• HEALTH & RECOVERY
    Welcome Guest
    Posting Rules Bluelight Rules Thread Directory 1 Thread Directory 2
    Mindfulness Links Addiction & Mind
    Sober Living Partner Program (SLiPP)
  • H&R Moderators: streaM Freak

🪷 Holistic 🪷 Exploring sensitivity to Electromagnetic Fields

I don't know the author, but beware of epistemic trespassing (informally termed Nobelitis).

It is established that high intelligence enables advanced rationalization, motivation-driven reasoning, and identity-protective bias rather than absolute objectivity. I have no reason to think the author is being anything less than honest on his own terms. It just seems an odd set of beliefs.

Concerning his biography: I feel it germaine to point out that Cambridge isn't A university. There are 31 collages (and Oxbridge graduates almost always specify their alma mater as it MATTERS) and he carefully employs the term 'went to work for' the same unnamed institution for 17 years. But that isn't the same as stating a role. A research assistant, archivist, lab technician or even a cleaner for that matter could make just the same claim.

So while not lying, it does strike me as misleading.

The Forer test revealed that the vast majority of people are more likely to believe something is true if it makes them feel good so I'm not for a moment suggesting his books are bad literature or that investigation is ever a bad thing in itself.

But skepticism is the only rational starting-point. Hitchen's Razor reminds us that the onus is on the person stating a case to provide evidence. There is no onus on anyone else to DISprove a case. I was just a little bit disappointed to find such a seemingly clumsy appeal to authority within a very brief biography.
 
Last edited:
"Pour créer de la beauté non par amour ou liberté, mais dans la solitude éternelle, tu dois vivre et mourir dans un donjon"

- Blanche Monnier, La Séquestrée de Poitiers (attributed)
 
Last edited:
streaM Freak said:
What does that mean, that ignorance is bliss basically?
Click to expand...

I highly recommend that you watch the 1993 BBC Television programme 'Michel Foucault: Beyond Good and Evil' which details the man's life. As an child/adolescent his walk to and from his school took him past the block of flats in which Blanche Monnier was locked into one tiny room with only a roof-light i.e. she could see nothing but the sky. It's on Youtube but you may have to sign in as although in no way graphic, Youtube is extremely sensitive to the mere mention of such things.

The quotation was found scratched into her bed-frame when she was discovered after her 25 year long confinement (1876-1901).

It's often hard to tansliterate but as I understand it, what Foucoult took away from it the idea that unhappiness has just as much capacity to instill creativity as happiness.

Don't forget, Focoult was likely realizing that he was homosexual and in the laste 1930s with the Nazi party on the rise, he had to hide who he was and likely only fully came to terms with his equality after observing the gay culture in San Fransisco from 1980 onwards.

It's just my reading but his subject matter is repeatedly how an outgroup (criminals, the mentally ill and physically ill) is classified by both cultures and by sciences.

Don't forget, Focault's most famous observation was 'visibility is a trap'.
 
Last edited:
4DQSAR said:
I highly recommend that you watch the 1993 BBC Television programme 'Michel Foucault: Beyond Good and Evil' which details the man's life. As an child/adolescent his walk to and from his school took him past the block of flats in which Blanche Monnier was locked into one tiny room with only a roof-light i.e. she could see nothing but the sky. It's on Youtube but you may have to sign in as although in no way graphic, Youtube is extremely sensitive to the mere mention of such things.

The quotation was found scratched into her bed-frame when she was discovered after her 25 year long confinement (1876-1901).

It's often hard to tansliterate but as I understand it, what Foucoult took away from it the idea that unhappiness has just as much capacity to instill creativity as happiness.

Don't forget, Focoult was likely realizing that he was homosexual and in the laste 1930s with the Nazi party on the rise, he had to hide who he was and likely only fully came to terms with his equality after observing the gay culture in San Fransisco from 1980 onwards.

It's just my reading but his subject matter is repeatedly how an outgroup (criminals, the mentally ill and physically ill) is classified by both cultures and by sciences.

Don't forget, Focault's most famous observation was 'visibility is a trap'.
Click to expand...

What are the conditions that one can become the artists of their own life. From the disorganization of acid to the torture in chains.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top