Miscellaneous Illuminations

[Miscellaneous Illuminations @TheMoreBeautif0]

1/2 'Man loses his own identity in the marketing orientation; he becomes alienated from himself. If man’s highest value is success, if love, truth, justice, tenderness, mercy are of no use to him, he may profess these ideals but he does not strive for them.'

[Miscellaneous Illuminations @TheMoreBeautif0]

4/4 'Nowadays, terms such as “enlightenment” and “self-determination”, which Kant invoked in his call for emancipation from conventional authorities, have degenerated to the catchphrases of a new social technology.’

From ‘THE DECISION TRAP' (English publ, 2015) by Silja Samerski

[Miscellaneous Illuminations @TheMoreBeautif0]

1/4 ‘When Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) in 1794 articulated “Sapere aude!” (dare to know) as the battle cry of the Enlightenment, he could not have foreseen the emergence of an educational and counselling industry.'

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3/4 'He [Kant] could not have suspected that one day a whole army of experts would thrust their services upon citizens in order to enable them to make so-called informed choices.'

[Alison Blunt @AlisonBlunt]

4/7 'If the nutrient solution is then suddenly given back to them and the poison is simultaneously taken away, they die. They first have to relearn to metabolise the nutrient solution. And that is what RNA does.'

[Alison Blunt @AlisonBlunt]

3/7 'The nutrient solution is depleted and they live exclusively on this toxin.
The same thing happens when antibiotics are used instead of dioxins, the bacteria start to metabolise them.'

[Alison Blunt @AlisonBlunt]

2/7 'The first experiment with bacteria I did as a biologist was to see that when you keep increasing dioxin (toxin) concentrations and at the same time suddenly withdraw the nutrient solution, the bacteria start digesting the dioxin.'

[Alison Blunt @AlisonBlunt]

1/3 'What we feel to be an impossibility is actually mere incongruence with our habitual thought style.'

Ludwik Fleck

[Alison Blunt @AlisonBlunt]

10/12 'Such reinforcement is a feature of all social structures. The thought style is subject to independent development for generations. It constrains the individual by determining "what can be thought in no other way." Whole eras will then be ruled by this thought constraint.'

[Miscellaneous Illuminations @TheMoreBeautif0]

'Teamwork can take two forms. It can be simply additive, as when a number of people join together to lift something heavy. Alternatively it can be collective work proper - ...'

[Alison Blunt @AlisonBlunt]

2/12 ...'not merely the summation of individual work but the coming into existence of a special form, comparable to a soccer match, a conversation, or the playing of an orchestra. Both forms occur in thinking and especially in the act of cognition.'

Ludwik Fleck

[Alison Blunt @AlisonBlunt]

14. 'If his false self-image is called into question by life circumstances, crises and challenges, the person will activate every possible defense of this recognition from himself and others. The person fears that the self-deception will be recognized and that he will then...' ..

[Miscellaneous Illuminations @TheMoreBeautif0]

It is heartbreaking to read about farms being closed and farmers losing their livelihoods, about cattle being slaughtered - all because an animal 'tested positive' for tb. Read the history of how tests were produced and how the so-called virus was imagined. It is all nonsense.

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There is no test for any so-called disease that is not based on assumptions and unproven theories.

[Alison Blunt @AlisonBlunt]

1/3 Quoting from 'That Hideous Strength" by C S Lewis, first published in 1945, “Don’t you understand anything? Isn’t it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That’s how we get things done.“

[Alison Blunt @AlisonBlunt]

'The truth is something bigger than that which most people are satisfied with.'

Quoting Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy in 1946 from 'The Christian Future or, The Modern Mind Outrun' - 'Des Christen Zukunft oder Wir überholen die Moderne'

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6. Quoting from part 1 of 5 audio series, ‘Markets and Society: the Life and Thought of Karl Polanyi’ (CBC Radio, 2005), written & presented by David Cayley.
https://t.co/6of9xAfDGD

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5. ..."they will rend the telltale page from the book of history and continue as the rulers of the world, without faith, without conviction."
(quoting Karl Polanyi)

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4. ..."in its science and its religion, in its culture and its civilization, one guilty hope is rife in the minds of its ruling spirits, and it is that, in spite of everything, they will prevail, they will forget everything, they will silence everyone, ..." ...
(quoting Polanyi)

[Miscellaneous Illuminations @TheMoreBeautif0]

1. 'The world, in Polanyi’s view, had sleepwalked to war. Later generations, he said, would hardly believe that so great a calamity “could have taken the civilized world entirely by surprise.”'

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3. "One common will, one common determination is at work, hidden and secret, in this moribund world. In all its governments and all its oppositions, ..." ...
(quoting Karl Polanyi)

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2. 'That millions had died or been displaced for no good reason had, for him, the force of a revelation. But he sensed that this revelation would be strenuously resisted.'