Many in the media say there’s a conservative war on science. Is this true? No, says John Tierney, Contributing Editor at the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. Tierney says “the real war on science is the one from the left.”
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Left and Right is line out of date. Greedy “green liberal globalists and common sense people is line today. Liberal globalists use what ever reasons and manipulations to make their agenda. That’s it.
I’ve been working on fleshing out why folks gravitate towards collectivism and group think, and I’m confident I’m on the correct path.
Collectivism is appealing to those who haven’t the drive to compete, and therefore suffer the inevitable losses and roadblocks necessary to build self-esteem and personal growth. It is a stagnation of mind, body, and spirit. This stagnation breeds jealousy of doers/ actors/creators/competitors, aka those willing to risk playing the game of Life. It creates strong resentment for success, and likewise, much comfort in conformity where they can shelter their inadequacies from criticism. There is no hard work to be done with fitting in, and the fear of isolation that is envisioned as the consequence of leaving the fold is paralyzing.
Therefore, equality of outcome, enforced through arbitrary man’s law not rooted in reality, enforced by grunts on the dole of stolen money, just “upholding the law”. No morality in order following. So all parties are responsible, not just the collectivist parasites. Their lazy, foul worldview is impossible to manifest without coercion. Who has the guns and the supposed authority to throw you in a cage? Not the collectivists, that’s for damn sure. They never actually do anything, most especially the dirty work. They leave that to police and military.
History is saturated with the suffering inflicted by order followers obeying the edicts of psychopaths, masquerading around as high-priests, governors of the people, claiming to be above the law because the individuals abdicated personal responsibility in the form of a magical box checking ritual.
Meanwhile, the makers were too busy making things to waste time on fanciful notions of external authority, and all the while the takers vote to use coercion to take from the Maker’s that which they themselves lack the Constitution to manifest.
Spot on!
There may be some here encountering The Science Wars for their first time. The Flight from Science and Reason conference (sponsored by the NY Academy of Sciences, May June 1995) proceedings, of the same title, contributor authors and bibliographies will be a fine introduction.
The Sokal Affair may have been the match to the fuse. Reading the subsequent article on “tabloid science,” I was inspired to name Alan Sokal’s seminal hoax essay, ‘Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity’. Towards, the progressives keyword caught my eye.
I recall particularly pleasant, avowed leftist Norman Levitt’s Prometheus Bedeviled: Science and the Contradictions of Contemporary Culture (Rutgers, 1999).
As I listened to Jordan Peterson’s video clip linked below, I heard familiar names. The battle lines were drawn long ago. Karl Popper did a good job dismissing Marxism in his masterwork, The Open Society and Its Enemies.
Internal warfare in the USA is tearing your great country apart. The left cannot stand that Hillary lost and Trump won, and they are willing to destroy democracy to reverse that decision.
I have done business on six continents and have been to Castro’s Cuba and Honecker’s East Germany, entering East Berlin via Checkpoint Charlie. Both countries had no viable economy and no human rights, and yet this is what the ”Progressives” want for America. Simply put, they want to destroy the economy and the country – that is their objective.
Do Progressives have any idea how well-off they are? Do Progressives have any idea how most of the world lives?
There are about 220 countries in the world, and about 200 of them are failed or failing, with poor economies, no human rights and no Rule of Law. Do you think this is an accident? This is the Marxist agenda – tear countries down so they can ride in to the rescue and take command. Witness Zimbabwe in Africa and Venezuela in South America – and there are many other countries falling into the same cesspool.
These self-styled Progressives, the US Democrats, the Canadian Liberals and NDP, and the Socialist and Green Parties worldwide are pawns of the extreme left.
Many of these imbeciles don’t even know it, but they are following a covert Marxist agenda which is deliberately intended to damage our economies and destroy democracy.
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I published my above comment at
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-views-us-immigration-policy-satya-nadella/
and received a response that apparently is the new theme for the extremists.
Here is my reply:
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So Kwasi Darko, you appear to be saying that Trump is the new Hitler. Unlike yours, my family fought and bled in WW2 – we know Hitler all too well – and DONALD TRUMP IS NO HITLER. When the extreme left spouts this nonsense, no sensible person will listen. They have lost all credibility.
Conservative:
“It doesn’t appear that the change in CO2 level has affected the sea-level trend at all.”
http://sealevel.info/1612340_Honolulu_vs_CO2_annot2.png
Liberal:
“Intersectional feminist post-dialectical assemblage criticism of science as a racist, colonialist social construct.”
http://sealevel.info/intersectional_feminist_post-dialectical_assemblage_criticism_of_science_as_a_racist_colonialist_social_construct.png
That deaf dumb and blind idiot sure playz a mean pinball…
Why is it that the left is always trying to shout down speakers they disagree with while simultaneously being staunch supporters of free speech? I cannot remember seeing a talk given by a left wing speaker being drowned out by a right wing crowd….
The left’s support of all rights has always been limited to themselves.
They support free speech, which means that when they shout down those they disagree with, they are engaging in free speech. After all shouting is a form of speech.
The left supports doing your own thing, but only so long as your thing is not something that they object to.
DJ Meredith,
Can you say “HYPOCRISY?”
When the left says they support free speech, what they really mean is they support their own speech being free. Any speech that they disagree with is to be immediately silenced.
I just wanted to drop in casually here and say:
There are no sexual differences.
There are no racial differences.
There are no cultural or ethnic differences.
There are no differences in talent, no differences in intelligence, .. no differences EVER. Period.
We are all equal.
To enforce any belief to the contrary is racist, sexist, or prejudice. We, therefore, should have no expectations of anyone to be anything but sexless, mindless blobs of flesh, wandering among one another with no standards, no goals, no ethics, no commitments, no biases.
I wonder whether the prevalence of obesity today is somehow related to this blob mentality.
I also wonder whether the popularity of zombie movies today is somehow related to this.
Bottom line: it’s a bigger war than a war on science. I don’t even know what to call it.
It’s a war on the Renaissance that gave us nation states, the USA being the first, aligned to progress. Progress has come to a screeching halt, and voters notice the USA has changed. Lord Bertrand Russell spelt it out. See his Impact of Science on Society.
It is huge, global, but Russia and China are not taking it. India hopefully neither. Trump (despite damaging trade wars) sees that shift from Russell’ British transatlantic. Trump is right in the middle of this shift – look at the swamp going insane!
A war on consciousness and humanity itself.
I was about to respond sarcastically when I realized the sarcasm dripping from your post,.
Oh, Ok then 😉
Its a war on common sense, of which science is the most highly developed example.
War on science. War on sense. Sensless worriers.
First among women in science:
Hypatia (395) – first astronomer and mathematician
Hildegard (1158) – first botanist
Rebecca Guarna (1200) – first physician and surgeon
Dorotea Bucca (1390) – first university professor. Professor of medicine at University of Bologna
Maria Cunitz (1650) – first astronomer since the Dark Ages
Maria Merian (1679) – first entomologist and scientific illustrator
Emilie Du Chatelet (1740) – first physicist to publish physics textbook
Maria Agnesi (1748) – first professor of mathematics (University of Bologna), first to publish calculus textbook
Dr. Strangelove,
Are you trying to make the case that the claimed suppression of women scientists is a fabrication of feminists? It would seem that you are demonstrating that women could be successful in science even in less enlightened times. The question would then be why not more of them then and now?
There was a case for the feminist movement in the 19th century. There was discrimination of women in the past. Cambridge University did not accept women until 1869. The Royal Society did not elect women until 1945. The question would then be why not more male nurses then and now? Do men lack ability?
Best women scientists:
Marie Curie (chemistry) – Nobel Prize in physics and chemistry. Co-discoverer of radioactivity and nuclear energy
Emmy Noether (mathematics) – Formulated Noether’s theorem in mathematical physics. Founder of abstract algebra
Lise Meitner (physics) – Co-discoverer of nuclear fission that led to the atomic bomb and nuclear power
Marie Tharp (geology) – Co-discoverer of seafloor spreading that led to plate tectonics
Vera Rubin (astronomy) – Established the presence of dark matter in galaxies
Judith Curry (climatology) – the voice of reason and “heretic” of global warming religion