Caustic Ramblings

The following is bit of a long ramble in response to JMG's jab (pun intended) at the corporate establishment's desperate attempt to browbeat the masses into worshiping lab coats.
https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/131994.html

It seems like the Cult of Technocratic Managerialism that got its glorious start during the FDR years has become dilapidated to the point where it has become a morbid sci-fi horror self-parody. Now this hilarious "Trust the science!!" mantra comes off like the invocation of a desperate Cargo Cult, one willing to do anything to prolong its increasingly-fragile sense of confidence and self-worth; anything to harken back to the good ol' days where 'science' was perpetually on the up and the masses were oh so enthusiastic about material progress! It's like the remaining true believers subconsciously know their days are numbered.

To draw from a favorite mythos of the true believers: The 'USS Technocracy' starship is about to blow; there's hull breaches all over the ship and the warp core has started to leak plasma; yet the command crew is sitting pretty on Deck 1, being protected by a force field around the bridge and they're blissfully in denial that their ship is about to become a cloud of dust and metallic debris; the enlisted crew members on the lower decks are being sucked out into the vacuum of space, but the people up top are each plugging their ears while singing to themselves, "la la la la, I'm not listening!!"

We could say that "Science" (in the cultural-ideological sense) is an egregore (Group Mind Entity), and one that is becoming weaker and more unstable by the year? If we're to draw from occult philosophy, it would seem that less and less ordinary people "believing science" weaken the egregore and make it more a mental reflection of the remaining cult of true believers. Undoubtedly, it's been pop-cultural artifacts like the aforementioned Star Trek mythos, along with countless flashy gizmo advertisements, and copycat entertainment products that have propped up this group mind over the years. By this, I think there may have been a lot of non-deliberate self-sabotage going on here, as many of these entertainment products have been sacrificed to the Woke Cult in recent years. Star Trek itself got turned into a cynical Affirmative Action passion play, with its most recent franchise offering, "Discovery"...one that diehard Trekkies have generally deemed an abomination. So worlds have collided, in a manner of speaking, and the Woke group-mind(which is not particularly 'scientific' .. to put it lightly) has been butting itself into the mental real estate once monopolized by the Science group-mind and thus producing untold amounts of cognitive dissonance for the many mental inhabitants unfortunate enough to caught in this storm.

The field of 'Occult Memetics' has become a fascination of mine (the youtube personality Styxhexenhammer666 coined this term). Thinking about this topic in detail has me realizing just how much of a collective psychotic break the comfortable classes (PMCs) are experiencing right now.

Last week within the same two day window I had both my dad and uncle (both are TV-addicted boomers who unquestioningly believe everything the corporate media talking heads tell them they need to believe) pester me about getting the jab, and in a rather passive-aggressive manner. I can only surmise that there has been a corporate propaganzda blitzkrieg now that it's become apparent that the vaccine supply has vastly outstripped demand. All of the true believers have had their shot already and those outside the science cult have to be either bribed or browbeaten into taking it. Many of us are simply "nope" and this is enraging the cultists to no end. I absolutely refuse to take the jab and a fear my own family members might become increasingly hostile toward this. So I'm left with the choice of either lying to them or simply telling them this isn't up for debate, now buzz off.

No, I'm not wearing a stupid mask unless a business establishment I'm walking into absolutely requires me to do so. And no, I'm not getting an under-tested science experiment jabbed into my arm.

It's quite simple: the branch of academia we call "the humanities" is the most subjective area of studies; it is the area most open to accommodating differing interpretations and even mere opinions. The humanities is the soft side of knowledge and inquiry. It's a fertile ground for both sophists and truth-seekers alike. When philosophical standards are done away with it becomes a fertile ground for ideologues and and radical elements to freely peddle their propaganda to young, impressionable minds.

Unlike in the hard sciences, it's all-too-easy to make unfalsifable truth claims in most of the humanities. Truth in the humanities is ultimately a matter of which philosophers, thinkers, schools of thought, and academia personae are currently in vogue. Truth in this sense is an appeal to authority rather than something that can be empirically tested and quantified.

I've stated before that I don't believe there has been any grand "Cultural Marxist conspiracy" that infiltrated and took over Western academia. I must add a caveat here: radical professors with Marxist sympathies have in fact been all over academia since at least the early 1970s and they have probably colluded with one another to some degree. But I don't believe it's been by any hyper-organized, top-down means. Rather, a potent organizational culture took hold after the massive cultural shifts of the 60s and 70s worked their way through general public's collective psyche. And university administrators were more than complicit in enabling this plague to incubate and spread. Administrators likely enabled this culture to proliferate, because in enabling crypto-Marxist departments like "Women's studies" to exist, they were scoring cheap and easy "diversity" brownie points that made for positive-sounding PR. As with most situations, incompetence and shortsightedness are much more sensible explanations for corruption than shadowy conspiracy theories.

And as we know quite well now, the corruption has infested the Social Sciences as well. Social Science is that murky middle ground between humanities and the natural sciences. Many social science fields rely on subjective metaphysical speculations as the basis for how to frame studies and interpret data within those fields.

The corruption is even trying to creep into STEM now, but I'm confident that will only go so far until it hits a big brick wall known as mathematics. You see, math couldn't give a damn about your feelings. Sophistry and emotional rhetorical cannot fudge numbers. STEM will be fine but it needs to detach itself from the rest of the festering rot academia has become.

In fact, academia itself needs to stew some more in its own poisonous juices until it completely dies. Parallel institutions must rise up in its place. Good riddance to the corrupted academia. The new institutional paradigm must first and foremost devote itself to truth-seeking. And by truth-seeking, I mean an uncompromising devotion to Natural Law. There is Natural Law and their is nihilism; we must choose one; we cannot serve two masters. Natural Law truth-seeking is done when we derive our philosophical and intellectual authority from the towering greats who existed long before the corruption set in. In other words, we should return to the classics and turn a sharply skeptical eye toward Natural Law-rejecting modern modes of inquiry like utilitarianism, positivism and blank-slate assumptions about human nature.

Once again I say, good riddance. The infected near-corpse known as modern academia shall die on its own terms.