Dear Friends of Science and Evolution
Dear Friends of Science & Evolution
Thank you (so much) for being a part of our community.
There is a war on.
A war of ideas.
In this war, You have chosen the right side; or more correctly, it chose you.
And so -Dear Enemies of Science & Evolution
We are coming for you.
When I say "we", I mean: Natural Selection.
Evolution and Science.
Truth, Facts, Reality, is: coming for you.
You: COVID-denying, conspiracy theory peddling, anti-truth, (liars, cheaters, deceivers, freeriders, conmen & conwomen): you refuse to wear a mask, as you don't understand how facts, science, and truth works. Or you do, and you are: lying.
You need to read Enlightenment Now (Pinker 2018).
But even then, you would fight it with: some bullshit, or other.
Because: You're an asshole. (Wait - Did I just stoop to your level? Ad hominems? No; you're already lower than that - you're using violence. See Graham's hierarchy of disagreement, below.)
Your values are all wrong.
Liars lie, and then then they: gaslight. (They accuse you of being the liar...!! Two deadly, fatal, lethal insults, for the price of one. Just one of the insults makes me want you to stop existing. Let alone 2.)
Note also: If you refuse to wear a mask - Science will kill you.
The Germ Theory of Disease.
(So, carry on! Don't wear a mask.)
Please thusly, and kindly, remove yourself from the humanimal race.
Natural Selection in action.
(Science i.e. Natural De-Selection, is rather like Islam; it kills its "non-believers" :)
And so:
Dear Science Deniers, Postmodernists, & "Alternate Facts" Liars,
Please, accidentally kill yourself...? Due to your denial of reality. Due to not wearing a mask, and ignoring Science.
The world (reality) is a vastly better place, without you.
Just sayin'.
Hey check this out:
Michael Moore: The Terrorist Attack Is NOT Over. | Rumble with Michael Moore podcast | EP. 153I love Michael Moore's rewriting of the US Pledge of Allegiance, when he was a (precocious, if not precarious :) 6th grade kid -- (at: 51 mins of the above)
"I pledge allegiance to the people" (not "the flag"!) "of the United States of America, and to this Republic for which we all stand. One nation, part of one world, with liberty and justice for all."
...Reminds me of the great Atlas Hugged !
See: Atlas Hugged World
"The banner of John Galt III’s revolt is a mysterious column of symbols: A dot, a circle, the American Flag, and the planet Earth. Never was an academic critique so decisive and also so much fun." (Source: Atlas Hugged World)
And now...
Let's look at Wars (i.e., competition, not co-operation), in (1) Ideas, (2) Processes, and (3) Products.
Here's one way to see it:
See:
On How To Disagree
Wars can be fought in the worlds (domains) of: (1) Ideas [communication using words, language, tools of "messages"], or (2) Processes (change the enemy's thinking), or (3) Products (blood, bullets, bombs in the physical world, Popper's World 1).
But remember - this is a true statement:
"This quote comes from a character, Salvor Hardin, in Isaac Asimov's Foundation saga.
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
Isaac Asimov, American science fiction and popular science writer
Source: One Liner Wednesday
Q: Why is the Foundation series (and science fiction in general) not taught, in all high schools?
Anyway - Here's another hierarchy, along same lines as i=P: (ideas, processes, products)
Or, a simpler version:
...Now look again:
And, read this:
"...knowledge ignorant of consequences is foolishness.
Chemistry that shrugs at pollution is foolishness, Economics that discounts politics and sociology is just as ignorant as are politics and sociology that discount economics.
Unfortunately, it does not seem to be enough to protect the neutral objectivity of each separate science, in the hope that the knowledge generated by each will be integrated later at some higher level and used wisely. The synthetic principle will have to become a part of the fundamental axioms of each science.
How shall this breakthrough occur?
The above diagram of Good and Evil is what happens, when VALUES are built into Science.Current systems theories are necessary but not sufficient, as they tend not to take values into account. Perhaps after this realization sets in, we shall have to re-write science from the ground up." (Csikszentmihalyi 2009)
Science (and Philosophy) are about the search for truth.
Anything that is anti-Science, (or anti-Philosophy) is evil. i.e., You are the enemy.
Now, Science-Deniers, we can play the game your way, if you want? The bottom rung of Graham's hierarchy. Physical Violence.
That means we just turn Science to: the task of eliminating evil.
Curing Cultural Cancer.
But - you should be grateful we Science-Lovers are: morally better than you.
Killing you would be: too easy.
We'll do it through the war of ideas and processes. Worlds 3 and 2.
...Unless you want to go down to: physical products...?
(I'm fine with whatever, really. And the more you test my patience, the more likely I am to slip down to your level. It takes a lot of energy to stay in those higher levels. Ideas and Processes.)
So the aim of the Science of Evolutionary Culturology is: Curing Cultural Cancer.
Culture is knowledge.
Information.
Ideas, processes, products.
There is good and bad (e.g. EVIL) information.
Good - and Bad - Ideas, Processes, Products.
So - pick your side.
Science, or Anti-Science?
Are you with us, or against us?
Make it clear.
Look at Velikovsky's `3 Laws of HOLON/partons':
Once you've found the
unit
of culture (the idea, process, or product), - the ideology, philosophy, worldview, etc - you then need to judge it. Is it: Good - or Evil?
True - or False?
...Do you see ?
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PS - In the war of ideas in academia, I was captured by the enemy for a few long years.
I was tortured.
I was screamed at.
Postmodernist, Ideological, Continental Philosophy Science-Deniers made my life: a living hell.
They created a monster.
Me.
Now, I want justice.
I want truth.
I want: revenge. (Fair's fair. That's: justice.)
I want fairness.
This war has to end.
...I also don't want anyone to ever again have to go through, what I went through.
We have to destroy the enemy.
Liars, cheaters, swindlers... people like Trump.
In Politics, the "right(wing)" side is the WRONG side. The EVIL side.
The side that has to: end.
Left-wingers care about: Science, Facts, Reason, The Enlightenment.
You don't have to like it, it just has to be: True.
(Ever notice how Right-wingers lie and gaslight, about pretty much, everything? ...Even the (NOT) "Liberal Party" in Australia is: conservative, right-wing. Even their name is a lie. Pure evil.)
And, Extremists on either side of Politics (i.e. Values) are evil.
See the documentary, Better Left Unsaid.
Source: BLU Review
& Thanks for reading!
And Friends of Science and Evolution - THANK YOU!
Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
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