Just when you thought it was safe …
I have already told you that we have not heard the last of
scientists and their Will to Power.
And in The Guardian newspaper on February 5th, a devote of the secular
Abrahamic belief system known as Western science, presented some
“recollections” of time spent as chief scientific advisor to the president of
the European Commission. I use the word “recollections” deliberately, but you
will have to wait many months before you see why.
In the article we learn that one of the former chief
scientific advisor’s “recollections” is disappointment that the relationship
with the president was not as close as it could have been, and that,
(one-to-one) meetings with the president were not very frequent. This begs the
question: why was that so? I speculate, but could it be that Barroso realised
that, if you sit in a room with a tiger, it will eventually eat you. Most
likely we will never know unless Barroso at some point in the future reveals
his side of the story – his own “recollections”.
In the former chief scientific advisor’s “recollections” we
also learn that the (at the time) new appointee to the post of president,
Jean-Claude Juncker, would have nothing to do with the doomed chief scientific
advisor. All praise to President Juncker for taking such a stance. Perhaps he
too recognised the dangers of having a tiger sitting in the room. Perhaps he
also understood that the demand from scientists that they must have a seat in
government are just the words of a vested interest group, and the people who
make such demands, along with their organisations, are the ones who stand to
gain the most, in terms of power, money and kudos, from the realisation of such.
Perhaps, and I would like to believe this, he also recognised that such demands
are fundamentally undemocratic and that all such previous outings of scientific
government – which requires totalitarianism to sustain – have led to disaster.
The belief that it will be, “different next time” is just collective delusion
and denial, which is something scientists, including chief scientific advisors
and former ones, have in abundance, along with much hubris.
We also learn from the article that there is a new book
coming out soon in which a longer essay of “recollections” will be published,
so more opportunities for exploring whether there is anything other than just “smoke
and mirrors” to these “recollections”, and if there is anything more than just
one individuals attempts to write their own history, to create myths. And a
whole book, by highly deluded, but dangerous people, advocating the rule of
science and reason, and mapping out how they, for the common good, will be
running your lives in future, is bound to be a rich source of material for
satire, which is exactly what this lunatic fringe deserve.
Which brings me to the matter of art and literature, which
you should understand, does not exist for the purpose of communicating how
marvellous science and scientist are to an increasingly sceptical and
distrusting public, but to expose the reasons why people should be sceptical
and distrustful, and to help people to understand that they do not have to
accept the perversity that Western science has become. The former use of art is
just propaganda, and people who advocate art for the purposes of glorifying
science, stand in the company of Stalin and Hitler – it is the new religious
art. Art exists to help people fly, to set them free from dogmas, including
that of Western science. And art can also help people find an alternative path
that leads away from the world that chief scientific advisors and former ones, are
creating.
Recall that two weeks ago, in an article about extremists
masquerading in a cloak of respectability, I said that it is time to take a
peaceful stand against extremism in all forms, before the social, economic, and
political conditions become such that the extremists’ simplistic ideas and
solutions begin to look attractive. Recall also that last week I wrote about
the inevitability of a third round of genocide in Europe .
Everything is connected …
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