A Groundbreaking Speech by the British Minister for Universities and Science – Will Perhaps – Opens Up To Real Education, Real Science and Real Democracy

The British Minister for Universities and Science Jo Johnson held yesterday, 26 December 2017, a remarkable speech titled “Free speech in the liberal university”.


Contents

- Intro
- From the Speech
- Media Coverage of the Speech
- The British Discussion
- And Don't Miss: Boris, Kick Out the Romans for Good!


Intro

Before this speech was the only possibility that the Academic cult is the main protector of Real Education, Real Science and Real Democracy.

After this speech it is impossible for the Academic cult to depend on the earlier hollow propaganda.

From now on is possible, or at least more possible, to openly explore HOW and WHY the Academic cult promotes a Culture of Silence (as they need to hide and protect their mystical foundations).

Furthermore this speech was the latest official manifestation of the perspective for a new organisation that will supervise the universities called the Office for Students.

United Kingdom is simply the leading nation in the efforts to achieve real Knowledge and real Democracy. Macron and Merkel, beat the Brits by to officially dissolve the Academic cult at once!

Or like this. The Office for Students is a clear result of Brexit and the stupid dream to re-establish the Roman Empire by the stupid ideals of Platonism and to Worship the Emperor.


From the Speech

Original text: Free speech in the liberal university, A speech by Jo Johnson at the Limmud Conference, Birmingham, GOV.UK, 26 December 2017

Under the headline Threats to freedom of speech.

A particularly worrying challenge to universities as bastions of liberalism comes from the threat to legal free speech and to open debate on our campuses.

Our universities, rather like the Festival we are today, should be places that open minds not close them, where ideas can be freely challenged and prejudices exposed.

But in universities in America and increasingly in the United Kingdom, there are countervailing forces of censorship, where groups have sought to stifle those who do not agree with them in every way under the banner of “safe spaces” or “no-platforming”.

However well-intentioned, the proliferation of such safe spaces, the rise of no-platforming, the removal of ‘offensive’ books from libraries and the drawing up of ever more extensive lists of banned “trigger” words are undermining the principle of free speech in our universities.

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Indeed, in 1673 Spinoza refused a prestigious appointment as professor of philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, because the job offer came with a restriction on what he could say - a stipulation that he must “not insult the principles of the established religion”.

That’s why the government is taking action now.

As part of our reforms to higher education, we have set up a new regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), which, as its name suggests, will regulate the university sector in a way that puts the interests of students first.

Created by the Higher Education & Research Act 2017, Original text at legislation.gov.uk, Wikipedia, the OfS will come into being next week. 

Promoting freedom of speech within the law will be at the heart of its approach to the regulation of our higher education system.

The OfS will go further than its predecessor in promoting freedom of speech.

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Whether it’s Gallileo’s heretical rejection of geocentrism, Darwin’s godless theory of creation or the bravery of dissidents resisting oppression all over the world, history shows the right to disagree is the cornerstone of intellectual and political freedom.

I am pleased to say that this freedom is as important to the OfS’s new chairman, Sir Michael Barber, as it is to me.

In a recent article entitled “In Defence of Uncomfortable”

Wrong in the original text, correct is probably Universities must be places of intellectual discomfort, Times Higher Education, 23 November 2017.

arguing that universities need to foster a climate of open inquiry in order to provide a truly valuable education, Michael pointed out that “Diversity of view and disagreement, is a vital ingredient of places of higher learning”.

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And I want to be clear about this: attempts to silence opinions that one disagrees with have no place in the English university system. Academics and students alike must not allow a culture to take hold where silence is preferable to a dissenting voice.

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But there is much more to do.

Universities cannot afford to be complacent about complying either with their duties to protect freedom of speech, or anything less than vigilant against hate speech (or other unlawful activity) masquerading as the exercise of the right to freedom of speech.

Both duties are vitally important to a civilised democratic society.

Media Coverage of the Speech

Short Video, Don’t shield students from opinions they don’t agree with, universities minister Jo Johnson warns, Camilla Turner, The Telegraph, 26 December 2017.

Universities will be less able to make scientific breakthroughs if they do not tackle 'safe space' culture, minister warns, Camilla Turner, The Telegraph, 26 December 2017.

Jo Johnson to tell universities to stop 'no-platforming' speakers, Rajeev Syal and Rowena Mason, The Guardian, 26 December 2017.

Universities should promote independent thought and free speech, but also ensure the debate is respectful, Editorial, The Independent, 26 December 2017.

Universities must be places that 'open minds, not close them', Jo Johnson warns, Ashley Cowburn, The Independent, 26 December 2017.


The British Discussion

Some links that highlight the British discussion.

Free Speech University Rankings 2017, The crisis of free speech on campus, Spiked, Tom Slater coordinator.

... Our survey, ranking 115 UK universities using our traffic-light system, shows that 63.5 per cent of universities now actively censor speech, and 30.5 per cent stifle speech through excessive regulation. This marks a steady rise in censorship over the past three years. Now only six per cent of UK universities are truly free, open places. ...

See also their page Media Coverage.

Some of the background: Students should be made to feel 'uncomfortable' so they can learn, chair of the Office for Students says, Camilla Turner, The Telegraph, 23 November 2017.

Earlier this month, Oxford University's chancellor said that “safe spaces and no-platforming policies at universities are "fundamentally offensive".

Freedom of speech, censorship and bias – interesting times in HE (Higher Education), Jane Forster, The Lighthouse Policy Group, 27 October 2017.

The Lighthouse Policy Group is an informal and independent network to support those who work in the role of Executive Officer / Policy Adviser or similar to a Vice-Chancellor.

And Don't Miss: Boris, Kick Out the Romans for Good!

My post: Boris, Kick Out the Romans for Good! – An Open Letter To Boris Johnson, 21 December 2016.

Dissolve The Matrix – The Movie

Observe, the first cycle of the endless animation will probably be bumpy and slow.

Only the animation (in a new window).

The slightly hypnotic The Matrix Code or the "digital rain" is a very powerful symbol at least among the subculture around The Matrix films that I somehow belong to.

So, hopefully it will be even more powerful to reverse the message.

The base of the concept Matrix is a mould or something that is used in the way moulds are used.

For example, a certain tradition or pattern of how to think is a correct way to use the concept Matrix in its original matrix, form or tradition.

The concept Matrix has a very special meaning in contemporary art that probably began with William Gibson's groundbreaking novel Neuromancer (1984).

Here it is useful to know that Gibson coined the concept Cyberspace, Etymology, Online, Wikipedia.

Read, for example, William Gibson: the man who saw tomorrow, Ed Cumming, The Guardian, 28 July 2014

Here is Gibson's formulation the first time the concept matrix is mentioned in Neuromancer.

… and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across the colorless void …

Merriam-Webster's definition of Lattice: "a framework or structure of crossed wood or metal strips". See also Latticework.

And the second time that the Matrix is mentioned in Neuromancer.

… jacked into a custom cyberspace deck that projected his disembodied consciousness into the consensual hallucination that was the matrix. …

Both formulations are on William Gibson's Official Website, the page Neuromancer Excerpt Chapter 1.

All in all. It is hard to not get that Gibson's message is/can be understood as: The Matrix is a metaphor for the current Western culture or the “hallucination” that is formally called Platonism and that appears to be consensual.

Because the illusion of the so called Reality in Platonism is based on the idea that so called Logic or Reason cannot be specified or defined in a concrete or systematic manner.

The desired effect, is of course, that the People are tricked or forced to be restricted to Accept and Obey.

In the upcoming chapters I will present more perfect metaphors of Platonism.

This post is about the most detailed metaphor: The Film and the Book The Society of the Spectacle Exposes HOW You are Tricked. 

About the film The Matrix (1999) on Väggen försvinner / The Wall Disappears.

And this is, so far, the best presentation of my stuff: The False Democracy is Based on False Science – The minimum requirements to get it.

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It has been my dream for years to make an animated gif with a reversed “Matrix Rain”.

However, it is extremely time consuming to produce animations.

Therefore it was a significant moment when I found Jahobr's splendid and copyright free version on the Wikipedia page Matrix digital rain that I have manipulated.

Unfortunately is Jahobr also contact-free. So: Jahobr – Grazie mille!

Censored by the CCC! – Read the Rejected Text: The False Democracy is Based on False Science

Here is the full title on my suggestion, that is at the end of this post.

So, I am censored by them that appears to be against censorship because I expose, in a systematic and distinct manner, the roots of the false Democracy and the false Science!

It cannot be better than this in order to demonstrate how the False Democracy and the False Science is protected to suppress and exploit the citizens.

Of course, my suggestion might be bad or even unintelligible. But I do not think so, and you can evaluate this by yourself.

And observe. If they wanted they could, for example, asked me to clarify.

So, it is nice that I was censored so you can read the stuff already now;)

The Chaos Computer Club, Wikipedia the CCC site, is very well known in Germany by the general public and is famous among “hackers” in Europe and beyond.

They say themselves.

For more than thirty years we are providing information about technical and societal issues, such as surveillance, privacy, freedom of information, hacktivism, data security and many other interesting things around technology and hacking issues. ...

From their presentation at 34C3: Call for Participation and Submission Guidelines

The Chaos Communication Congress is the Chaos Computer Club’s (CCC) annual symposium and hacker party. During four days between Christmas and New Years Eve, thousands of hackers, technology freaks, artists, and utopians get together ... We engage in creative, sceptical discourse on the interaction between technology and society. ...

Three of the main themes are.

Art & Culture,
Ethics, Society & Politics
and
Science

I received what probably is their standard rejection letter.

Dear Ola Alexander,

We would like to thank you very much for your submission. We were surprised and overwhelmed by the sheer amount of high quality submissions.

After an extensive selection process we unfortunately had to reject your submission

The False Democracy is Based on False Science

We can assure you that this was not an easy decision to make. We hope that we can still welcome you at the conference.

Kind regards

The 34th Chaos Communication Congress team

This is a practical example of what Debord calls the Society of the Spectacle. Check this earlier post about Debord's film and book.

Or to be more precise. The citizens are forced to live on the surface as, for example, the different organisations that the People are trained to trust are in fact a part of the suppression and exploitation by to actively protect the Surface or the Spectacle.

And of course in their evaluation CCC must have regarded they could reject me as I am not a part of the Surface and can easily attract millions or readers; and that the readers that I do have are not important in the hierarchical order of the society.

So, even if they knew, for sure, that I would write a post like this; it doesn’t matter.

They are simply confident that they can continue with their usually hidden main objective: to protect the happy and cosy Surface.


The False Democracy is Based on False Science – The Minimum Requirements To Get It

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A Church that Worship Artificial Intelligence Brings Out the True Stupidity of Platonism

Wired demonstrates the compact stupidity of Platonism in a concentrated form by this uncritical presentation of a church that worship Artificial Intelligence.

Inside the First Church of Artificial Intelligence, Mark Harris, Wired, 15 November 2017.

The article promotes the recently founded church as well as Platonism in general as there is not even an attempt of real questions.

Especially interesting is that the main arguments, made in 2017, must be the same as the élite of the Military Dictatorship of the Roman empire had when they created the Church.

Or like this. Here is the basic objective to Mystify the human capacity to understand Dynamic relations the central and almost hidden theme. From the article:

… “What is going to be created will effectively be a god,” Levandowski tells me in his modest mid-century home on the outskirts of Berkeley, California. “It’s not a god in the sense that it makes lightning or causes hurricanes. But if there is something a billion times smarter than the smartest human, what else are you going to call it?” ...

For sure. Everything or anyone that is “smarter” must of course be a “god” as “smarter” or “god” are not defined.

The article demonstrates that in the current culture of the West it is profitable in various ways to support Platonism by to avoid fundamental questions.

This article as well as the church that worship AI is a concentration of the objective of the Academic cult; to produce Zombies that can be easily suppressed and exploited.

So, never underestimate the power of truly ignorant journalists; they are produced to keep it real that you can only Accept and Obey.

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

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

What's Wrong with Science? – Propaganda Galore – Learn How they Hide the Static Religious Dogmas to Fool you to Trust the Academic Cult, 6 May 2017