Neuropsychology is a specialty that combines the fields of neuroscience and psychology and deals with the brain and its relationship to behavior. The brain is the most complex organ of the body and controls intellectual functioning, speech and language, the perception of touch, hearing, and vision, memory, attention, personality and the coordination of all movement. Because neurological disorders, such as traumatic brain injury or concussion, stroke, brain tumors, epilepsy, Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease or multiple sclerosis, and developmental disorders, such as Learning Disabilities, dyslexia, Autism or Asperger's Disorder, may affect any of these functions, neuropsychological evaluation is an important part of diagnosis and treatment planning.
The goal of rehabilitation is to help an individual progress to the most independent level of functioning possible. Intervention will focus on regaining lost skills, as well as learning ways to compensate for abilities that have been permanently changed because of an acquired injury, a degenerative process, or longstanding cognitive difficulties. Most individuals respond best to programs tailored to their backgrounds and interests. The most effective therapy programs involve family members who can best provide this information and intervention in their daily environment.
School advocacy allows a neuropsychologist to be in attendance at your child's school meeting/ARD meeting to assist the educational team with understanding the neuropsychological testing results and the creation of a 504 plan/Individualized Education Program (IEP).
Cognitive coaching provides direct training of cognitive and executive strategies to assist children/adolescents/young adults with learning differences and developmental disabilities. Areas that may be targeted through this intervention include memory, organization, note taking, fluency, test preparation, study skills, and time management.
The goal of family therapy intervention is to educate the family regarding the neurological condition of the family member, to assist the family in creating problem-solving strategies to appropriately identify and overcome challenges resulting in family stress and conflict, increase positive family interaction, advocate for the family in negotiating with other systems and to ensure that therapeutic recommendations are appropriately implemented across settings and time, and to support the interventions recommended by other providers working with the patient/family (e.g., physician, nutrition, PT, OT, speech/language therapy, social work, etc.).
WHAT DIAGNOSES ARE APPROPRIATE FOR THESE INTERVENTION SERVICES?
Acquired Brain Injuries (e.g., TBI, concussion, stroke, brain surgery, brain tumor, and chemotherapy/radiation late effects), Genetic Disorders, Chromosomal Disorders, Neurological Disorders (e.g., epilepsy, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, effects of prematurity, etc.), Disorders of Aging (MCI), and Developmental Disabilities (e.g., ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and difficulties with learning and executive functioning).


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BMW i8 Concept Spyder loses a roof, keeps eco credentials
By Rory Reid
BMW's four-seat eco coupe, the i8, isn't due in showrooms until 2014 but the company has already created a variant. Lopping off the coupe's roof and chopping six inches from its wheelbase has created the i8 Concept Spyder, a two-seat plug-in hybrid roadster.
It's green, but the BMW I8 Spyder is also very mean.
The car is clearly closer to a production model than the i8 concept seen to date. The coupe's transparent plastic doors are no more, replaced by conventional looking items with frameless glass. They do still swing dramatically upwards, rather than outwards, however. The interior, meanwhile, has lost its show-car flimsiness and looks ready to roll.
There's no roof yet, although a folding two-piece top is in the works. For now, BMW has filled the space under the transparent rear deck with a pair of gimmicky electric scooters — of the skeletal, stand-on variety best left to children and people from London's Shoreditch area.
Like the coupe, the Spyder is built using a carbon-fibre body atop an aluminium chassis — an arrangement BMW calls LifeDrive. The front wheels are propelled by a 131bhp electric motor and the rear axle by a 223bhp turbocharged three-cylinder petrol engine. Their combined 354bhp should whip the finished car to 62mph in 5.0 seconds. Top speed is capped at 155mph.
Power for the electric motor arrives from a bank of lithium ion batteries housed in the centre tunnel, which can be charged either by a generator attached to the rear engine or via the mains — a full top up takes less than two hours. Up to 19 miles of silent electric wafting is available from a freshly charged car.
With its selection of power sources, the i8 Spyder will sometimes be front-wheel drive, sometimes rear-wheel drive, and occasionally a 4×4. A suitably clever electronic system will decide what's needed from moment to moment, although the driver will have a say too, via a mode selector running from Eco Pro to Sport. The control systems will also talk to the satnav and keep tabs on real-time traffic data, to try to apportion battery reserves during the most efficient points in a journey.
BMW says it expects to achieve combined cycle consumption of 94mpg. Price and a showroom date remain to be revealed.

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text:
Q: When element clicked, find closest element relative to this element with another class and toggle it I am missing something here. When the row with the class one is clicked, I want to find only the closest row with the class two and then toggle (show/hide) it.

$(".one").on('click', function() {
   $(this).find('.two').toggle();
});

         Hello

         world

         Foo

         Bar

A: Something like this:
$(".one").on('click', function() {
    $(this).nextAll('.two:first').toggle();
});

http://jsfiddle.net/DerekL/5ossufmj/

A: I think you might want .next(). It finds the next sibling in the DOM respecting placement in the DOM.
https://api.jquery.com/next/
Or maybe this:  get the next element with a specific class after a specific element
Edit
Here is a working solution:
$('.one').on('click', function () {
    var this_el = $(this);
    var el = findNextWithClass(this_el, "two");
    if (el != null)
    {
        el.toggle();
    }
    else
    {
        alert("null");
    }
});

function findNextWithClass(element, className) {
    var next = element.next();
    if (next.hasClass(className)) {
        return next
    } else {
        if (next != null) {
            return findNextWithClass(next, className);
        } else {
            return null;
        }
    }
}

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Humanoid Moe Glados is released!
Now this new version got 2 type, Portal 1 (default) and Portal 2 (corrupted). Its available for both Garrysmod and Obsidian Conflict. Feel free to use especially for machinima.
This what we call 'MOE'. She's so cute.
A normal shot at her always idle post.
She doze off, slightly embarrassing.
Well she's not fully cute for all time. After Chell destroy her, she's become creepy.
Well, 'Exterminate all humans!". That's what she think after what Chell did to her.
The obsidian conflict server has been updated to reflect the changes.


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Eight New Ventures to Vie for University College Dublin's 2021 Start-Up of the Year Award
NovaUCD today announced the eight (8) new ventures which are set to pitch their business plans at the final of University College Dublin's (UCD) annual accelerator programme with the overall winner receiving the 2021 UCD Start-Up of the Year Award. Between them the participating early-stage ventures are seeking to raise seed investment of several million euro.
The aim of the UCD VentureLaunch Accelerator Programme, which is run by NovaUCD, is to support the creation and launch of sustainable and profitable new start-ups emerging from the University.
The emerging start-ups on this year's UCD VentureLaunch Accelerator Programme are, Blood Brothers, Eofis, FeetAI, giyst, Go Eve, La Casa, Nightleaf and PEARlabs.
Blood Brothers is developing an employee health and wellness benefits solution for men. Blood Brothers' mobile-first solution is for employers who want to bridge a gap in men's health by offering their male employees an easy way to access men's health experts, men's health blood testing and curated health content, all from their mobile device. Blood Brothers was founded by Dr Harriet Treacy and Peter Lumley working alongside Professor Carel Le Roux, UCD School of Medicine and the UCD Diabetes Complications Research Centre.
Eofis is developing a corporate e-learning app, using automatic quiz generation and an optimal, efficient, and lightweight learning schedule, to greatly improve employees' retention of vital content. Eofis offers a personalised learning experience with easily accessible progress and engagement metrics to team leaders and senior staff to track and optimise their teams' performance. Eofis was founded by Marysol Angeloni, a postgraduate student in the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, and Tiarnach Ó Riada, a graduate of the UCD School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
FeetAI is using artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and computer vision technology to support children's footwear fitting. FeetAI is developing SizeWise, a digital platform that allows a parent to scan their child's foot from a smart phone, builds a 3D model of the foot, and presents a recommended shoe size for their child, accommodating for healthy growth. Notifications can also be sent to the parent when a child may have to change shoe size to help keeping their child in healthy footwear. The patent pending solution is fully integrated with online footwear retailers' e-commerce solution to enhance their customer experience, increase sales and reduce returns due to poor fitting. Alan Power, UCD School of Computer Science and CeADAR, Ireland's Centre for Applied AI, is the founder of FeetAI.
giyst generates automated AI-powered video summaries to drive discovery and enable efficient consumption of the essence of content. Unlike the limits of manual summarization, giyst's technology creates endless volumes of human-quality video summaries in real time. giyst aims to transform the video discovery process, while helping users combat information overload. giyst founders are Avril Power, Colm Murphy, and Dr Ricardo Simon Carbajo, UCD School of Computer Science and CeADAR, Ireland's Centre for Applied AI.
Go Eve, a UCD and Imperial College London start-up incorporated in the UK, is focused on bringing an innovative EV charging system to market. The patent-pending 'DockChain' innovation, invented by academic researchers from UCD and Imperial, allows multiple EVs to be 'electrified' from one base charging point with a daisy chain of inexpensive and simple DockChain units. Go Eve was founded by John Goodbody, Hugh Sheehy, and the academic research team behind DockChain.
La Casa is developing a care platform to improve the wellbeing of older people so that they can live independently in their own home for as long as possible. Using AI it can anticipate issues and suggest early interventions to carers or family to improve user wellbeing, reduce care dependence and decrease the rate of age-related decline. La Casa was founded by Richard Cooke, Rodd Bond, and Paul Boland, UCD School of Computer Science and CeADAR, Ireland's Centre for Applied AI.
Nightleaf is developing a highly innovative wearable device, based on the principles of design thinking and value driven care, to revolutionise healthcare for Dry Eye disease patients by providing them with an effective overnight treatment. Tears are needed for healthy and comfortable eyes but Dry Eye disease occurs when the eyes do not produce enough tears, leading to a gritty pain sensation in the eye and debilitating visual disturbances. Nightleaf's founders are Sinéad Buckley and Steve Cullen, UCD School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering who identified this unmet clinical need while on the BioInnovate Ireland Fellowship.
PEARlabs has developed a novel photonic chip which enables ultra-high spatial resolution at video rates in optical microscopy, far beyond the diffraction limit of visible light. The PEARlabs technology aims to transform the understanding of processes such as cell signalling and cell proliferation in cancer and other life-threatening diseases. PEARlabs was founded by Professor Dominic Zerulla as a spin-out from the UCD School of Physics. Jürgen Osing, who recently joined PEARlabs as a commercialistion expert is participating on the programme along with Professor Zerulla.
Blood Brothers, FeetAI, giyst, La Casa and Nightleaf are currently being supported through the Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund.
The main objective of the UCD VentureLaunch Accelerator Programme is to equip participants with the knowledge, skills and understanding that will be required to work as part of a team leading a new commercial venture. On completion of the programme the expectation is that the emerging start-ups will have developed a commercially viable business plan.
Following virtual pitches to an external judging panel, an overall winner will be selected and will receive the 2021 UCD VentureLaunch Accelerator Programme Award. The members of the external judging panel are, Dr Helen McBreen, Atlantic Bridge (Chair); Denis Dudley, AIB; Caroline Gaynor, Lightstone Ventures; Dr Sharon O'Kane, LivaNova and a NovaUCD Entrepreneur-in-Residence, and John O'Sullivan, ACT Venture Capital.
Source: NovaUCD
Image Source: Nick Bradshaw, Fotonic


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I-13.3, r. 8 - Basic school regulation for preschool, elementary and secondary education
32. The Minister shall award a Secondary School Diploma to students who earn at least 54 credits at the Secondary IV or V level. Among those credits, there must be at least 20 credits at the Secondary V level and
(1) 6 credits in Secondary V language of instruction;
(2) 4 credits in Secondary V second language;
(3) 4 credits in Secondary IV mathematics;
(4) 4 credits in Secondary IV science and technology or 6 credits in Secondary IV applied science and technology;
(5) 4 credits in Secondary IV history;
(6) 2 credits in Secondary IV arts education; and
(7) 2 credits in Secondary V ethics and religious culture or physical education and health.
Credits earned in a vocational training program leading to a Diploma of Vocational Studies or to an Attestation of Vocational Specialization are taken into account when awarding the Secondary School Diploma.
O.C. 651-2000, s. 32; O.C. 488-2005, ss. 12 and 18; 312-2017O.C. 312-2017, s. 21.
(5) 4 credits in Secondary IV history and citizenship education;
(6) 2 credits in Secondary IV arts education ; and
O.C. 651-2000, s. 32; O.C. 488-2005, ss. 12 and 18.


If you're looking to diversify your income, add new products or branch out, then the mobile phone market is a great one to tap into. Yes, making and manufacturing phones is a saturated market, as is, to a large extent, selling new phones and gadgets. However, there is still big money to be made in selling used mobile phones to your customers. This is where wholesale used mobile phones come in.
So if you're looking for a new income stream for your business read on for our guide of how to wholesale used mobile phones for a profit.
Why sell used mobile phones?
People love the feeling of new, especially when it comes to gadgets such as smartphones. Upgrading a phone brings a whole wealth of new features to explore, increased speed to enjoy and often an upgrade to what they're used to. However, the price that comes with a new phone is out of many people's price range. For example the latest iPhone XS can fetch a price of £1,349 brand new. That's before the consumer has thought the cost of use.
To enable people to still enjoy a phone upgrade, but without the expense, the used mobile phone market is booming. While it doesn't allow people to enjoy brand-new they can still get excited about 'new to you'.
For the entrepreneur, selling used mobile phones is a no-brainer. In 2017, smartphone shipments reached 1.46 billion units per year. There remains a hugemarket for mobile phones, especially ones that come at a reasonable price.
However, in order toprofit from the used mobile phone market, businesses need to be savvy about how to tap into the market and how wholesale used mobile phones can help.
Before you can think about making a profit from used mobile phones you need to have an inventorythat is ready to sell. It is wise to think about the market you want to tap in to and the type of consumer you want to attract.
For example, if you want to offer almost new and almost undamaged used phones to command a higher price, then you need a wholesale used mobile phones supplier that offers highly-graded mobile phones. For example, Phoenix Cellular offer phones which as Grade A Pristine, which means they appear almost new with only a few slight blemishes. While these phones can attract a higher price, they usually cost more to purchase.
If you want to attract those who are looking for a bargain, then Grade B and C phones may be more suitable for your business. These will usually be cheaper to purchase, but will probably not be able to command a price as high as a Grade A Pristine option.
Before buying your inventory, scour the market to see where the gap is. Is it in bulk offers, low grade or high grade? Is there a particular brand you should specialise in or will your business allow you a large inventory with a range of options. Once you identify where your business can sit in the market place, start to gather your inventory.
When purchasing your inventory, go for wholesale. Businesses such as Phoenix Cellular offer wholesale used mobile phones that can give you the best price in order for you to maximise your profit. Before a purchase, look for the mark-up potential. You'll need to make sure that your business is competitive, viable and successful.
Obviously,the higher the mark-up for each phone, the greater levels of profit you can enjoy. However, the marketplace is competitive. If your mark-up is high, will it still attract customers? Furthermore, is there a specificreason why a customer should choose your business with a higher mark-up compared to someone who is selling for cheaper? If you want a high mark-up, makesure your customers know why you command it. For example, you may offer free shipping, oryou may have the best and latest Grade-A phones.
Selling in volume tends to lower the mark-up you can add, however you can sell more phones. Often bulk buyers will want a discount for large orders and will not be willing to pay a consumer price. However, sellingin volume is usually quicker and easieras you are dealing with one or two customers rather than many.
The way you operate your business will impact your profit. If you're paying for a website, marketing, employees, storage, travel and postage fees then they can quickly add up to slash your profits. It is important to be aware that selling on sites such as eBay and Amazon will require a cut too. However, if you are savvy with storage and business management, then you can streamline the business and keep expenses low to maximise the profit.
It is well worth factoring your time into your overheads. If you're working all day and all night to market your phones and respond to queries, are you making enough profit to survive?
Check market prices– Will you be able to make a substantial or viable profit based on market predictions?
Instil trust– Offer lots of pictures and detail, sobuyer's don't hassle you with messages.
Specialise– If you develop a niche you can be the go-to provider.
Develop a process– That way you can leave the business in the hands of someone else when you're away as well as reducing the time you spend managing it.
If you want to start selling used mobile phones, then get in touch with Phoenix Cellular, who specialise in wholesale used mobile phones for businesses just like yours.


Named By: T. S. Kutty, S. Chatterjee, P. M. Galton and P. Upchurch - 2007.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Dinosauria, Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha, Sauropoda?
Size: About 10 meters long.
Known locations: India - Dharmaram Formation.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial skeletons of several individuals.
Living in India during the early Jurassic, the dinosaur Lamplughsaura has been the source of some head scratching amongst palaeontologists. The two main options at the moment are that either Lamplughsaura represents a very advanced sauropodomorph, or a primitive sauropod dinosaur. What can be established however is that Lamplughsaura does represent a transitional form that illustrates the link between sauropodomorph ancestors and sauropod descendents. However, at the time of writing transitional forms such as Lamplughsaura only exist in small numbers, and there is still much to be learnt before a more confident taxonomic assignment can be made about Lamplughsaura.
Lamplughsaura was named in honour of Pamela Lamplugh, the founder of the Indian Statistical Institute (which itself has a dinosaur called Isisaurus named after it), and because Pamela Lamplugh is a woman, the feminine 'saura' was chosen for the ending of the named instead of the more usual 'saurus', which is masculine. The type species name dharmaramensis more simply means 'from Dharmaram', a reference to the Dharmaram Formation where the holotype fossils were discovered.
- Basal sauropodomorphs (Dinosauria, Saurischia) from the Lower Jurassic of India: their anatomy and relationships. - Journal of Paleontology 81(6):1552-1574. - T. S. Kutty, S. Chatterjee, P. M. Galton and P. Upchurch - 2007.


... to all Barbie Collectors worldwide who helped us to fill the galerys with pictures and infos.
A big help with the cataloguing, naming and identification of the scuplts were (beside endless Barbie book pages and Barbiecollector.com) mainly Katarinas fantastic Headmold- cataloguing (kattisdolls.net) and the Keeping Ken Page of Jef Beck.
Also thanks to B-Dollsplanet, who allows us to take pictures of their Barbies on different fairs in Germany. Most of the Collector dolls we can show comes from the offer of B-Dollsplanet.
1990 Mattel issued two new male facemolds. The faces look identical, but one has molded hairs and one rooted. The first guy with the new molded face was Alan - so the new facemold was named after hin (even though he used it only once). Connecting to this Collectors call the second face with hairs often "rooted Alan Headmold". But Mattel never produced a Alan with this head..., only Ken used it.
Unfortunately all the Kens with this new facemold have a terrible hairstyle and frizzy hairs.
The headmark is: © 1990 Mattel Inc.
Countless hours of researches, doll hunting on Barbie fairs, picture shootings and picture sorting went over to fill this website with (Barbie) life. If you like to support us, you can buy us a ko-fi to keep on running.


My seven-year-old daughter has had diabetes for 2 years now.
A week after her birthday she asked me "How long does it take for wishes to come true?" She told me her birthday wishes were for her diabetes to go away and for her to never get it again.
She said that if her wishes don't come true this year, she will make the same wishes again on her birthday next year.


Well we know that's on the OECD's To Do list. With the US and CAP also having a Larry Summers-led Inclusive Prosperity Commission and the UN announcing Dignity for All by 2030, income and wealth distribution are supposedly on the current global Must Change through PolicyMaking and Think Tanks To Do List. What's the other pincer per Szreter and out Third Way Fabians in 2001? This is a long quote, but very useful as a long term explanation of why education always comes up as a tool and where it fits in with the broader collectivist scheme (as usual, my bolding).
Now that common communicative competence to be required would also be what guides perception, interprets experience, and motivates future behavior and it is to be common and predictable. Very useful for that social and individual steering capacity governments at all levels are now seeking. A useful paper on all this came out of Europe in 2009 and it's called "Thinking as the control of imagination: a conceptual framework for goal-directed systems." That's us, remember? And the common communicative competence means comparable goals that are invisibly manipulated via educational 'standards,' desired competencies that are targeted for 'testing,' and other statutory or regulatory mandates.
Before I offer up the following quote that is pertinent to all the reimagining of the future and the offering of guiding fictions from the last two posts, it leaves out what phonetically fluent readers have always been able to do. Get a handle on the nature of the world and people historically and consistently through massive amounts of diverse reading. Common communicative competence rules that obstacle to mental reengineering out. The researchers in that article stated that "behavior consists in the control of perceptions." Yet, we know the whole purpose of using standards to prescribe the categories and concepts all are now to learn as the Framework of a Discipline is to control perception. Now let's move forward to the quote of what is desired in our 'goal-seeking system' as the students and eventually us are being called.
Now let's leave aside the enormous potential of digital learning and the simulations of virtual reality assessments to reconfigure what a mind will soon be internalizing as imaginable. Let's just get back to all the role-playing assignments that now form such a tremendous part of history and social studies classes. The ubiquity making more sense now? Now let's go back to David J Staley's History and Future book to see how common communicative competence in the name of Equity and controlling the Imagination come together.
Now with that last quote, I think I will stop and let everyone contemplate the implications of education allowing political power to now create those mental filters for whatever transformational purposes politicians or their cronies find expedient.
All going on without telling the students, their parents, or the taxpayers accurately what is being targeted and why.
Mental time travel using these parameters is likely to leave us all Lost in Space, except the space is not Outer anymore.
Generalized Ears have nothing whatsoever to do with Dumbo and they will not allow us to fly. In fact, I would argue that the phrase 'generalized ears', like the hyped Competency or K-12 education built around Equity and Essential Skills for All, is designed to make sure NONE of us is likely to go off the provided script for our future predictable behavior. Maybe instead of the 'script' metaphor we should use 'prescribed path' since the current K-12 rhetoric is all about Career Pathways and Multiple Pathways to a Degree. Before we get to the whats and whys again, I want to give everyone reading this hope despite these dark designs. Even though Pols refuse to listen as enabling legislation at every level comes up for a vote, as has happened this past week in Congress on the ESEA Rewrites.
I would add politicians at every level to that struggle given what we are now seeing. To the progressive polyphonic federalism and Metropolitanism this blog has already laid out, this week came http://www.spatialcomplexity.info/files/2015/07/Making-Sense-of-the-New-Science-of-Cities-FINAL-2015.7.7.pdf . Won't that go nicely with the above database and required federal education policy that is all about social and emotional learning, internalizing desired Generalized Ears, and then monitoring to check on action in the real world (Mastery)? http://gettingsmart.com/2015/07/personalization-new-frame/ shows how dramatic the confessions are now that there will be desired federal legislation.
So what are Generalized Ears? It's the idea that what a person is likely to perceive from a given experience or provided information "depends upon anticipatory sets." What has already been cultivated in a student's, or anyone's, mind and personality. In cybernetic schooling those anticipatory sets or Lenses are carefully manipulated, monitored, and rearranged when needed for desired political purposes. See Karl Mannheim again above. The same Kenneth Boulding I discussed in my book and we met here http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/reimaging-the-nature-of-the-world-in-the-minds-of-students-alters-future-behavior-and-social-events/ is the one who said that "one of the main objectives of General Systems Theory is to develop these generalized ears." Boulding wanted a theory that would reliably predict "the dynamics of action and interaction" and Axemaker Minds get in the way.
To quote Ervin Laszlo again on how to shift away from Individualism to Collectivism, planners and politicians must NOT leave the "individual free to think of general reality as he pleases." He further noted, echoing Mannheim and predicting what we now are calling Understanding By Design or Core Disciplinary Ideas or Cross-Cutting Themes, in 1963 that "unlike previous ages, plain force is [not] the most effective means of winning people today; ideas prove to be the most efficient tools for that end." Is the bias in the new AP US History conceptual framework making more sense now? It's not about facts, but criteria to guide what is noticed and ignored. This brain-based instruction article even admits to using a "perception-action" emphasis in the classroom to physically rewire the brain. http://www.districtadministration.com/article/neuroscience-builds-students-brain-power The motto this week after ECAA passage in the Senate seems to be Go Ahead and Admit It Now, no one can stop us.
Back to Boulding because his view of Knowledge is everywhere in the Common Core and any subsequent state learning standards that will fit the ESEA Rewrite's mandates.
"Knowledge is not something that exists and grows in the abstract. It is a function of human organisms and social organization…Knowledge however grows by the receipt of meaningful information–that is, by the intake of messages by a knower which are capable of reorganizing his knowledge." That would be what the ESEA Rewrite and Tom VanderArk above called personalized learning and what gets hyped also as a Growth Mindset. It is why Ervin Laszlo in Essential Society knew a social philosophy stressing the fulfillment of individual needs was necessary to push a more collectivist orientation and that "ideas act on individual minds." His italics–remember that italization for emphasis every time you hear 'student-centered learning' being hyped.
What's wrong with the use of the words Success or Achieve in the ESEA Rewrite or in the Parent Checklist the federal DoED issued Friday, July 17, which talked about 'development' and Success in Life as the purpose of K-12? They all reek of the behavioral scientist and system science social engineering goal with its "strongly felt need to get inside the 'black box'" of the human mind of young people. They treat students as "homeostatic biological organisms with purposive, adaptive psychological properties." Now when the school or teacher manipulates those properties, they get acclaimed as 'effective' and Growth, Achievement, Learning, or Success are all proclaimed. The actual result of psychological manipulation for collectivist, fundamental transformation purposes is obscured.
Axemaker Minds, clear and rational, well-stocked with their own personally selected store of facts, specialist minds instead of Generalized Ears, are notorious at not taking the Narrative as provided or the Sound Bytes on offer. If an individual's perception of reality must be controlled so must curriculum and the concepts to be used to make "intuited experience" comprehensible. If all this seems still too far away in time or too abstract in principle, let's once again bring this down to the classroom in the here and now. This week an article called "Geocaching is Catching Students' Attention in the Classroom" was being hyped to illustrate the new need for "active learning as when students engage in developing projects in a more meaningful way than when concepts were simply presented using traditional methods by teachers." The old way stressed the mental and the rational instead of activity and may not have involved emotionally charged content, triggering that all-important subjective mode of comprehension.
Building on the discussions of constructivism in reading and math and science in Chapters 2 and 3 of my book, we learn that engaging instruction and teacher professional development focus now on "ways that constructivist learning environments can help create active, reflective, student-centered learning that is socially relevant and personally meaningful to learners." Triggering Laszlo's sought subjective mode of comprehension that cannot see reality clearly and now to be mandated by Congress AND the states AND the school districts AND the accreditors AND generally in a charter school's agreement for renewal that nobody but me seems to bother to read.
I will close with the best example of the now to be required Higher Order Thinking Skills and Understanding once again from Laszlo. Keep in mind its acknowledged purpose too.
And after years of practicing this, the student will now be declared to be College and Career Ready.
Because with these aims of collectivism and social engineering, the planners know that euphemisms and odd, little known, real definitions, are their friends.
In the same way I could look at the vision laid out in the 1991 Learning Society paper from the last post and see the fundamental corners of what Marx and his followers called the Human Development Society, even before the writers mentioned that term without Uncle Karl's name attached, this week there has been a series of connected reports taking us in the US and globally in the same direction. Education reform and the aims of social, economic, and political transformations always attached to it through the decades, turn out to be an awful lot like learning another language. Once we can speak it, no one needs to translate for us when we are looking at models or aims that seek to get to the same place. Different words or phrases for the same fundamental ideas simply get added to our glossary of understanding.
How many times have we heard that the schools must change in this or that manner because the 'experts' say so or in order to make our country 'internationally competitive'. Going back to the 1991 paper, policymakers needed to address and redo the "evolving relationship between individual and collective needs" in order for us to be that Learning Society. In turn becoming a Learning Society was sold as necessary "in order to attain (or retain) their ability to participate successfully in the global economy." That's lots of fundamental shifting towards collectivism coming in and being sold surreptitiously as necessary steps to be competitive in a global economy. At least if the commands from the policymakers were to strip naked and parade in the public square as a group or stand on our head on the baseball field when our number is called, we could better notice where this is going and the utter loss of individual control.
I hate to frame that desired mindset as being as spineless as a jellyfish and as flexible as an Olympic gymnast, but basically those are good metaphors for the kind of attitudes, values, and dispositions amenable to all these planned 'progressive' transformations. No need to inflame the public by mentioning Uncle Karl, the Deweyans call themselves progressive in their intentions and so does the Frameworks Institute. Repeatedly. Same for this recent global call to arms on making sharing and meeting human needs the new basis for the global economy. http://www.sharing.org/sites/default/files/images/Common_Cause_WEB.pdf Must be focus groups somewhere saying 'progressive' is almost as cool as having a sleek sports car.
Professor Bruner, we did not invent the concepts of force in physics or bond in chemistry. We simply came up with an agreed upon term in English to describe an observed phenomenon. That phenomenon, and its cause and effect relationships, existed before we knew about them and regardless of what we named it. There is something objective going on that is not in fact 'socially constructed'. It is a bit Lysenkoesque (see Chapter 3 of my book) and consistent with a desire for ideological thinking to pretend otherwise. Aptly illustrated and adequately explained all these terms do aid in comprehension, but where Professor Bruner wanted to go, and where the Frameworks Institute does go, is a push into using metaphors to enable false perceptions, incorrect interpretations, and inapt analogies. All without a body of facts to correct what is wrong with what is being provided.
"Reframing Education Using a Core Story Approach" with its tremendous support from cited well-known charitable foundations is worthy of Pravda in its declared intent to manipulate adult "internalized narratives" to create support for the type of education reforms that fit Dewey's template or those laid out in the Learning Society report. "The goal is to produce a powerful story of education with built-in strategic subplots that can reorient and restructure how Americans think" certainly meets my personal definition of an explicit confession. Who gets to determine what Americans are to think beyond the personnel of all those foundations that pay no taxes while they advocate for collectivism for the rest of us? The report says it is "progressive educators and experts." Like those educated by Professor Bruner or those seeking the next public or foundation grant, promotion, or consulting contract, and shilling as needed?
Now I have mentioned the omission of cites to Uncle Karl in these particular reports even though the Learning Society report does admit to using the concepts of sociology, anthropology, and work with primates as metaphors for what it seeks to experiment with. Theory in Practice and let's see what happens. My point is that the social science concepts there and the repeated mentions of deferring to experts in these other reports bring in all the tenets of these notorious collectivist political theories and the psychological and cultural research that was carried on in the Soviet Union into our children's classrooms.Without openly admitting that crucial fact.
Prevailing cultural models and patterns really are explicitly laid out as the "challenges that the prescriptive reframing research must address." At least when you put on glasses or put in contacts, you know they are there and how and why your vision is being prescriptively reframed. That kind of open reframing is not what is being 'prescribed.' Hence my hauling out the terms stealth, surreptitious, and, honestly, outright deceit, as so many connected insiders (just read the list of who support the Frameworks Institute) seek to alter how "most American make sense of new information." They could use the motto that Reframing is not just for students or the new AP History courses anymore. It's apparently been deemed to be a matter of 21st Century citizenship.
I want to close with a couple of the ideological doozies sold as Gaps in Understanding that are non-compliant with what experts know. "Experts understand disparities [among individuals] as a collective concern–because equal opportunity is a moral imperative." That's not a matter of 'knowledge'. It's a matter of political preference pretending to be knowledge and ignoring the realities that created those disparities. Likewise, "for experts, learning is a process of interaction" is a euphemistic way to describe education under Uncle Karl's political and social theories and the cultural models they have inspired. Being accurate would require admitting that under the theory of dialectical materialism, education needs to be a process of personal interaction with other people and the environment. That interaction, in turn, creates the desired changes, both internally within the mind and externally within the surrounding physical world, that may enable the desired broader transformations.
Being honest as usual would impede any chance of experimenting with the future on a massive scale involving most of our collective existence. So instead we are told deceitfully we must defer to the 'experts'.
Who frequently know far less about what is actually meaningful than we ordinary Americans.
Luckily for us, Fullan confessed that (with italics) that we "are talking about a learning society not just a learning school system. The commitment and practice of learning must find itself in all kinds of organizations and institutions if it is to achieve any kind of force in society as a whole." (Remember two posts ago, Peter Drucker also saw organizations as key to his government-steered, planned economy and society with education as the transition vehicle). The 1992 program for the "human development project" for Canada and the United States is cited by name and is laid out in a document euphemistically called The Learning Society (because citing to Uncle Karl at that time was considered unwise and his blueprint needed name laundering) and published by CIAR–the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
Before we cover those aims, we have another global radical (with a blog tag and a perch at Harvard Law), Roberto Mangabeira Unger, who has also laid out the global transformation vision, including the necessary role of education. He also wants to limit education to "the development of generic capacities by contrast to both training in specialized skills and the passive transmittal of information." Those latter two traditional purposes of education were thought to impede "wholehearted engagement and action" towards the kind of democratic experimentalism Unger laid out in his 1998 book Democracy Realized: the progressive alternative. I bought that book after a mention of it because I recognized Unger's influence (he was a professor at Harvard when both the Obamas were in law school there) and all the references we have encountered in the education reforms to democracy as the goal and progressive, polyphonic federalism (Jan 28, 2015 post) as the means to get around the US Constitution.
Reading the book I can recognize how closely what Unger wants ties with the actual pushes I am seeing now at the state and local levels in the US. At one point Unger stated specifically that US states were already pursuing his vision of democratic experimentalism by transforming institutions. Unger made it crystal clear he wanted the obstructions of the US political system's "checks and balances" that impede social transformations aimed at restructuring property and social relations to be disregarded and overriden. That is something we should all keep in mind as the federal government sends money to states and cities and governors, legislators, mayors, and city councils all pursue comparable reforms to what Unger laid out at the necessary, "decentralized", local level.
With the formal sponsors of the Common Core and several federal agencies all now pushing Competency as the goal of both K-12 and higher ed for all students, let's keep in mind Unger's desire for and definition of generic capacities for all. "Such capacities may be practical as well as conceptual [think of Enduring Understandings, Understanding by Design, and core disciplinary ideas in the current implementation], and they include the core substantive tools of learning. The heart of this education in capacities is the transfiguration of the actual by the imagination of the possible. In natural science and social and historical study we come to understand how and why things work by discovering the conditions under which each thing can become something else." Adapt. Evolve. That certainly puts the C3 Social Studies Framework, Next Generation Science Standards http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2015/03/teaching_the_next_generation_s.html , and the APUSH controversy over its new, divisive conceptual framework in the light of their true transformative mindset purposes, doesn't it?
I have previously pointed out that the Inclusive Prosperity vision (Feb 22, 2015 post) fits Marx's Human Development Model perfectly and that it is alarming that in December 2013 the UK and US made achieving "subjective well-being" the new purpose of governments (Dec 23, 2013 post). The year after the dissolution of the USSR and 3 years after the Berlin Wall fell, we got a vision of wholesale social and economic, nonconsensual transformation, that stated that "reconceptualizing the nature of learning and the relationship between collective and individual development" provides the "knowledge base for moving our own society forward." It just so happens that that reconceptualized "learning" fits with the parameters laid out by the QEM Project from the last post so that Uncle Karl's vision can be shrouded and compelled by interpretations of federal civil rights laws.
The Learning Society foresaw this convenient cover and mentioned the "overdue recognition that as a society, we need to include previously excluded groups on an equitable basis, particularly indigenous peoples and those from minority cultures." The previous paragraph had discussed the need for a Learning Society to deal with "the problems associated with large scale immigration, with poverty, and with unemployment are increasing." Collectivism is thus the answer for the very problems governments created in the first place with previous bad policies. Since the Learning Society has little use for what an individual wants, why do governments want prosperity and economic growth? "To ensure that they create sufficient wealth to support a broad range of social, medical, and human services." No mention of the added bonus of funding lots of public sector pensions for the dispensers of those services.
So add to the reams of source materials I lay out in my book Credentialed to Destroy: How and Why Education Became a Weapon on how the Cold War did not end quite as advertised, this Learning Society vision. Who precisely did win if the "main objectives of a CIAR program in human development" to be implemented starting in 1992 in Canada and the US is to "reconceptualize the dynamics of collective and individual human development"?
If governments at all levels, and the organizations they are creating and funding, are dedicated to creating an "ability to motivate and organize all members of a society, in an innovative fashion," did we escape from the Cold War still, factually, a free people?
Especially if taxpayer-funded education and a new definition of Learning binding all of us at the level of our minds and personalities is the declared, intended vehicle.
Perhaps "Not Serfs Yet" as our motto was a premature boast?


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Who Is Denzel Washington?
Denzel Washington first studied journalism at Fordham University but then discovered an interest in acting. He made his feature film debut in the comedy A Carbon Copy (1981) and was cast on the hit TV medical drama St. Elsewhere (1982-88). He went on to appear in several hit movies, including Philadelphia, Man on Fire, The Book of Eli, American Gangster, and Flight, and won Oscars for his roles in Glory and Training Day. He received an Oscar nomination for his starring role in 2016's Fences, an adaptation of August Wilson's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play, and for the 2017 film Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Early Life and Acting Career
Washington was born on December 28, 1954, in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the son of a Pentecostal minister and a beauty shop owner and has two siblings. Washington first took the stage around the age of seven, appearing in a talent show at his local Boys & Girls Club. The club provided him with a safe place to be and to keep him out of trouble. At 14, his parents divorced and he and his older sister were sent away to boarding school.
Washington went to Fordham University, but he proved to be a poor student initially. After taking some time away from college, he returned to the university with a new interest in acting and graduated with a B.A. in Drama and Journalism in 1977. Washington later won a scholarship to the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, and afterward worked with the Shakespeare in the Park ensemble.
Washington made his feature film debut in the comedy A Carbon Copy (1981). He also appeared in a number of off-Broadway productions and in television movies before being cast in a starring role in the hit television medical drama St. Elsewhere (1982–88). Washington grabbed his first of five Oscar nominations for Cry Freedom (1987), playing real-life South African apartheid martyr Steve Biko. He later won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Glory (1989).
Washington appeared in several notable films throughout the 1990s, including Spike Lee collaborations like the jazz outing Mo' Better Blues (1990) and biopic Malcolm X (1992), for which he was nominated for an Oscar. Other projects from this era included The Pelican Brief (1993), Philadelphia (1993), Crimson Tide (1995), Courage Under Fire (1996), and The Hurricane (1999), for which he received a Golden Globe for best actor and another Oscar nomination.
In 2001, Washington received his second Oscar (this time in a leading role) for the cop thriller Training Day. The following year, he directed his first film, the biographical drama Antwone Fisher, in which he also co-starred. Several hits followed, including Man on Fire (2004), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), and Lee's Inside Man (2006), which co-starred Jodie Foster and Clive Owen.
Washington once again stepped behind the camera for the historical The Great Debaters (2007), which profiled a winning African American debate team. That same year, he portrayed Frank Lucas, a real-life heroin kingpin from Harlem, in American Gangster, opposite Russell Crowe. In 2009, Washington starred as MTA Dispatcher Walter Garber in the remake of the classic film The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, opposite John Travolta.
Continuing to explore a range of roles, Washington starred in the 2010 futuristic tale The Book of Eli. That same year, he won a Tony Award for his work in Fences, a revival of the August Wilson classic drama. He landed a $20 million payday for the 2012 action-thriller Safe House, in which he played a CIA agent gone rogue, and the film grossed more than $200 million worldwide.
Washington also headlined the comparatively low-budget drama Flight in 2012, earning accolades and his sixth Oscar nomination for his performance as a pilot with substance abuse problems. He then teamed up with Mark Wahlberg for the 2013 crime drama 2 Guns and scored another action hit in 2014 with The Equalizer.
In early 2016, Washington received the Cecil B. DeMille Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at its annual Golden Globe telecast. Later that year, he directed and starred in the film adaptation of Fences. For his on-screen role in the film, he was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Actor.
The following year, Washington was credited with helping to hold together the uneven Roman J. Israel, Esq., earning Golden Globe and Oscar nods for Best Actor. In July 2018, Washington reprised his Equalizer role for its sequel, The Equalizer 2.
Recent Theater Work
Besides his work in Fences in 2010, Washington played the leading role in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway in 2014, to critical acclaim. Continuing his work on stage, he starred in the Broadway revival of The Iceman Cometh in 2018, playing Theodore "Hickey" Hickman.
Wife and Children
Washington married actress Pauletta Pearson in 1983; they have four children. Their oldest son, John David, was drafted in 2006 by the NFL's St. Louis Rams and pursued a career in professional football, before following his dad's footsteps into acting. Their other children are daughter Katia and twins Olivia and Malcolm.
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One reason is in the mirror. Another is sidewalks.
So, why the heck don't we cancel Medicaid and give the tax money spent on the program to the poor, as Bloomberg columnist Megan McArdle suggested in a recent column?
Two reasons are a selfish interest to live and to have the freedom to leave our homes.
Right now, for example, South Korea is facing an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), a vicious killer cousin of the common cold. The country has recorded nine MERS-related deaths, closed about 900 schools, and put about 3,000 people in quarantine.
Last fall, we were running similar articles about Ebola in Africa. At some point, in the future, we'll probably run similar articles about a killer flu in the United States.
Maybe we'll be able to cover one of those outbreaks up close, because we'll have the bad bug. We'll be able to get art for our coverage by going through our selfies.
The lesson is that, as costly and troubling as conditions like diabetes and cancer are, infectious disease is still a serious threat. There are scientists who continue to investigate the possibility that even the "diseases of affluence" may have something to do with infections.
The United States set up Medicaid partly to protect poor people against conditions that might afflict them, but partly in the hope that providing them with a basic level of care, whether they want it or not, will reduce the likelihood that their conditions will afflict the rest of us.
The second reason to have Medicaid is that we're squeamish.
We, as a nation, hate to see gum, soda cans or slugs on the sidewalk, let alone dead people.
We may be more enthusiastic than we used to be about assisted suicide, but we still seem to see that as an option for patients who really want it, not a standard course of treatment.
One result of our squeamishness: The U.S. government has become a giant source of public long-term care insurance (LTCI). Private LTCI issuers argue otherwise, but, of course, most Americans are broke enough after spending a few months in a nursing home to have little hope of leaving anything to their "heirs" (bill wranglers), anyway. Medicaid is their go-to source of coverage.
Ben Bernanke, the former Federal Reserve chairman, reminded audiences every chance he got that one of the main long-term risk factors facing the United States is the need to prepare for caring for an aging population.
Standard & Poor's had one rating analyst expressing frustration Wednesday about LTCI issuers that promise him, "This time it's different," then follow up by having to conduct the umpteenth review of the adequacy of LTCI reserves.
But then, at about the same time, S&P had other analysts who decided to affirm the AA+ sovereign credit rating of the United States, without mentioning anything about aging or health policy other than that labor force participation might decrease, and that Congress was functional enough to pass a Medicare payment reform bill.
Imagine that: The United States has an AA+ rating. Some of the people on S&P's sovereign rating team have a great sense of humor.


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De-Liberation
Hello and welcome to De-Liberation, a project intended to use philosophy and critical thinking as a means towards self realization and the advancement of humanity as a whole. The second agenda is to make philosophy more accessible to the general public and to restore philosophy to the great activity that it once was: a means of applying rational, creative and sustained thinking processes to understanding the big questions about ourselves and the world we exist in.
The Skeptic: 'A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing'?
"Doubt. Doubt thyself. Doubt even if thou doubtest thyself.
Doubt all.
Doubt even if thou doubtest all."
-E.A. Crowley
I remember once about thirty one years ago, I was a child of about five years old. I was walking through the front yard of my house which happened to be a large enough forest to hide my house from the road. It was a thick forest of oak, maple and birch; I remember trudging my way through a thick undergrowth of ferns, and I remember having a life shaking experience which continues to influence my thought and identity to this day.
I can recall a spontaneous feeling of deja vu creeping over me, a feeling that I always had while dreaming and then realizing that I was in a dream. I had the sudden experience that I was not truly where I thought I was, and that my sense experiences were but a dream in my mind. At first I was utterly terrified as that would mean all who I took myself to be and all the people whom I loved were not real. As I came to from 'the dream', I concluded that my existence as a human being or even as a corporal being in general must also be a dream. I saw no bed, no body and no other recognizable life. There was just darkness, nothingness; and I was an invisible entity of consciousness inhabiting this nothingness. I realized that if I am dreaming then this is where I truly am and this is what I truly am.
Then just as suddenly, I remember making the arbitrary decision that I was here in this life and this ego, this boy and this body was 'who I am', my identity; almost as if by some automatic form of magnetic attraction, my awareness was pulled from this world of nothingness, consciousness, and undifferentiated being back to this typical experience of a human being, a five year old child strolling through the woods. Everything was so automatic, arbitrary, and without for-thought: the only thought I remember was wanting to be here, in this experience in this space and time, even if that meant that it might be a dream, might not be true.
Today when remembering and reflecting upon this experience and occasionally reliving it, I've come to the conclusion that both experiences are true and they coexist simultaneously. The points of consciousness in this infinite space of nothingness are the 'twinkles' that Crowley so often refers to in his 'Star Sponge' vision, and these twinkles of consciousness are the stuff from which this world of the here and now is made of.
Of course I can only speak for myself and my own understanding about these matters as they relate to my life, my experience. However, after surveying much philosophy, both eastern and western, I have come back to this same conclusion again and again. I see my experience in that memory being the product of an ultimate skepticism, a sort of hyper vigilance, and from this we can see that skepticism can only go so far even when it is honest.
In my opinion most people who put on airs of 'skepticism' are not true skeptics at all, but mere pretenders; their dishonest skepticism often being a tool to simply maintain unquestioned beliefs by selectively discrediting others. This is basically a defense mechanism for the petty ego, since 'other' beliefs and ideas force us to reevaluate our own models of the world and may even expose the things that we hold most dear as illusions. It is to these sorts of skeptics that I give the title 'sheep in wolves clothing' as they are usually just frightened people trying to make themselves feel safe by appearing authoritative and forbidding to others; also because they are not true skeptics.
Like sheep, they are led by the nose in the name one particular sacred cow, and secretly under the banner of that sacred cow, they slaughter all others in the surrounding. I think we all have moments of being false skeptics; however there are certain minds out there (centers of consciousness in the sea being/nothingness) who literally make their living on such pretenses. The so called psychic and spiritual 'debunkers' such as James Randi pop into mind here; while he and his accolades have done much to dispel superstition, there remains a stinking corpse of unchallenged agendas informing his zeal. His sacred cow along with that of most pseudo skeptics is generally scientific materialism and what some now call 'scientism'. On close inspection these pretenders reject anything that contradicts the notion that humankind is just a meat machine.
While in the spirit of honest skepticism, let us take a look at some of our most cherished ideas such as cause and effect, space and time, even the truth of reasoning as a priori knowledge and our concepts of numbers. Much work has been done already in the eighteenth and nineteenth century onwards regarding the specious claims to objective reality that these ideas were given. Most of the work on this topic in Europe had already been initiated by the 18th century Scottish empiricist and skeptic David Hume, and the real implications of Hume's conclusions are honestly dealt with by Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche's deconstructions being the more summative, we will start with his general conclusions about this sort of Skepticism and then refer back to Hume along the way.
In his book Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche uses the mutually implicit relationship between birth and heredity as an analogy for the relationship between the human instincts and consciousness in order to point out that conscious thought, i.e. our ability to reason and identify truth and falsehood is determined by our deepest instincts. Ironically, this rather unorthodox statement stands out since conscious a priori reasoning is typically seen by thinkers as a way to rise above the blindness of human instinct. Nietzsche, probably building on Hume, has put the conventional notion of reasoning on it's head.
Here, conscious thought as reasoning appears king; however, Nietzsche shows that reasoning is directed into specific channels by the instincts in order to preserve a certain mode of life, or rather in my view, a certain mode of being. Ideas and conscious processes that we think of as true and acceptable are not so much 'true' under a truly detached and scrupulous examination. Rather, such are deemed acceptable and good, not because of their ultimate truthfulness in any honest and objective sense: no, such are deemed acceptable because they are conducive to life and growth; in other words, the fulfillment of the will to power, or the pure will as I prefer to call it.
This novel approach to investigating truth and a priori knowledge specifically, is a further development of an earlier debate between Hume and Kant. Hume, who was a true skeptic, a wolf in wolves clothing, demonstrated a real and rare desire for truth in his ruthless examination, not only of God and metaphysics, but causality, reason, space, consciousness, and even himself as an individual. Hume, who worked independently, had no political constraints as one would in a university, and the rigor of his work brought him to the point of a nervous collapse during his youth.
Many of the things that Nietzsche is given credit for, such as deconstructing metaphysical truths, he truly owes to the work of Hume in his Treatise on Human Nature. And much of Nietzsche's work is a response to Hume's final conclusions, one of which was that if we accept our skeptical conclusions then there is no reason to get out of bed in the morning and act; thus, according to Hume: living requires a certain degree negligence and inattentiveness in regard to the findings given by an honest and skeptical analysis of our senses. In sum, our will and inclination is what moves us and not our reasoning, reasoning then would have instrumental value only as an organizing and controlling agent of thoughts, perceptions and ultimately sensations, all in the service of this will, this pure unreflective will to be.
Hume who went on to do other great intellectual works, such as compiling history books in libraries, clearly chose life and followed his own advice. Like Nietzsche's superman, Hume managed to live a joyful and moderate life in spite of what his previous philosophical investigations brought to light.
Hume's life may provide a certain prototype, though not exact, of Nietzsche's superman in so much that Hume sought authentic truth to the point of reaching an existential crises; one which could fragment the personality and lead to a nihilistic lifestyle. Yet in spite of this virtual death of traditional metaphysics, Hume was able to create an authentic and meaningful life in the face of the inherently meaningless world he found outside of himself.
He embraced the will to power inherent within: or rather his will to life overpowered the ultimate conclusions reached by the rigorous pursuit of truth. This realization can be seen as either nihilistic in one view or completely liberating in the other, since it also means that here is no ultimate truth behind ideas and institutions that would seem to impose themselves upon the will; rather, the perceived opposition is simply a condition of the life that is carved out of nothingness by the intrinsic will to power that emanates from the Naught of unlimited being.
In contrast to Hume, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, is essentially an emotionally and instinctually driven response to Hume's work. Kant, being a rational thinker could not shrug off Hume's conclusions, though I'm sure he would have liked to have found a way to prove them utterly false, since Kant was a lover of a Priori knowledge-knowledge through reasoning. Kant recognized that causality, space and time etc were constructs of the mind, but unlike Hume did not declare them objectively unreal. Rather, Kant declared that these categories belonged to a faculty of the human mind and that they were true in so far as they were necessary for any perception and cognition to occur at all.
While Kant's work gave us a good working theory by which to live with the 'lies' that Hume had exposed, Nietzsche was not satisfied with what he perceived as a philosophical dishonesty. He perceived this dishonesty in Kant's lack of a convincing foundation for the so called 'faculty' that he invokes to legitimize causality and a priori knowledge.
Nietzsche writes: "By virtue of a faculty'- he had said, or at least meant. But is that –an answer? An explanation? Or is it rather merely a repetition of the question? How does opium induce sleep? 'By virtue of a faculty…But such replies belong in comedy…"[1]
In Nietzsche's view, Hume would have been one of those rare philosophers who went 'beyond good and evil,' while Kant, although profound in his own right, did not (knowingly at least).
To this effect Nietzsche concludes: "To recognize untruth as a condition of life –that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil."
In this context, skepticism is really the use of the analytical sword. It allows us to filter and organize our impressions according to the mandate of our pure will. It is the application of the subtle spiritual violence that is inherent in all being[2], meaning that for one thing to be manifest through space and time, in other words: our experience of history in the here and now, demand's that something else cannot be; something else must be destroyed, negated. (A much older atavistic notion of sacrifice is given suggested here, which would provide raimen for a reading of myth and religion)
The proper use of the sword is under love[3] that is a unifying principle in the will that seeks meaninful existence, this love is the nature of our will and its creative power; it is the nature of our will to be what we are in the here and now. This will, cannot be skeptical of itself: it simply is. This will is pure, it is naïve in that it is spontaneous, innocent, and beyond judgement, it is the fool, it is Parsifal. It is a-rational, since rationality is contained within it and driven by 'IT'. Thus: "Only the simple can withstand the sword [of our skepticism]."[4] A true skeptic then must ultimately be skeptical of his or her own skepticism, as per 'Terrier Work' in Crowley's Book of Lies. Ultimately then, it is this skepticism of one's own skepticism which leads one to one's pure will, the essence of our being whose a-rational positioning can only apply skepticism toward that which is incommensurate with it.
The 'sheep' is ironically the false skeptic who is ignorant and often fearful of the naïve and spontaneous nature[5] of will and love. This will and love of course is ultimately the power behind one's own authentic point of view which is the direct and honest apprehension of one's self and one's relationship with the universe.
The sheep's false skepticism then becomes a blind veil for the naive nature and power of one's being (the archetypal fool) which ultimately powers the incredulity (the archetypal devil) of one's sword.
This devil or wolf is the archetype of our skeptical and divisive nature and is more of an advisor which organizes our experience through a rational process to facilitate the mandate of the will. As a positive force, this 'devil' is the advisor to the will, with the will being the heart and center of one's being. This advisor only becomes 'evil' as a 'devil' when it replaces the heart as the center of consciousness and interferes with the pure will, the animating and vivifying center of our being.
When human consciousness is in harmony, the heart of our will determines the 'what' of our consciousness and the skeptical nature of our inner 'devil' determines the 'how'. As long as 'the how' serves the 'what' of our will: all is in order.
The 'demons' or rather, the 'distortions' of our nature arise from a disharmony: putting the metaphorical cart before the horse where the skepticism of our devil either decides the 'what' or eats it up by an over analysis of the how. Paralysis by analysis may be one symptom of this; while losing the spirit in the operation itself is another. In this spirit we might say: the end justifies the means, so long as the end doesn't get swallowed up by it.
The false skeptic appears as a wolf in his smug and imposing mask, but he or she is really just attacking all that opposes his or her accidentally determined biases, biases that more often than not have hindered, or distorted the integrity of his or her will. This is often revealed by an over zealous nature in their skeptical attacks, they are secretly on some holy war for some sacred cow, or more likely 'demon' or distortion in their mind that has possessed them, cutting them off from the spiritual light of their will.
[1] CF: Beyone Good and Evil, p. 12
[2]CF: Introduction to Metaphysics, Martin Heidegger.
[3] 'Otherwise it 'would be a black magickal weapon' i.e. a tool for nihilism.
[4] CF: Book Four, Crowley.
[5] CF: See the fool atu in The Book of Thoth.
[6] CF: Being and Time Heidegger.
gareth May 3, 2019 at 1:55 PM
Again interesting for me, this time because Nietzsche is also someone I am not overly familiar... It also made me wonder if you had read much of Levinas, or those who write on Levinas and his relation with skepticism...
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