PoliticalChic
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1. The intellectual history of environmentalism reflects an amalgam of congregationalism, pantheism, the religious elements of Native American environmentalism meeting Hegelian philosophy and Rachel Carson. The rising diaspora of activism metastasized throughout the culture, until it was strong enough and pervasive enough to force legislation. The mistake is in believing it is based on science.
2. Karl Popper is generally regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century [The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy(Summer 2009 Edition) ]; he watched the rise of Hitler, and the Nazis, and analyzed the conditions that allowed fascism to arise. He realized that all the totalitarian philosophies of the 20th century owe their origin to Hegel.
a. Hegel:All the worth which the human being possesses - all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State. Hegel Quotations and Totalitarianism
b. Hegel managed to combine elements of religion with those of science, so that science took on a kind of religious significance.
3. In science, the straight line goes from Hegel to Ernst Haeckel, the man who coined the word ecology.
a. One spin-off of the Enlightenment was the desire to find new myths that would transcend daily existence and take one to a higher level of purification. Proto-fascist, and founder of ecology, Ernst Haeckel, invested nature-worship with the belief that all matter was alive and possessed mental attributes. In monism, he brought together hostility to Christianity and propaganda for Darwinism, a nature cult and theories of hygiene and selective breeding.
J.W. Burrow, The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914, p. 218-19
b. Hegel to Haeckel to Hitler, or Marx and Engels to Soviet science or Nazi science. Both forms are corruptions of science.
4. After Lenins death, the effort was to create a proletariat science, based on the view that authority can change nature itself; "The human species, the sluggish Homo sapiens, will once again enter the stage of radical reconstruction and become in his own hands the object of the most complex methods of artificial selection and psychophysical training... Man will make it his goal...to create a higher sociobiological type, a superman, if you will"
New Soviet man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a. In fact, the Soviets, under agriculture minister Trofim Lysenko, fervently believed that they with the proper conditions they could change the genetics of crops, the idea known as the inheritance of acquired characteristics. The Soviets actually banned the teaching of Mendelian genetics.
Science and politics
b. All humanities and social sciences were additionally tested for strict accordance with historical materialism. These tests were alleged to serve as a cover for political suppression, to terrorize scientists who engaged in research labeled as "idealistic" or "bourgeois.
Suppressed research in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
5. Along came radical environmentalisms Lady GaGa, Rachel Carson. Romanticizing nature, targeting humankind as the grand evil, in a book filled with anecdotal science, she stole the hearts of Progressives.
a. Carsons book was dismissed in Science magazine as a prosecuting attorneys impassioned plea for action, not a book based on scientific data. I.L.Baldwin, Chemicals and Pests, Science, September 28, 1962, p.1042-1043.
Progressive science? Environmentalism?
Corruptions of science propped up with taxpayer funds and 'targeted' academic grants.
And swallowed by the willfully ignorant.
Raise your paw if you're one.....
2. Karl Popper is generally regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century [The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy(Summer 2009 Edition) ]; he watched the rise of Hitler, and the Nazis, and analyzed the conditions that allowed fascism to arise. He realized that all the totalitarian philosophies of the 20th century owe their origin to Hegel.
a. Hegel:All the worth which the human being possesses - all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State. Hegel Quotations and Totalitarianism
b. Hegel managed to combine elements of religion with those of science, so that science took on a kind of religious significance.
3. In science, the straight line goes from Hegel to Ernst Haeckel, the man who coined the word ecology.
a. One spin-off of the Enlightenment was the desire to find new myths that would transcend daily existence and take one to a higher level of purification. Proto-fascist, and founder of ecology, Ernst Haeckel, invested nature-worship with the belief that all matter was alive and possessed mental attributes. In monism, he brought together hostility to Christianity and propaganda for Darwinism, a nature cult and theories of hygiene and selective breeding.
J.W. Burrow, The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914, p. 218-19
b. Hegel to Haeckel to Hitler, or Marx and Engels to Soviet science or Nazi science. Both forms are corruptions of science.
4. After Lenins death, the effort was to create a proletariat science, based on the view that authority can change nature itself; "The human species, the sluggish Homo sapiens, will once again enter the stage of radical reconstruction and become in his own hands the object of the most complex methods of artificial selection and psychophysical training... Man will make it his goal...to create a higher sociobiological type, a superman, if you will"
New Soviet man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a. In fact, the Soviets, under agriculture minister Trofim Lysenko, fervently believed that they with the proper conditions they could change the genetics of crops, the idea known as the inheritance of acquired characteristics. The Soviets actually banned the teaching of Mendelian genetics.
Science and politics
b. All humanities and social sciences were additionally tested for strict accordance with historical materialism. These tests were alleged to serve as a cover for political suppression, to terrorize scientists who engaged in research labeled as "idealistic" or "bourgeois.
Suppressed research in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
5. Along came radical environmentalisms Lady GaGa, Rachel Carson. Romanticizing nature, targeting humankind as the grand evil, in a book filled with anecdotal science, she stole the hearts of Progressives.
a. Carsons book was dismissed in Science magazine as a prosecuting attorneys impassioned plea for action, not a book based on scientific data. I.L.Baldwin, Chemicals and Pests, Science, September 28, 1962, p.1042-1043.
Progressive science? Environmentalism?
Corruptions of science propped up with taxpayer funds and 'targeted' academic grants.
And swallowed by the willfully ignorant.
Raise your paw if you're one.....