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    Why do Social Theories Become Ideologies?

    I would say that religion is the purist and strongest form of ideology.
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    Why do Social Theories Become Ideologies?

    Why do Social Theories Become Ideologies? An ideology is systematically biased by its assumptions and it constantly must protect its assumptions from erosion if it is to maintain the status of its ideology. For Marx the ideologist becomes a constant apologist for his ideology. An uncritical...
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    How can I learn my optional illusions?

    The superficial student of social theory “is compelled by the very logic of his inquiry to become its apologist. Even if he were critical of his society, his very level of investigation condemns him to becoming its apologist…because the surface of society is ideologically constituted, so that...
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    How can I learn my optional illusions?

    Science is an empirical study whereas philosophy is an a priori study.
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    Does Natural Science Encourage a Narrow Mind?

    The fault does not lie within the science but only within the naiveté of the individual who fails to comprehend the limitations of the science and the dimensions of the self and the world.
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    Does Natural Science Encourage a Narrow Mind?

    The human sciences have no paradigms because there exists no easily discernable patterns with in the human sciences. Humans have free will, which means that they do not function in a pattern like manner except on a very deep and complex level. Paradigms exist only where math can reside.
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    How can I learn my optional illusions?

    How can I learn my optional illusions? How can I reject my optional illusions? In the dialogue “Apology” Plato writes about Socrates while in the dungeon just before drinking the hemlock that the citizens of Athens condemned him to be executed. In the dungeon shortly before drinking from...
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    Natural Science “don allow no meaning in here”!

    Natural Science “don allow no meaning in here”! Natural science clears the land before it builds its structures. NATURAL SCIENCE IS BULLDOZIER might be a useful linguistic metaphor for comprehending how the natural sciences function. The first thing that a Normal Science (as defined by...
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    Does Natural Science Encourage a Narrow Mind?

    A person can walk the corridors of any big city hospital and observe the effectiveness of human rationality in action. One can also visit the UN building in NYC or read the morning papers and observe just how ineffective, frustrating and disappointing human rationality can be. Why does human...
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    Does Natural Science Encourage a Narrow Mind?

    Does Natural Science Encourage a Narrow Mind? Paradigm directed science encourages the scientist to steadfastly adhere to carefully crafted narrow minded thinking. Because “normal science” has been so successful in achieving its narrow goals I claim that our whole society has become...
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    The Oil Spill is Only a Symptom

    What is this disease to which I allude? There is a chain of cause and effect in many things and it is difficult to determine the sui generis of this chain of reaction. I shall just take the present obvious effect to define our (American) disease to be our uncritical faith in laissez-faire...
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    The Oil Spill is Only a Symptom

    The problems that the world faces dwarf anything that this oil spill might cause. This lack of citizen’s appreciation regarding the problems that we face is in itself part of the great dangers on the horizon. If the citizens haven't the sophistication to "see" the problems then they...
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    The Oil Spill is Only a Symptom

    The Oil Spill is Only a Symptom The Gulf oil spill is a minor skin rash that is of great importance primarily because it signals us of the presence of a disease capable of destroying our civilization. The herd is stampeding toward the cliffs and there is an unsophisticated horde of riders...
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    Psychoanalysis is Quantum Mechanics

    Whoo!! You are way ahead of me. I have only begun to comprehend the "weirdness" of the inside of the atom and also of the "weirdness" of the human psyche.
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    Psychoanalysis is Quantum Mechanics

    Does this statement make sense to you? "The physicist is a scientist studying the inner reality of the atom and the psychoanalyst is a scientist studying the inner reality of our psyche. The inner reality of the atom is “weird” to our day-to-day comprehension of reality just as the inner...
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