I like where you get started...You then start talking about unnecessary things like Playstation and nuclear reactors, which are the reason I can't fucking go and visit Japan anymore.
...avoid being rigid in terms of sticking to the status quo and being able to disregard "common sense" (and replace it with higher abstraction...
I'm pretty open minded. I'll change my views on things to fit with empirical reality. So long as the idea in question is observable to "real" I'm happy to adopt it. Further, people will NEVER make a PS3 work, or run a nuclear reactor unless they adopt "linear logic" (Actually, continious
non-linear partial differential equations are closer to what you'll need.) End of story: Mysticism, intuition, "other ways of knowing" and all that nonsense will never, ever get you a computer built, turn the lights on in your house, or fix your prolapsed mitral valve. Rigor, logic, analysis, reductionism, materialism, empiricism will.
Yes, laziness is repulsive and I expect people to put some effort into understanding what I'm saying and I do the same for them.
Psilocybin - well, I won't go on to much, YMMV, but I have observed in myself and others, personal insight, and getting back in touch with universal truths re: the cosmos, nothing more - these epiphanies and revelations would have come into our empirical knowledge repertoire eventually, most probably, but may have taken years or decades longer to realize.
There is
nothing wrong with intuition - just because you cannot explain it yet, or break the process down bit by bit to fit in your little boxes of analysis, does not make it any less valuable than using other forms of logic - you are insulting me, possibly yourself, and the rest of the 50% of the world's population by doing it. Fuck it - you are probably intuitive (is you palm longer than it is wide?), you just don't consider it, in your arrogance.
Your examples just show how much you embrace all that is synthetic; a plague upon this earth in the grand scheme of things - fertilizer and pesticides - these destroy the world slowly but surely. Pesticides - there are natural pesticides out there, man-made ones are killing people, giving them parkinsons disease(thank you Monsanto)...not to mention the destruction they cause when the leech into the soil, then into the streams, rivers, oceans, and therfore on top of us through the process of precipiation.
GMO's are nothing but products pushed(you heard about the Terminator crops right?) - they help
nothing, and are certainly not better than what nature provides. Vaccines - I would never use most of these even if you paid me - they corrupt our immune systems. Anti-biotics - same here, extremely damaging to the internal flora and fauna. GPS - again, I wouldn't use one if you paid me...I use my innate navigational skills coupled with my knowledge of the sun, the moon, the stars, and how plants bend/grow if pushed for time, like we have been doing for thousands of years - you use a compass and a map right? Of course you do, you're an army lad.
For all the examples you give -
well done, those innovators - they are amazing feats of technological achievement, but at the end of the day a lot of them are unncessary, they are simply fun experiments, ones which get us further and further away from the natural ways which keep us ONE with our kin, the animals, this planet, universe, most do not further mankinds evolution in
any way, as they provide people with easy ways to do things(we all know most quick fixes don't work properly, holistically), therefore they don't learn how to rely on themselves and further their empirical knowledge.
To cap it off - I never said anything was wrong with the use of logic - that would be retarded - but what you fail to notice in your efforts to prove something by going off on your intellectual rants, is that
I have stated this before, whilst maintaining the truth, which is that not everything fits into your little boxes of how to define something(in my PMs mostly).
In fact I quote one of my favourite MC's as I heard one of his tunes yesterday I hadn't fully got the message of when I first heard it 9 years ago, and thought it apt -
"mankind in his arrogance and egotism, is out of time with the beat, a universal rhythm. In his quest to be the ruler of the moon and the stars, lost the synchopating rhythm of this planet of ours." - Rodney P - 'Trouble'
I end this with a quote repetition to prove you are not as open-minded as you suggest
End of story: Mysticism, intuition, "other ways of knowing" and all that nonsense ...
- yeah right, open-minded. Analysis, observation, intuition, practicality and action will one day all go hand in hand together again, when scientists admit there are simply some things which cannot be explained by their rigorous, close-minded methods.
This is going so far off track...haha epic derail.
gotta love George Carlin.
