If I’d lived my life by what others were thinkin’, the heart inside me would’ve died

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity

Someone had to reach for the risin’ star, I guess it was up to me

"Up to Me" by Bob Dylan)

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

From Spinoza's Preface to the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

I want to share a quote from Spinoza:
"Granted, then, that the supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation, and count it not to shame, but the highest honour, to spend their blood and their lives for the glorification of one man. Yet no more disastrous policy can be devised in a free commonwealth. To invest with prejudice or in any way coerce the citizen's free judgement is altogether incompatible with the freedom of the people."

What part of the game is not rigged from cradle to grave and K-12? I recall John Lennon singing: "You think your so clever and classless and free but your all fucking peasants as far as I can see." Free thinking is the mark of a free citizen---it doesn't matter if the game is rigged and the government is a lying swindle---it is your own step that matters. Freedom Is as Freedom Does---nothing more. A complete slave or cripple can still practice mental freedom...

Political Correctness is "the beginning of the end..." If I cannot speak freely my mind and teach freely then can you tell me what advantage there is to living in the land of plenty?

I am certain that I do not only speak for myself that I am disgusted at the violations against liberty that computing has brought about---it is the great enslaver. I hold the designers no matter how cool you think they are to assume some responsibility for the unintended consequences of the internet, WWW, and all of the apps and connectivity by which the web of totalitarian fascist surveillance destroys the fabric of virtue and yet parades as a liberator. Perhaps John of Patmos was referring to the internet when he mentioned the Beast in the Book of Revelation and closely associated with the mark of the beast and its image. Who then is its false prophet?

I guarantee you this much---that the despotic sway of scientism which describes the human intellect---that is the soul, in terms of neuroscience is a deception. All attempts at artificial intelligence smack of blasphemy---a hidden agenda of man ascending to the heights, like the Tower of Babel. Psychology is fallen so far from the mark of attempting to adequately account for human understanding and the miraculous nature of the human intellect.

It is evidently clear that if you extrapolate a picture of governance from the practice of contemporary science of all stripes---i.e. cosmology, neuroscience, geoengineering, socioevolution, AI, etc... reveals a fascist political underpinning---shibbolethic high-priests in secret societies ("peer review"---there you have another piece of the political correctness strategy for mental enslavement taken straight from the Soviet rulebook) as sacred illuminati lording over the dazed citizenry. Was there ever one vote, one piece of legislation from the people prior to the restructuring of the entire acadmic, military, state government, medical, corporate before Microsoft struck its monopolistic hegemony of Windows '95? The answer is no! Computing, cybernetics runs on a completely different track. In fact if you might describe this as a political coup---let's return to pre-computer days in the States---the idea that the government could have been turned over internally was hard to imagine. But thanks to political correctness and the complete restructuring of american education according to the unproven neuroscientific paradigm---first you imagine that thinking is entirely materialistic---that is, you deny the soul---then you substitute the word "thinking" for the truth of human understanding which is a miracle through and through. Then you reduce 'thinking' to something a machine can do. Then you base psychological research on this false 'peer-reviewed paradigm and call it "brain science" a complete neologism in the Orwellian sense. What does 'science' really mean in this sense? Then you prove that the brain is a computer, then you force computing into every aspect of the human analogue experience of time and space and truth and beauty---in short you make an effort to render philosophy into oblivion. Then you declare that there is a convergence, as does IBM and Kurzweil, you mention a singularity, you call it a revolution and then put the entire world under its globalist tyranny. Then you train every school kid that computers think. Meanwhile the thinking of a child whose vision is glued to a screen of any kind is radically and dangerously impaired.

2 comments:

jucapa said...

"To invest with prejudice or in any way coerce the citizen's free judgement is altogether incompatible with the freedom of the people."

That's quite an interesting quote considering modern day propaganda/advertising under-girds the whole political/economic system we're living in going back to Edward Bernays and Walter Lippman's belief (shared by President Wilson and the political elite) that the "Manufacture of Consent" was/is vital to the functioning of American democracy...

Scriptor said...

Yes, good observation!
WHen thinking of the "kingdom of darkness" that Hobbes referred to or the sense of darkness that Spinoza faced, we must note that the darkness of this present 'world age' is equally dark. It is difficult to glean this with all the fanfare and hoopla that surrounds each technological "breakthrough". All of the cheerleaders for the future of intelligent machines are fools driven by the love of money, nothing more. It takes a man of steel to see through these shadows where Science is high priest. I guess that's it---technology is plowing ahead for better or worse as if it were in some sense inevitable and there must be the evangelization of this utopic ideology---Dostoevsky wrote: "Man must hew a road wherever it may lead." Far from affirming human liberty, progress and innovation refute it!