January 06, 2006

Jim got me going again

Was in Independent Country reading about an article about big bad big box. Since i had already read and thawt about the theme, i was able to come up with this pearl of wisdom.

The world is fuzzy - it long ago became who you know, not what you know. People who knew something got harnessed by people who could make bucks by wheelin and dealin. But knowledge found in brains and not on paper is what really makes the system work (when it worked, if it ever did work).

Boat Rockers and Root Strikers are slowly getting to the 100th monkey level. I hope to get howdt of dodge early and the signs are positive for the first time in a long time. Status quo would normal swing polytix to the D world - but they are just as discredited. Hammer the media and they lie, don't hammer the media and they lie. Don't recognize the media and whether they lie or not doesn't matter.

Continuing on with the theme, what is lying? To thine own self be true conflicts with the laws and regulations enforced upon us by the nanny state, without using common sense to see the violation of natural law. What are the bounds of natural law? You think about it. Where do we start at indisputable. Gravity? all Physics? What about chemistry - can we take molecules for granted, or must we verify what has been demonstrated as proof by the synthesis realm. Biology? A deep stretch as far as I'm concerned.

I'll take for granted the classification system originated by Linnaes and others is valid description. I'll buy into anatomy and physiology, microbiology, and the other observational descriptives, but the utility biological sciences like forestry and the integration between the biologies has to be broadly based on exact chemistry and the understanding is just not there. Applied engineering is pretending it is real research and anything that vaguely demonstrates monetary value must be consumed, not developed (politically, not sciencewise).

Go back to chemistry and we have a major discontinuity that can't hold up with biology. That quality is sentience. Until we can explain what it is that allows humans to build a bridge or write a book, or create energy from matter, we don't have a handle on evolution, conservation biology, or many other applied fields. What we need is clean observation and measurement and not self-serving lies. But the lies have endured so long, that we have to recheck our premises. Until we do, science is another religion, one with the capacity to create weaponry to fight ideology.

Paging Mr. Serling - music

Get howdt - down the road and look at nature, with your own eyes, your science eyes and help resciencize science.

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