Comments on: The biochemical dream of utopia

By: ozziethinker

Sun, 07 Sep 2014 05:08:39 +0000

When you look at the details of the unexplained anomalies, reality is very strange indeed (when offset against the “scientific” tradition). Your article “scratches the surface”.

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By: Michael Theroux

Sat, 06 Sep 2014 03:29:54 +0000

Great article Jon….one of the best ever.

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By: Lee

Fri, 05 Sep 2014 02:18:36 +0000

“Maps are not images of the world but representations of apparent naturalness; they are arbitrary mechanisms of control. In Brian Harley’s (1992)* terms:

…all maps, like all other historically constructed images, do not provide a transparent window on the world. Rather they are signs that present “a deceptive appearance of naturalness and transparence concealing an opaque, distorting, arbitrary mechanism of representation, a process of ideological mystification (Mitchell 1986, 8).

Maps are central to a reading of a landscape that needs to be made knowable. Historically this has linked map-making with military conquest. Maps have also played a central role in violent conflict over land and resources, a relationship still evident in the mapping organizations of both Britain and Ireland. I think of maps as part of a larger circulation and production of specific forms of knowledge; a form of stadial thinking which creates a unified territory and which bounds politics to place making. Stadial thinking is where the entire world can be classified into groups, as if all that we see is all that there is.”
http://trustandcontract.wordpress.com/2014/09/04/the-land-of-israel/

To take this concept further one only has to muse on time and spatial MAPS OF CONSCIOUSNESS!!!

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By: Philosonator

Fri, 05 Sep 2014 01:03:54 +0000

Whoo-eee! Day-yee-eee-yaa-emm! Great article! Purty much covers it all– the State Church of Scientific Materialism!

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By: Chris

Thu, 04 Sep 2014 22:58:17 +0000

Science does not believe in consciousness (it can’t explain it) nor the soul (Wundt, 1880s). It does believe in intelligence, but says since it only occurs in humans, intelligence is a fluke, a mutation local to our species only. We’re in a heap of trouble.

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By: Mark

Thu, 04 Sep 2014 21:15:32 +0000

“We’ve arranged a global civilization in which the most crucial elements… profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power will blow up in our faces.” – Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

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By: jonfan

Thu, 04 Sep 2014 17:58:42 +0000

Bravo!

Another gem/masterpiece from the master. Impressive.

Readers should also be aware of Bertrand Russell:
“Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. . . . It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished. . . . Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. . . .”—-Bertrand Russell,1953

“Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished … The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.” —–Bertrand Russell quoting Johann Gottlieb Fichte, the head of philosophy & psychology who influenced Hegel and others – Prussian University in Berlin, 1810

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