Nobody wants to think anymore

The early Christians  provided a solution to a problem the old world didn't think it had .
The old greeks used to think too much .
Our new world doesn't know what problem its got --even now -But let me suggest - it thinks too much !

 The people have finally realized that the rationalists in charge are not resolving the challenges they have busy talking about . In a technological age what works is thrown out  and people are throwing them out.
The people are rebelling - yet again !   The people are not going to take lectures about how it all works -- when it doesn' t. The Greens may go on, but ....excessive talk is the problem and they have it as bad as any ,  Pauline and Trump are on the money in talking resolution not waves and waves of rationale  .
Doesn't  mean P &T  make any sense -- which is my point.  No one who talks about reason makes sense .  The length of the argument doesn't matter . If there is any quality in the logic,  that too does not matter if its not working .

Question:  Do the new leader types assume the solution is about " more money "? ,When they don't they are ahead of the game because they are saying society must change direction,  not where it spends the limited tax base.
Thankfully,  we have centuries when  any reversion to this old heresy( that we have found the tree of knowledge of good and evil) has been followed by a big gasp of fresh air  from outside.
Shakespeare teaches us how to laugh again at those who presume to know things and do things , He reminds us about the terrible state of man where he believes his garden is like one on Monty Don's. when its really fulla weeds  
Luther does the same to the law overload days of his day when he reminds people they can just learn for themselves about what matters in life.  The test of any faith is " Does it work?"  The house of words is a house of cards.The house of logic around those words is always a little limited.

The ABC of course will be the last of the dinosaurs to go extinct because they have the floor on wired up connection devices -- they have been talking at us at our expense for decades .Not just words but clumsy connections : connections that deeply offend scientists like myself ( Qanda with Barnaby May1)
Prof Brian Cox will talk about the wonders of the universe without daring to mention the possibility of a creator - its in his brief to wear blinkers so that noone in the congregation can too excited about anything but straight laced determinism. Nice and tight ; the right facts - the right interpretation of those facts.
I like Chesterton's idea of giving a myriad of untidy associations a single mystic name -( something to do with the grace of God  for eg) saves much speculation and going around in circles .
 The ABC  have a stake in maintaining their own rigid place and position  - lengthy inconclusive reasoning suits their eternally funded schedule . Such is their silly scientism that when we say "we are not content with facts " they will make us wait for conclusions. Noone is in any mood to wait, except those on the public payroll . ( pretending to do science )

Frustration is one thing , but what does it take to get a Trump type character over the line ?
 The old ABC claim to "have things on the highest authority " doesn't wash well when all we have is more and more data collection and review .ABC journos will quote a  modeller without realizing that even their local doctor would be dismissed if that was all he talked about.
When they trump before us the same old gurus to summarize the same old case
We get  Flannery flailing around yet again on the disaster trail -compounding disasters of wait for --dead coral  and together
Di Natale and his "hot seas" , These SA's  know how things  work ---- we don't think.

So how do you get the people excited ? ,
Maybe
A You provide them with a simple solution . You tell em "Don't think about it"  -
B You start believing your own bull  "That stuff is all mind construct and unworthy of a progressive" Sure it goes down well till you realize that such inadequate logic undermines everything YOU say too .

 This is whats left of the left in 2016 . The left have finally got the rewards of all their shallow determinism. Limited logic and lumbering logomachy ( although the ABC just cut the discussion off - not like here!)
Just lie back and let your lizard brain tell you whats next?  , You don't or want to have choices or ,,,at least more than one this weekend.

Stupid science

Many of our universities in Australia are becoming irrelevant .  They neither believe or trust in cutting edge science. They describe things but don't know things - that is well enough to describe them succinctly and functionally  .They often just pretend to practice it ----from sociology through psychology to biology and beyond .
The people who run and teach in some of these reactionary learning places clearly tell us they  think they do  and think things scientifically.  In reality they often CUT short the logic required to do science well . I could go on - but it's D day for our dumb polys who don't ever call for  weeding out of these unfit , unqualified and parasitic  self determining half baked's who survive in these drip feed environments.---playing with science but not practicing it properly.

None us should be put off by the shallow talk of proof . It's often a dumb and ineffective timewaster leftover from our Greek heritage .
Proof arguments , as used now are most often an incomplete series of equations run directly by the proponent of their own idea - how objective is that?

"The world is chock full of people who find all the arguments they need to fact check their own conclusions . This is science done stupidly.

Stupid science is where correlation becomes the basis for complete causation . That is , yes to have correlation means you have a connection but its not the whole thing, or the direct thing !

It means  in practice,  you jump in and don't fix the real determinants . You try to insulate people from their own stupidity with  someone else's money ; You experiment all the time like the leaders  do on UTOPIA ABC . Endless experimentation at our expense and then ....none the wiser    

As any decent practical scientist knows - we, as a competent group are long winded . Too long winded and argumentative to ever ( one recently ) to have a consensus session on ABC TV  Q and A , The program producers are dumb enough to think "fact checking" will get us to heaven ( when it only gives us a headache )
Those who lead just don't get it  They are playing with permutations and combinations of facts they haven't  a hope of placing in a replicated experiment. They wouldn't even need know which established equations to use to keep the matter under control . Ignorant they give in too easily to fear .   We are not shallow and subject to the same fears therefore they do NOT represent us properly .

The ABC science departments and programs  are not even run by scientists and this has been going on for decades. It is supposed to be our ABC . What a disgrace to even think we can call ourselves the clever country .

 If you are a poly, get busy or get out !-- for our children's sake ---look at all the wasted degrees YOU have helped create over the last decades.   Kick em out and give our children the full careers ( not jobs)  they deserve because they studied to show themselves capable.  

Good better best

Never let it rest , till your good is better,  and your better best ( Furphy of Ballarat)
I think of that expression when I think of Shylocks dilemma in Merchant Of Venice . How to be a good Jew
Warren Mitchell ( Shylock) is so good as that side of us that is tough, principled and unyielding ( all good in their own way ) .  He's a cynical businessman - a symbol of the market and how it will screw  everybody - its therefore a play for our time . That's saying something when its been on the stage every year  for over 500 years.

Sometimes,  with all the pressures and real bad behaviour of others, it can seem that its best to just look after yourself , just as he does .

 His tough mindedness contrasts with Christians  whom he sees as "soft" making the battle in the play ( which will win -law or grace ) a really punchy one for all time . And what a fight it is . 

Who wins ? ( law or grace or,,,,,,,)---I'll let you find out !- even" the way and the  how "are now very much  part of our heritage in law ,love and mercy.

Shylock types make the historic mistake ( as early Rome did ) of seeing Christianity as weak. Its only weak if its watered down . It's certainly looks weak, but that's not our problem- most media talk and politics about it is superficial . 

We are wise to be fearful of the power of religion.
In the comfort zone lulls that characterize most of time in history, we seem to ignore this ; we are prone to pretend that one's faith its " irrelevant". World view is a given but its never irrelevant as it drives our passions - or lack of them .Ask any psychologist.

Lets be thoroughly realistic - people from an Islamic background see the modern secularist state as weak and IMO so should we .

The modern secularist leadership is increasingly fanatical about its hold on minds, hearts and power becauses "its simply not working "; As Donald Trumps empty headed rhetoric now so well symbolises,

If you want a deeper debate about what works in the West , follow Shylock and Portia --having been played every year for the past 500, the debate over law and grace in that play has sustainability . Law and grace the Christian way.

It is my view then that it is not the power of Islam that is the problem for the West, but the deep weakness and the shallow watered down determinism of the Post Christian world views of the West.

If we keep telling ourselves we are just products of our genes, we will stop using our minds. Our legs will turn to jelly.Our political legs have turned to jelly.

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If you think something long enough you will start to believe it . The modern secular leadership preach this simple rubbish as gospel because its in the DNA of their faith that only genotype expressed as phenotype ( what your feel)that matters .Matter over mind ; "our minds are just propaganda machines ". ,

" Do what you feel like " doesn't work and we all know it deep down Its a religious doctrine that must be exorcised . .

As Dalrymple says , all we have left, after centuries of tough minded law and grace is" the toxic cult of sentimentality" - a sort of grace that doesn't work because the basic tension in law and grace is lost - half the solution is no solution.

Half baked PC theology just pays people to "do what they feel like" -killing off all the hard fought toughness and tough thinking resisting of the past -

Modern secular determinism, as practiced in the west, is a soft centered mind numbing addition to ambulance and helicopter based care by governments - not families and "courts" where a sense of responsibility can be taught. Reactive not preventative. Its costs the earth and its killing the earth http://cuttingedgecare.blogspot.com

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The best part of this play is that it reminds us of how to return to a powerful of way of making our society work and be truly great again .

If you don't do anything else this week , go see the wonderful Warren and wonder at the sheer power of principle in the hands of a mere woman! !

Its part of BBC collection 1980 that is well worth getting .Having been played every year for the past 500, the debate over law and grace in that play has sustainability

The ending in FIDDLER on the roof is not upbeat

Because the story goes on . Without the down times,  we may have no real vision of what really makes the good times come again. The  message is eternal unlike other imitations all around us
Those sort of Jews and that sort of thinking keeps cutting even today 

The latest STAR WARS - the force awkens has all this musicals family and familiar characters . It also is a visit to the dark side . But the unbelievable return home at the end is a con .

The millions who pour out of cinemas all over the world are unaware that that the next time son wants to kill dad, mum wants to kill dad or whatever,  they have learnt nothing from George  Lucas ,

Unlike Tevye to God and Tevye to his family and Tevye to his community  they haven't spoken freely about what makes the dark side dark and what to do about it .We kids always know better just like the men Teyve's daughets loved . : they too had their passions The greatest evil is still done in the name of the best intention  and our choices do matter. The greatest good is still in facing the dark side and following up with forgiveness and acceptance of people.

Remember too that this framing of faith in a workable hate for sin and love for the sinners is what resists,  with its own force , the insane consequences of trying to solve everyone else's problems politically( the Russia of their day with both Stalinism , communism and the Tsar)





 eg  Just what is needed now to stop paid public servants trying to play parent with our money.