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Hrvatski Noahid:
The well-meaning adherents of these philosophies, who are outraged at the indignities of colonial-industrial society and want to do something about it, are often taken in by the more cynical and ruthless elements of leftist movements. Indeed, organizations like Black Lives Matter captured extraordinary public attention for their stances on racism in the United States, but after years of enjoying tremendous public support, collapsed into corruption and embezzlement scandals. On smaller scales, influencers and grifters like Meghan Markle exploit pre-existing grievances about race to increase their own visibility, or hustlers like Amber Heard attempt to make false accusations of domestic abuse on behalf of all women everywhere.

Shockingly, corrupt postmodernist professionals have even infiltrated and co-opted entire professional organizations to accomplish the goals of their beloved interest groups. This extraordinarily dangerous plow has already resulted in the sterilization and mutilation of North American children, as well as institutionalized sexual interference in schools and psychiatric practices. These crimes and many others, facilitated by the systematized nature of Western knowledge and an over-reliance on experts, have confused generations of people and are a hidden factor in the ongoing mental health crises flummoxing Western experts. (Ticket to Heaven by Zachary R.J. Strong, PDF version, p 62)

Hrvatski Noahid:
Despite taking great pains to emphasize the progress they have been making with their technology and science, the high modernists are now scrambling to correct for the externalities of their grand visions. With the mental health of North America now destroyed by overwork, overplanning, and substandard living conditions, the system is falling apart at the seams and spending enormous amounts of money to keep people mentally functional enough to perpetuate the project.

The accumulated pain that Western populations carry can be seen most clearly in the youngest generations, who, more than any other generation of human beings, have grown up with social media and smartphone technology – both of which have proven to be highly addictive and mentally destructive if overused. Moreover, the optimization of all aspects of human life, taken to extremes in the age of hyper-competitive Ivy League admissions processes and extracurricular activities, have reduced childhood from a time of play to a series of checklists and accomplishments, depriving the youngest generations of the very important experiences of play, free exploration, adventure, and even teenage risk-taking.

Indeed, the high modernist belief in the perfectibility of nature has long been extended to childhood, beginning with mandatory state education centuries ago and reaching new heights in the age of scientific parenting, tiger moms, microaggressions, and overprotection. Yet the youngest generations, who should be the happiest and most able given the unprecedented resources spent on childcare and education, are proving to be afflicted with maladies like anxiety, depression, and ADHD at rates never seen or heard of in human history.

Although many experts place the blame for this mental health crisis squarely on technology, and more erudite thinkers also condemn the over-systematization of childhood, the full truth is that the psychological professions and their governing bodies were infiltrated decades ago by Marxist activists. Weaponizing the “science” of the invisible mind against Western society, these utterly corrupt professionals have intentionally perverted the modern understanding of human nature, leaving modern people defenseless against sickening levels of therapeutic malpractice and outright scientific fraud.

If anyone asks a scientist what the best thing about science is, and their answer is anything other than the scientific method, that answer had better be uniquely insightful and thought-provoking. Indeed, the rigorous kinds of examination developed by Western civilization and its influences have facilitated a slow grind towards truth, which in turn have afforded the West many modern luxuries, unbelievable creative capacities, and a genuine chance at achieving technological utopia. (Ticket to Heaven by Zachary R.J. Strong, PDF version, p 63)

Hrvatski Noahid:
The scientific method can be summarized as follows:

You are humble enough to be unsure about something and willing to investigate it

You establish what is currently known about the topic

You develop a hypothesis about what might be true

You design an experiment to test your hypothesis fairly, rigorously, and creatively

You execute the experiment and collect your data

You impartially and honestly examine the data to draw conclusions

You share your results with others for review and replication

One of the strengths of this method is its impartiality – by creating a hypothesis beforehand and then testing it with a predetermined experiment, the result is independent of the wishes or preferences of the experimenter. Therefore, the experiment can be considered a glimpse of unadulterated reality, which is further confirmed by other scientists replicating the experiment in their own contexts. This crucial part of the process, known today as peer review, is the backbone of the scientific method as it applies in social contexts.

Another strength of the scientific method, and particularly the peer review system, is that any scientific claim is open, at least in theory, to challenges from new experiments and new data. This is what happened at the turn of the twentieth century, when Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity brought powerful new perspectives to physics and changed science forever. However, whereas collaboration between Western scientists used to be more organic, with the peer review system providing a level of rigor to what were otherwise folkloric chains of transmission, modern science is conducted largely through centralized mechanisms like universities, peer-reviewed journals, and governing bodies.

Indeed, whereas the history of scientific discovery is filled with stories of polymathic prodigies like William Herschel and self-taught geniuses like Michael Faraday, the colonial-industrial system known today as “science” relies on networks of journals and professional organizations, tightly managed by credentialed authorities and funded by governments to support progress and economic growth. Although this modern approach to science provided the necessary infrastructure for many sophisticated discoveries and the centralization of vast amounts of human knowledge, the historical record shows it has left the West’s “scientific” understanding of reality open to systemic corruption and institutional malpractice. (Ticket to Heaven by Zachary R.J. Strong, PDF version, p 64)

Hrvatski Noahid:
Although scientists of generations past worked collaboratively and organically, in modern times the verification and distribution of scientific knowledge has become, like everything else in the West, highly systematized and subject to centralized influence. Many academic circles are notoriously difficult to break into for even career academics, and the publishing costs of independently submitting research for peer review are so prohibitive as to discourage scholarship outside of government-funded university settings.

The career track for researchers in almost every field is linear to the point of being a railroad, with aspiring scientists or arts scholars looking forward to a four-year undergraduate degree, a two-year graduate program, and a four-to-six-year doctorate as the table stakes for entry. Following this, many academics experience a harrowing process of finding a post-doctorate position, and eventually a teaching position. After several decades of navigating highly political postsecondary environments, one can finally obtain tenure and release research relatively free from the fear of career sabotage – although not entirely.

Obviously, while this system affords the Western intellectual effort with certain kinds of rigor and standardization, much like other kinds of organizations, the modern academic machine has many weaknesses. Among them are the petty squabbles and personal feuds common to the corporate world, falsified or corrupted research submitted for career advancement, and political maneuvering at the expense of metaphysical clarity. Indeed, the authority structures now instantiated within the scientific method have afforded tremendous subjective influences to governing bodies like the College of Midwives of Ontario, legislated into existence in 1991 to standardize the thousands-year-old practice of midwifery, part of an ongoing effort by industrial medicine to exclude traditional female birth workers from practice and make birth “safer”.

The same is true for the American Psychiatric Association, originally a loose collection of asylum superintendents and now one of the governing bodies that defines, among other things, what a mental illness is and the different kinds of illnesses that exist.

One of the most important works regarding the philosophy and history of science was produced by Thomas Kuhn, an American historian and philosopher who developed the concept of a scientific paradigm. Defined as an underlying framework or worldview that influences the entirety of someone’s thought on a topic, a paradigm constitutes the accepted body of literature in a field, the kinds of questions that are asked, and the acceptable standards for investigation. (Ticket to Heaven by Zachary R.J. Strong, PDF version, p 64-65)

Hrvatski Noahid:
Whereas mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and the computer sciences seem to have largely settled into a comprehensive understanding of their domains and well-tested methods of investigation, the so-called “science” of psychology is a relative newcomer to the Western intellectual project, first gaining prominence with the release of Sigmund Freud’s work in the 1890s and early 1900s. A field characterized by fierce disagreements between kaleidoscopic schools of thought that have not yet cohered into a paradigm, psychology is paradoxically the least-developed and most subjective of all the Western sciences, but arguably the most powerful.

Largely developed in the wake of the Industrial Revolution and thus subject to its values of systematization and optimization, the unquestioned assumptions held by “experts” in psychology have famously been the motive behind institutionalized violence against people who do not fit easily into colonial-industrial society, such as “hysterical” women treated with genital massage or schizophrenic and bipolar patients treated with lobotomies. Owing largely to its deep interconnections with social work and therefore government funding, this upstart prodigy of a science conceived not two centuries ago has obtained the power of law in many countries, with the ability to confine “mentally ill” people on wards temporarily or indefinitely, physically restrain them to their beds to the point of asphyxiation or cardiac arrest, medicate them against their will, and do all sorts of other things for their own good – and for the good of society.

As many mentally ill people can attest and is often memorialized in popular culture like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest or Patch Adams, the treatment from these systems is harsh, authoritarian, utterly rigid, and belligerent to the point of keeping patients with religious delusions in confinement without actively seeking support from religious practitioners. However, not only have these deeply ignorant and arrogant oversteps on facilitated some of the worst medical crimes in history, following their takeover by Marxist activists in the mid-twentieth century, the governing bodies that manage psychology now instantiate and enforce malpractice, sexual interference, and the corruption of children in service of disruptive Marxist objectives. While some of these metaphysical and epistemic frauds are beginning to gain awareness in Western society with the release of documentaries like Daily Wire’s What is a Woman?, the frightening reality is that the psychological sciences have been weaponized against common people for decades and mental illness is now masquerading as love.

Modern psychology, as many are aware, begins with the psychoanalytic techniques and theories developed collaboratively by Sigmund Freud, Josef Breuer, and “Anna O.”, which were based largely on links that were discovered to exist between childhood traumas and adult discontent. Their school of thought, known as psychoanalysis, focused on traumatic memories and incestuous family dynamics, the revelations of which were largely responsible for the explosion of psychology’s popularity in the early twentieth century. (Ticket to Heaven by Zachary R.J. Strong, PDF version, p 65-66)

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