The intellectual history of our time has yet to be written. When it is, it could go by the title: Figures Lie. Liars Figure. Instead of “rationalism” we get “rationalization.” We can’t hide from lies forever. Every lie requires more lies to back it up. And in a digital age nothing is hidden.
Your speculation on "a hidden shadow of trauma" that has pervaded university sciences I would extend to all areas of study, in fact I would extend it to all humans on the planet. I think we've been born into a poorly-concealed slave-system - which is itself traumatizing - called 'reality' which we accept as reality and then do our best to adjust to. There's so many underlying assumptions we've agreed to (usually unknowingly) about the nature of life, that are likely wrong, or at the very least, highly distorted.
Do we know what it is to be free as humans? Maybe there was a time on the planet (think so, assuming a much larger history) where we did experience life as free, genuinely free.
I can't prove any of it - but my feeling is we are in a massive transformation, which will require everything hidden coming to light, with the eventual result being, a freed humanity. What does that look like? We don't know.
As for what happened during the Covid PSYOP, details aside, the hidden hand (behind everything, not just academia) behind this propped up version of the Reality-Show-World, started to be seen. For some of us, it's obvious, for others, there's only an inkling. Doesn't matter, this version of the world is giving way, crumbling, being seen through, etc.
Which makes it a challenging and fascinating time to be alive. Thanks, Gary!
The Unenlightenment began when the light of discovery was focused on ever narrower targets, when experts began wielding lasers to illumine their extremely narrow fields of expertise, and all else around became dark. The experts lost contact with the real world and thus so did science itself.
I think the selection of certain personality types by the system is one of the system's most concerning features. If we could isolate a single phenomenon responsible for the rise of pathocracy, I think this would be it. You make it all the way through The Matter with Things?
I immediately wonder about myself: I have never been able to focus on any one narrow subject (or even on any one wide subject). Most recently I started an interview series on "hare-brained people" (like myself) who do not graze in a tiny pasture. This is nothing new. I could not specialize as an undergrad, but took courses in everything from genetics to ethics to Shakespeare to philosophy (that got a big ugh!! from me, though I have gone on to teach ethics my way) to comparative religion to anthropology. I did find a place for myself in the ivory tower - very multi-disciplinary, natch!! But I see everything you say. Anyway, welcome to the person who pushed you to start your very interesting Substack blog.
“Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men”. At the risk of being called a ‘Bible thumper’, when mankind does not have the backstop of an all knowing, all powerful, and all loving God to fall back on, he is likely to make foolish decisions that when he reflects back on, can only exclaim, WHAT WERE WE THINKING🫢🙃😲☹️? Truth IS a stubborn adversary indeed.
The intellectual history of our time has yet to be written. When it is, it could go by the title: Figures Lie. Liars Figure. Instead of “rationalism” we get “rationalization.” We can’t hide from lies forever. Every lie requires more lies to back it up. And in a digital age nothing is hidden.
Some interesting reflections here.
Your speculation on "a hidden shadow of trauma" that has pervaded university sciences I would extend to all areas of study, in fact I would extend it to all humans on the planet. I think we've been born into a poorly-concealed slave-system - which is itself traumatizing - called 'reality' which we accept as reality and then do our best to adjust to. There's so many underlying assumptions we've agreed to (usually unknowingly) about the nature of life, that are likely wrong, or at the very least, highly distorted.
Do we know what it is to be free as humans? Maybe there was a time on the planet (think so, assuming a much larger history) where we did experience life as free, genuinely free.
I can't prove any of it - but my feeling is we are in a massive transformation, which will require everything hidden coming to light, with the eventual result being, a freed humanity. What does that look like? We don't know.
As for what happened during the Covid PSYOP, details aside, the hidden hand (behind everything, not just academia) behind this propped up version of the Reality-Show-World, started to be seen. For some of us, it's obvious, for others, there's only an inkling. Doesn't matter, this version of the world is giving way, crumbling, being seen through, etc.
Which makes it a challenging and fascinating time to be alive. Thanks, Gary!
You have a great substack, glad I subscribed
The Unenlightenment began when the light of discovery was focused on ever narrower targets, when experts began wielding lasers to illumine their extremely narrow fields of expertise, and all else around became dark. The experts lost contact with the real world and thus so did science itself.
Some great references here I have to chase up. Cheers mate!
they want to stand ON the numbers , but not look AT the numbers . The Ebony Tower .
Keep going Gary . I feel that you need to locate the MEDIUM of your MAGIC . You need to
discover the environment that echoes your truth . I feel that your medium is freedom .
Inside of freedom your story resonates .
I think the selection of certain personality types by the system is one of the system's most concerning features. If we could isolate a single phenomenon responsible for the rise of pathocracy, I think this would be it. You make it all the way through The Matter with Things?
I immediately wonder about myself: I have never been able to focus on any one narrow subject (or even on any one wide subject). Most recently I started an interview series on "hare-brained people" (like myself) who do not graze in a tiny pasture. This is nothing new. I could not specialize as an undergrad, but took courses in everything from genetics to ethics to Shakespeare to philosophy (that got a big ugh!! from me, though I have gone on to teach ethics my way) to comparative religion to anthropology. I did find a place for myself in the ivory tower - very multi-disciplinary, natch!! But I see everything you say. Anyway, welcome to the person who pushed you to start your very interesting Substack blog.
“Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men”. At the risk of being called a ‘Bible thumper’, when mankind does not have the backstop of an all knowing, all powerful, and all loving God to fall back on, he is likely to make foolish decisions that when he reflects back on, can only exclaim, WHAT WERE WE THINKING🫢🙃😲☹️? Truth IS a stubborn adversary indeed.