Saturday, July 25, 2009
television
After watching a bit of an educational program on what might have been The Discovery Channel or The Learning Channel, I fear that it was designed to misinform and obscure information for viewers in relation to the presented subjects of what I will call "alternative history and science". The theories and such presented were things which have been floating about the internet for the past 10+ years in which trademark "experts" and "sceintists" "professors" and "P.H.D.s" offer a few interesting tidbits filled with a lot of nonsense. Rather, the television seems to add up the experts, while the internet can just let one ramble on for pages.
What is most resentful about these body's of so-called fringe knowledge is when they are presented with an incredible air of suspicion of facts followed by theory and conjecture which must and only correlate the biases towards the facts. To realize the outlandishness of it one only needs to look at how is presented the evidence in relation to the theory. To attempt to draw an example, they say something like, "the Mayans 'might' have had extensive knowledge of our solar system far in advance of the civilizations which were supposedly much more advance of the Mayans" (here experts molest us with words such as "might" "could have" and "maybe"). Then comes the theory from the field expert, which, stated as fact, "The Mayans were trying to tell us something. They had a message for us of the future".
HOGWASH!
This seems to be how a lot of television and even books and other writings are presented. We have a case of the most designer disease of Western Civilization: The Man Is Bigger Than The Mountain... Disease. Surgical Name: IM#1
Signs of the disease are a Mountain of Evidence which is never seen, rarely looked at or black painted gold, standing behind The Man who must be right. Symptoms include confusion, depression, hopelessness, and ultimatly death. Consult your doctor if dead (they don't know how to cure, but they sure know how to move a dead body).
Here I will cut off any more words in exaggerated disgust and end with a closing paragraph.
Is there right knowledge out there? Yes. Will it be found on a television screen? Maybe.
But the truest knowledge comes from within and is verified within. The ancients tell us to go to the wise and learn. The wise tell us to seek direct experience. Both sound like good advice. So that is what I will do.
What is most resentful about these body's of so-called fringe knowledge is when they are presented with an incredible air of suspicion of facts followed by theory and conjecture which must and only correlate the biases towards the facts. To realize the outlandishness of it one only needs to look at how is presented the evidence in relation to the theory. To attempt to draw an example, they say something like, "the Mayans 'might' have had extensive knowledge of our solar system far in advance of the civilizations which were supposedly much more advance of the Mayans" (here experts molest us with words such as "might" "could have" and "maybe"). Then comes the theory from the field expert, which, stated as fact, "The Mayans were trying to tell us something. They had a message for us of the future".
HOGWASH!
This seems to be how a lot of television and even books and other writings are presented. We have a case of the most designer disease of Western Civilization: The Man Is Bigger Than The Mountain... Disease. Surgical Name: IM#1
Signs of the disease are a Mountain of Evidence which is never seen, rarely looked at or black painted gold, standing behind The Man who must be right. Symptoms include confusion, depression, hopelessness, and ultimatly death. Consult your doctor if dead (they don't know how to cure, but they sure know how to move a dead body).
Here I will cut off any more words in exaggerated disgust and end with a closing paragraph.
Is there right knowledge out there? Yes. Will it be found on a television screen? Maybe.
But the truest knowledge comes from within and is verified within. The ancients tell us to go to the wise and learn. The wise tell us to seek direct experience. Both sound like good advice. So that is what I will do.
# posted by edgarnow : 11:04 PM
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