Monday, March 01, 2010
Resolved a paradox...
Lately I've been digging [again!] into Intelligent Design, triggered by a review of a new book on evolution. The review answered a question that has been puzzling me for a long time.
Apparent paradox: Since Commies believe above all in absolute randomness, tabula rasa, all nurture and no nature ... since they cannot acknowledge that any** human quality is inherited, why do they love Darwin so much? After all, Darwinism is mostly about inheritance, and Darwin certainly held that innate differences determine your success in life. Why didn't they stick with the Lysenko theory of acquired characteristics, which was explicitly designed as a Marxist opposition to Darwin?
This review explains that the randomness of natural selection is the key. Commies were willing to go along with Darwinism (which had already become the religion of their fellow rich assholes) because the standard theory grants the real power to chaos and disorder. Random mutations change genes for no reason, and some of them survive for no reason.
The book under review details the complete failure of random selection as a theory. And it's written by two well-credentialed atheist scientists, which is deeply offensive to The Party. Elites don't get all hotted up when Darwin is questioned by heretics; since the Scopes trial in 1925 all Christian-oriented heretics are simply nonexistent Unpersons, unworthy of notice. But when card-carrying Party members question Doctrine, it's serious. Time to crank up the Two Minutes Hate machine, time to hit the Purge button.
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Clearly modern Commies hate Christianity, hate anything that remotely reminds them of an active God, but at the deepest level they hate life and reason, which makes Christianity (the main supporter of life and reason) a secondary target.
Egalitarianism wants to reduce living things to indistinguishable, dead, isolated and passive particles with zero characteristics. (Sidenote: this is also why elite assholes fanatically support Bohr's quantum physics against de Broglie's wave-based physics; quantum depends on pure randomness and pure subjectivity, while wave-based physics could lead you to think about connections and relations, could lead you to detect an overarching intelligence.)
How did this particle-addiction arise? Easy. Lenin and Stalin bred it into the Commie species by killing all intellectuals who believed otherwise. No random mutations here. And why was it necessary? Again easy. Maximum passivity plus maximum disorder equals absolute dictatorship. If you can't tell the difference between types of humans, if you are completely isolated, if you can't decide for yourself that one viewpoint is more valid than another, you are completely pliable. Completely incapable of physical or intellectual self-defense.
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** In recent years a special exception has been carved out for homosexuality, declared to be the only human quality that can be inherited. This exception is made on purely political grounds, to satisfy a rich and powerful constituency of the Left, but it gets treated as Science because the Politburo says it's Science. Subjectivity and all that, y'know. In reaction, conservatives decided to take the opposite position that homosexuality is the only human quality that cannot be inherited. Both of these beliefs are just weird. ¶ 8:12 AM
Apparent paradox: Since Commies believe above all in absolute randomness, tabula rasa, all nurture and no nature ... since they cannot acknowledge that any** human quality is inherited, why do they love Darwin so much? After all, Darwinism is mostly about inheritance, and Darwin certainly held that innate differences determine your success in life. Why didn't they stick with the Lysenko theory of acquired characteristics, which was explicitly designed as a Marxist opposition to Darwin?
This review explains that the randomness of natural selection is the key. Commies were willing to go along with Darwinism (which had already become the religion of their fellow rich assholes) because the standard theory grants the real power to chaos and disorder. Random mutations change genes for no reason, and some of them survive for no reason.
The book under review details the complete failure of random selection as a theory. And it's written by two well-credentialed atheist scientists, which is deeply offensive to The Party. Elites don't get all hotted up when Darwin is questioned by heretics; since the Scopes trial in 1925 all Christian-oriented heretics are simply nonexistent Unpersons, unworthy of notice. But when card-carrying Party members question Doctrine, it's serious. Time to crank up the Two Minutes Hate machine, time to hit the Purge button.
= = = = =
Clearly modern Commies hate Christianity, hate anything that remotely reminds them of an active God, but at the deepest level they hate life and reason, which makes Christianity (the main supporter of life and reason) a secondary target.
Egalitarianism wants to reduce living things to indistinguishable, dead, isolated and passive particles with zero characteristics. (Sidenote: this is also why elite assholes fanatically support Bohr's quantum physics against de Broglie's wave-based physics; quantum depends on pure randomness and pure subjectivity, while wave-based physics could lead you to think about connections and relations, could lead you to detect an overarching intelligence.)
How did this particle-addiction arise? Easy. Lenin and Stalin bred it into the Commie species by killing all intellectuals who believed otherwise. No random mutations here. And why was it necessary? Again easy. Maximum passivity plus maximum disorder equals absolute dictatorship. If you can't tell the difference between types of humans, if you are completely isolated, if you can't decide for yourself that one viewpoint is more valid than another, you are completely pliable. Completely incapable of physical or intellectual self-defense.
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** In recent years a special exception has been carved out for homosexuality, declared to be the only human quality that can be inherited. This exception is made on purely political grounds, to satisfy a rich and powerful constituency of the Left, but it gets treated as Science because the Politburo says it's Science. Subjectivity and all that, y'know. In reaction, conservatives decided to take the opposite position that homosexuality is the only human quality that cannot be inherited. Both of these beliefs are just weird. ¶ 8:12 AM
