It remind me the doctor who wahs taking care of Kim Jung Hill (or another...who died recently...). He said that that man was normal.
It is a place where prisoners in reeducation camp are executed by bath in melted metal (heard in a TV document talking of Mengele replicators from WW2 to now). they execute people that have tried to escape and that Chinese police bring back to death (when local mafia do not enslave them). This man was normal, sensible to cinema... he live in a system of deep terror were not being monstrous mean you will be monstrously treated. You cannot judge why people may collaborate with horror, if you ignore the fear. Science, with less physical violence, is a similar network of communities. You are not bathed in melted steel, but covered with horse manure, and executed by public panel and scientific press. I'm a corp executive, and I know professionally, like many economists know for countries, that the problem is not the individuals (who have intelligence, risk analysis capacities, good will, empathy) but the organization, with intelligent individual who adapt to the psychiatric hospital they live in. What thomas Kuhn explain is that it is required for the "normal science" to explore the known land ... Without the blinders, scientist would lose much time in questioning all. You need scientific terrorists to explore beyond the frontier. Taleb says that it is the job of entrepreneur, garage inventors, practitioners, lab or field engineers, and other lower species that really do the job. the crisis today is not because of bad normal science, but because on a huge monolithic, rationalized, big science . we need small island of science, independent funding criteria, various independent journals with independent policies... not a cartel of opinion leaders, some planet-wide comon criteria to judge what is good or bad... globally taleb says that big animal, like western science, are fragile. LENR may put it at risk, like AGW... people will lose confidence in that big monopoly of truth. Big science think it is too big to fail, but I'm afraid it is too big to save. Science culture, like banks, or nuclear plant, tankers, have to be small so a catastrophe have a minor impact. There will always hapen catastrophe, good or bad, just have not to break the system. 2013/6/21 James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> > When normal is insane, what does "extremism" mean? > > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Peter Gluck <peter.gl...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Dear Ken, >> >> special thanks for your nice answer. It is my duty to >> write an editorial regarding the feedback of my Scientism >> paper. >> Peter >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:27 PM, ken deboer <barlaz...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> our near relatives ... clearly possess ... manifestations of high mental >>>> activity, ... even a primitive and undeveloped sense of mysticism or >>>> protoreligion. >>>> >>> >>> I'm curious in what species this has been discovered. >>> >>> Eric >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Dr. Peter Gluck >> Cluj, Romania >> http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com >> > >
