Reversed Parkinson process
Parkinson's all-powerful all-explaining Law says that organizations grow.

Organizations and agencies and academic disciplines usually start with a purpose in mind. In some cases the purpose is a serious attempt to solve a real problem; more often it's fake. After the organization is underway, it never quits and never stops growing. Often it makes the problem exponentially worse, to "justify" exponential increases in budget to continue un-"solving" the problem even worsererer. If the original problem goes away on its own despite the agency's best efforts to magnify it, the agency abandons the original goal and finds new goals, usually monetary or criminal.

I hadn't counted religion among the replacement purposes, and it's hard to think of examples in the past.

Most active religions began as a fresh rebellion against an older religion that lost its sacred purpose and turned secular. When an old denomination faded into monetary transactions or crime, a new rebel group splintered off. Christ was rebelling against venal Judaism. Mohammed and Luther were both rebelling against massively evil Catholicism. Joseph Smith and Aimee Semple MacPherson were rebelling against aristocratic Protestants.

In the current century we finally have some clear examples of transitions from secular to religious. Most obviously, medicine and public health. Formerly secular, now a satanic holocaust cult.

Physics is a bit less distinct, but this article makes the transition wonderfully clear.

Is physics finished? The 21st century is often called the age of biology. Or artificial intelligence. Or any other emerging field. This relegates physics to the previous century — the golden days when the revolutions of relativity and quantum mechanics shook the world, and the discoveries of elementary particles led to a string of Nobel Prizes.

That brings us to the second argument. Recent advances in cosmology allow us to state, with a fair amount of certainty, that 95 percent of the universe is missing. These missing parts consist of dark matter and dark energy, both equally mysterious forms of new physics.

Secular physics is done. No more experimentation, no more tentative hypotheses. Only flat statements of required sacred faith in a NONEXISTENT AND IMAGINARY concept with no testable or measurable properties.

These missing parts consist of dark matter and dark energy.

I believe in one Dark Energy and in its blessed prophet Dark Matter.

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