Fine bit of post-modern analysis from Sammy there.
Science is the modern oracle. If you look the public adoration of Stephen Hawking for example, Hawking hadnât been in the top 20 most important theoretical physicists in the world since after he turned about 30 years old. Even though his peers didnât hold him that highly, he was by far the most famous scientist in the world because he had a weird robot voice. The public heard the weird robot voice and thought âthis is a guy transmitting unknowable esoteric truths straight from the universe. We must worship him.â These are the same people who look down their noses at yoga and the druids.
A lot of philosophers spent their lives studying Stephen Hawkingâs extremely odd relationship with the public and how it became just another belief system to replace religion. It was all a cod. Hereâs a good book about it:
Youâll see the same thing in the way the media reports on clinical or behavioural psychology. Psychologists have never once made an insight as profound as Tolstoy or Dostoevsky. But youâll see shitty newspapers like the Metro reporting stories like âPsychologists tell us why people are littering more now that lockdown is over.â
If you read that (donât bother) it says that psychologists have decided that people are littering more after lockdown because their regular routine has been disrupted and they âhave to learn how to behave in public againâ. What a load of bollocks! Maybe some people are littering more after lockdown because they feel angrier or more hedonistic? How the fuck does this psychologist lad know and whatâs he doing in the paper? Donât forget that these are the same psychologists who told us that people would find it very hard to stick with lockdown and had no idea that half the population would love it and want lockdown to continue forever. If all this behavioural psychology stuff is scientifically proven then why is so much of it completely wrong?
Itâs just another belief system.
Leo Tolstoy says in War and Peace âWe tend to love people more for what we do for them, rather than what they do for usâ. Thatâs a very profound and correct observation. It helps explain why America is so in love with Israel for example. Itâs a helpful piece of advice. Why isnât that in the newspaper?
Stephen Hawking was a cod, behavioural psychology is a cod and Covid is a cod. The scientific method is not a cod but thatâs a different matter completely.
