Saturday, November 15, 2008
Friday, November 07, 2008
Chomsky on BBC saying that "best way" is from below (bottom up). Implies that real change "never" comes from above, because all of these people are rotten bastards. (Vulgar Marxists).
This denies the fact that virtuous leadership is possible. Chomsky seems to forget that he can be a humanist and not know it, just like one can be happy and not know it. One just needs a map, as Colin Wilson so aptly maintains.
Dichotomizing is a disease. Dichotomy transcendence is the key, but we can step forward into growth (up) or backward into safety (down). Looks like we might be learning what to do with the word "species."
Problem seems to me is lack of teachers' abilities to spot the early sociopath and pay him special mind. If he is also highly intelligent, he'll wind up as Cheney-type. Our "government" is our semi-permeable membrane, which is supposed to keep out all the bastards and stinkers. Once they get in, they can rise to the top like anyone else, but their Weltanschauung is kaput.
See the "Puritan Gift" book.
What this means is giving our kids MAPS--Cognitive Maps--of healthy people, not sick ones. Everybody knows about Uzi's before they learn about B-memes. We live in language. Language is our gas and there is a stoichiometry for it. There could be a meaning sieve, etc. Metalanguage represents the umwelt and must not be forgotten. But most of all, show healthy examples as well as dystonic ones. Obviously, we've let a hell of a lot of crooks run the show of late. Enter, the Orthomentor, cracking us back into shape no matter how painful the fun. (One must ask about ineffective programs here in terms of Maine, etc.) Columbia is now good example of total waste of resources. Need to spend the money on educating the young about how to have a B-life.
This denies the fact that virtuous leadership is possible. Chomsky seems to forget that he can be a humanist and not know it, just like one can be happy and not know it. One just needs a map, as Colin Wilson so aptly maintains.
Dichotomizing is a disease. Dichotomy transcendence is the key, but we can step forward into growth (up) or backward into safety (down). Looks like we might be learning what to do with the word "species."
Problem seems to me is lack of teachers' abilities to spot the early sociopath and pay him special mind. If he is also highly intelligent, he'll wind up as Cheney-type. Our "government" is our semi-permeable membrane, which is supposed to keep out all the bastards and stinkers. Once they get in, they can rise to the top like anyone else, but their Weltanschauung is kaput.
See the "Puritan Gift" book.
What this means is giving our kids MAPS--Cognitive Maps--of healthy people, not sick ones. Everybody knows about Uzi's before they learn about B-memes. We live in language. Language is our gas and there is a stoichiometry for it. There could be a meaning sieve, etc. Metalanguage represents the umwelt and must not be forgotten. But most of all, show healthy examples as well as dystonic ones. Obviously, we've let a hell of a lot of crooks run the show of late. Enter, the Orthomentor, cracking us back into shape no matter how painful the fun. (One must ask about ineffective programs here in terms of Maine, etc.) Columbia is now good example of total waste of resources. Need to spend the money on educating the young about how to have a B-life.
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