Excellent article. History is being rewritten faster than it's being made. There were so many things I wanted to reference about the Federal Reserve Act, its fundamental illegality and the obviously manipulated circumstances under which it was passed etc.—and those facts are nowhere to be found online anymore unless you really super know where to dig—or recall the book title (that's no longer in print!) that has the real information spelled out. All it takes is one generation and history—with all its lessons—effectively disappears.
Some weeks ago I noticed that my word processing program which I was using offline was disappearing my edits to my autobiographical works. I lost perhaps three weeks of work on this and now just don't trust any of these systems. They can disappear things as fast as it is being written anymore...
This article, like your article on Orwell and Huxley, is ridiculous. Russell was born into the aristocracy and its privileges, but he spent much of his time supporting causes which were unpopular with the establishment. Instead of relying on ChatGPT, why don’t you read some of his works. If you seriously believe that he was advocating the teaching of “snow is black” you are getting the cart before the horse in terms of understanding his point. The contention that he worked for the CIA strikes me as being so far out of character that I think the source of such calumny should be cited.
A rather interesting case study using the portrayal of Russel. I can excuse the Wikipedia article on account of it being a publically owned organization that anyone can join and start editing articles to suit their agenda, but ChatGPT straight up lying to you, saying that a quote from Russel has never existed, is Orwellian.
Especially the passage on the concept of boredom was eye-opening. Just a few minutes ago, I thought about how addicted Western society has become to entertainment and fiction, and wondered why.
It's because of boredom, and that is apparently an invention of the industrial age. If you think about it, it makes total sense, too. Humans, by nature, want to work and be productive. But if society turns from everyone working on their lives at all times, to everyone only working in specific places during specific times, the rest of the day will have no work in it, and thus cause the sensation of boredom.
Of course, many nations are industrialized, but the addiction to entertainment seems more pronounced in the Western world, perhaps because of higher levels of personal freedom. If, what you can do is dictated upon you (e.g. the industrial nation of China), instead of what you can't do being dictated upon you (e.g. the industrial nation of Germany), you might not feel like you're doing nothing with your time so much.
As a technocrat, the Russel quotes about 'scientific dictatorship' also struck me, and how he seems to openly defend the Nazis' eugenics. I always thought technocrats wouldn't develop insane ideas like that, that knowing better is quite literally their occupation.
Are we beyond industrialisation by force of the internet and it's impact on socialisation? The internet operates within the confines of industrialisation. So maybe we are talking about industrialisation 2.0?
Yuval Harari's teacher ! recently I read a book by Dr Mullins (murder by injection) written some 40 years ago, where he names several of the eugenicists and bigharma people. Rockefeller, gates, and several others. It started more than 100 years ago. As to slaves, I think in old times they were more like servants, I read several historic books where 'masters' married slaves. I think in the Middle Ages it got worse, and then worse. Even Abraham in the bible had slaves. The idea that one person could own another seems to be very old! I had a vague idea of Russell but not that he was as evil as shows in this writing. Thanks for sharing.
The correct link for Mike Robinson's article:
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/bertrand-russell-impact-science-society
Excellent article. History is being rewritten faster than it's being made. There were so many things I wanted to reference about the Federal Reserve Act, its fundamental illegality and the obviously manipulated circumstances under which it was passed etc.—and those facts are nowhere to be found online anymore unless you really super know where to dig—or recall the book title (that's no longer in print!) that has the real information spelled out. All it takes is one generation and history—with all its lessons—effectively disappears.
Some weeks ago I noticed that my word processing program which I was using offline was disappearing my edits to my autobiographical works. I lost perhaps three weeks of work on this and now just don't trust any of these systems. They can disappear things as fast as it is being written anymore...
This article, like your article on Orwell and Huxley, is ridiculous. Russell was born into the aristocracy and its privileges, but he spent much of his time supporting causes which were unpopular with the establishment. Instead of relying on ChatGPT, why don’t you read some of his works. If you seriously believe that he was advocating the teaching of “snow is black” you are getting the cart before the horse in terms of understanding his point. The contention that he worked for the CIA strikes me as being so far out of character that I think the source of such calumny should be cited.
On a nostalgic note....if any of you readers are over the age of 50...you'll appreciate this blog from the famed world-renowned economic forecaster, Marty Armstrong, from this evening...titled..."REMEMBER WHEN" https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Remember-when-1.pdf
A rather interesting case study using the portrayal of Russel. I can excuse the Wikipedia article on account of it being a publically owned organization that anyone can join and start editing articles to suit their agenda, but ChatGPT straight up lying to you, saying that a quote from Russel has never existed, is Orwellian.
Especially the passage on the concept of boredom was eye-opening. Just a few minutes ago, I thought about how addicted Western society has become to entertainment and fiction, and wondered why.
It's because of boredom, and that is apparently an invention of the industrial age. If you think about it, it makes total sense, too. Humans, by nature, want to work and be productive. But if society turns from everyone working on their lives at all times, to everyone only working in specific places during specific times, the rest of the day will have no work in it, and thus cause the sensation of boredom.
Of course, many nations are industrialized, but the addiction to entertainment seems more pronounced in the Western world, perhaps because of higher levels of personal freedom. If, what you can do is dictated upon you (e.g. the industrial nation of China), instead of what you can't do being dictated upon you (e.g. the industrial nation of Germany), you might not feel like you're doing nothing with your time so much.
As a technocrat, the Russel quotes about 'scientific dictatorship' also struck me, and how he seems to openly defend the Nazis' eugenics. I always thought technocrats wouldn't develop insane ideas like that, that knowing better is quite literally their occupation.
Are we beyond industrialisation by force of the internet and it's impact on socialisation? The internet operates within the confines of industrialisation. So maybe we are talking about industrialisation 2.0?
psychology is not science it is the science of opinion
Yuval Harari's teacher ! recently I read a book by Dr Mullins (murder by injection) written some 40 years ago, where he names several of the eugenicists and bigharma people. Rockefeller, gates, and several others. It started more than 100 years ago. As to slaves, I think in old times they were more like servants, I read several historic books where 'masters' married slaves. I think in the Middle Ages it got worse, and then worse. Even Abraham in the bible had slaves. The idea that one person could own another seems to be very old! I had a vague idea of Russell but not that he was as evil as shows in this writing. Thanks for sharing.
This explains A LOT!!
Wow.