1) I'm feeling my way to a better way to explan. I think the true scientific value of the soft-sciences, which increasingly fail falsifiability - way past 50% - is outweighed by the fact that they're not tethered to science but rather to what Hegel calls the Science of Reason.
2) And that this "Science of Reason" is a libido dominandi formula (learn the term) that seeks to dominate target audiences through purported higher-level thinking as demonstrated by the higher level scientized lexicon in support of dominance narratives.
3) As such, as a practical example, this tactic under the larger claim of science is used to attack speech and silence dissent. Simply visualize the fat slob masters seeking TA in a soft science 001 class using this LOE to assert illegitimate authority over unsuspecting students.
4) "What is your authority" (to voice your opinion)? i.e., What right do you have to your opinion? Being "unscientific," the poor student, or larger citizen audiences, can now be disrespectfully treated and viewed as unworthy.
5) Controlling who gets advanced degrees, one controls who become the initiate ruling class that, over time, demand their opinions be treated as science. Being unscientific in their opinions and views, . . .
6) . . . a duty arises from w/in this opaque ruling class to suppress average citizens otherwise protected speech. When such abuses of language breaks the waterline, for ex; political correctness giving way to hate speech, abuse of power supports only speech that is "scientific".
7) Tangentially, I did answer "Doctor Doctor" but he's simply bumping up against his own self-imposed construct - demanding that I conform to it. In that regard, he's very much like the (planted) student challenging Frank Turek, who then dismantles him -
8) Note, constrained by his own construct, the "atheist" student perceives he's being dismantled but can't perceive why. For the discerning audience, however, it's painfully obvious - the student is trapped in his blue pill world and must now decide whether to take the Red Pill.
9) BTW, most will NOT take the Red Pill, i.e., rub so strongly against their self-imposed imprisonment through their adherence to the mass line enforcement narrative. Rather, try to seek to perfect their blue pill construct from w/in the blue pill domain (the pseudoreality).
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1) This is a question that needs discernment. It could be true both that the soft sciences reflect the imposition of metaphysical claims dressed in scientific language to create narrative dominance AND that many in the profession are professional and competent.
2) a) Just as astrology gave way to astronomy and alchemy to chemistry, there are people and concepts that develop bona fide scientific claims that are both repeatable and falsifiable.
3) b) There have also always been sound (and sometimes not so sound) people who filled the roles now played by psychologists, sociologists, etc.
So, even if one is inclined to discount sociology, psychology, economics, cultural anthropology, etc as bona fide sciences, . . .
1) IMHO, Vatican II decapitated the Church such that, from a political warfare POV, was a clean kil*. If so, all the pieces had to already be in place. Garrigou-LaGrange authored "Humani Generis" in 1950 condemning the very "New Theology" that dominated periti ideology.
2) Garrigou-LaGrange refused Wojtyla's thesis. Following political warfare concepts, the New Theologians broke into two camps to form a splinter operation. The outside "radical" group was called the "Concillium." The inside "moderate" alternative was designated as the "Communio."
3) The inside splinter is aligned w the radical splinter but positions itself as the moderate voice (compared to the radical) and hence the only alternative for the "traditionalists" to go to once trapped in the constructed dialectical binary.
1) I'm working on making the connection - but making it hard & non-speculative. ReRemembering lays the foundation but WARNING, it's the "weird" nonpol-sci stuff you'll have to wrap your mind around. In fact, understanding this renders polsci irrelevant - unconstrainedanalytics.org/report-re-reme…
2) And make no mistake, and do not create competing parallel concepts that presume to challenge this, Lenin ABSOLUTELY recognized that Marxism is a direct lift from Hegel, specifically, Hegel's dialectic -
3) Lenin SPECIFICALLY realized that, at it's core, the Hegelian dialectic was based on SPECIFIC metaphysical claims which propel the dialectic -
1) As warned, the GOPe, Islamic Movement, Marxist Left have begun their dialectical attack on conservative Christians. Under the rubric "Christian Nationalism," the target is not just Christians, but also those who believe in American institutions beginning w the Constitution.
2) Note, the American founding fathers from the Declaration of Independence, to the Constitution, to the Bill of Rights were all at least nominally & certainly culturally Christian, & many quite committed.
3) This is a brute force intersectional attack that seeks complete delegitimization based on a pure dialectical attack. Maybe it's time for a Red Pill explanation of what intersectionality really is. Remember: "Cancel Culture" is just the slogan version of "aufheben der Kultur."
@linuxhippie@SissyWillis So, what you're suggesting is that FOXNews establishes 1 of the 2 dialectical binaries, designated populist American/conservative while MSNC estab's the trendy progressive binary as the dialectical complement, both at the dir of leaderships that likewise positions the parties?
@linuxhippie@SissyWillis 2) But that would mean that one of the two binaries will be used to (dialectically) negate the other. This causes me to ponder the GOPe/Lincoln Project activities in terms of a possible dialectical negation campaign, possibly pivoting off/expanding on Jan 6.
@linuxhippie@SissyWillis 3) Consider the Election/Voter fraud (the Symposium, recent voter initiatives) or the Hunter hard drive. There is genuine voter fraud and real incriminating evidence on the hard drive and not just against Hunter and Joe.
1) Here is a start. Around 180 a.d., St Irenaeus wrote “Against Heresies,” or Ἔλεγχος καὶ ἀνατροπὴ τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως, Elenchos kai anatropē tēs pseudōnymou gnōseōs, "On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis" newadvent.org/fathers/0103.h…
2) From around 1209 to 1229, the Church, and the French King, waged a 20-year war against the gnostic Albigensians (or Cathars). By around 1250, St Thomas Aquinas reintroduced Aristotle to Western thinking, including theology. Just as Aristotle was a check on Plato, . . .
3) . . . so too was Aquinas a check on St Augustine, who, before converting, was a “professor” of neoplatonism. Gnosticism arises out of NeoPlatonic theosophical concepts grounded in Plato’s Timaeus.