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The circuit board is already drawn and the voter just runs the maze to get where the designer/strategist wants him to go. It doesn't matter which fork in the path the voter chooses, they all lead to the same destination. The media cohort, with its artful use of sound and light, handles the crowd control and preps them for the pollsters.

Same as it always was, says W.E.B. DuBois in 1956.

I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no “two evils” exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say. There is no third party. On the Presidential ballot in a few states (seventeen in 1952), a “Socialist” Party will appear. Few will hear its appeal because it will have almost no opportunity to take part in the campaign and explain its platform. If a voter organizes or advocates a real third-party movement, he may be accused of seeking to overthrow this government by “force and violence.” Anything he advocates by way of significant reform will be called “Communist” and will of necessity be Communist in the sense that it must advocate such things as government ownership of the means of production; government in business; the limitation of private profit; social medicine, government housing and federal aid to education; the total abolition of race bias; and the welfare state. These things are on every Communist program; these things are the aim of socialism. Any American who advocates them today, no matter how sincerely, stands in danger of losing his job, surrendering his social status and perhaps landing in jail.

Two hundred years and the people never see their position.
Livestock waiting for the time of enlightenment.

::: Screen fades to black :::

I think my rational, materialist science bonafides are smashed. I don't think I can talk "seriously" about science now. I see too many gaps and paths untrodden.

Binary is, IMO, not natural and removes agency. "You can get out of bed or stay asleep."
"How about I roll over?"

There are never only 2 choices if you have agency.

Binary is great for the material sciences and a materialist society because it removes agency and denies open, interconnected systems. It is currently claimed to be the apex of human knowledge. Binary (digital) is a facsimile of reality that denies entanglement, agency, and consciousness.

I think this is a tremendous error. And the hubris displayed while defending keeps anything from moving on that front in most all the physical sciences.

I do believe this is changing in physics given the realization that Earth and the lab are not closed systems when you look close enough. A bunch of "pseudo-science" from yesteryear (and the ancient world) is becoming cutting edge scientific theory.

I wonder how long it will take to trickle down into the other sciences and if it will ever be allowed to trickle down to the population.

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@k9disc

Binary (digital) is a facsimile of reality that denies entanglement, agency, and consciousness.

Looking back at your comment, I believe this is the active ingredient in much that is happening in the US. Forcing logic into a binary construct is a synaptic block to multi-associative brain process. This population is denied the validity of its own feelings and intuitions as they pertain to reality. Parents can do that with children, leading to very bad outcomes for them. It could also be called "gaslighting" but in this case, truths are being denied with marginalization, criminalization, ostracization, and unresponsiveness. The results, I think, manifest in music and the arts, in religion and philosophy, and in the sciences. It's not that they do not move forward or that they lack creativity — but they do not reach transcendental peaks as often. There seems to be more hat-tipping to established dogmas than there are transformational insights that trickle down in an evolutionary fashion. If you've lived through such times, you might notice it was missing or dormant. The constant propaganda in the US, which distorts reality and gaslights the people (denies that they witnessed what they think they did), is probably to blame for the persistence of the stale paradigms that weigh us down. The spectrum of permitted observations and reactions is very narrow in the public space controlled by the media owners.

That's been my observation at least. Being mindful of this seems to provide some immunity.

I think my rational, materialist science bonafides are smashed. I don't think I can talk "seriously" about science now. I see too many gaps and paths untrodden.

Binary is, IMO, not natural and removes agency. "You can get out of bed or stay asleep."
"How about I roll over?"

There are never only 2 choices if you have agency.

Binary is great for the material sciences and a materialist society because it removes agency and denies open, interconnected systems. It is currently claimed to be the apex of human knowledge. Binary (digital) is a facsimile of reality that denies entanglement, agency, and consciousness.

I think this is a tremendous error. And the hubris displayed while defending keeps anything from moving on that front in most all the physical sciences.

I do believe this is changing in physics given the realization that Earth and the lab are not closed systems when you look close enough. A bunch of "pseudo-science" from yesteryear (and the ancient world) is becoming cutting edge scientific theory.

I wonder how long it will take to trickle down into the other sciences and if it will ever be allowed to trickle down to the population.

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