Our academic institutions in the US have been a source of global wealth and leadership.
That is being destroyed and purposefully dismantled too. The process started years ago, not just medicine and NIH fundable topics but in business schools, psychology and social science departments. All lusting after government and industry defined agendas to embrace for funding and ideological guidance.
The Secret Professor is such a great identity. So many of us held on for awhile or are still holding on despite the onslaught of destruction. Parents and students are also seeing the results and aren't wanting to support those institutions either.
A recent Substack author wrote about the awful experience that being a Stanford student has become. All the true variety of student led groups and organizations are gone. Modes of free speech curtailed. Buildings renamed not for something cultural or historical but numbered. A lot of little sanitizing changes. Many other homogenizing and isolating forces.
Though I would rather be curled up with a dusty volume of Gary Larson's 'The Far Side', I just found and bought the Kindle edition of 'The Dark Side ... ' Much thanks for the heads up.
Cheers from Japan Tess!
p.s. Had to jump in at 24:00 minutes, and wondering if anyone is familiar with T.S. Kuhn's 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' or aware of the warnings of Karl Popper? I am guessing so because of the conversational use of 'paradigms'. I am asking this because those two writers were two of the most influential philosophers of science in the 20th century ... and they were acutely aware that the petty politics, perverse incentives, and common human frailties in institutional academy are not any different than what can be found among any other institutionalized domain of human activity ... politics, business, traditional religion, the fine arts and performing arts, and so on.
When I first obtained tenure, I thought now is the time I can pursue my passion of reading and writing, as well as have loads of fun in the classroom ... flipped classes, cooperative learning, values clarification and humanistic techniques, and so on. I was shocked to find that not once in 15 years did we sit down an wrestle with educational goals and approaches. It was all committees, marketing, and keeping up with the schedule
Hmm ... a quote from Terence McKenna? Bravo Tess.
Science as mistakenly materialistic. Yes. That is correct. Cartesian duality is not an insight into the fundamental nature of he universe. Despite the 'be' verb, it is a provisional starting point of a heuristics. A problem solving procedure. Common sense slowed down to catch and account for our all-too-human biases and mistakes.
But why the persistence of the mechanistic reductionism? Just a guess, but in the maturation process of the social primate, we have to secure resources and mates to pass our genes on. We all have to be somewhat like mini-dark-triads ... narcissists, opportunists, and pathologically un-empathetic at times ... competitive until we approach maturity as a social primate. Material reductionists.
There lies the rub. Social primates are more likely to be sustainable and individuals mature within families and small communities within Dunbar's number, between 150 and 250. Cross cultural replication studies seem to replicate it. Interestingly, troops of chimpanzees will automatically split into smaller groups at a peak at about 200 or so.
Within Dunbar's number, we have the morphological neural capacity to recognize everyone in the group as unique individuals with unique temperaments, skills, traumas, dreams, etc. One important implication of that limit is that we do not need habits, customs, rules, laws, ideologies, or algorithms to guide our behavior. Empathy alone is enough. Because of the small scale, such communities are relatively egalitarian. Even chimpanzees limit the concentration of resources that the alpha male might try to claim. Though families have their skeletons in their closets and gangs are lead by bullies, it is usually kept to a minimum. Billionaires, on the other hand, do not 'earn' a million dollars. They steal it. And their thirst is never quenched.
Beyond Dunbar's number, all bets are off ... mostly because a small but salient part of every population appear to be genetically predisposed to be high in dark-triad personality traits ... the pathological narcissists, machiavellian opportunists, and morphologically defined psychopaths among us. And scale gives them niches to hide and conspire. Though bad nurturing and epigenetics may play complex roles, they tend to emerge from the womb with a sense of self-entitlement like all new-borns ... but never mature beyond that point.
Something we more neuro-typically empathetic people find hard to accept ... dark-triads are generally more 'intelligent' as defined by intelligence tests .. and while we are trying to empathize with another, they are scheming two steps beyond us.
to be continued in part 2 ... didn't know there was a length limit.
Thank - you Tess for another mind - opening reminder to humanity that there is indeed a better way! A much more exciting way! I don't think we have touched on our potential for good yet. This interview is of particular interest to me because it touches on a subject which has been causing me increasing alarm. That is the propensity of some in the health freedom movement to chuck out the baby with the bathwater when it comes to the ecological crisis. Just because the globalists have hijacked the climate narrative doesn't mean there isn't a crisis. Indeed, all the unfolding ills boil down to the loss of our connection to Nature. But Bill Gates et al are the last people qualified to tell us what to do about it. I believe we are going to have to grow our understanding of the interconnection of everything from the grassroots up. People if they are going to adapt their lifestyles are going to do it out of love, not by being forced by entities who are both anti human and anti Nature, and do not have our interests at heart.
I wholeheartedly agree with you on each point you made. To grow a personal, deep appreciation of the infinite interconnections of the whole is our mission. I'm trusting that revealing the Dark Sides are part of our processes. Hang on!
Waiting for academics and other professionals to really begin speaking to the larger narrative of how things got this way. There is a multi-faceted and purposeful shell game in which the “globalists” have positioned themselves at all levels in what they believe is a three dimensional game of GO they believe we are too dumb to resist. Catherine Austin Fitts is very good on this subject.
I enjoyed the little sojourn into homeopathy, as I have experienced excellent results with it in my time (not always, but then, I've not always had good outcomes using "conventional" remedies at times - which is what brought me to homeopathy in the first place!) In the past, I have tried to explain the idea that to understand homeopathy one needs to think more of physics rather than chemistry... in these strange times, I dare any conventional doctor to patronise me over my use of homeopathy when they've been advocating surgical splashguards for the containment of viral particles, and mRNA injections as "safe and effective." They would not have a leg to stand on! (Little story, one hospital consultant admitted to me privately that he knew homeopathy worked but that he could not admit it publicly. He said that his sister was a homeopath, that's how he knew. He said he would be "drummed out of my profession," which really said it all to me! The pursuit of truth has evaporated.... what no curious scientists? Only frightened or greedy ones.....?) Thanks again Tess, great work.
Astonishingly, many did not recognize the deep sarcasm of that subject. I can assure others that the Ivy League presidents, especially Martha Pollack of Cornell did!! I discussed the subject (in general) and Exhibit 2 of the above letter (in particular) here:
Note that Fauci and the lead internal attorney for Pfizer Doug Lankler are both Cornell graduates. Note further that Pollack and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla were cohorts on the 2020 New York State Forward Reopening Advisory Board (FRAB) . . . this was the 'marketing team' disguised as public servants, ensuring that the maximum was wrought (to Pfizer's benefit) during enforcement of their "advice" about COVID-19. All of the meetings of the meetings were closed-door, and were subsequently shared with other governors in-general. Again: "To have the world they needed the USA. To have the USA, they had to have Cornell."
For reference, the only only courtesy copy of my COVID letters that responded was the president of (Christian) Oral Roberts University Dr. William Wilson. Dr. Wilson did not lockdown ORU, he did not require face masks, he did not require 'social distancing,' and he certainly never mandated the needle upon his students and staff:
Jordon Peterson once referred to them (dark-triads) as maybe 3 % of any population. I like Susan Sontag's quote (author of 'Illness as Metaphor’) … “10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.”
Japanese businesses have an interesting saying with similar numbers ... roughly translated as '10% are the innovators, 80% are followers, and 10% are placed in a seat by the window. (uslelss)'. I will leave it to the reader to guess at correlations between Sontag's cruel 10% and business innovators. My point is that those most likely to build hierarchical institutions, simultaneously plan on how to game those institutions to suit their own personal ambitions — a zero-sum game of king of the mountain ... 'Oyama no taisho' in Japanese.
Desmet's Mass Psychosis Formation mentions a 30% of populations as having the equivalence of high dark traits. Interestingly, at least one study shows that 30% of American CEOs are also high in those traits. They are a self-selecting ruling class, and 'history' as it is taught, is largely the story of dark-triads. Thank god for Howard Zinn.
Children are not born saints. Hell, even saints are not born saints. It is a long, slow, process of learning to love, lose, and learn. The end result is relatively egalitarian circles, communities only as strong as its weakest link ... not institutions led by those who constantly try to outsource losses.
The purpose of the institution is the philosophy of the cancer cell ... to grow for growth's sake until the host dies. In a large scale population, business plans often don't get off the ground until they submit their 10 year growth plan. But it is a zero-sum game and will not end until the whole Tower of Babel comes crumbling down. Goya's 'Saturn devouring his son'.
The highest ideals of educational communities, the arts, good parenting, counseling, volunteerism, good governance, religion ... just in my humble opinion should (not is) be the same ... to facilitate the growth of a mature human, a social primate with enough moral autonomy to choose, not be ordered by a boss or the state, to choose, to spend one's resources empowering the marginalized in the community ... the young, the sick or handicapped, the poor the aged, the different ... and hold authority accountable. This is be the moral dimension so missing from standardized gate-keeping tests designed to weed brute memory or cleverness from the chaff, only to shuttle them to the 'appropriate' societal institution for their ’appropriate' socio-economic class.
Far Eastern harmony and Western Enlightenment ideals may be little more than mythological conceits. The oxymoronic titles of Chomsky and Herman’ ‘Manufacturing Consent’ and Stephen Vlastos’s ‘Invented Traditions of Modern japan’ make a strong argument for conceits rather than values, tools of the rulng elite to herd us through our vanities.
The problem with large scale is that dark triads, or even we more neurotypical people necessarily have to rely on proxies for empathetic-driven behavior, with rule-driven behavior, or worse, violence or the fear of it. Beyond Dunbar's number, we simply do not have the neural capacity to empathize with thousands ... only the acting skills to fake it.
Anyone old enough to remember the lyrics to that old Three Dog Night song ... ''Easy to be hard''?
Building parallel systems ... yes. Communities within and between institutions. Something that Japan is not particularly good at. 15 years of tenure, 3 hour department meetings once a week, and not once a discussion about educational values and goals. Functionary bureaucracies of self-promoting specialists have long been the norm, not common except perhaps at the initial beginnings of the educational community.
Number rules all? Will stop for now … because I don’t want to justify my belief in the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity. JMHO, but even the most predictve mathematical models are the equivalence of literary metaphors … useful tools for specific situations … not fundamental insights into the nature of nature. As Neils Bohr said, even the best models for quantum mechanics do not tell us directly about nature. They tell us how we perceive and interact with nature. Bertrand Russell unknowingly more correct when he tried to dismiss Hindu cosmology as nothing but ‘turtles all the way down’. I can imagine some day when the ideal of a planck unit will seem ‘quaint’.
On pages 41 and 42 of ‘Discover’ science magazine, the January/February 2020 issue, in the article, ‘The Rules of the Road to Quantum Supremacy’, Stephen Ornes transcribed a fascinating interview with computer engineer Hartmut Neven about the unexpectedly rapid advances in quantum computing.
But the article ended with the most memorable exchange.
‘Q: Quantum mechanics gets really difficult, really fast. How do you deal with that?’
‘A: Everybody has their own interpretation of quantum mechanics. Mine is the Many Beers interpretation of quantum mechanics.
With no beer, quantum mechanics doesn’t make any sense.
After one, two, or three beers, it makes perfect sense.
But once you get to six or ten, it doesn’t make any sense again.
Adrian Price needs to add the Living God into his equation. If he did so, he would understand himself and man's place within the universe. Until then, his experiences and his words are warped, distort creation and obfuscate reality to others.
I hope you had not been naive up until 2 years ago? The whole academia has been corrupted by materialistic views for over 150 years' if not since Copernican Principle, on the origins of life, evolution, cosmology and since 1918 so-called Spanish Flu in medicine. They are all unscientific, untestable theories taught as facts... Anybody who even attemped to question the so-called scientific facts has been treated the same way scientists have been treated who questioned the origins of so-called "novel virus" SARS COV2, the "vaccines" that do not prevent infection and spread and the "disappearance" of influenzas during the panic-demic...
odd - how professionals and whole health disciplines are myopic. Not blind or stupid, but so far down (or up) the specific passage they fail to see the connections over the fence. I was invited to write on this for an eText on psychiatry. Why fiddle with cortical constructs when the underlying issue across all the top dozen health issues is systemic inflammatory states. Goldbart showed that non-obese 3 yr olds carry the same chemical patterns as adults with heart disease - Bhattacharjee similar cohort of non-obese 3 yr olds have early signs of atherosclerosis. Macey - 5-10 year olds irrespective of obesity have the same regional cortical changes as adults with dementia. Creuzet offers an explanation - exposure of the 3-4 week old foetus if exposed to tobacco -alcohol - sugar sees expulsion of cNCCs and HOX gene replacement resulting in midface growth reduction, retraction of the less impaired mandible and more tongue-in-throat time. Chronic Intermittent Hypoxia is widely shown to be the progenitor of the typical inflammatory chemicals. Given that the rise of cardio- pulmonary - metabolic diseases followed immediately the commercialisation of Tobacco - Alcohol- Sugar surely David Barker's hypothesis of birth weight being the determinant of adult disease with its foundation in inflammation as a precursor, that is dementia, vascular, cardiac, gut, OBGYN, cant occur without an inflammatory state being present. Mold showed this is valid with over 90% of GP (PCC) patients visits were by people with a 'sleep' problem - but only a small fraction had sleep and breathing included in treatment protocols. Pharma wont ever fix a structural issue but what else is offered in medicine. Having treated hundreds of people with intractable craniofacial pain - most have endured high levels of pain for many years, simply normalising structure relieving the stimulus - allowing CNS to reset- produces long-term resolution. Yet for this local (NZ) hierarchy have attacked - even the court - refused to accept appeal documents for lodgement. A judge even decried this and said this could be appealed - but I am switching ship and re-registering under Maori Governance in New Zealand. Tess - what you are doing is not just valuable, its critical and in light of the diminishing viability of the planet (no potable water within 10-15 years - extensive malnutrition as foods look great but devoid of nutrients - societal disruption as indicated from ALSPAC/Bristol by Bonuck - babies who can mouth-breathe at 6 months do so, snore as their nasal airway is narrowed, & hold their breath (dose-dependant) until age 4 - miss developmental milestones and are socially, behaviourally intellectually impaired by age 7-8. These are often poor socialisers, either class clowns or bullies, over-represented in judicial records - crime and harm. These issues are overlaid with the issues of vaccination, that Jenner showed - viable - but not when Phzer gets its claws into things. WEF WHO UN and Francis all compound it.
Dont back off please your contribution is incredible.
take care - regards
Dr David Zimmerman BDS FAACP Cert Musc Skel Pain Mgmt.
Thanks Adrian & Tess. In my view if only 2% or so of the money spent on counterproductive & destructive militarism, & "wars of choice" was spent on genuine "apolitical" scientific research humanity would really surge forward. Sadly, as Tess so heroically proved yet again with IVM, the MO of some v powerful business folks is to TOTALLY DESTROY competition to take over a whole market...no matter what crimes it takes.....even if the product they wish to destroy is efficacious, safe & cheap, & the product the want a monopoly to sell is just the opposite, they lie, cheat & even murder to destroy completion. And it's same with Science research I guess. The root enabler of all these frauds is, as ever was, corrupt media which of course is controlled by a very few corrupt & evil people for power & money. At least we are not in Ukraine ATM- a recent similar enterprise to make bucks as was the case with the "covid lies".
Our academic institutions in the US have been a source of global wealth and leadership.
That is being destroyed and purposefully dismantled too. The process started years ago, not just medicine and NIH fundable topics but in business schools, psychology and social science departments. All lusting after government and industry defined agendas to embrace for funding and ideological guidance.
The Secret Professor is such a great identity. So many of us held on for awhile or are still holding on despite the onslaught of destruction. Parents and students are also seeing the results and aren't wanting to support those institutions either.
A recent Substack author wrote about the awful experience that being a Stanford student has become. All the true variety of student led groups and organizations are gone. Modes of free speech curtailed. Buildings renamed not for something cultural or historical but numbered. A lot of little sanitizing changes. Many other homogenizing and isolating forces.
Hi Tess,
Looking forward to watching this and reading the book.
Three links for you ...
1 — The nasty details of my resignation from tenure in a Japanese college ...
https://steven45.substack.com/p/beware-the-academic-halls-of-japan
2 — I heard of colleges in Australia using similar tactics in a recent Facebook interview, Topher Fields' chat with ousted Professor Peter Ridd.
https://www.facebook.com/TopherField/videos/594408148783848
3 — Good news from a 'soft subversive' group of moms and teachers against masks here in Japan
https://steven45.substack.com/p/japanese-moms-and-teachers-against
Ohh ... banzai!!!
Though I would rather be curled up with a dusty volume of Gary Larson's 'The Far Side', I just found and bought the Kindle edition of 'The Dark Side ... ' Much thanks for the heads up.
Cheers from Japan Tess!
p.s. Had to jump in at 24:00 minutes, and wondering if anyone is familiar with T.S. Kuhn's 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' or aware of the warnings of Karl Popper? I am guessing so because of the conversational use of 'paradigms'. I am asking this because those two writers were two of the most influential philosophers of science in the 20th century ... and they were acutely aware that the petty politics, perverse incentives, and common human frailties in institutional academy are not any different than what can be found among any other institutionalized domain of human activity ... politics, business, traditional religion, the fine arts and performing arts, and so on.
When I first obtained tenure, I thought now is the time I can pursue my passion of reading and writing, as well as have loads of fun in the classroom ... flipped classes, cooperative learning, values clarification and humanistic techniques, and so on. I was shocked to find that not once in 15 years did we sit down an wrestle with educational goals and approaches. It was all committees, marketing, and keeping up with the schedule
Hmm ... a quote from Terence McKenna? Bravo Tess.
Science as mistakenly materialistic. Yes. That is correct. Cartesian duality is not an insight into the fundamental nature of he universe. Despite the 'be' verb, it is a provisional starting point of a heuristics. A problem solving procedure. Common sense slowed down to catch and account for our all-too-human biases and mistakes.
But why the persistence of the mechanistic reductionism? Just a guess, but in the maturation process of the social primate, we have to secure resources and mates to pass our genes on. We all have to be somewhat like mini-dark-triads ... narcissists, opportunists, and pathologically un-empathetic at times ... competitive until we approach maturity as a social primate. Material reductionists.
There lies the rub. Social primates are more likely to be sustainable and individuals mature within families and small communities within Dunbar's number, between 150 and 250. Cross cultural replication studies seem to replicate it. Interestingly, troops of chimpanzees will automatically split into smaller groups at a peak at about 200 or so.
Within Dunbar's number, we have the morphological neural capacity to recognize everyone in the group as unique individuals with unique temperaments, skills, traumas, dreams, etc. One important implication of that limit is that we do not need habits, customs, rules, laws, ideologies, or algorithms to guide our behavior. Empathy alone is enough. Because of the small scale, such communities are relatively egalitarian. Even chimpanzees limit the concentration of resources that the alpha male might try to claim. Though families have their skeletons in their closets and gangs are lead by bullies, it is usually kept to a minimum. Billionaires, on the other hand, do not 'earn' a million dollars. They steal it. And their thirst is never quenched.
Beyond Dunbar's number, all bets are off ... mostly because a small but salient part of every population appear to be genetically predisposed to be high in dark-triad personality traits ... the pathological narcissists, machiavellian opportunists, and morphologically defined psychopaths among us. And scale gives them niches to hide and conspire. Though bad nurturing and epigenetics may play complex roles, they tend to emerge from the womb with a sense of self-entitlement like all new-borns ... but never mature beyond that point.
Something we more neuro-typically empathetic people find hard to accept ... dark-triads are generally more 'intelligent' as defined by intelligence tests .. and while we are trying to empathize with another, they are scheming two steps beyond us.
to be continued in part 2 ... didn't know there was a length limit.
Thank - you Tess for another mind - opening reminder to humanity that there is indeed a better way! A much more exciting way! I don't think we have touched on our potential for good yet. This interview is of particular interest to me because it touches on a subject which has been causing me increasing alarm. That is the propensity of some in the health freedom movement to chuck out the baby with the bathwater when it comes to the ecological crisis. Just because the globalists have hijacked the climate narrative doesn't mean there isn't a crisis. Indeed, all the unfolding ills boil down to the loss of our connection to Nature. But Bill Gates et al are the last people qualified to tell us what to do about it. I believe we are going to have to grow our understanding of the interconnection of everything from the grassroots up. People if they are going to adapt their lifestyles are going to do it out of love, not by being forced by entities who are both anti human and anti Nature, and do not have our interests at heart.
I wholeheartedly agree with you on each point you made. To grow a personal, deep appreciation of the infinite interconnections of the whole is our mission. I'm trusting that revealing the Dark Sides are part of our processes. Hang on!
Waiting for academics and other professionals to really begin speaking to the larger narrative of how things got this way. There is a multi-faceted and purposeful shell game in which the “globalists” have positioned themselves at all levels in what they believe is a three dimensional game of GO they believe we are too dumb to resist. Catherine Austin Fitts is very good on this subject.
I enjoyed the little sojourn into homeopathy, as I have experienced excellent results with it in my time (not always, but then, I've not always had good outcomes using "conventional" remedies at times - which is what brought me to homeopathy in the first place!) In the past, I have tried to explain the idea that to understand homeopathy one needs to think more of physics rather than chemistry... in these strange times, I dare any conventional doctor to patronise me over my use of homeopathy when they've been advocating surgical splashguards for the containment of viral particles, and mRNA injections as "safe and effective." They would not have a leg to stand on! (Little story, one hospital consultant admitted to me privately that he knew homeopathy worked but that he could not admit it publicly. He said that his sister was a homeopath, that's how he knew. He said he would be "drummed out of my profession," which really said it all to me! The pursuit of truth has evaporated.... what no curious scientists? Only frightened or greedy ones.....?) Thanks again Tess, great work.
Well-known in my circle of colleagues, I have repeatedly stated, "To have the world they needed the USA. To have the USA, they had to have Cornell."
In my first (focused) letter to academia, the Ivy League, I listed the subject:
Ensuring Liability Immunity for Ivy League University Presidents and Staffs –
Student Signature / Consent Requirements for COVID-19 “Vaccine”
http://pvsheridan.com/paulvsheridan-SARS-CoV-2-Letters-Directory/11-sheridan2ivyleague-1-6march2021.pdf
Astonishingly, many did not recognize the deep sarcasm of that subject. I can assure others that the Ivy League presidents, especially Martha Pollack of Cornell did!! I discussed the subject (in general) and Exhibit 2 of the above letter (in particular) here:
https://rumble.com/vqpxyf-beyond-willful-misconduct-bioweapon-victims-demand-shutdown-of-vaxx-program.html
Note that Fauci and the lead internal attorney for Pfizer Doug Lankler are both Cornell graduates. Note further that Pollack and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla were cohorts on the 2020 New York State Forward Reopening Advisory Board (FRAB) . . . this was the 'marketing team' disguised as public servants, ensuring that the maximum was wrought (to Pfizer's benefit) during enforcement of their "advice" about COVID-19. All of the meetings of the meetings were closed-door, and were subsequently shared with other governors in-general. Again: "To have the world they needed the USA. To have the USA, they had to have Cornell."
For reference, the only only courtesy copy of my COVID letters that responded was the president of (Christian) Oral Roberts University Dr. William Wilson. Dr. Wilson did not lockdown ORU, he did not require face masks, he did not require 'social distancing,' and he certainly never mandated the needle upon his students and staff:
http://pvsheridan.com/wilson-2sheridan-1-27june2021.pdf
Very important topic, one I've long been aware of. Great that this book is out.
Part 2
Jordon Peterson once referred to them (dark-triads) as maybe 3 % of any population. I like Susan Sontag's quote (author of 'Illness as Metaphor’) … “10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.”
Japanese businesses have an interesting saying with similar numbers ... roughly translated as '10% are the innovators, 80% are followers, and 10% are placed in a seat by the window. (uslelss)'. I will leave it to the reader to guess at correlations between Sontag's cruel 10% and business innovators. My point is that those most likely to build hierarchical institutions, simultaneously plan on how to game those institutions to suit their own personal ambitions — a zero-sum game of king of the mountain ... 'Oyama no taisho' in Japanese.
Desmet's Mass Psychosis Formation mentions a 30% of populations as having the equivalence of high dark traits. Interestingly, at least one study shows that 30% of American CEOs are also high in those traits. They are a self-selecting ruling class, and 'history' as it is taught, is largely the story of dark-triads. Thank god for Howard Zinn.
Children are not born saints. Hell, even saints are not born saints. It is a long, slow, process of learning to love, lose, and learn. The end result is relatively egalitarian circles, communities only as strong as its weakest link ... not institutions led by those who constantly try to outsource losses.
The purpose of the institution is the philosophy of the cancer cell ... to grow for growth's sake until the host dies. In a large scale population, business plans often don't get off the ground until they submit their 10 year growth plan. But it is a zero-sum game and will not end until the whole Tower of Babel comes crumbling down. Goya's 'Saturn devouring his son'.
The highest ideals of educational communities, the arts, good parenting, counseling, volunteerism, good governance, religion ... just in my humble opinion should (not is) be the same ... to facilitate the growth of a mature human, a social primate with enough moral autonomy to choose, not be ordered by a boss or the state, to choose, to spend one's resources empowering the marginalized in the community ... the young, the sick or handicapped, the poor the aged, the different ... and hold authority accountable. This is be the moral dimension so missing from standardized gate-keeping tests designed to weed brute memory or cleverness from the chaff, only to shuttle them to the 'appropriate' societal institution for their ’appropriate' socio-economic class.
Far Eastern harmony and Western Enlightenment ideals may be little more than mythological conceits. The oxymoronic titles of Chomsky and Herman’ ‘Manufacturing Consent’ and Stephen Vlastos’s ‘Invented Traditions of Modern japan’ make a strong argument for conceits rather than values, tools of the rulng elite to herd us through our vanities.
The problem with large scale is that dark triads, or even we more neurotypical people necessarily have to rely on proxies for empathetic-driven behavior, with rule-driven behavior, or worse, violence or the fear of it. Beyond Dunbar's number, we simply do not have the neural capacity to empathize with thousands ... only the acting skills to fake it.
Anyone old enough to remember the lyrics to that old Three Dog Night song ... ''Easy to be hard''?
Building parallel systems ... yes. Communities within and between institutions. Something that Japan is not particularly good at. 15 years of tenure, 3 hour department meetings once a week, and not once a discussion about educational values and goals. Functionary bureaucracies of self-promoting specialists have long been the norm, not common except perhaps at the initial beginnings of the educational community.
Number rules all? Will stop for now … because I don’t want to justify my belief in the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity. JMHO, but even the most predictve mathematical models are the equivalence of literary metaphors … useful tools for specific situations … not fundamental insights into the nature of nature. As Neils Bohr said, even the best models for quantum mechanics do not tell us directly about nature. They tell us how we perceive and interact with nature. Bertrand Russell unknowingly more correct when he tried to dismiss Hindu cosmology as nothing but ‘turtles all the way down’. I can imagine some day when the ideal of a planck unit will seem ‘quaint’.
Will end for tonight with a funny story from one of my old Quora posts … https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-mathematical-background-required-to-study-quantum-mechanics/answer/Steven-Steve-F-Martin
On pages 41 and 42 of ‘Discover’ science magazine, the January/February 2020 issue, in the article, ‘The Rules of the Road to Quantum Supremacy’, Stephen Ornes transcribed a fascinating interview with computer engineer Hartmut Neven about the unexpectedly rapid advances in quantum computing.
But the article ended with the most memorable exchange.
‘Q: Quantum mechanics gets really difficult, really fast. How do you deal with that?’
‘A: Everybody has their own interpretation of quantum mechanics. Mine is the Many Beers interpretation of quantum mechanics.
With no beer, quantum mechanics doesn’t make any sense.
After one, two, or three beers, it makes perfect sense.
But once you get to six or ten, it doesn’t make any sense again.
I’m on my first bottle, so I’m in the zone.'
Once more, Cheer Tess.
Sorry for my soapbox comment, a little.
And a big fan of yours in Japan
Adrian Price needs to add the Living God into his equation. If he did so, he would understand himself and man's place within the universe. Until then, his experiences and his words are warped, distort creation and obfuscate reality to others.
Aug 8 Dr Tess: video would play on Firefox browser for some reason. Says Video Format Not Supported.
I hope you had not been naive up until 2 years ago? The whole academia has been corrupted by materialistic views for over 150 years' if not since Copernican Principle, on the origins of life, evolution, cosmology and since 1918 so-called Spanish Flu in medicine. They are all unscientific, untestable theories taught as facts... Anybody who even attemped to question the so-called scientific facts has been treated the same way scientists have been treated who questioned the origins of so-called "novel virus" SARS COV2, the "vaccines" that do not prevent infection and spread and the "disappearance" of influenzas during the panic-demic...
odd - how professionals and whole health disciplines are myopic. Not blind or stupid, but so far down (or up) the specific passage they fail to see the connections over the fence. I was invited to write on this for an eText on psychiatry. Why fiddle with cortical constructs when the underlying issue across all the top dozen health issues is systemic inflammatory states. Goldbart showed that non-obese 3 yr olds carry the same chemical patterns as adults with heart disease - Bhattacharjee similar cohort of non-obese 3 yr olds have early signs of atherosclerosis. Macey - 5-10 year olds irrespective of obesity have the same regional cortical changes as adults with dementia. Creuzet offers an explanation - exposure of the 3-4 week old foetus if exposed to tobacco -alcohol - sugar sees expulsion of cNCCs and HOX gene replacement resulting in midface growth reduction, retraction of the less impaired mandible and more tongue-in-throat time. Chronic Intermittent Hypoxia is widely shown to be the progenitor of the typical inflammatory chemicals. Given that the rise of cardio- pulmonary - metabolic diseases followed immediately the commercialisation of Tobacco - Alcohol- Sugar surely David Barker's hypothesis of birth weight being the determinant of adult disease with its foundation in inflammation as a precursor, that is dementia, vascular, cardiac, gut, OBGYN, cant occur without an inflammatory state being present. Mold showed this is valid with over 90% of GP (PCC) patients visits were by people with a 'sleep' problem - but only a small fraction had sleep and breathing included in treatment protocols. Pharma wont ever fix a structural issue but what else is offered in medicine. Having treated hundreds of people with intractable craniofacial pain - most have endured high levels of pain for many years, simply normalising structure relieving the stimulus - allowing CNS to reset- produces long-term resolution. Yet for this local (NZ) hierarchy have attacked - even the court - refused to accept appeal documents for lodgement. A judge even decried this and said this could be appealed - but I am switching ship and re-registering under Maori Governance in New Zealand. Tess - what you are doing is not just valuable, its critical and in light of the diminishing viability of the planet (no potable water within 10-15 years - extensive malnutrition as foods look great but devoid of nutrients - societal disruption as indicated from ALSPAC/Bristol by Bonuck - babies who can mouth-breathe at 6 months do so, snore as their nasal airway is narrowed, & hold their breath (dose-dependant) until age 4 - miss developmental milestones and are socially, behaviourally intellectually impaired by age 7-8. These are often poor socialisers, either class clowns or bullies, over-represented in judicial records - crime and harm. These issues are overlaid with the issues of vaccination, that Jenner showed - viable - but not when Phzer gets its claws into things. WEF WHO UN and Francis all compound it.
Dont back off please your contribution is incredible.
take care - regards
Dr David Zimmerman BDS FAACP Cert Musc Skel Pain Mgmt.
Auckland New Zealand.
Thanks Adrian & Tess. In my view if only 2% or so of the money spent on counterproductive & destructive militarism, & "wars of choice" was spent on genuine "apolitical" scientific research humanity would really surge forward. Sadly, as Tess so heroically proved yet again with IVM, the MO of some v powerful business folks is to TOTALLY DESTROY competition to take over a whole market...no matter what crimes it takes.....even if the product they wish to destroy is efficacious, safe & cheap, & the product the want a monopoly to sell is just the opposite, they lie, cheat & even murder to destroy completion. And it's same with Science research I guess. The root enabler of all these frauds is, as ever was, corrupt media which of course is controlled by a very few corrupt & evil people for power & money. At least we are not in Ukraine ATM- a recent similar enterprise to make bucks as was the case with the "covid lies".
Is the spelling "best"? here are the words in a partial sentence
the world of "academentia" inhabited by the "academoniac"
(permission for use of coined words previously granted)
For the ones that missed this great letter from Canadian journalist Susan Dunham, a must read!
https://susandunham.medium.com/what-we-learned-from-hating-the-unvaccinated-fc428fa0732c
Wonderful interview. Thank you Tess. Such an important topic and book!