Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: OsherD (mdoctorow_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: 30 Jan 2005 19:17:23 -0800

>>From Osher Doctorow

I should add that many Neo-Nazi types that I have encountered have a
Fear of Ignorance (FOI for short) which is the essence of Bureaucracy
and makes them superior puppets in the academic, governmental, and
industrial world. In fact, Neo-Nazi types include people who can't
"see the forest for the trees and/or the trees for the forest", which
literally means that they either can't recognize the individual in
every plurality or the plurality to which every individual belongs or
both. How can one not recognize both (the "Ultimate FOI" or "UFOI" as
one might humorously label such a person (nothing nearly as bad a label
as Kolker's labelling you an "ignoramus")? Actually, infants don't
usually recognize anybody as existing except themselves, and this is
the most common profile of both psychopaths and sociopaths and
Peace-At-Any-Pricers (who won't give their lives for anybody except
Number One, not to mention inconveniencing themselves for anybody
except Number One). However, there are also people who don't recognize
themselves as well as anybody else, mostly insane, although a close
second if not in the same category is a typical physics researcher who
spends his life imitating others without asking why or even realizing
that he is doing that and then produces research in imitation of others
which he gets to label "original" in the sense that applying the
partial sentence "___ is
green" to a possible object on Titan is original if confirmed by 1000
observations.

But to return to FOI (Fear of Ignorance), I'll continue this shortly
with more details.

Osher

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