Scott Stephens wrote:
> From: Russell McMahon <apptech@PARADISE.NET.NZ>
> Subject: Re: [OT]: Teaching Math
>
>
>>> How does academic fashion come and go, and why?
>
>> Note that it is not academic fashion, it is social engineering that
>> largely drives it.
>
> And what is the spirit behind this 'social engineering', and what is
> the premise it is based on? They claim our time and treasure for the
> common good, and when it comes time to deliver, what do they deliver?
>
> My personal experience has been government and corporations will find
> plenty of excuses to tax, degrade and exploit you, and if you attempt
> to claim a benefit, or demand they perform their duty, they find
> plenty of excuses to disqualify you, or shirk their responsibility.
>
> I have seen this spirit, this evil, predatory desire behind thousands
> of excuses and circumstances. Often conservatives point out the
> symptoms of the illness, the methods of the Beast, but they never
> quite get a hold of its spirit. Lately I read Rand's Fountainhead, in
> which some of her high-contrast caricatures illustrate the method of
> the madness well (the dissolusioned, dumbed-down Catherine and
> Ellsworth's chapter-long speech to Keeting about power - destroying
> the identities and wills of others while appearing to be a saint, for
> instance).
>
> My point - it is better to fight smarter, not harder. Good camouflage,
> deception, means less energy expended by the predator to hunt down
> the prey. Predators inhibit, degrade, competitors in jungle, to
> dominate food supply and gene pool. In society, inhibition works
> through the will of the mob, the tyranny of charisma and popularity,
> to inhibit the will of the mob, the will and identity of its
> individuals through humiliation and brutality to the will of the
> popular. Or you can examine chaotic systems such as neural networks -
> a collection of unstable oscillators coupled in geometric
> configurations. Some communities of neurons/switching elements
> establish oscillatory patterns that entrain other communities and
> elements, causing them to phase-lock to the popular mode, rather than
> freely-firing according to their own limit cycles.
>
> That is the fruit of public eduction, not its conscious, overt,
> stated goal, but the unconscious demonic desire in the hearts of
> those that are intent on destroying the individual identities of the
> members of the 'public', so that they can be reformed into what the
> establishment desires. It is not about ideology or what color
> uniforms (fasion), it is about who gets to choose the ideology and
> the fasion. It is about the desire for power and the desire to
> degrade the hearts and minds of others, their independant will.
>
> Public housing, public education, public toilets.
>
> Scott


Scott, even that english is not my born language, I can not agree more with
you, we're fully damned. But tell me, what a hell you said above? is this
about a new fruit juice or something?

:P

W46NER.

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