Friday, May 6, 2016

Societal Interpretations tougher than Science

The understanding of a natural phenomenon begins with a philosophical pronouncement codifying what is thought to be a law that nature has forged. The philosophy becomes hard science when it is put into a mathematical formulation that boils down to a set of equations. Alternatively, a mechanical model is imagined and used to help us visualize what we cannot see with the naked eye or with instruments.

Those who are familiar with man's quest since ancient times to understand what nature was made of and how it worked, to the current attempts to “photograph or film” the atom – have an idea of the effort that went into the many interpretations advanced to explain the experimental results. Such interpretations failed most of the time, and were incomplete at other times but succeeded enough of the time to spawn today's science and technology. Indeed, the products we make today based on that science would have been considered sorcery just a few generations ago.

But if you think that understanding science is a difficult endeavor, wait till you see what it takes to understand a societal phenomenon such as the role that religion or economics or technology, for example, play in shaping society. Let me tell you of two contributions made in this regard, and you won't believe who made them.

It is Clifford D. May who wrote: “Observations along the road to ruin,” an article that also came under the subtitle: “Forgetting what made the nation strong has crushed America's great expectations.” It was published on May 3, 2016 in The Washington Times. And it is Dennis Prager who wrote: “A Dark Time in America,” an article that was published also on May 3, 2016 in National Review Online.

Whereas Dennis Prager asserts that America is going to hell because it is deviating from its past, Clifford May asserts that America never understood its past, which is why he sets out to reinterpret and re-explain that past. I must inject a word of caution at this point. Neither of the two is attempting to produce a scholarly or dispassionate work. They are Jews, after all, and their undying intent is to establish the supremacy of Judaism by mutilating history and by associating themselves with the “Judeo-Christian” West.

Prager sees that hell is ahead for America because “more and more young Americans do not believe in freedom of speech” or capitalism. Instead, they believe that “food, shelter, and health care 'are a right that government should provide to those unable to afford them.'” He also says that young Americans do not believe in religious institutions or the difference between male and female or the traditional family in which “a child does best starting life with a married father and mother”.

But the trouble is not only with the youth of America, he says, because the institutions are not doing any better. In fact, he asserts that “the universities, outside the natural sciences and math, are an intellectual fraud … by and large, idiotic.” In addition, “national, state and city governments have become Ponzi schemes.” And he complains about a growing federal government that meddles in and controls the lives of Americans. The net result is that “standards have been destroyed … The scatological has replaced the noble,” he says. And this is why in his view, the quest to be president of the United States has come down to a race between Trump and Clinton. Not to end on a pessimistic note, he promises to continue fighting for what he says is right.

As to Clifford May, he says that contrary to popular belief, the early immigrants to America were not seeking religious freedom. The Founders were not idealists. They did not envision “a utopia in which conflicts would be abolished.” And they did not want the American Constitution to be altered under the guise of interpretation. What all this means, is that you should throw away the old history books because Clifford May is having a revelation. He is about to rewrite history, making current events fit the narrative of a Judaism that is supreme and that is closely associated with the West.

Clifford May goes on to assert that slavery was not peculiar to America, and says that the country is not unusually racist. As to economic development, he subscribes to the idea that it is not a “natural process made by piling brick on brick, bank balance on bank balance, but by piling idea on idea.” The problem is that he does not tell what a sandwich made of ideas tastes like, or how it feels like to sleep under a roof that's made not of tiles but of abstract ideas.

He further explains that no nation in the world shares our desire for peace. In fact, he goes on to say that the world is not made of “societies that appear as exotic versions of our own, albeit with differing fashions and cuisines.” Far from it, he says, and the proof is the Arab Spring. The problem is that in his eagerness to establish that the others – especially the Muslims – are different from us, he neglects to explain how the “collective” Arab Spring differs from the American Civil War or the War of Independence.

He is pessimistic about the future because Western values and views are changing in America, he says. The evidence he cites is that 62 percent of young Americans do not identify as patriots. What bothers him is that they will not fight to defend America.

The problem is that he does not define the word “defend.” Is it the American defend which means you protect yourself when someone attacks you? Or is it the Jewish defend which means you raid someone to rob them, and when they defend themselves, you ask the world to weep for you and send you a donation.

Like Dennis Prager, he avoids ending the presentation on a pessimistic note. And so, he quotes Adam Smith who observed, “There is a lot of ruin in a nation,” which he interprets to mean: “the road from decline to fall can take many years to travel”.

He then discards his optimism by adding that Americans do not know which way leads to a better destination, or who's qualified to drive them there.

It is obvious what the Jews are trying to do now. It is that they had a narrative that worked for them in the past. That narrative has now disintegrated, and the Jews were exposed as being the wellspring of assertions that turned out to be fraudulent and ignorant. The worst part is that the assertions were taken up and implemented by successive American administrations. And they led to the ruin of the nation in every way you can imagine.

This is why the Jews are now groping to put together a new narrative. They are eager to get back in the driver's seat, and go on as if nothing had happened. It is something they called chutzpah; something that cannot be written into an equation.