Our High-Tech Dark Age
Henry H. Lindner
Like
humans throughout history, we have been raised to think that we live in an
enlightened society in which our beliefs, leaders, institutions, and experts
are all essentially correct. So why are our societies and our cultures
deteriorating today? Why is there so much poverty, violence, war, stupidity,
drug addiction, and corruption? The reason is that the problems we face today
are no longer simple things that require only common sense to solve--like
obtaining food and shelter or evading predators. Nor do we just need to kill
the bad guys as endlessly portrayed in Hollywood films.
The
causes of the problems we face today are much more difficult to identify and
correct because they are within us: the false and therefore destructive
ideas that fill our minds. We are animals who acquired language. Therefore we are controlled by ideas expressed in language—by
linguistic memes. We must assure that our ideas—our word formulas—correspond to
reality or we will suffer and make others suffer too. Unfortunately, the ideas
that were instilled in us as we grew up and that dominate our societies today
are the equivalent of mental viruses—old, obsolete, lousy software. So instead
of seeing reality and thinking clearly about it, we misinterpret reality and
therefore act in ineffective and destructive ways. All our attempts to fix problem fail to address the cause, and therefore just make
things worse.
What
are these viruses? They are old ideas, theories and myths about the Cosmos and ourselves: Greco-Roman philosophical errors, Judeo-Christian
delusions, and more modern lies about economics, psychology, politics, etc. The
false assumption that gives rise to all other falsehoods is spiritualism—the idea that we are magic
spirits somehow placed in bodies. Spiritualism posits two realities—spiritual
and physical-Cosmic. Spiritualism is belief in magic. This one false idea
prevents us from understanding our true origins and nature, and thereby
distorts everything we believe about the Cosmos, ourselves, and our societies.
How do we cleanse our minds? How do we identify false ideas and replace them
with better ones? We must use our highest cognitive function—philosophy (See below). However,
philosophy has been essentially expunged from human society in the last several
hundred years as humans have attempted to retain their spiritualistic religions
and authoritarian societies. Philosophy is the only enemy of delusions and
authoritarianism. In place of philosophy we have
Science, which poses as the only path to the truth. Science is accepted by
religions and authorities because it is anti-philosophy. Science limits us to
counting and measuring things and producing mathematical models. Science is
incapable of identifying and eliminating false ideas. It is thus no threat to
the status quo. Science is part of the problem, not the solution. Nothing is as
we are taught; in fact Science is
stupidity, religion
is evil, Capitalism
is slavery, and schooling
is mind-destruction.
We
are living in a Matrix of false ideas about
what we humans are and how we should live together on this planet. Why can’t we
see the truth? It is simple: our
cognitive functions have been deactivated. We are cut off from our ability
to think philosophically from a young age. Beginning soon after our births, our
parents and society began forcing their will upon us—for our own good they thought. Our parents made us stupid by suppressing
our ability to perceive and to think from the moment we learned to talk;
forcing us to obey their will, pushing their slavishness and mental viruses
upon us. They forced delusional religion upon us, training us to believe in
bizarre stories that make no sense of the world. They sent us to schools which
further suppressed our philosophical capacity and natural love of learning,
turning the most precious aspect of life, our love of learning, into dull,
mind-numbing obedience to authority. School taught us that we are too lazy and
incompetent to learn on our own; so we must be forced
to memorize approved facts and ideas for 12 years. Schools taught us that we
are stupid, so we must obey authorities and believe
the experts. We were coerced throughout our formative years into an unthinking
acceptance of the status quo; preventing us from seeing through the lies,
preventing us from learning naturally, by our own efforts, about the world
around us.
Those
of us who chose another 4 years of indoctrination in college were prevented for
that much longer from thinking for ourselves. As a result, the intellectual
class is the most easily manipulated by the plutocrats who run our governments
and corporations, including the media. With the institution of universal public
schooling in the early 20th century, every succeeding generation has
lost more of our species’ intellectual heritage and competence. Thus the quality of thought and of discourse is steadily
deteriorating. Our philosophical intelligence is suppressed so that we can be
controlled. The persistence of the Judaic and other religions and of their core
ideology, spiritualism, signifies that we are still living in the Middle Ages.
This period will be known as the High-Tech
Dark Age:
1. Science is an
inadequate, dumbed-down remnant of natural philosophy. Science limits our
thinking to counting, measuring and predicting. It
attempts to reduce the Cosmos to laws and equations. It diverts
us from using our minds to grasp the unseen causes of things, the true meaning
of life. Science is intellectually inadequate, preventing us from questioning
accepted concepts and beliefs. Not that Science didn’t produce the Copernican,
Newtonian, and Darwinian revolutions. These were works of natural philosophy—of
reinterpreting the evidence according to a new, better theory of the nature and
causes of things. Science is in fact a mental virus, a defense against
philosophy produced by the Judeo-Christian mental virus. Science was invented
by Bishop Berkeley in 1700 in order to protect
Christianity and spiritualism from natural philosophy, from the advance of
human understanding. Berkeley s merely descriptive Science became positivism, and was imposed upon theoretical physics by
Albert Einstein. Positivistic Science now dominates society and academia,
dumbing down everything. Because of Science, we have high technology
coexisting with the most appalling ignorance about the Cosmos and ourselves.
2. Our ideas about the fundamental
nature of our Cosmos, Relativity
and Quantum Mechanics, are just observer-based descriptions;
anthropocentric measurement-prediction models. They are not physical theories; they
are no different than the Earth-observer-based Ptolemaic astronomy with its deferents and epicycles. They are forms of mathematical
mysticism; contradictory nonsense; Stupid Science. With these models we cannot
begin to understand the Cosmos; what it is and how it could
self-evolve into higher levels of complexity including ourselves. We
therefore default to spiritualism; to belief in magic. We stay
in the Middle Ages. We settle for the idea that a mind-like God or Magic Laws
makes everything happen. Unless one takes the time to figure everything out,
one has only the choice of which spiritualistic myth to believe in.
3. We venerate Judeo-Christianity as a religion
of love and peace, when in fact it is the source of our authoritarianism,
ignorance, hatred, fear, exploitation, warfare and
child abuse. To grasp this fact, one need only read the Old Testament (Torah),
the foundational
text of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam objectively, as a sentient adult.
The tremendous evil of these books cannot be reformed, thus the complete
failure of efforts by Jews including Jesus, Paul, Mohammed, Marx
and others. Just look at what those infected by this virus have done and are
doing to unbelievers, infidels or goyim. This evil
viral memeplex and its accompanying stupid Science are preventing any progress
towards a sane, enlightened, and peaceful planetary community. The
anti-religious revolution of the 1960s and 70s failed—due to lack of an
alternative philosophical foundation.
4. Our view of our own human nature is
false and perverse--based upon the Old and New Testament concepts of
authoritarianism, innate evil, and spiritualism. As a result, we crush our own
children’s developing minds and wills. The religious belief that children
are born evil lazy, selfish, stupid, etc causes us to use force, to coerce them into being good.
This has the opposite effect—making them lazy, selfish, stupid, etc.
Authoritarian childrearing is an example of a self-fulfilling delusion.
5. We are told that we are free people
in a democratic society, when in fact we are mortgage, tax, and corporate
slaves in a capitalist plutocracy. We are slaves, we have slave-minds. We
dutifully raise our children to be slaves.
6. Capitalism is not freedom,
it is not consensual adult exchange; it is not moral. Capitalism is an
authoritarian system of controls; a slave system. With its fractional
reserve banking scam, corporations, copyrights, patents, and regulations it
favors the few, the clever, and the manipulative. The rest of mankind are
slaves that it does not have to pay to house or feed.
7. Our conventional medicine is not
based in natural scientific philosophy. It is instead
pharmaceutical, based upon the superficial diagnosis and drug model promoted
by the pharmaceutical corporations. The result is that doctors do not
understand human physiology or mental function. They do not know how to actually find and fix the causes of most of our disorders.
8. The United States, once the model for
a more enlightened society, is now financially, morally, and intellectually
bankrupt. It recently invaded two countries that did not, could not pose a
threat, is threatening many more, and is murdering anyone, anywhere it chooses.
It has bailed out its rulers, the bankers, and has deteriorated into a police
state with unlimited powers to spy on, detain, and kill its own citizens. It
has abandoned one of its primary values—free speech. It exists in flagrant
violation of the spirit and letter of its own constitution and is therefore an
illegitimate, failed state and the greatest danger to world peace. The final
collapse of the U.S. was brought on by 9/11. Blamed on Islamic extremists, it
was an inside job as proven by the free-fall
demolition-collapse of WTC towers 1, 2, and 7. The conspirators included
Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and other authors and signers of The Project for
a New American Century and Israel’s A Clean Break: A New Strategy for
Securing the Realm. The War on Terrorism was and is a hoax, designed to
secure banker-corporate control of the entire planet. The Islamic
fundamentalist violence that does exist has been provoked, encouraged, funded,
and manipulated by these deluded fools. Muslim anger at Western governments is
a natural response to the Western Christian and
Jewish violence perpetrated against the defenseless people of the region
for centuries, including this 21rst century.
9. Our society is becoming increasingly dysfunctional, deformed, and stupid.
It is
self-destructing and change is coming. Whether that change will bring
improvement or disaster is up to us. Our only hope is to recover and to use our
philosophical cognitive abilities. We must question all assumptions, beliefs and institutions. We must abandon spiritualism and
construct a realistic understanding of the Cosmos, its evolution, and ourselves.
We must deconstruct our authoritarian societies, beginning with a ban on all
forced “education” of children.
