Inspired from youth by Albert Camus' sense of the Absurd, I try to be a voice for REASON in the growing darkness and moral insanity of global capitalism .
Friday, September 21, 2018
Early science fiction films like " The Day The World Ended " were prescient.
Fahrenheit 11/9—Filmmaker Michael Moore clings to the Democratic Party
It is so very hard for really PRIVILEGED individuals - no matter how fine their social conscience - to break with capitalism and the " American Way of Life " - which includes the permanence of the two party system.
Above all the solid socialist revolutionary is impervious to bourgeois public opinion.
Socialists in many ways can be compared to the early Christians in ancient Rome at the height of its imperial glory . Only these Christians sensed what was coming , the awesome Fall. And they at least had HOPE - so absent in the world of 2018.
Considering the cracks in the infrastructure it is easy to imagine the great cities of the United States half-abandoned and nearly buried in weeds and overrun by wild flora and fauna in the next few decades.
Abandoned Detroit is a vision of THE FUTURE for us all .
Those early science fiction nightmare films like " The Day The World Ended " were prescient. Only a few radioactive, terrified survivors left to contemplate the catastrophe . But already half the population of the planet approaches a sickly, stupefied, sub-human condition of wretchedness.
Once again human life becomes short, nasty, and brutish.

Above all the solid socialist revolutionary is impervious to bourgeois public opinion.
Socialists in many ways can be compared to the early Christians in ancient Rome at the height of its imperial glory . Only these Christians sensed what was coming , the awesome Fall. And they at least had HOPE - so absent in the world of 2018.
Considering the cracks in the infrastructure it is easy to imagine the great cities of the United States half-abandoned and nearly buried in weeds and overrun by wild flora and fauna in the next few decades.
Abandoned Detroit is a vision of THE FUTURE for us all .
Those early science fiction nightmare films like " The Day The World Ended " were prescient. Only a few radioactive, terrified survivors left to contemplate the catastrophe . But already half the population of the planet approaches a sickly, stupefied, sub-human condition of wretchedness.
Once again human life becomes short, nasty, and brutish.

Nothing so scary as " ignorance in action " ( Bertrand Russell )
New York Times’ fraudulent “election plot” dossier escalates anti-Russia hysteria
I recall Bertrand Russell - who protested the Great War - saying that nothing was more scary than " ignorance in action ". He reports in his biography that he was saved from a patriotic mob only because they learned that he was " the brother of earl ".
Socialists cannot depend on royal DNA to protect themselves from persecution .
Socialists cannot depend on royal DNA to protect themselves from persecution .
Metaphysics is anybody's game - the God Haters are equal here to the fans of Thomas Aquinas
You might re-think this if you do some homework. As a scientist Tyson is just famous for demoting Pluto as planet in the Sun's " family ". I recall Isaac Asimov saying somewhere that this was rather childish.
As a VOICE of MILITARISM Neil de Grasse Tyson needs no moderating interpretation.
As a pillar of the New Atheism Tyson has behaved like a jerk and clown in public - not a scholar of science. But you can change my mind about him with up-dated information.
You can change my mind about ANYTHING with new facts. So a little bit of the " scientist " has rubbed off on me. I am no more likely to change my mind about the ABCs of Marxist economics and sociology than about Newton's Laws of Motion - OK - in fact EXCELLENT- for everyday purposes including social revolution.
Metaphysics is anybody's game- the God Haters are equal here to the fans of Thomas Aquinas - the authority in Catholic theology. Even Bertrand Russell saw the saint's merits in his " History of Western Philosophy " . For one thing Aquinas -like the orthodox Marxists - believed in objective REALITY , objective TRUTH - and at least imagined that science and faith could be reconciled.
Tyson lacks the social conscience of fellow atheist Carl Sagan . He is a very shallow human being. And how many working class kids can afford his science lectures ?

Debunking Neil deGrasse Tyson
As a VOICE of MILITARISM Neil de Grasse Tyson needs no moderating interpretation.
As a pillar of the New Atheism Tyson has behaved like a jerk and clown in public - not a scholar of science. But you can change my mind about him with up-dated information.
You can change my mind about ANYTHING with new facts. So a little bit of the " scientist " has rubbed off on me. I am no more likely to change my mind about the ABCs of Marxist economics and sociology than about Newton's Laws of Motion - OK - in fact EXCELLENT- for everyday purposes including social revolution.
Metaphysics is anybody's game- the God Haters are equal here to the fans of Thomas Aquinas - the authority in Catholic theology. Even Bertrand Russell saw the saint's merits in his " History of Western Philosophy " . For one thing Aquinas -like the orthodox Marxists - believed in objective REALITY , objective TRUTH - and at least imagined that science and faith could be reconciled.
Tyson lacks the social conscience of fellow atheist Carl Sagan . He is a very shallow human being. And how many working class kids can afford his science lectures ?

Debunking Neil deGrasse Tyson
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