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Neoliberalism is a species of fascism
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Jul 13, 2016
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Neoliberalism is a species of fascism
by Manuela Cadelli, President of the Magistrates’ Union of Belgium, via Defend Democracy
The time for rhetorical reservations is over. Things have to be called by their name to make it possible for a co-ordinated democratic reaction to be initiated, above all in the public services.
I disagree that science shapes politics. Or the other way around. Or a similar iteration of the same topic. I hypothesise that thought shapes the world. And science is an image of this world which thought created. And now worships.
Thought created an image of the world. Then thought worshipped the image it created.
Now, science is an astonishing 'labour saving device'. It has enormous utility. So helps create more wealth outputs for less wealth inputs. But that is all it can do. It cannot change people's minds. Only thought does that.
Once upon a time in a world far away in a different multiverse, a people needed a new tool for survival. Times were hard, crops were failing and there were regular famine. They created a powerful new tool, by thought, to deal with it and save them. This tool was merely an image of the world, not the real world. And they knew this, recognising it's extreme importance and the danger of forgetting it was just an image. And promised their descendants in their constitution that their first duty was to make this critical point clear, forever. It was written in stone plain for all to see and was sung as a hymn before meals and on special occasions.
These wise people realised their new tool was an image and by creating it, had divided the world from itself into 2 distinct parts - 1) the whole of the world and 2) the image as a useful tool. So we're acutely aware of how things could go badly wrong if they forgot the tool was not grounded in the real world. All they had to do was remember this and remain conscious it was just an image. Notwithstanding it's huge power to increase the production of wealth the people realised to forget it was not the real world would be a terrible mistake and lead inevitably to systemic shocks and bizarre macro level events no one would be able to see coming.
Never Forget was their mantra.
Eventually the hymn became a narrative. That is to say, the people found a way to speak about the tool in real world terms, without having to discuss it directly. Which was very convenient because no one really understood how it's causes and effects were linked. No one had ever seen directly the tiny parts the tool told them made up the things the senses could touch and feel. But it was obvious that this is what it appeared to do and who cared anyway. By using the tool religiously, believing the narrative as it had faithfully told them, within a thousand years this people became rulers of their star system.
It came to pass that the narrative was so ubiquitous the people decided to formalise its existence in the real world by giving it a proper name. In their wisdom they had decided to make what was an image of the world, the same thing as the whole of the world. Just like that!
As time went by, though famine was a trinket of ancient history, poverty was unknown and super light speed travel was cheap for even the ones who realised they could play more than work with no negative effect to anyone, an advanced in its own right, every now and then systemic events would hit the multiverse out of nowhere, crippling the entire solar system for several years. This might not have been so bad because things always came back to the normal levels of advance. The problem was that these relentless advances were only manifest in material wealth. The people had yet to make any metaphysical progress and find a way to remain connected to the whole of the world and each other.
To be fair, the tool never promised this. It was not in the design. And the projenitors were well aware of this as has been written and this is how they were committed to worship.
Why was this a problem? Well, the people always found themselves embroiled in a metaphysical crisis surrounding it seemed, the very existence of this people, in spite of there being no real threat. As soon as one such crisis had been sorted another reared it's ugly head. These crises always drove the political sentiment of the time. It might be another global war no one understood the cause of. An imaginary threat to the ecosystem of the multiverse for which there was no authentic proof. Or even an unstoppable phage which threatened not only this multiverse but could so easily spread to the others which eventually turned out to be largely a dreadful mistake.
There was this weird man who occasionally got noticed but was never take seriously. Often mocked. Worst of all, the hacktivists who sung proud of being able to see down the rabbit hole and often were heard stridently spouting about taboo topics which no one else, they claimed, had the courage to speak about, took this man's guidance and claimed it for themselves without giving credit to the man. The man didn't care too much because it was a matter of daily ritual to carry out tasks which assured he remained grounded in the whole of the world. Not as an activity of arrogance but one of living a short life in this world well, and directed toward the whole. So the ignorance of the great masse and their planet savers was relatively rather a trifle to him.
The Assembly of the New Narrative finally gathered to decide on what to call the tool as a way to formalise it. Over the thousand years of progress the people, without realising it, had forgotten about the golden rule set out clearly when the tool was thought up. Remarkably, they decided to use the name the man had coined and which the masses and their authorities now were now to claim for themselves.
They called it 'SCIENCE'.
And so it goes...
http://www.northstokelife.com/2024/07/the-tool.html
This is what Chat GPT "Monica" says the ideas in your Comment/Post are.
1. Science as a tool created by thought to shape the world.
2. The importance of recognizing the distinction between the real world and the image created by science.
3. The potential consequences of forgetting that science is an image of the world.
4. The need for metaphysical progress alongside material wealth.
5. The role of political sentiment in driving crises and shaping the world.
6. The significance of remaining connected to the whole of the world and each other.
7. The ethical implications of claiming credit for ideas without acknowledgment.
8. The assembly's decision to formalize the tool as "SCIENCE" and its implications.
1. Science as a tool created by thought to shape the world.
Stephen Wolphram calls Mathematics a cultural artefact, a language used to describe phenomenal occurances.
Stephen Wolfram - Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered
The Scientific Method is an empirical system for describing Phenomena, the Language of Maths is then used to describe what has been found to be a repeatable explanation.
Pure Maths is a different Theoretical construct as is Theoretical Physics.
Claes Johnstone, Professor of Applied Maths at KIT in Stockholm is instructive upon the use of the Tools of Science found in the scientific method in this book.
https://www.freebookcentre.net/physics-books-download/Dr-Faustus-of-Modern-Physics.html
By
Claes Johnson
is my tutor of choice in Applied Mathematics and Finite element analysis,
https://claesjohnson.blogspot.com/
his ebook the Dr Faustus of Modern Physics is well worth taking the time to read and then to ponder.
Wal Thornhill and the Electronic Universe and Maurice Cotterals theory of Gravity, also Hoyle and Alfven on Steady State theories and Plasma Cosmology all fall outside of the deterministic Atomism of Post Copenhagen consensus Bohrite Dogma. Most of the good science is done in Garden Sheds in the back yards of Fly-over America and North of Watford and outside of Metropolitan areas,
Being handy with Bale String and Gaffer tape can lead to a whole world of discovery and invention, it was ever thus.
Listen to Alfvens two Nobel Lectures they are nothing short of inspiring.
January 7, 2020
ENERGY ECONOMICS, ENERGY, STATISTICAL TURN IN PHYSICS, ATOMISM, REDUCTIONISM, CLUB OF ROME. CLAES JOHNSON, STEINMETZ, IRONSIDE, MAXWELL. ELECTRONIC UNIVERSE, ALFVEN, HOYLE, WOLFRAM COMPUTATION, APPLIED MATHS. IDIOTIC CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICATORS AND THEIR MAGICAL MORONIC SHAUPENHAUERIAN EVASIONS. DR FAUSTUS OF MODERN PHYSICS.
2. The importance of recognizing the distinction between the real world and the image created by science.
This is very much a question of stating boundary conditions in one’s scientific truth claims.
“Whenever you get two people interpreting the same data in different ways,” “that’s metaphysics.” is a quote from an interview published in Scientific American with Thomas Khun the coiner of the term and proposer of the concept of paradigm shifts.
We are not in the habit of stating the limits of which, what we believe and state as fact will remain to be true and stand up to scrutiny. We tend to state our claims as if they were absolutes much of the time.
AUTHENTIC DISCOURSES ON DECISIONS TO ACT.
https://longhairedmusings.wordpress.com/2017/05/04/authentic-discourses-on-decisions-to-act/
3. The potential consequences of forgetting that science is an image of the world.
Scientism is not about following the scientific method, Interpretations of any image of the world is of course problematical, De Champs said Regardeur de Tableax, or the viewer makes the Picture.
‘Thought Leader’ gives talk that will inspire your thoughts | CBC Radio (Comedy/Satire Skit)
Duchamp’s dictum, “It is the viewer [regardeur] who makes the pictures [tableaux],” would probably have been applauded by Baudelaire, who insisted on the active role of the beholder.´´
Baudelaire’s Media Aesthetics: The Gaze of the Flâneur and 19th-Century Media
By Marit Grøtta
4. The need for metaphysical progress alongside material wealth.
See Khun above.
5. The role of political sentiment in driving crises and shaping the world.
See Bruce Charlton Addicted to distraction.
1. Good presented as bad
2. Bad presented as Good
(That is to say simple inversion)
3. Good presented as Good for a bad reason
4. Bad presented as bad for a bad reason
(That is to say explanatory inversion)
These four categories, which can be summarized as either simple or explanatory inversion, account for all sustained and high impact modern major Mass Media stories without any exceptions.
Therefore those who want to free their minds from the Mass Media must first avoid as much Mass Media output as possible, and secondly develop automatic negativistic behaviour towards the Mass Media output which they cannot avoid”.
Addicted to Distracted By Bruce Charlton Makes for compelling if Uncomfortable reading.
http://addictedtodistraction.blogspot.se/
And see Actors in History quote of Karl Rove by Susskind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.[2]
6. The significance of remaining connected to the whole of the world and each other.
The Map is not the Territory, IRL is better than URL.
´´if it were easy to set standards for judging judgment that would be honoured across the opinion spectrum and not glibly dismissed as another sneaky effort to seize the high ground for a favourite cause, someone would have patented the process long ago.´´
Tetlock, Philip E. (2005), Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?
7. The ethical implications of claiming credit for ideas without acknowledgment.
Yes the internet has made that worse.
We need mor Pelagian Free Will than Biden Plagarism.
8. The assembly's decision to formalize the tool as "SCIENCE" and its implications.
Yes Scientism is bad as is the worship of all false idols including Money.
“'Sharply the menacing wind sweeps over The bending poplars, newly bare,
And the dark ribbons of the chimneys Veer downward; flicked by whips of air,
Torn posters flutter; coldly sound The boom of trams and the rattle of hooves, And the clerks who hurry to the station Look, shuddering, over the eastern rooves,
Thinking, each one, "Here comes the winter! Please God I keep my job this year!"
And bleakly, as the cold strikes through Their entrails like an icy spear,
They think of rent, rates, season tickets, Insurance, coal, the skivvy's wages, Boots, school-bills and the next instalment Upon the two twin beds from Drage's.
For if in careless summer days In groves of Ashtaroth we whored,
Repentant now, when winds blow cold, We kneel before our rightful lord;
The lord of all, the money-god, Who rules us blood and hand and brain, Who gives the roof that stops the wind, And, giving, takes away again;
Who spies with jealous, watchful care, Our thoughts, our dreams, our secret ways, Who picks our words and cuts our clothes, And maps the pattern of our days;
Who chills our anger, curbs our hope, And buys our lives and pays with toys, Who claims as tribute broken faith, Accepted insults, muted joys;
Who binds with chains the poet's wit, The navvy's strength, the soldier's pride, And lays the sleek, estranging shield”
GEORGE ORWELL, The Money God from Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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“Three modes of evolution have thus been brought before us: evolution by fortuitous variation, evolution by mechanical necessity, and evolution by creative love. We may term them tychastic evolution, or tychasm, anancastic evolution, or anancasm, and agapastic evolution, or agapasm. The doctrines which represent these as severally of principal importance we may term tychasticism, anancasticism,and agapasticism. On the other hand the mere propositions that absolute chance, mechanical necessity, and the law of love are severally operative in the cosmos may receive the names of tychism, anancism, and agapism.” — C. S. Peirce, 1893[2]
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MAN’S STATUS IS BETTER AND HIGHER FOR THE VERY REASON FOR WHICH IT IS THOUGHT TO BE INFERIOR: PELAGIUS. #OCCUPYTHEEUROPEANSPRING
“We must now take precautions to prevent you from being embarrassed by something in which the ignorant majority is at fault for lack of proper consideration, and so from supposing with them, that man has not been created truly good simply because he is able to do evil. … If you reconsider this matter carefully and force your mind to apply a more acute understanding to it, it will be revealed to you that man’s status is better and higher for the very reason for which it is thought to be inferior: it is on this choice between two ways, on this freedom to choose either alternative, that the glory of the rational mind is based, it is in this that the whole honor of our nature consists, it is from this that its dignity is derived.”
Pelagius
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