I have retreated to yesterday's NYT. Prominently featured on the front page--with color foto--is an article on The Latest in Psychosurgery. Déjà. Like yesterday and tomorrow all over again. Head line: Surgery for mental ills offers both hope and risk. Hm. Hope--this is something like irrational optimism perhaps? Risk. This is a realistic chance that things will work out for the worse short and long haul.
And then again. Yesterday's NYT e-mail update--the book reviews from tomorrow's NYT Sunday Book Review. Last but not least reviewed: Michael Specter's Denialism. The review begins: The optimistic view of science is that the theories advanced with its methods will have self-evident appeal to an educated public. Why, then, do people so often behave unscientifically? Behaving "unscientifically" in a "scientific" world is denialism. Bad! Like tomorrow an' yesterday all over again. Skinner's pregnantly named superstitious pigeons. The Future of an Illusion. God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist. Die fröhliche Wissenschaft.
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So, Specter (apparently perhaps not a pseudonym?) argues that it is unscientific=irrational to not get inoculated. I beg to differ. Exqueeze me. Modern Science tells us that if 90+% of the public is inoculated my own chances of getting the disease are significantly reduced--without the attendant risks inherent in any inoculation. I get a free ride off of other people's ignorance--or unselfishness--any rational=scientific person would choose to get the free ride: convince the others to be shot while remaining themselves unpunctured. After You. Surely, if I know this, Specter knows this. So, why is he writing this diatribe? So why does the NYT reviewer not notice this?
Déjà.
And then again the psycho surgery. What arrogance! What ignorance! As if we knew literally where evil (unreason) (the a-scientific self) resides, resided, will reside! Pat Ettiene's Heyoka Pal. Oh yeah-in such-and-such-a-place in the brain. You bet!
Do you, did you know, will you know what is the most insane and irrational idea yet? I will tell you. It is that human beings are capable of decoding the fundamental laws of the universe. A flea with an erection floating downriver on his back and ordering the drawbridge to open... Oh yeah-we have shown that God does not exist. Wow!
What is the future of THAT illusion? psycho surgery
Yesterday, today, tomorrow. Wake me when yesternight human arrogance simmers down. Keep smiling!
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