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Position yourself in the World of Ideas and Theories. Where are you? Have we learnt anything from our forebears? The Proper (Scientific) Structuralized View Of The World or The Proper (Scientific) Structuralised View Of The World. It is so very simple, in fact, that all people should be able to understand it. Some people like to make any understanding of the World we live in so complicated and very hard to understand. They can do this, very easily, by befogging all the most simple and all the most complicated of issues. Knowledge is Power.
Position yourself in the World of Ideas and Theories. Where are you? Have we learnt anything from our forebears? The Proper (Scientific) Structuralized View Of The World or The Proper (Scientific) Structuralised View Of The World. It is so very simple, in fact, that all people should be able to understand it. Some people like to make any understanding of the World we live in so complicated and very hard to understand. They can do this, very easily, by befogging all the most simple and all the most complicated of issues. Knowledge is Power., Saving Planet Earth from the bottom up, it may be too much to ask that of our fairly useless Governments, if past performance is anything to go by! "To have a society of labourers, it is of course not necessary that every member actually be a labourer or worker, not even emancipation of the working class and its enormous potential power, which majority rule accords to is decisive here, but only that all members consider whatever they do (and have) primarily as a way to sustain their own lives and those of their families". Hannah Arendt 'The Human Condition'., Vilanur Ramachandran 'The Emerging Mind' BBC Reith Lectures'. Colin Renfrew and Cognitive Archeology. My position on the map (at present) all the rest is 'probably' true, Colin and Richard on memes and memetics - 'disagree'. Richard Dawkins 'memes' and 'memetics'. Niall Ferguson 'War Of The World'. Richard Brodie 'Virus The Mind'. And, a 'modern synthesis' that I can't see really working! http://luckyme0.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A18BF3FCC5E126A2!1908.entry, Arthur Koestler 'Bricks To Babel'., History, Prehistoric (cognitive) Archeology. Evolution. Cosmology. Small amount of Neuroscience (Psychology) i.e., HEC - is all we really need to know anything about!, Erich Fromm 'The Fear Of Freedom'., Richard Dawkins. 'Structural World View'? Evolution. 'The Ancestors Tale' and 'Sefish Gene' - all books. Survival of the fittest and random mutation. Charles Darwin., Plato 'The Republic of Plato'. Philodoxical - Greek Philosophers. Levels of Consciousness. Aldous Huxley. Timothy Leary. LSD. Castaneda 'A Seperate Reality'., Arguement in younger people is for the sake of it. Like puppy dogs tearing at each other. Older people care more about 'truth' than having an arguement and just for the sake of it. Republic of Plato., Edward Gibbon 'Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire', Stephen Hawking 'The Theory of Everything', Richard Fortey 'The Earth' (Geology) and 'Life'., F.A. Hayek 'The Road To Serfdom' and 'The Lowest Common Denominator'., Media has a devastating effect on the modern individual. Fromm. 'The lowest common denominator'., Absolutes and the dogma of religion are more frequently wrong than the 'theories' of science. Science is all about doubt and can be difficult. Religion is (mostly) all about certainty, so is an easy option. The 'leap of faith' taken: means for some - no more exploring, explanation, or even any thinking is required ('opium of the masses'). Unexplained coincidences; personal connectedness: strongly felt to Stars via the Big Bang - we are stardust - chemical connection (Apollo Astronauts), and 'magic'('the world is magic and made for us'). Superstition (Religion and Culture). Myth. 'Admiration' of 'celebrity worship'. Human Thinking and Animal Thinking. Robert Englefield...The gullible and the vulnerable... 'In Every Primitive Tribe' - is a 'Medicine Man'. Joseph Cambell 'The Hero With A Thousand Faces'. Carl Sagan 'The Demon-Haunted World'. http://news.uk.msn.com/in-the-shadow-of-the-moon.aspx, Work. Knowledge. Money and Business. What We Do - Human Condition. Aldous Huxley 'Stories Essays And Poems' - "Everyman, I will go with thee, and be thy guide, In thy most need to go by thy side 1937"., Tit for Tat. Game Theory. William Poundstone 'Prisoner's Dilemma'., Power of the Sub-Goup. 1960's torture experiment. Sub-Group inescapable with or without this knowledge. A true Achilles Heel., Children and Education. The Proper Structuralized View Of The World is 'missing' or at least 'muddled' and befogged - Erich Fromm. Church Schools and Faith Schools .UK., Howard Gardner 'Multiple Intelligences' SAPHERE. Mathew Lipman 'Thinking In Education'., Anthropological 'Anomy'. H.G.Wells., Prehistoric Mind. How did Prehistoric Man think? The Primitive Mind., Bertrand Russell 'History of Western Philosophy'. Why 'Useless Knowledge' is important and 'orientation is impossible without a map'. Without (our own) 'Useless Knowledge' we are at the mercy of all other people - their whims, wishes, ambitions...so on...And, at the mercy of, 'The lowest common denominator'..., 'Becoming human is a process; not some event'., Mind Map - Art. Grayson Perry 'Humankind's Evolution', "A hunting, f... machine"., Art. Kenneth Clark 'Civilisation'. Nigel Spivey 'How Art Made The World'., Lucy 'The Dramatic Discovery Of Our Oldest Human Ancestor'. Richard E. Leakey 'The Making of Mankind'., "Still from Eden springs the root, as clean as on the starting day". Edwin Muir. 60,000 years ago - we are the same as then! Obviously, we brought with us lots of attributes - those of millions and millions of years! See, 'The Ancestors Tale' Richard Dawkins., J. Bronowski 'The Ascent Of Man'., Nigel Calder 'Magic Universe', Irving Stone 'The Origin'., Marcia Bartusiak 'Through A Universe Darkly'., The 'selfish' (War Lords and Warriors) - magnified by the ego enhancing split mind of any unreason and at all 'cost'. 'Superstition is cowardice (impertinent insolence) in the face of the Divine' Theophrastus. 'Science is not avid impertinence'..., The English Civil War "They preferred the ancient light of divinely blessed authority to the distant glimmer of democracy. "God saith, 'Touch not mine anointed' ", wrote a Cavalier knight as he reluctantly girded on his sword for the battle". Winston Churchill., Robert Fisk 'The Great War For Civilisation'., Nationality. What is a Nation? 'A monstrous cant that has been sung into the hearts of men'. Hayek? And, Huxley, on the 'extremes' of Nationalism., Government Propaganda. What is propaganda? Huxley. Multicultural (ism) - unsatisfactory and lacks the freedom of any 'natural discernment'. Multiracial (ism) - the toleration of all people. Edward Gibbon on (some) of the Romans, and Martin Amis 'The Second Plane' - 'natural' and unforced toleration that is palatable., Man's social achievements vs Man's technological achievements. Why is their such a big gap? What and who is hanging up any progress? 'The legal status of torture and the adoption (take up) of Human Rights being good indicators'., The 'creep' or the 'creeping' (over time) of the undefined word/idea of 'spiritual' or 'spirituality' into many other subjects within Schools beyond that of (compulsory)Religious Education (RE). UK. See, British Humanist Association (BHA) definition of 'spiritual'. Leading many children as 'easy meat' into widespread 'cult' membership or much worse; later in their life - preparation for the (inescapable) Sub-Group. 'Virus Of The Mind' Richard Brodie - Designer of Microsoft Word; Endemic Disease; Madness. UK. I am sure that in the 1950's or 1960's, when I was at school, all this was 'contained'. Money, and Government; children and children's education; being a 'soft convenient target' - must have a lot to do with it. Not the Government's rosy propaganda of 'freedom of choice' and 'tradition', which is nonsense! Tradition was particularly appalling! 'Freedom of choice' was not even thought of and was far out of reach for most!, Leading to Child Abuse. Ref, Richard Dawkins and 'Others'., "If you want to be 'religious' the best knowledge you can have is that of 'no-religion'". A Roman Catholic Priest., Holocaust Training, UK FIRST AS HUMANISM INCLUDED IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES GCSE, "Whenever you kill a human being you are killing a source of thought too. A human being is a collection of ideas, and these ideas take moral precedence over a society. Ideas are patterns of value". Robert T. Pirsig, Imprinting (psychological) Westermarck and Freud, Family, past relations, and friends, who have been killed in war, or have had to suffer the civil usurpations of slavery, poverty, and so on..Humankinds inability to learn from the past and its blatantly inherent short term memory of any appalling events: masked by the more appealing and sensory-stimulating situations, derived from concentrating on trivia, as in: royal, reiligious, nationalistic, and military processions, so on... In the first World War Montague Williams received a letter of commendation from King George V as 7 of the 8 boys all held commissions in the armed forces, 6 in the army and one naval, the 8th son still being at school., REBT. Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. A challenge to irrational thoughts. Citadel of Self or Nuclear Self., Four Pet Hates - War. Poverty. Ignorance (with or without) Certainty. Small Talk!, Gore Vidal, 'Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace' and 'War is good for business'., Four Ages of Man. 1) Superstition and Faith 2)Indifference - We are about here! 3) Concern 4)Understanding., 'Human beings are absurdly easy to indoctrinate - in fact, they seek it'. Army Psychologist of the 1960's. Why?, 'Quango's of Religiosity' UK. Faith Schools and Church Schools. Private Schools and Public Schools. Central Government and Local Authorities. Local Councils. SACRE and NASACRE. Religious Education Council of England and Wales - policy decided in the 'secret sessions of the medieval courts'. 'The Power of the Gurdians': 'Never has so much power been in the hands of so few' Nobel Prize winner (economics) Amartya Sen. Costing the UK taxpayer - fortunes. Security Risk. Divisiveness. Self-harming in children and the vulnerable. Sectarianism and so on... Power of Royalty, Church, and State. UK. Unicef, UK bottom of 21 wealthy nations for happiness relationships and health and safety for older children. Why? See, above. UNCRC - UK punitive imprisonment of children and deaths in custody and parents penalised 'more than ever' for childrens behaviour - not supported. Esp: Refugee children lack care!, Peter Wilson and Colin Renfrew - The 'Great Leap Forward' and a 'Structuralised World View'. 'The adoption of the house as the permanent context of social and economic life also marks a major development in cosmological thinking - The adoption of the house and the village also ushers in a development of the structure of social life, the elaboration of thinking about the structure of the world and the strengthening of the links between the two'. Peter Wilson and Richard Dawkins 'The Great Leap Forward 'The Ancestor's Tale' - a book for every family! Note: a great progression of Writing/Art/Language so on...
