and includes an all-new section on: the mathematics of social calculations and the problem of deception
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Please Note:While the "Flying Blind" paper (Spring, 2000) below, was designed to point out some of the things that are wrong with the way political and social issues are handled,
and the "American Pearls" page (Summer, 2000), and the "Elections 2000" paper (Autumn, 2000) were designed to show the stark contrast between nature's and The Democratic Party's proper patterning on the one hand, and current society's and The Republican Party's distorted arrangements on the other,
"Neandertal and The Locket" (current), referred to above, is designed to illuminate the pathway, among both the ruling class, and the people at large, to putting things right.
Discovering and identifying what's wrong is something I find to be exciting, enraging, and depressing, all at once.
And sorting out the comparison between what's wrong and what's right is something I find most clarifying along the way, and I hope, for readers, most helpful.
But putting things right is where the real satisfaction rests.
I urge readers, after they've read the "Flying Blind" notes below, to put on their thinking cap and read the 'Neandertal' and 'Locket' papers as noted above. That's the point, right now.
I added three major sections in the last days of December, and with the four *.pdf pages, it is reasonably complete, as it stands.
Thank you,
. . . and love to all . . .
---- neil
A cute Intuition Deficit Disorder, A Case History
by Neil Robert Miller
neil@imaginenine.com
neilrm@slip.net
© May 23, 2000
Edition: June 24th, 2000
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Part Two: - Hoaxes
Part Three: - School
2. The Seduction Theory Retraction Hoax in Psychiatry (officially exposed)
3. The Psychopharmacological Hoax in Medicine (unofficially exposed)
4. The Black Magic Hoax in Nazism (unofficially exposed)
5. The Democracy Hoax in Political Science (unofficially exposed)
6. The Indigenous Spirituality Hoax in Anthropology (unexposed)
7. The 'Intuition-As-High-Level' Hoax in Women's Studies (unexposed)
8. The Supply and Demand Hoax in Economics (unexposed)
9. The Postmodern Hoax in Sociology (unoffically exposed)
2. Healthy/Harmful - Learn how to tell healthy from harmful as universal absolutes.
3. Honest/Dishonest - Learn how to tell honest from dishonest as universal absolutes.
4. Logical Levels - Learn how to calculate in logical levels.
5. Configuration - Learn how to calculate via configuration.
2. Choose Leadership By Polish And Rhetoric.
3. Choose Leadership By The Will To Harm.
This is a variation on the old "you can't really know because you're not smart enough", in this case, with "because it's all too complex" added in.
In fact, this bioecosystem, and humans within it, group many small things into a whole system, then, in turn, group many small systems into a few still larger systems, and so forth - no "complexity" at all.
It's easy, in the way that simple arithmetic is easy; different, but easy like that.
In fact, anything and everything we need to know to solve problems of harm to humans, at any and all logical levels required, we can figure out, simply, accurately, helpfully, and relevantly.
First it's complicated, then it's simple, but it's never complex.
As it turns out, nature, in fact, is, in terms of life at this star, a forever more and more integrative, more and more organizing, "things-being-always-more-organized-than-before" type of system.
And again, it goes on Forever like that!
This "Chaos" nonsense is just another variation on the "you can't really know, because there's nothing up there to know" theme.
'Chaos' is yet another argument used for keeping ideology scientifically undiscussed, unconscious, and hidden, which, of course, is the only way a reactionary ideology can survive.
Hidden, stealth-like ideology, the right-wing's only prayer.
I say, drag that monster right-wing ideology out into the open, and, when placed beside this web-site's paradigm, like the dracula of old, the reactionaries will summarily, dissolve, in the clear light of day.
It was not religion that he had a problem with. He was married to a deeply affectionate woman with whom he was wildly in love every day of his life, a marriage to die for, children from all around, drawn by Emma's and Charles' warmth, always delightfully underfoot. As it turns out, Emma, Charles' wife, was a devoutly religious person, which was never a problem for them.
No no! As best I can tell, the real problem, as Charles experienced it, was not religion at all. It was the slavers that broke his heart and drove him down! with their twisted "survival of the brutal" anti-science 'bleeds' from his work.
Not having the political facile, or moxie, to deal directly with these fools, is what, without question, repeatedly drove him to otherwise unexplained, long bed-ridden, deathly illnesses, and to an early grave.
And the 'social'-'darwinists', who are in fact anti-social, anti-Darwin, anti-scientists of course, still viciously cackle over him, chanting his name like a mantra ten times per paragraph; for Charles, it must be very painful, still.
As it turns out - surprise, no surprise - very much like the Christian right-wing, the strange little secret of the sociobiologists, is that their man was a communist.
All nature, of course, and, as is certainly most clearly seen in human evolution specifically - all nature selects, or perhaps better put, arranges, For precisely what capitalism calls 'weak', and leaves behind precisely what capitalism calls 'strong'. By bourgeois definitions of 'weak' and 'strong', the famous 'Law of the Jungle' was, 'Survival of the Weak'.
Evolution favors vulnerability and delicacy - when a configuration is helpful, nature covers the vulnerability ecosystemically, over time, 'jostling shoulders, bumping hips', so to speak, until things more or less fit, and work well together; BUT, evolution does Not favor dominance, or the debasement of surroundings or environment - in evolution's powerful hierarchical arrangements, dominating or debasing configurations just pass away into oblivion.
In fact, the mathematical formula that evolved for 'natural selection', or 'natural arrangement', and which is present in every chromosome, selects, and arranges, over thousands of generations, no no, NOT for that which strengthens itself, a mathematically vacant idea, but rather, selects and arranges, again, over thousands of generations, arranges for that which strengthens the world around, locally, generally, and bioecosystem wide.
As best I can tell, and I can tell a lot, the way Mr. and Mrs. Clinton administrate their great responsibilities and choreograph their lives is the closest human emulation of that evolved mathematical, perhaps metaphorically speaking 'God'-level, but in any event, certainly very high level, natural arrangement formula that I know about.
As best I can tell, the Clintons are Royalty in the classical sense, perhaps as close as I'll ever know of in my lifetime. In fact, the classical meaning of the term, might be very close to the American idea after all, that is, as a practical matter, they are the most helpful people imaginable to have at the highest levels of power, operating very much in everyone's interest. At the very least, they sleep, and dream, with the gods.
In evolution, if a configuration - be it a blade of grass, an internal organ, a full-blown mammal, or anything else - if a configuration's 'focus' is strengthening the world around it, in the human analogy: caretaking, feminine, communism, The Democratic Party idea; if its 'focus' is strengthening the world around, in nature, it survives over the long pull, often, indeed, probably usually, it survives, Forever.
If its 'focus' is strengthening itself, again, in the human analogy: 'mostly-protection-seeking', fascism, the bourgeois persuasion, The Republican Party idea; then, in nature, it dies away, in evolutionary time, very very quickly.
What could be more obvious? Nothing could be more obvious!
What, somehow, still astounds me, is that in the big ivy league universities, they have whole, official departments, named, actually named! for this obviously anti-scientific 'sociobiology' frame of reference grotesquely masquerading as science. Joseph Goebbels stalks even still, and tips his hat to Harvard University, the devil incarnate, down to this very day.
'Sociobiology' covers the third base in this politically satanist set of anti-science hoaxes, namely, "well, even if there is an understandable system at the high level, and even if you could figure out what it was, it would turn out to be ugly and vicious and petty and suicidal" (like capitalism, of course), so "you don't really want to know anyway, 'don't want to go there'", or whatever.
'Only for the very strong' as they say in the deranged world of pornography.
Quite the serious anti-intelligence scam.
Absolut First Place in The Wild and Wacky World of Formal German Nazi Anti-Science,
. . . Grand Prize . . . First Place . . .
. . . The Envelope Please . . . TA TAAAA . . .
This has got to be the granddaddy of all fascist, right-wing, Nazi, Republican Party, sociopathic, conservative, satanist, crackpot, and reactionary hoaxes, this one going back thousands of years.
Nature, of course, and all it's plants and creatures, is a cooperative, mutually strengthening system, with things built, lasting forever.
It is not, obviously, a stuff-your-face-while-bleeding-white-the-world-around-you, mis-system.
2. The Seduction Theory Retraction Hoax in Psychiatry (officially exposed)
3. The Psychopharmacological Hoax in Medicine (unofficially exposed)
4. The Black Magic Hoax in Nazism (unofficially exposed)
5. The Democracy Hoax in Political Science (unofficially exposed)
6. The Indigenous Spirituality Hoax in Anthropology (unexposed)
7. The 'Intuition-As-High-Level' Hoax in Women's Studies (unexposed)
8. The Supply and Demand Hoax in Economics (unexposed)
9. The Postmodern Hoax in Sociology (unoffically exposed)
Which, on the world scale, extrapolated directly into: 'when a weaker person attempts to expose actual abuse, German 'medical' 'science' has 'proven' that they're making it all up, and anyway, that they like it that way'.
And it's little wonder why those very children, who raged inside at being abused, tightly packed, when they grow up, and when coupled with a pervasive mumbo jumbo bourgeois propaganda, they become so sure that they are "supposed to" reenact that abuse, on the grand scale. Et voila! Holocaust.
Indeed, down, perhaps that very street in 1897 Vienna where Freud delivered his infamous retraction, to the cheers and applause of the parents of the Holocaust, indeed, perhaps even at that very moment, a little boy named Adolf, was, I presume, getting his lights beaten out, while the great (anti-) 'scientists' were specifically informing him, and his ENTIRE generation, that, the way nature works is: "When you are weak, you are to be abused and lied about; and when you are strong, you are to abuse, and lie about it." Bourgeois Gospel, down to this very day!
I can only wonder what someone would make of an observer, standing across on that very street in 1897 Vienna, looking back and forth at the two simultaneous scenes, the beating at the home or in the street, and the applause for denial of it, at The Institute, and seeing, in their mind's eye, the horrors of millions of corpses in The World War, and at Auschwitz and elsewhere in the decades to come.
Would that connection be seen as the ramblings of a crazy idiot? a pathetic paranoid? an archetype Ritalin/Prozac candidate?
Or that of an intelligent, sane, and helpful person.
Could such a connection, and a flash of the horrors to come, be accurately anticipated in the first place? or would it have just been an ordinary random crazy thought, among thousands, to be expected of a paranoid; nothing special.
And, Ahem, How Do You Tell which it is? Accurate, life-saving awareness? Or random nonsense. At first blush, or without context, it certainly could be either, more likely the latter.
Again, How Do You Tell?
That matter, the individuals of the general population being able to tell accuracy from inaccuracy, and helpfulness from harmfulness, as universally self-evident to the cognitive portion of each person's mind, or almost universally self-evident, is, surely by my lights, The, Single, Greatest, Political, Issue, Of Our Time.
Well, the most likely continuation from those 1897 events, if left unmitigated, which, for the most part, is indeed what happened, certainly could not have been predicted via 'complexity' 'theory', nor 'chaos' 'theory', nor any of the other right-wing formulations currently in vogue. Operative perhaps, at some very high, or very low logical level, they are entirely 'out of the loop' so to speak, regarding how life works - this bioecosystem and everyone in it - regarding how life works at this star.
Overlaid onto life, they come out to: "you can't really make predictions", and anyway, "one thing can't make that big a difference", or, "some unforeseen thing will make all the difference", and besides, "whatever happened, was inevitable anyway"(!??!!!) or some such. Not to mention the ultimate in bourgeois sociopathology: "You don't really want to know, anyway".
In fact, we can, and do all the time, make predictions, high and low, with very high likelihood of accuracy; There are one-way-or-the-other, "decisive factors", it comes up all the time; One can foresee, and plan, comprehensively, with, again, a high degree of likelihood of accuracy, despite unforeseen possibilities; Some things are very likely, but 'inevitability' is not part of the workings of this bioecosystem; and, of course, If we need to know, in order to solve problems of harm to humans, and while avoiding endangerment or violation, then we can know, and we want to know.
So anyway, am I implying that child abuse leads to Holocaust? Oh no! Not at all! You don't understand.
I am Stating, Explicitly, that child abuse Causes Holocaust. The single biggest factor; a one-way-or-the-other, decisive factor. Any kind of abuse. And in this context, by child, I mean into a person's twenties.
And people wonder why these allegedly "academic" 'disputes', can get so heated; it's because, at bottom, there are so often, tens, or hundreds, of millions of lives at stake, and whole generations, in health or despair, hanging on the outcome . . . That's why they can get so heated.
Darwin knew it, Pasteur knew it, Freud (spit!) knew it, Bertie Russell and Al Einstein knew it, Lennon was flashing on it, Malcolm knew it, Marie Curie knew it, and I know it too.
Whole generations, and tens of millions of lives, hinging on the outcome of what is falsely alleged to be a mere "academic" 'dispute'.
Those caretaking, accuracy-seeking, communist neuro-ions just gotta' be muscled down, from the inside, mafia-style.
Instant high level fascism in a cute little pill. Ain't that clever?"
So. Should we develop a commie pill, in retaliation? No, I don't think so. We don't need it; very conveniently, us communists already have god, mother nature, and dna on our side. Best I can tell, anyway.
I mean, that's why they have to roll their satanic formula up into a pill, isn't it? - because they don't have god on their side. Seems to me anyway.
I suppose it's the latest Nazi German 'science' derived twist - in fact of course, twisted, as to be expected - the latest twist on the old McCarthyite scam; this time though, the McCarthyite chill is cleverly administered in a pill, in grade school, straight to the CNS, no bothersome sorting through of who the deranged ones really are.
Very clever, them Nazis. I mean, stupid!, very very stupid at the high level of course, imbeciles, but at the low level, of how to, in turn, imbecilize a whole population, very clever.
When the German Nazi Party's base of operations - the Gestapo and SS - were brought into the U.S. councils of power after the war, inspiring that deranged and grotesque Nazi housewarming party known as Hiroshima ('Welcome Home' said a beaming Dulles and the Truman administration to Gehlen's men), and engineering an archetype German Nazi style 'witch hunt', 'McCarthyism', to destroy detection facilities and thus avoid exposure, they then adapted the "black-magic-'high'-level-hoax" to "don't-look!-because-there-is-no-scientifically-discernable-high-level-in-the-first-place!-hoax".
The liberals of the day, tragically, accepted the deal - they agreed to kill off the whole idea of leftist ideology altogether (leaving the fascist idea fundamentally intact, hanging like a dagger over the entire body politique), in exchange for no more subpoenas, arrests, or executions, and even forcefully passing on that deal to the SDS of my own generation.
Apparently, the reactionaries broke their 'no executions' half of contract, at Dallas in '63, although, perhaps it was Kennedy himself who broke the contract, with his 'new frontier' idea, which, I for one, thought coded into 'new ideology'.
At any rate, unfortunately, the still terrified liberals had become too comotose to remember what they'd signed, continuing to enforce their "no ideology" half of the deal, in fact, with a vengence. (And even so, losing Martin, Bobby, Walter, and plenty more in the years to come.)
Indeed, in the early days of the 60's, there was a famous argument between the old, still-McCarthy-shocked liberals, and the brash new generation, up there on Riverside Drive somewhere. From what I heard, apparently, Hayden and a couple of others argued back, in the moment that is, but, thoroughly knuckled under over the years. As it turned out, they all did, (except Malcolm of course); they all knuckled under to that anti-ideology, and anti-high-level-comprehensive-science stuff, down to this very day.
In deleting the whole idea of developing a clear, scientific, thoroughly consistent, crystalline, and cognitively self-evident progressive high level ideology; in deleting the very idea of a tangible, clear-light-of-day, self-evident-to-any-person system of understanding, in deleting the idea of a clear, consistent, scientific, and overt overall frame of reference; in deleting that whole idea, Black Smoke becomes No Hope.
Again, archetype, with the Nazi-derived COINTELPRO operation of the Nixon years, I presume including Rehnquist and co., finishing the job, via their toxic, anti-ideology and disassociative tentacles branching through the women's movement, academia, the large foundations, alternative movements, and the African community . . . not to mention media and 'pop' 'culture'.
And, of course, COunter INTELligence is quite literally what it was, no metaphor, no joke; it was a method of intellectual and social disorientation specifically designed by the German Nazi Party of the 1930's to destroy the physical intelligence of any human being it touched. "How To Turn A Person's High Level Intelligence Into Smoke, Mirrors, and Monsters", straight from the original German.
You think I'm foolin'? Exaggeration? Hyperbole? Uh huh. Well, maybe. Ok. But, think again.
(Christopher Simpson is one particularly authoritive, establishment-based chronicler of the 'Notorious', postwar Nazi personnel and ideology relocation and transfer of national base from Germany to the U.S.)
(And . . . a Hollywood aside . . . I'd always wondered that perhaps Ingrid had caught some flash of what she was really being used for, in the overall, as exemplified in that famous film, and that was the real reason, deep down, why she turned away . . . even Ingrid, in all her famous apolitical naďveté, even Ingrid couldn't stand the smell . . . and, I presume, that's also the real reason why the Republicans hated her so much, and destroyed her for it . . . right-wing terror of exposure, at base, as usual, despite the ever handy 'scandal' cover story . . . I suppose one could say, that, in terms of the terror of exposure that they - perhaps even inadvertently - struck in the right-wing, as manifest in the clinically insane and criminally deranged reaction of the Republicans and the media, I suppose one could say that Ingrid Bergman was the Bill Clinton of 1951 . . .)
Well, in the end, it just might turn out that I understate . . . it happens sometimes . . .
But anyway, there it is . . .
Voila! Hoax-Nation, direct from the original 30's Nazi German, the infamous ideology of the Gestapo, "smoke-and-mirrors-and-a-high-level-vacancy", The Genuine Article, direct from the alien source, and still goin' strong, hoax-nation, two whole generations later, right here in river city, and again, right down to this very day.
Did the Italians and Greeks vote for Truman or Churchill? Did the Guatemalans or Iranians vote for Eisenhower? The Chileans for Nixon? The Timorese for Ford? The Granadans for Reagan? The Iraqis for Bush? Did the Vietnamese, who took five million killed, really vote for Lyndon Johnson? Gee, I musta missed that . . .
I suppose it's sort of like the old Ancient Greece idea of democracy - one porker voter per fifty slaves . . .
It certainly does seem that, aside from The Absolute Exception of the occasional Democratic Party president such as Mr. Clinton, the usual American definition of democracy, at home, and especially abroad these past fifty years, has been, not 'rule by the people', oh no! but rather, 'rule by the anti-people.'
In fact, they needed singular-reality science, life-and-death, and they had it, cognitive, intelligent, rational, mathematical, singular reality science as we know it, up and down the logical levels.
In fact, as it turns out, the whole idea of anti-scientific hocus-pocus "belief" systems, as life's high-level understandings, was the deranged and satanic fabrication of 'the west' and their conquerors, overlaid into local understandings, and brutally imposed world-wide, alongside the determined and systematic destruction and burning of indigenous, universal-singular-reality-based science.
You're thinking, "Gee, how oh how are we ever going to get a permanent, genuine communist revolution going, immediately, for everyone, world-wide, and forever, amidst all these terrible mistakes and hoaxes?"
(See? I told you I knew what you were thinking.)
Well, fortunately, I just happen to have the solution, right here in my ole' kit bag.
I've come up with a permanent fixer-upper, a cure-all, The Easy Answer, a panacea.
It's totally great! And god it's so Easy! That's the best part.
The hard part was figuring it all out in the first place, and luckily, that part is already done. Ahem.
Anyway, the rest is a snap. Well, ok, only almost a snap, I suppose . . . but still . . . it's good . . . it'll work . . . yes it will tooo . . .
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Story: November 15, 2000
Cast of Characters: December 10, 2000
Note Regarding the Context: May 19, 2001; posted: June 7th, 2001
One of the most difficult aspects of sorting out the solution to the problems of harm to people, is the very powerful injunction, projected by all social and societal intellectual and conversational conventions, against looking at the governing system of a person's thoughts and statements.
It is said that if one looks at the governing system of ideas, rather than just a single idea within that governing system, one is being "philosophical", and irrelevant to the matters of daily life operations, conversations, and problem-solving.
In fact, this is not the case. In the current circumstance, the most absolutely relevant issue regarding all matters of daily life problems, is the "overall understanding" from which people are operating.
As a matter of daily life practicality, absolutely nothing can be solved by disassociating the "governing framework of understanding" from which people derive their minute to minute ideas.
However, all those daily life practicalities are easily solved, if the overall system from which people think and operate is clearly sorted out and addressed.
Again, unfortunately, the societal injunction against an open consideration of the general "frame of reference" from which a person derives their ideas is so powerful, that people automatically react harshly - sometimes with overt malice, and sometimes by abruptly leaving the field - to any attempt to discuss that "governing set of ideas".
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Suppose you are visiting a loved friend, in 1600's Europe, who is living with their family, and has come down with an illness that, today, we would identify as a "cold".
Attending the ill friend is a physician, who is applying the common remedy of the day, namely powerful leeches to suck out the person's blood.
The theory under which the physician is operating, is that there are impurities in the person's blood, and so, to have leeches suck out the person's blood, will suck out the poison and as such, it is said, the application of leeches constitutes the person's best chance of recovery.
Suppose that you understand that having the ill person's blood supply drained in this way will, in fact, weaken the person and make the illness worse, to the point of death, whereas, you understand that clean, warm bedding, light, nutritious liquids, and strong doses of comfort, caring attention, and peaceful rest, would in fact constitute the person's best chances of recovery.
You attempt to discuss the case with the attending physician.
The physician notices that you seem to be a perhaps intelligent, sincere, and learned person, and questions you to see if you have better ideas regarding where to apply the leeches to drain the maximum amount of blood, and if you perhaps have access to stronger leeches.
You mention that it appears to you that draining the person's blood is likely to weaken them, and describe your idea of a "system" of treatment, again, warm bedding, light, nutritious liquids, and strong doses of comfort, caring attention, and peaceful rest, that is more likely to bring about recovery.
This "system of care" that you present, is said by the physician to be an interesting, but vague, abstract, and philosophical notion, and this, says the physician, is no time for interesting philosophical discussions; he notes that this is a "crisis" moment, life and death, and at this moment, the tried and true is called for.
You note that you're being neither 'vague' nor 'philosophical', nor 'abstract', and that the "system of care" that you are describing, is quite immediate and practical; nothing "philosophical", or vague, or "abstract" about it.
You offer to explain just why the "system" you are proscribing is more likely to work, and why the "leeches" are not likely to work.
"Harrumph!" says the physician; this is no time for involved "abstract" "philosophical" discussions regarding "systems", and becomes quite cross, asking the family to remove you from the premises.
Now the patient in question is a loved friend, remember.
You, in response to the now (unnecessarily) bleeding to death of your friend, and in response to the sharp attack from the physician, become quite agitated, and raise your own voice in anger.
The physician, who, as a trained and experienced physician, then whispers to the family that he knows the sort of phenomena that he is seeing in you, and tells them that at any moment, they can expect horns to sprout under your hair, and a pointed tail to pop out under the rear of your trousers.
Aware of the whispering, but unaware of just what's being whispered, you attempt to contain yourself.
After all, your loved friend's life is at stake.
You then attempt to remind the family that you are a quite reasonable person, and, especially given the stakes at the moment, they should at least give a listen to what you have to say.
The family then has a further whispering conversation with the physician, who seems impressed with what they tell him is your reputation for being a reasonable and caring person.
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"You said something about warm bedding" says the physician, and something about a "system".
"This sounds good, actually", says the learned professional.
Henceforth, he will place the leeches not on the patient themself (and you smile in relief), but rather on the mattress and bed sheets, and, as the patient tosses and turns, the leeches' and patient's movements will find their own, natural, "system" of placement along the person's body.
The physician smiles with warm understanding, saying that he hopes you appreciate that you are now being taken seriously, and that your "system" idea will be tried out.
You, of course realizing, that the adding of additional leeches will kill your much loved friend all the more painfully and certainly, can barely contain your fear and rage.
Your face goes red, your hair goes slightly on end, you attempt to half contain and half sputter a response, and goose bumps appear on your skin.
The physician, now sees the absolutely certain signs that you are in the process of turning into your true, and classic, devil state, and that you are a truly insane ingrate to boot, and, obviously, an agent of the devil himself.
As such, he calls for a constable to take you away, warning darkly that you must be bound carefully in a tight jail cell, for if you are not shackled with metal, your burning devilish skin could burn down the jailhouse and the constable as well.
The learned physician further warns that, at any moment, you could "snap" inside, and lash out, violently murdering all in view.
The family of the ill person, looking about at who has the general confidence (and the general political power) in the situation, nervously agrees and the constable does indeed tie you up and take you away.
But somehow, somehow, you manage to collect some calmness, and carefully remind the constable that you are a known and quite reasonable person.
The Constable of this town, thankfully, turns out to himself be someone who thinks of himself as a reasonably intelligent and warm individual, and, having known you for some time, decides, out of the goodness of his heart, to take a great chance, risk his own job and reputation, and let you go home.
But he warns you darkly that you are to go directly home, and never to go near your loved friend, nor anyone connected, nor anyone in an ill situation in the future.
That's the bargain, and, given the alternative possibility of being permanently incarcerated, tortured for confession as regards your meetings with the devil, and worse fates still, you nervously agree.
Shortly thereafter, you receive the expected news that you loved friend died shortly after your visit, the physician listing as the cause of death, of course, the intervention of an insane sorcerer, who was filled with vague and abstract "philosophies" that fooled the family, and interrupted and distracted the physician's healing works.
'Fortunately', adds the physician's report, 'the timely intervention of the town constable prevented the sorcerer from further lashing out and killing more persons at the scene.'
As you walk through town in later weeks, you notice people whispering to one another, looking at an extra crease in your trousers, or a hair out of place, and swearing that they've seen, with their very own eyes, the telltale pointed tail and barely protruding horns from your head.
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They develop a powerful wall against such, by most vehemently joining in the idea that it was that (former) family friend, now inexplicably turned devilish, that precipitated the demise.
Consequently, you are increasingly isolated from social relationships, and even those who suspect exactly what has actually happened, are in fear of associating with you, as their own neighbors may then suspect that they too have now caught the spirit of the devil.
Furthermore, people realize that they dare not speak of "systems" of warmth and comfort, and dare not speak of skepticism of the physician's leeching methods.
Former friends are sagely advised, that even so much as empathetic listening to you, will only increase your dangerous and delusional state, so, for your own good, they reinforce your isolation.
In time your economic, social, and therefore emotional circumstance deteriorates, you become increasingly nervous and out of sorts, and then, a careless accident befalls you.
Fearful of the generally proscribed treatment, and having no one to turn to, the injury turns into infection, you begin to look and feel like a monster, and you die with injury, and therefore the appearance of a devil on you body.
That night, someone looks up into the sky, notices a falling star, and breaths a sigh of relief that another witch has been vanquished, and as such, the world is a better place.
"Ah yes", they think.
"He used to be such a nice, interesting, and warm person.
I wonder what went wrong.
Something must have 'snapped' inside; the mysteries of life; perhaps it was, that the old 'eternal evil' came upon him.
Who knows? Who knows?"
In time, all the warmest, most caring, most healing persons, all befall a similar fate, ever-more strongly reinforcing an ever more terrified, self-hating, and mindless sort of society.
And the most murderous and manipulative walk the town with ever greater confidence and power, especially given, their new, more advanced "leeching 'system'".
And the townspeople generally, therein ever more crippled by paranoia, illness, brutality, and fear of one another and, perhaps most important, fear of their own minds and hearts, conclude that life is just a crazy, and, in the end, an evil, and hopeless matter, and learn to live from hand to mouth, one against the other, reactively, and with no sense of the past, the future, health, or general depth.
And so it went, for centuries, as a general dynamic, played out tens of thousands of times, throughout England, Germany, France, and beyond, in times as recent as the lives of some of our own great grandparents. And the basic idea behind it, echoes, indeed, more than echoes, even still.
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The above story, "Just Yesterday", taken from the "Neanderthal" paper, is only the second fictional tale that I have formally written into this paradigm.
The first, "The Tribe and The Fire", was the 'punch line' for the "Logical Types" chapter, Chapter Two of the Paradigm, written in 1984. It occurs to me that, for some reason, I also wrote that story in the midst of a major political loss.
But anyway, as for this current story, there are a lot of circumstances in society generally, and certainly in my life in particular, to which the "Just Yesterday" story is somewhat analogous, including many things close to home for me, but I think also for, I suppose, almost anyone.
But the specific circumstances during which this "Just Yesterday" story was written, involved the then current national elections of 2000.
In early and mid-October, I had sent a series of letters and proposals (four in all, with cc's all around, to my Congresswoman and to Washington), and followed up those mailings with two visits to my congressional representative's office, during which I left additional copies. Maybe I should mention that these were the only the latest of more than a dozen of such notes and proposals I'd sent in recent years.
Well, then, election day passed, Mr. Gore and the Democrats lost by a hair, and for some reason, I happened to decide to reread a single chapter from John Bowlby's "A Secure Base".
I think it was called "On Seeing What You're Not Supposed To See, Feeling What You're Not Supposed To Feel, And Knowing What You're Not Supposed To Know".
It's basically, about the traumatic formation of rigid and eventually self-destructive denial systems . . . well . . . basically, it's about child abuse, and it's consequences for adults.
But really, when I read Bowlby these days, it's his writing style that I most notice, and, of course, of which I am most envious - 'The King's English', I think they call it.
I do like to flatter myself to imagine that sometimes, maybe, sometimes, I manage to incorporate some of that writing style, into some of what I write, maybe including this piece, I mean, maybe just a smidgen . . .
Anyway, election day passed, and then, over the next week or so, I read this Bowlby chapter, and then, a couple of days later, I woke up one morning, tore over to my keyboard, and just wrote the story - with only 16th Century England in the front of my mind.
At the time, I really didn't know exactly what it was about . . . maybe my family, I thought . . . but at the time, I just couldn't tell . . . it seemed sort of like a dream . . . maybe I was just recalling a dream . . . I don't remember exactly . . .
I guess the last thing I'd read about that period, was a year earlier, about Joan of Arc, and what happened with her.
Well, I don't really know exactly how my mind works, neurologically, but anyway, those were the circumstances under which the 'Just Yesterday' piece more or less 'spilled out'.
Nancy P., Joan, Al, Bill, John B., The King of England, some squiggly charts, a constible or two, a gal, and . . . um . . . a little more, swimming in my mind, over the previous weeks and days . . .
And then.
About two weeks later, in early December sometime, and without changing anything in the story, I came up with, and then over about another two weeks combed out, the following cast of characters.
I guess that part was a little less spontaneous.
In other words, first I just thought of the story, from, it seemed, almost out of thin air, and then, only weeks later, 'the cast' occurred to me.
And, I mean, as it turns out, "the cast" presented here, was actually based on pretty hard, cold reality.
It seems to me though, that in almost any field, either social, or, scientific, almost anyone could write their own cast, from their own life.
The whole thing is not really so special to me, methinks.
Anyway, what follows is the "Cast of Characters" for "Just Yesterday" that occurred to me in the weeks after I'd written the story.
2. The ill person - The Democrat Party prospects in 2000, including the Presidential Race.
3. The Doctor - Political consultants
4. The Leeches - The mass media.
5. The Family - Democrat Party politicians
6. The Townspeople - The voters.
7. The Constible - unnamed.
Please note that there are further remarks regarding this story at the end of the "Neandertal" paper. Click Here for that section.
---- neil
stardate: March 1st, 102001
The Silver Locket --- The Proposal (Acrobat *.PDF only)--- October 2000
Beyond the Wave --- The Warm Caress of Deep History --- November 1996
The Magic Sentence --- In Pursuit of a Simple Equation --- November 1999
Schema --- Science, Medicine, and Social Relations --- March 1985
Flying Blind --- The Politics of American Science --- May 2000
The Sky Buckle --- The Science of American Politics --- March 2001
Summary --- Science, Cognition and Frameworks --- June 1992
On Elections 2000 --- American Politics --- November 2000
Bibliography --- 120 Book Reviews --- 1978-1999
Autobiography --- Notes on Discovery --- March 1994
American Pearls --- 200 Word Summary --- July 2000
stardate: May 5th, 102001
9. 2001 – 3,000 words – The Silver Locket. pearl
8. 2000 – 50,000 words – Lucy and Neandertal, Affection and Cognition. conversation
7. 2000 – 5,000 words – Flying Blind. fog
6. 1999 – 15,000 words – In Pursuit Of The Magic Sentence. magic
5. 1997 – 50,000 words – Bibliography. gridwork
4. 1996 – 12,000 words – Beyond The Wave. women
3. 1995 – 20,000 words – Web Site. politics
2. 1993 – 15,000 words – Summary. cognition
1. 1985 – 10,000 words – Schema. medicine
The Three Tragic Mistakes Of The Justly Esteemed Chairman Mao Tse Tung
1. Choose Leadership By Family Class.
1. Choose Leadership By Family Class.
As it turns out, most of the best communist minds come from what Mao called the most corrupt classes, naturally, and by no coincidence whatsoever, including Mao himself. It's much worse than 'shooting oneself in the foot' - the damage in this case is much more serious . . .
2. Choose Leadership By Polish And Rhetoric.
Sometimes the best speakers and the perfect timing are in the hands of the most corrupt, sometimes in the hands of actor-puppets in one form or another, and sometimes, often enough in fact, in the hands of the most principled and helpful persons. And the same for the least facile of us - could be any one of the three. You can't tell anything at all about helpfulness/harmfulness by the presence or absence of polish and rhetoric.
3. Choose Leadership By The Will To Harm.
The 'determined will to harm' sometimes might be the correct thing, perhaps in certain circumstances in history, in times of war, and terror, perhaps in other related contexts, BUT, as a high level of leadership and governance, that 'will', destroys a population's intelligence, over time.
Second, Modern Times
The 'Big Four' Hoaxes Of Modern Academic Anti-Science.
Protégés And Derivatives, Direct From The German Nazi Party Of The 1930's And 40's
1. Complexity In Mathematics.
The notorious, and preposterous, "flat-as-a-pancake", smoke and mirrors school of anti-calculation.
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2. Chaos In Physics.
An astoundingly absurd confusion across three logical levels.
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3. Sociobiology In Biology.
Charles Darwin, an extraordinarily warm, profoundly gentle, loving, and people's revolution supporting, dyed-in-the-wool liberal, was in the habit of accidentally vomiting ('burp, excuse me') all over his slave-trading dinner guests, whenever they attempted to cackle this crackpot horse s-t! in his presence.
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". . . Your Hoax Of Hoaxes . . ."
4. Hostile Nature In Philosophy.
According to this one, "All of Life's Creatures Evolved And Got Strong By Beating Each Other Up."
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Part Two B: Nine More Infamous Anti-Science Hoaxes Of Our Time,
Most of Them Enduring Right Down To This Very Day
1. The Piltdown Hoax in Paleoanthropology (officially exposed)
1. The Piltdown Hoax In Paleoanthropology (officially exposed - duration: 30 years).
("The father of us all was a Brit, and, 'Up the Empire' ( . . . don't tempt me);
but anyway, really, don't you know? God created Adam just outside London, as a matter of proven, scientific fact.")
2. The Seduction Theory Retraction Hoax In Psychiatry (officially exposed - duration: 90 years) According to this one: "Kids are just dying to be raped and otherwise abused, and they especially love being lied about."
3. The Psychopharmacological Hoax In Medicine (unofficially exposed - duration: 50 years and still goin') Here, it's claimed: "Nature got it backwards; you're supposed to stuff-your-face, first and foremost.
4. The Black Magic Hoax In Nazism (unofficially exposed - duration: 20 years with stinky derivatives still present, 60 years later) Since communism was found to conform to the actual, scientifically determined structure of life's high level patterns, then, in science's place, some filthy, anti-science "belief-based" satanic smoke and slime was spewed about at the high level, specifically in order to cloud things up.
5. The Democracy Hoax In Political Science (unofficially exposed - duration: 2000 years so far) With two billion people living very very directly under the American sword and dollar, and with, what, one out of fifty of them voting for American leadership, or even eligible, and generally mostly only the richest porkers of all at that, um, democracy? Really? Are you sure . . .?
6. The Indigenous Spirituality Hoax In Anthropology (unexposed - duration: 500 years so far) It is falsely claimed that indigenous peoples didn't need universal-singular-reality science to find water, to predict weather, didn't need singular-reality science to discern edible from poisonous, to fashion clothing and shelter, to navigate, to remember, articulate, and sort through their history for survival purposes, and so forth.
So, therefore . . .
And Third, On The Permanent Arrest Of The Mistakes And The Hoaxes
Now, I know just what you're thinking.
The Five Rules Of Primary School Education, And National Electorate Education.
. . . down from ten at Sinai; Moses congratulated me already . . .
1. Accurate/Inaccurate
2. Healthy/Harmful
3. Honest/Dishonest
4. Logical Levels
5. Configuration
1. Accurate/Inaccurate - Learn how to tell accurate from inaccurate as universal absolutes,
in natural conformance with singular reality, and with the cognitive portion of everyone else's mind.
2. Healthy/Harmful - Learn how to tell healthy from harmful as universal absolutes.
3. Honest/Dishonest - Learn how to tell honest from dishonest as universal absolutes.
4. Logical Levels - Learn how to calculate in logical levels.
5. Configuration - Learn how to calculate via configuration.
See? I told you it was easy! Nothin' to it! That's the easy part.
. . . and, as always,
. . . with all my love,
. . . and, best wishes to all . . .
. . . ---- neil
San Francisco
May 23, 2000
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Originally designed as a footnote for the above paper
Update - - - March 1, 2001


Child-Abuse-Based
Conservative Framework
Science-Based
Progressive Framework
Other files of relevance at this web-site - June, 2000
50 Best Books (Acrobat *.pdf) Just One Page
Schema Medicine
Summary Cognition
Graphics Home Page 1995
Starting Page
Color Acrobat *.pdf (250k)
Reality and Cognition (a one page illustration)
B&W Acrobat *.pdf (350k)
1024 *.gif image file (150k)
Color Acrobat *.pdf (600k)
B&W Acrobat *.pdf (300k)
1024 *.gif image file (150k)
do you believe in magic? In Color
Proposition January, 2000
In Pursuit of the Magic Sentence November, 1999
The Nature of Truth and Definitions
Autobiography
Just Yesterday
excerpt from "Lucy and Neanderthal"
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XX. A Medieval Tale - Fear Of Cognition
Introduction For Yet Another Analogy
Just Yesterday
Suppose we imagine a possible circumstance from perhaps two or three centuries ago.
The Punch Line.
The physician then turns to you, and says with soothing respect, that he has given thought to what you have to say, and has decided to take your advice.
The Strongly (But Not Completely) Self-Perpetuating Dynamic
And even the family of the ill, now dead person, cannot bear to think they themselves were parties to the demise of their own kin.
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Note Regarding The Context For The Above Story:
Losses and Paradigmic Fiction
Generalizing
Election Day
Proposal
Child Abuse Explained, In The King's English
Spill
Comb
MetaphorCast of Characters:
1. The main person - yours truly
Additional Important Notes
And best wishes, to all
State of the Art
Currently Relevant Files At This Web-site, Are As Follows.
Lucy and Neandertal --- Affection and Mathematics
--- January 2001
Jacob's Ladder
10. 2001 – 100 words – The Sky Buckle. high level illumination
Beginning just above, are the ten major paradigm manuscripts available at this web-site in chronological order.
The Following lists all major paradigm manuscripts in order of importance.
1. The Silver Locket – 3,000 words – 2001
2. Everything else.
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