Why is Real Thought so Rare?

Enlightenment

Around two and a half thousand years ago something strange happened. All over the world people began thinking.

Carl Sagan noticed that, all at once -

- the Ionians in the Aegean started measuring, calculating and theorizing correctly;

- the Egyptian pharaoh Necho caused Africa to be circumnavigated;

- Zoroaster, in Persia, founded his school of science, morality and philosophy;

- Confucius and Lao-tsu taught in China;

- Jewish prophets spoke from Egypt to Babylon in mid-East;

- and Gautama Buddha reappraised reality in India.

Sagan mused - "It is hard to think these activities altogether unrelated" (p. 206 - "Cosmos")

Enforced Ignorance

But soon, within a generation or so, the establishment's `thought-police' cracked down - power-pervs like Socrates (as Pythagoras already had) were demanding that the early scientists and thinkers' books should be burnt, calling them `heretical'.

So, as a result of succeeding ignorant and intolerant `elites', half the world-mind was dulled for two millennia, of greed and slaughter by rulers or would-be rulers.

[Only `half the world' because the Persian / Arabic empires preserved and translated Greek records, and their very able scientists ^ref-1 pursued further research, while China ^ref-2 already had high technology, only hampered by occasional small-minded rulers.]

Re-Enlightenment

Then a brief re-awakening - Copernicus, Galileo and then Leibniz tried to approach the reality of the physical universe - and Leibniz almost grasped the fact that all `things' in the Universe are inter-linked and inter-dependent!

Enforced Ignorance

Again there was a near-immediate slam-down: the elite suddenly adopted Newton's theory of "absolute time and absolute space" - probably because its dead-end idea of a `clockwork universe' appealed to those who were stealing and murdering and hoping to get away with it.

But Newton was wrong! About as wrong as anyone can be. ^ref-3

However, the elite refused to let anything else be taught or espoused, for many generations.

Re-Enlightenment

Zoom forward. There was another brief awakening in the mid nineteenth century (1800's) when Buckle and Wallace, followed by Lang and Fort, ^ref-4 began impartially examining the data - and didn't care who they might be offending.

Enforced Ignorance

The slam-down was again fast (indeed, pre-emptive for Lang and Fort), all four were oppressed in various ways by establishments - as all who're suspected of endangering vested interests are oppressed.

Instead, Darwin's `mechanical' (and wrong) theory was chosen as the way to keep people blindfolded and hoodwinked. ^ref-5

Where are we now?

The power-pervs want us to believe that `mechanical Darwinism' - crude so-called survival of the fittest - confines and restricts our future.

It doesn't! Even Darwin realized that, before his end. ^ref-6

And the establishment wants us deluded about - and blind to - the universe. They pretend that the `Relativity' of Einstein ^ref-7 - still an absolutist and atomist p.o.v. - is physical reality.

It's not! Even Einstein realized that - before his own personal finish. ^ref-8

We ask - is the enforced ignorance demanded by corrupt and pervert elites dooming us to yet another crash of civilizations? ^ref-9

Are we all going suffer - because greedy thugs ^ref-10 have political power, and ignorant `thought-police' can limit free knowledge of science and restrict educational policies around the World? ^ref-11

New Enlightenment?

Has all this happened before? ^ref-12

There are series of cataclysms, extending back in time, shown by different records -

- ice-cores from the Arctic and Antarctic;
- tree-rings' `trauma' indicating extremely low growth years;
- and ordinary archeology, showing gruesome events in civilization's far past.

All three reviewed here - ^ref-13