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Subject: Re: Relevant text - Sun, 25 Feb 1996 05:50:26 -0500
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 05:50:26 -0500
Message-Id: <199602250502.AAA23221@relay1.shore.net>
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
From: "true paranoia..reads" <orgone@shore.net>
Subject: Re: Relevant text
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
>Bell Curve.....
>
>I saw a book which claimed to be able to measure the intelligence of
>your dog. Some dogs are dumb and some are smart. The criteria was
>simple. A dog breed which could obey its master was the "smartest."
>A dog which would obey, no matter how ridiculous and how damaging to
>the dog itself, a dog which had no SELF other than its master was
>judged the smartest. This dog "learned" what it was supposed to
>learn the fastest and was thus the smartest.
>
>The Bell Curve seems to imply that unless the dumb people of the
>world learn the rules and do and act as they are supposed to in our
>society and culture they are irretrievably stupid. Unless I can
>learn and obey and respond to what is perceived as the ecomomic rules
>of capitalism (do and feel what I am supposed to do and feel) I am
>stupid.
>
>Mike C
>
>
The smart dogs are the wolves. The ones who didn't come "in".
You may have the rhythm method, but you may not have birth control, and if
you don't understand why, go to the back of the bus.
"As I write this, the vast majority of people believe that the
electron theory is truth. When I say " the vast majority," I mean "every
single person who thinks about electricity except me." Given the history of
man's theories, that doesn't bother me. In 1450 they called you a goofball
and you flunked geography class if you didn't believe the world was flat. In
1900 you flunked physics if your calculations indicated it was possible for
a man to fly in machines. In 1980 you'd lose your tenure for suggesting that
superconductors were possible at temperatures as warm as liquid nitrogen,
though now we know they are. In the late 20th century they'll think you're
more than just a bit odd if you don't believe in the electron theory. They
certainly won't accept you into graduate school, Let alone allow you to
repair their TV set.
Therefore, you need to know enough about the electron theory to pass
for one of Them, should you ever get surrounded by a mob of high school
science teachers, for example. Your life may depend on it. If you find some
irritating inconsistencies in the electron theory, don't worry. That only
means that your brain is still alive. Just remember, it's called a theory
because it has never been proven. True Believers will insist that anyone
with a pure heart will accept it on faith, this collection of bizarre,
supposedly self-evident truths. Of course, that's also what they said during
the Spanish Inquisition, and the Salem witch trials."
Kenn Amdahl from "There Are No Electrons"
We studied this stuff in school. How troubling it is when we suddenly
realize we're living right in the middle of a time when people are lined up
and shot and bulldozed into graves as you read this for mostly monetary
reasons, while millions of others are slowly starved or poisoned.
What you've got there is a piece of propaganda that seeks to justify
behavior that any resonable person would find sickening as you apparently did.
Rightly so.
- dave huisken
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