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@thepalmerworm

Dec 29, 2024

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🤖has concisely summarized information & analysis taken from my threads over the past year regarding the ways in which sophistry usurped inquiry (indoctrination replaced education) through top down imposed Education Pedagogy & Methods purposed for subversion & manipulation. I hope this is helpful for my recent new followers & a beneficial recap for older followers too.

The Palmerworm; Christine Jones (@thepalmerworm) presents a detailed critique of how modern education has mistaken rhetoric—a tool for persuasion—for method, which represents structured inquiry and reasoning. This confusion, she argues, has significant consequences for both education and constitutional governance, ultimately undermining liberty and critical thought.

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the palmer worm 🌲mother, wife,choral conductor.

@thepalmerworm

Dec 28, 2024

🧵Brief🤖Overview:

The decline of epistemological realism’s primacy in academia began in the modern period of Western philosophy, particularly during the 17th to 20th centuries, as new philosophical movements challenged the foundational assumptions of realism. The main figures and intellectual shifts responsible for this decline are as follows:

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Rise of Representationalism & Empiricism (17th-18th Century)

Philosophers Responsible:

•René Descartes (1596–1650): Introduced a dualistic framework where knowledge of the external world depends on the mediation of ideas, separating the mind from direct access to reality. This led to the “problem of the external world.”

•John Locke (1632–1704): Argued that we perceive the world through ideas, not directly, thus introducing a representationalist theory of perception.

•George Berkeley (1685–1753): Denied the independent existence of material objects, claiming that “to be is to be perceived” (idealism). This directly undermined epistemological realism.

•David Hume (1711–1776): Took empiricism to its skeptical limits, questioning whether we could ever know causation or the external world with certainty.

Impact:

Representationalism & skepticism shifted focus away from directly knowing reality to debating whether such knowledge was possible at all.

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Immanuel Kant’s Copernican Revolution (18th Century)

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804):

Kant posited that we do not know reality (the “thing-in-itself,” or noumenon) directly but only as it appears to us through our mental frameworks (the phenomenon). This introduced a profound epistemological shift away from realism to a kind of idealism.

Impact:

Kant’s critical philosophy redirected epistemology toward the structures of human cognition rather than the external world itself, further distancing philosophers from epistemological realism.

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the palmer worm 🌲mother, wife,choral conductor.

@thepalmerworm

Dec 23, 2024

🧵It’s not fashionable or popular to speak of this - especially not in ‘educated’ circles. It’s considered rather ‘lacking in nuance’ & ‘unenlightened’:

Philosophical Realism, particularly in its theological and moral forms, emphasizes that reality exists independently of human perceptions and that truth is objective, rooted in the nature of things as they are.

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The rejection of Philosophical Realism from mainstream education was not a single, definitive event but a gradual process influenced by intellectual, cultural, and historical developments, especially from the late 18th century to the 20th century.

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Philosophers like Descartes, Locke, and later Hume shifted the focus from the metaphysical realism of thinkers like Aristotle and Aquinas to new frameworks emphasizing subjective perception, empirical evidence, and skepticism about metaphysical claims.

Realism, with its emphasis on objective truths grounded in nature and being, was overshadowed by the rise of empiricism (Locke) and rationalism (Descartes), which redefined how knowledge was understood and taught.

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the palmer worm 🌲mother, wife,choral conductor.

@thepalmerworm

Dec 12, 2024

🧵🔥Great article - so valuable to learn this & understand its significance in refuting the propaganda we’re currently fed on all sides. The education we needed but most never had.
open.substack.com/pub/fogcutter/…

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the palmer worm 🌲mother, wife,choral conductor.

@thepalmerworm

Dec 1, 2024

🧵So AI gave this analysis:

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The increasing fragmentation of Protestantism—and broader societal divides—can paradoxically serve the agenda of centralizing power, particularly in the emerging framework of the Networked State or other forms of decentralized but controlled governance. The beneficiaries of these divides and the dynamics involved can be understood at multiple levels:

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Centralizing Power Through Division:

Fragmentation in Protestantism and society at large weakens traditional institutions that historically served as checks on centralized authority. By breaking cohesive groups into smaller, polarized factions, larger systems of control—whether state, corporate, or technological—face less organized resistance.

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Beneficiaries:

Entities seeking to consolidate power (e.g., technocratic elites, platform corporations, or centralized political authorities) can exploit the lack of unity to exert influence without significant opposition from collective movements rooted in shared religious or ideological frameworks.

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the palmer worm 🌲mother, wife,choral conductor.

@thepalmerworm

Nov 29, 2024

Uh oh….I asked for the voice of James Beattie & here it is & I did not give any of these names btw - that was AI’s doing!

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A Beattie-Style Critique of the Woke Right

It is the tragic fate of every age that, when beset by moral chaos, some of its thinkers, instead of turning to the eternal principles of reason and virtue, retreat into the labyrinth of partial truths, sophistry, and intemperate zeal. Such is the lamentable condition of the so-called “Woke Right,” a coalition of ideological opportunists who cloak their grievances in the garb of moral renewal but who, in their essence, are neither moral nor renewing.

This movement, for all its protestations of tradition and moral order, is not grounded in the immutable truths of religion or reason but in an unholy alliance of identity politics, cultural ressentiment, and historical revisionism. While claiming to defend Western civilization, they so often subvert the very virtues that gave that civilization its enduring strength: truth, humility, and charity….

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1. The Movements of the Woke Right: A Bastion of Contradiction

The Woke Right is no monolith, but its prominent movements—be they National Conservatism, Post-Liberalism, or the burgeoning cult of Integralism—share a dangerous proclivity for half-baked ideals wrapped in an aesthetic of righteousness.

•National Conservatism, for instance, extols the virtues of the nation-state but frequently sacrifices moral truth to expediency, conflating national pride with ethnic chauvinism and neglecting the universal moral law upon which any genuine national greatness must rest.
•Post-Liberalism, in its reactionary zeal, rejects the Enlightenment values of liberty and reason altogether, often advocating authoritarian remedies that betray the Christian virtues of patience and persuasion.
•Integralism, while drawing upon the lofty ideals of a society governed by divine law, often collapses into political fantasy, imagining a theocracy enforced by compulsion rather than one inspired by the free assent of a virtuous populace.

3/ 🔥🎯 and if you’ve been following the excellent work of @SovNations you’ll appreciate that @SovMichael has been articulating & calling this out - equipping as many people as possible with the discernment to recognise this👇in real time & to have the courage to stand up in resistance to it.

Each of these movements, under the guise of “reclaiming” the West, serves only to discredit the faith they claim to defend by adopting the tactics of their adversaries: emotional manipulation, division by identity, and the cynical deployment of tradition as a weapon rather than as a guide.

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