Very good and thorough analysis. As I'm sure you know hardly anyone engages in this kind of through intellectual exercise to understand something like totalitarianism or mass formation and mass hysteria. On the surface and as normally used online the mass formation thing works as far as it goes. But obviously a willingness of individuals to honor the processes of both logic and intuition is important. In addition a real effort at communication and free speech.
True we have all been indoctrinated by our so called elites and associates for thousands of years. I do believe it goes well beyond European Enlightenment and have written on that subject. I am more intuitionally based than many seem to be and more based on the using of Occam's razor to comprehend and explain the complexities of complex subjects. You just did that very well . Thank you.
This is brilliant, Jim. I'm going to do an episode on it tomorrow and direct my thoughtful readers who have suggested I read PT to this, where I hope they comment on what they think you're missing. It's not about being right, it's about understanding reality so we can't be manipulated.
I read this slowly and savored it because you're speaking my language. I talk about being ploddingly methodical and logical as my superpower--the Mr. Spock of spirituality, ethics, geopolitics, economics. You had me at "totalitarianism is a political problem, not a psychological problem." I could have stopped there and known that we agreed. But I'm glad I didn't and got so many more proof points and logical arguments!
I'll save the rest of my comments for the episode but there's an older video of mine that speaks to what science is really and why it doesn't lead to mechanistic thinking. It's called Are We Being Manipulated? on Paul Kingsnorth and quotes Dr. Amishi Jha's definition of science as "a pursuit through a process of understanding what is": https://youtu.be/mnAXypCx32o. Oh and I found this one too, while I was looking, that uses Occam's Razor, as KW mentions. It's called Thinking Clearly about Empire on John Campbell: https://youtu.be/Z_4TFXlqZ7Q. Thanks for this great work!
Very good and thorough analysis. As I'm sure you know hardly anyone engages in this kind of through intellectual exercise to understand something like totalitarianism or mass formation and mass hysteria. On the surface and as normally used online the mass formation thing works as far as it goes. But obviously a willingness of individuals to honor the processes of both logic and intuition is important. In addition a real effort at communication and free speech.
True we have all been indoctrinated by our so called elites and associates for thousands of years. I do believe it goes well beyond European Enlightenment and have written on that subject. I am more intuitionally based than many seem to be and more based on the using of Occam's razor to comprehend and explain the complexities of complex subjects. You just did that very well . Thank you.
This is brilliant, Jim. I'm going to do an episode on it tomorrow and direct my thoughtful readers who have suggested I read PT to this, where I hope they comment on what they think you're missing. It's not about being right, it's about understanding reality so we can't be manipulated.
I read this slowly and savored it because you're speaking my language. I talk about being ploddingly methodical and logical as my superpower--the Mr. Spock of spirituality, ethics, geopolitics, economics. You had me at "totalitarianism is a political problem, not a psychological problem." I could have stopped there and known that we agreed. But I'm glad I didn't and got so many more proof points and logical arguments!
I'll save the rest of my comments for the episode but there's an older video of mine that speaks to what science is really and why it doesn't lead to mechanistic thinking. It's called Are We Being Manipulated? on Paul Kingsnorth and quotes Dr. Amishi Jha's definition of science as "a pursuit through a process of understanding what is": https://youtu.be/mnAXypCx32o. Oh and I found this one too, while I was looking, that uses Occam's Razor, as KW mentions. It's called Thinking Clearly about Empire on John Campbell: https://youtu.be/Z_4TFXlqZ7Q. Thanks for this great work!
Terry, that's the thrust of his argument. Just read his introduction.
Enlightenment thinking morphed into mechanistic thinking, and mechanistic thinking leads to mass formation with the right propaganda trigger.