incorrect is not a viable protection strategy from the elites. In fact, it plays into their hands.
There is a correct philosophy and strategy for all this. I cover it in "The Five Essentials" (at least, when I get around to making a post.)
Arguably, the greatest period of true progress that benefited everyday citizens in the western world was from circa 1850 to 1950. Life expectancy rose significantly as a result of the sanitation revolution and most of the physical world technology we take for granted such as cars and planes were in place. Other than in the virtual world and with respect to communication the changes since then have been incremental rather than revolutionary. At the same time most western countries have become financialised economies with much of the wealth of the working classes being extracted as economic rent by monopolies that exist to serve the interests of the people you describe who want to exert control in other directions. Western countries are increasingly failing and unable to get things done. Railway lines that we used to build in a couple of years now take decades, defence programs follow the same pattern as do many other activities. The purpose of most activity seems to be to enrich the new oligarchy rather than serve the broader interests of the population. New ideologies such as Woke and Climate are all part of this too. Climate is a new version of Malthusian doctrine to push the masses to be thankful for having less.
On the other hand, China seems quite capable of getting things done. We are in relative decline unless we get this fixed.
A little nonplussed by the attack on empiricism as the same as scientism but a nice read. I feel empowered by empiricism tbh. It's a shield. Why is it bad?
And of course the original luddites though now misremembered as being "anti technology" were actually pro appropriate technology. That seems to be rarely asked these days,as someone who remembers pre internet and cell phone days,we have gained and lost, a lot.
Another interesting but of info,is that the loom owners sometimes assisted the luddites in destroying those machines as what was to come was a change of such enormity that it wiped out a whole way of life,taking away the autonomy of a whole class of independent workers and setting the stage for unskilled,factory drones.
The popularity of vinyl has a lot to do with the packaging - better artwork etc, the stuff you can't get on a download. I notice - even more surprisingly - the growing use of tape cassettes - really taking us back to the 70s! At the moment this is a niche for marginal, experimental new bands - but plainly there is some sort of mail-market for them...
The elites will die under the cheap, uncomfortable, shoes on the feet of those they’ve chosen to oppress. We will pay close attention to the men behind the curtain and we’ll realize the Wicked Witch was on our side. Their fates are already sealed.
People are not going to like gardening and animal husbandry as much as they think they are going to. They are going to miss the joys of a civilized urban existence much more than they ever believed they would. Someone else holding all the vital technology, like the lord in his castle and his fearful serfs will not be a comfortable arrangement. However, live music and singing together again will be a big step recovered, and a rejoinder to Metallica’s vinyl pressing factory. It will be the first step forward in recovering what was lost: likely a thousand year process. Like Joni said...”they” paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"The other day I stumbled into a Walmart for the first time in many moons, and was awestruck to see the music section converted into a wall of vinyl records. Must be some sort of vintage sale gimmick, thought I."
What's a "Walmart"? Some sort of home appliance :P?
The world as it has always been is a hotbed of materialism, in the past the average person was more concerned with daily survival than pontificating on weighty spiritual maters, nor did he have the access to knowledge nor the education to understand if he did. Science is the materialists limited version of reality. Religion should be the counterbalance to that, we can all believe as we choose, but many mainstream ones are losing traction in favour of the New Age versions, however most of these seem to be about monetization rather than enlightenment.
Eastern thought as enunciated by Buddha is that the material world is an illusion, not in that its construct isn't real to us, but rather it is on overlay of the actual reality few of us ever uncover. That thought then extends to our lives recurring through reincarnation until we can evolve to the degree that we can walk the path that strips away the illusion and as such achieve enlightenment or if one prefers the stripping away of our false reality and discovering our real individuality. Western religions of course have their own version of life, the universe and everything. Regardless though many of us intuitively know there is something wrong and we aren't leading the lives we should, that might also explain the stirrings of pushback against the system occurring, albeit in a still a small way.
To some schools of thought politics is irrelevant as the same personality types are always the same ones that fight their way to the top in any system. It won't be until we change ourselves and evolve spiritually as we must that the caliber of leadership will improve and as consequence life for the bulk of us. The Hindus say we are in the Age of Iron, the lowest point in the cycle of our evolution where materialism and hedonism runs rampant, if so at least better times lie ahead even if in the distant future as these ages are quite lengthy.
The west at its USSR moment can erect a real set of barriers sealing its population off from the great progress of China, the BRICS, et al. The parasite class may avail themselves of travel and hope to purchase the wonders produced while the unwashed live short grubby lives. But yes, I can remember my first albums, "A day at the races" and "Boston".
"Sensing the power vacuum of this imbalance, the string-pullers of the ‘empirical’ clan filled the void by restructuring our world into a ‘cult of science’ as new religion. "
"Science" as defined by them. Science that fits the political narrative. Fauci comes to mind: "If you disagree with me, you are disagreeing with science.". Science is being bent to fit the objectives of the elite in this world. Climate science. Zero Emissions science. Health science. Today 'science' goes where the money is for research, fellowships, etc. And who has the money and the power to publish?
Sometimes, if you want to make sense of what's going on, you don't get up close and study every detail. You step back and try to figure out how all the different elements work together and connect.
Though these days, if you are one of those kids interested in everything, you will be diagnosed as attention deficient and medicated, until your mind fits back in the box.
Just remember, though, the people leading armies are called generals, while specialist is about one rank above private. When the world is run by the specialists, it becomes a global Tower of Babel.
First off, this sentient interface our bodies have with their situation functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our experience of time is as the point of the present, moving past to future. The evident reality though, is that activity and the resulting change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.
There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.
Energy is "conserved," because it manifests this presence, creating time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.
Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but we don't confuse them with space, even though they are as foundational to our emotions and bodily functions, as sequence is to thought.
The function of culture is to synchronize society into a larger communal organism, using the same languages, rules and measures, so it might seem there should be one universal frequency, but the reality is multicultural, not monocultural. Turtles and rabbits.
The energy goes past to future, because the patterns generated coalesce and dissolve, future to past. Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall.
Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Though it's the digestive system processing the energy, the nervous system sorting the information and the circulation system as feedback between the two.
The gut decides, the head advises.
Galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.
Government, as executive and regulatory function, is analogous to a central nervous system, while money and banking mirror blood and the circulation system. With public government and private banking, the banks rule, since they are not subject to as much oversight, don't have to plan around election cycles and control the finances of anyone presuming to run for office.
Consequently the flunkies in office really only have one job, to create the debt the banks need to function.
As these linear, tactile, goal oriented organisms, people see money as signal to extract and store, while markets need it to circulate. So Econ 101 describes money as both medium of exchange and store of value, but one is inherently dynamic, while the other is static. Blood is a medium, while fat is a store. Roads are a medium, parking lots are a store. The hallway is a medium, the hall closet is a store. The average five year old can figure out the difference, but economists are educated.
So to store the asset side of the ledger, a debt has to exist on the other side. The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth. The wars are just a way to make it go away, so more can be borrowed. The military industrial complex is really just the trophy wife of the banks. It can burn through the money and not question where it comes from.
Consequently the stage actors have devolved into psychopaths, because they are given enormous power, but have no real responsibility or moral authority to guide it. Basically delinquent children with matches and gasoline to play with.
As a medium, we own money like we own the section of road we are using, or the air and water flowing through our bodies. It's not our picture on it, we don't hold the copyrights and are not responsible for its value, like a personal check.
So either humanity moves onto recognizing the financial system needs to function as a public utility, like government, or it has to go back to government as some private entity, much as Russia and China have done, with Putin and Xi, as respective CEO's.
When the medium enabling markets is privately held, we are all tenant farmers to the banks.
Yuppers. Liking this article. It spoke to me. Thank you, my pal❤️🐴🧲
Another tour-de-force! For me, this paragraph is the heart of this essay:
"In essence, the modern age has devolved into a cult of moralizing science-based tyranny. The ruling class believe they should control humanity’s progress and very direction, based on their having the moral and ‘empirical justification’ to do so."
Just so! The tentacles of this ruling class rich into our primary schools where they subject children to their decadent obsession with "gender" - best if it's 'trans' - to universities which don't teach anything anymore except woke, gender, and how to be offended. Add the perversion of what science really is as seen in 'climate catastrophe' and mRNA vaccines for everybody ... unto creating a society where one simply vanishes from public life if one doesn't have a 'smartphone'.
It's not without irony to note that the lockdown fanatics,e specially the politicians and 'experts' - at least in the UK - have been shown up , the myth of their benevolent, allknowing expertise dispelled by the 'Lockdown Files', published in the UK's Daily Telegraph:, i.e. the 'WhatsApp' chats of the relevant minister, the PM, the 'scientists' and top civil servants: all exposed, all exposing their scientific illiteracy, the innumeracy, their lack of plain english and their lack of manners as well as plain humanity, never mind common sense. That, I suggest, will have given another kick to the mistrus of the public in 'experts' in tech 'solutions' and in the media.
Thanks for this brilliant essay!
As I mentioned in a comment in an earlier post, it's called "cyberpunk."
While the majority may view technology as a weapon of oppression - and it is, just as firearms are both a weapon of self-defense and a weapon of oppressive armies and police - there are those who view technology - and firearms - as liberation.
"The street finds its own uses for things", as the trope goes.
The kicker is that as the public recoils from the elite agenda they also recoil into attitudes and behavior that operate against their own best interests. Does anyone think a reduction in sexual behavior is a Good Thing? Seriously?
The "Red Pill" guys on Youtube are claiming that this is a result of entitled female attitudes brought about by feminism and more importantly "Wokeism". They have a point. It's a sign of the break-down in human relations which is also represented by the massive social and political fracture of the population in the US.
I follow - or used to follow (and still do occasionally) - the "prepper" Youtube channels. They're all getting ready for the Apocalypse (probably WWIII with Russia and/or China). They have the right attitude - look after yourself and be prepared - but they are incorrect in their choices - running to the woods will not save anyone .
Another example of turning back the wrong way is the Trump-inspired skepticism of the pandemic and the vaccines that helped minimize the catastrophe. The conspiracy theories that emerged since may have correctly increased distrust in the government, but the theories themselves merely lead to an incorrect assessment of medical risk, thus prolonging the pandemic and increasing damage to people's lives. We still have scores of thousands of cases a day and several hundred deaths , not to mention millions of people with Long Covid - the MSM just doesn't cover it any more, while the government refuses to fund oral vaccines and a pan-coronavirus vaccine.
Being incorrect is not a viable protection strategy from the elites. In fact, it plays into their hands.
There is a correct philosophy and strategy for all this. I cover it in "The Five Essentials" (at least, when I get around to making a post.)
I agree.
Arguably, the greatest period of true progress that benefited everyday citizens in the western world was from circa 1850 to 1950. Life expectancy rose significantly as a result of the sanitation revolution and most of the physical world technology we take for granted such as cars and planes were in place. Other than in the virtual world and with respect to communication the changes since then have been incremental rather than revolutionary. At the same time most western countries have become financialised economies with much of the wealth of the working classes being extracted as economic rent by monopolies that exist to serve the interests of the people you describe who want to exert control in other directions. Western countries are increasingly failing and unable to get things done. Railway lines that we used to build in a couple of years now take decades, defence programs follow the same pattern as do many other activities. The purpose of most activity seems to be to enrich the new oligarchy rather than serve the broader interests of the population. New ideologies such as Woke and Climate are all part of this too. Climate is a new version of Malthusian doctrine to push the masses to be thankful for having less.
On the other hand, China seems quite capable of getting things done. We are in relative decline unless we get this fixed.
A little nonplussed by the attack on empiricism as the same as scientism but a nice read. I feel empowered by empiricism tbh. It's a shield. Why is it bad?
And of course the original luddites though now misremembered as being "anti technology" were actually pro appropriate technology. That seems to be rarely asked these days,as someone who remembers pre internet and cell phone days,we have gained and lost, a lot.
Another interesting but of info,is that the loom owners sometimes assisted the luddites in destroying those machines as what was to come was a change of such enormity that it wiped out a whole way of life,taking away the autonomy of a whole class of independent workers and setting the stage for unskilled,factory drones.
Sound familiar?😉
https://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/mr-luds-song
The popularity of vinyl has a lot to do with the packaging - better artwork etc, the stuff you can't get on a download. I notice - even more surprisingly - the growing use of tape cassettes - really taking us back to the 70s! At the moment this is a niche for marginal, experimental new bands - but plainly there is some sort of mail-market for them...
The elites will die under the cheap, uncomfortable, shoes on the feet of those they’ve chosen to oppress. We will pay close attention to the men behind the curtain and we’ll realize the Wicked Witch was on our side. Their fates are already sealed.
I’m
People are not going to like gardening and animal husbandry as much as they think they are going to. They are going to miss the joys of a civilized urban existence much more than they ever believed they would. Someone else holding all the vital technology, like the lord in his castle and his fearful serfs will not be a comfortable arrangement. However, live music and singing together again will be a big step recovered, and a rejoinder to Metallica’s vinyl pressing factory. It will be the first step forward in recovering what was lost: likely a thousand year process. Like Joni said...”they” paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
"The other day I stumbled into a Walmart for the first time in many moons, and was awestruck to see the music section converted into a wall of vinyl records. Must be some sort of vintage sale gimmick, thought I."
What's a "Walmart"? Some sort of home appliance :P?
The world as it has always been is a hotbed of materialism, in the past the average person was more concerned with daily survival than pontificating on weighty spiritual maters, nor did he have the access to knowledge nor the education to understand if he did. Science is the materialists limited version of reality. Religion should be the counterbalance to that, we can all believe as we choose, but many mainstream ones are losing traction in favour of the New Age versions, however most of these seem to be about monetization rather than enlightenment.
Eastern thought as enunciated by Buddha is that the material world is an illusion, not in that its construct isn't real to us, but rather it is on overlay of the actual reality few of us ever uncover. That thought then extends to our lives recurring through reincarnation until we can evolve to the degree that we can walk the path that strips away the illusion and as such achieve enlightenment or if one prefers the stripping away of our false reality and discovering our real individuality. Western religions of course have their own version of life, the universe and everything. Regardless though many of us intuitively know there is something wrong and we aren't leading the lives we should, that might also explain the stirrings of pushback against the system occurring, albeit in a still a small way.
To some schools of thought politics is irrelevant as the same personality types are always the same ones that fight their way to the top in any system. It won't be until we change ourselves and evolve spiritually as we must that the caliber of leadership will improve and as consequence life for the bulk of us. The Hindus say we are in the Age of Iron, the lowest point in the cycle of our evolution where materialism and hedonism runs rampant, if so at least better times lie ahead even if in the distant future as these ages are quite lengthy.
The west at its USSR moment can erect a real set of barriers sealing its population off from the great progress of China, the BRICS, et al. The parasite class may avail themselves of travel and hope to purchase the wonders produced while the unwashed live short grubby lives. But yes, I can remember my first albums, "A day at the races" and "Boston".
It’s called the generational theory of history. Generations have certain characteristics, which repeat. Read the “4th Turning”.