Robert Pirsig – Obituaries

Under the headline Zen And The Art Of Driving A Motorcycle Into The Wall, page 239 in the current version, I write about Pirisig's masterpiece, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974), that I also quote extensively.

Here are three obituaries with somewhat different and interesting details.

Robert Pirsig obituary, Michael Carlson, The Guardian, 25 April 2017.

Robert M. Pirsig, Author of ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,’ Dies at 88, Paul Vitello, The New York Times, 24 April 2017.

-  Archives: 1975, Novelistic autobiography, autobiographical novel? No matter, Edward Abbey, The New York Times, 30 March 1975.

Robert Pirsig dies at 88; wrote counterculture classic 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance', Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times, 24 April 2017.

What's Wrong with Science? – Propaganda Galore – Learn How they Hide the Static Religious Dogmas to Fool you to Trust the Academic Cult

Background

In my book This Is How The State Fucks Your Mind, Chapter 7. The Main Evidence – Today's So Called Science Is Based On The Dogmas Of The Church In Order To Guarantee Might Is Right, I demonstrate how and why so called Science is brainwashing instrument in the current Western culture.

The Academic cult has an ongoing project to blame everything and anyone else than the undeniable fact that they follow usually hidden rules of the Church.

A part of this propaganda campaign is to blame specific members of their own cult or the management of how the dogmas of the Church are maintained; in order to protect the dogmas and the cult itself.

This propaganda is, for example, called the Replication crisis and Publication bias.


Propaganda Galore

What's Wrong with Science?, BBC Newshour Extra, 5 May 2017, Podcast and presentation, is a 50 minutes long profound education on how they try to trick you to believe in what they say is Science.

Please observe, I don't think that the producers or the participants are aware of that they protect dogmas of the Church; they are true believers. So, the Static rules and the mystical explanations are the true reality for them.

The general theme or the main strategy, is of course to try to hide the core, that so called Science in Platonism or the current Western culture has the purpose to provide a platform or arguments for the Static demands of the Ruler, according to the dogmas of the Church.

The main tactics that have been used for centuries is to pretend that Science is about to understand Life and the World.

Or like this. The Academics, the followers of Plato, pretend that we live in a world that is based on the Athenian ideal of Understanding is right; that was eliminated by the ideals of Plato, the Romans and the Church.

That the people are forced to, for example, live in constant Fear or Angst and easily becomes the victims of drug addiction and suicide by the hidden dogmas of the Church or the rule of Hidden Might is Right; does simply not exist in this propaganda universe.

When you are aware of that the propaganda tries to hide that Science in Platonism or in the current Western culture is a tool to suppress and exploit by to pretend that Science is an area of to understand Life and the World it is easy to expose the propaganda.

So, this BBC show is a perfect lesson in how the Academic cult tries to fool the people.

The gap is evident as both the presenters in the beginning and the participants later on jump between that the people must trust Science and that it is essential that Science is founded on to doubt or Skepticism/Scepticism. Try to combine these relations; according to the current ideals of Static Logic!

This gap can of course not be solved in Platonism; and that is the real problem and the real background to What's Wrong with Science?

As long as the political élite protects the Academic cult and the stupid tradition of Platonism can this – the real problem – not be addressed in public or officially.

Already in the beginning (4:20) says, for example, one of the participants, Kirstie Whitaker, the following.

The main point I want to make is; that there is nothing wrong with Science. Science is great! The idea of coming up an Idea, thinking up a sensible way to test that idea, testing it and then concluding something about the evidence you have gathered. That’s great. That is completely fine. What I think is that many of us agree on is the incentive structure the funding structure that chooses which of those experiments that gets the attention.

Of course, there is not a trace of that this description of Science cannot be justified by any formal descriptions of what is said to be Science in the current Western culture.

For example, try to describe or define “coming up with an idea” in the current Western culture and you make a complete fool of yourself.

Enjoy your daily propaganda!

This post will be updated later on with many more perfect propaganda lines of this BBC show.

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Recent posts that underlines the ongoing trauma of Platonism in a concrete manner.

A Church that Worship Artificial Intelligence Brings Out the True Stupidity of Platonism, 17 November 2017

The Guardian Demands Officially that the People Must be Ruled by Mysticism, 1 November 2017

The Daemon Divide – Regarding Google's DeepMind Project, 10 October 2017

BBC and the Academic Cult Demand You to Replace Understanding with Faith, 29 September 2017

Open Letter to The Editorial Board of Los Angeles Times

Open Letter to Editors No. 1.

Of course, this posting is addressed to all Westerners. By to addressing a particular recipient becomes the overall message clear.

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Dear,

You have invested lots of efforts, money and time into your massive investigation of Trump’s Authoritarian ideals in your project The Problem with Trump – A series of Times editorials, written by The Times Editorial Board, that contains of the following parts published 2 - 7 April 2017.

Why we took a stand on Trump

I. Our Dishonest President
II. Why Trump Lies
III. Trump's Authoritarian Vision
IV. Trump's War on Journalism
V. Conspiracy Theorist in Chief
VI. California Fights Back

I write to you as it is impossible to not get that you dislike the very idea of Authoritarianism and to underline the somewhat strange fact that you do NOT ask the fundamental question: How can it be possible to attract people/voters with Authoritarian solutions?

Or like this. You did NOT write: Why we took a stand on Authoritarianism.

And here it becomes not only interesting but also rewarding.

At least, rewarding for anyone that are ready to understand how it is possible with Authoritarian ideals as everyone says that they only accept Freedom, Democracy and Science and so on.

The simple and undeniable fact is that the people of the West are tricked to be stuck in the ideals of the military Dictatorship of the Roman empire by a method formally called Platonism.

The inner workings of Platonism are based on to make any Dynamic relation mystical; so only Static relations appear to be Real or Concrete.

Accordingly, it is possible to talk about a non-concrete or mystical Freedom and at the same time keep the people trapped into to take for granted that the only possible security can be found by to accept how it is and to obey.

If you are interested to find out more about the functions and history about Platonism in my book: This Is How The State Fucks Your Mind “Gender and racial discrimination, surveillance, exploitation and so forth are only effects. The real problem is – that it is possible to suppress the people – or like this – we are not genuine citizens.”

Perhaps is the fastest intro the first pages in the booklet:

The Ghost of Dictatorship – The Owner of the Current Western Culture Presented by Adolf Hitler and George Orwell – or – Open and Hidden Platonism in the Aspects of Politics.

For sure, it is a big fat taboo to openly talk about how the people are tricked to be unable to understand. Therefore, I write this open letter to you as the first in a series that will be addressed to editors of news media in the West.

Currently the news media in the West base their activities on to maintain lies to the people – lies that that suppress and exploit. And then on top of it all there is the propaganda about that the journalists are the main protectors of the Free word, the guardians of Democracy and so on. It is quite annoying.

Most citizens of the West suspect that they are tricked. Accordingly it cannot be so difficult to begin the second phase; to help the people to grasp HOW they are tricked.

Or like this. The Counterculture that began in the 1960s as a movement not limited to the literature of the Beat Generation and the ongoing Digital revolution are activities that tries to break free from Static restrictions that appears to be impossible to grasp. And these movements are connected to California.

So, when the citizens of the West and perhaps especially Californians, that so to speak are culturally prepared; discover that the Static restrictions are man made and are easy to dissolve by more and better thinking. Then will the real change start; a revolution that is all about to discover how we are able to understand.

To begin it is in fact enough to get that there is a political gain in the current Static culture to make our capacity called Imagination mystical and useless.

Or like this, try to write code for the upcoming Quantum Internet, based on Qubits, when you are restricted to Yes and No.

So, how about a project that says: Why we take a stand on The Hidden Ideals of Authoritarianism?

Yours sincerely,

Ola Alexander Frisk

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#latimes

Don't Miss A Master Class In Propaganda By Cass Sunstein

At first some words by one of the true masters.

Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) says the following in Nuremberg 1934.

... A good propaganda will always come along that serves a good cause. But propaganda is still necessary if a good cause is to succeed. A good idea does not win simply because it is good. It must be presented properly if it is to win. The combination makes for the best propaganda. Such propaganda is successful without being obnoxious. It depends on its nature, not its methods. It works without being noticed. Its goals are inherent in its nature. Since it is almost invisible, it is effective and powerful. ...

One more time.

... It works without being noticed. Its goals are inherent in its nature. Since it is almost invisible, it is effective and powerful. ...

Cass Sunstein's perspective and formulations are absolutely perfect if you really want to understand how the established elite promote the current Western culture.

One common and effective method is to find scapegoats or consequences of the restricted current Western worldview, that the people are trained to not be able to identify, and then blame everything on the consequences.

As the people are trained to not understand the relations between Cause, Effect and Context it is believable that there can exist something that just “happens” to be made in such a way so it is restrictive or plain stupid.

Accordingly it is possible to blame whatever for all the problems as there cannot be any concrete questions; or someone that is responsible.

The latest example of Sunstein has the perfect title: Challenge everything you think – democracy depends on it, The Guardian, 27 April 2017.

The fantastic ingress says: “Representative government rests on the shared experiences that online media increasingly filter out”

Sure, blame the ongoing collapse on the online media.

Read his text and admire how perfect propaganda is written. When you read his words; they are almost believable.

Save the established political elite! They do everything they can to help you. They even care for a real Democracy!

And there are lots of very good comments especially by Maharaja Brovinda Singh that takes up the thread about "Representative government".

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