I checked What are you optimistic about? Why? referenced at Backreaction.
I am not surprised that Brian Greene defines rational to be irrational. Quantum nature of reality, energy, curved spacetime, cosmos, elementary constituents of matter, origin of the universe… these are the examples he gives as fruits of rational thought. These are all high level scholastic labels and definitions invented by Greene’s scholastic ancestry over the years. He says he is teaching his son to be a rational investigator of nature. I am sorry for this yet another human being growing up believing in the Newtonian occult religion of which his father is a priest. (Note how Brian Greene presents all String Theory related scenarios as speculations but he always presents Newton’s laws as absolute laws of nature. He has no doubt about NewtonÁ-?s laws. He worships the Newtonian occult.)
The quote that I liked was by Michael Wolff who describes himself as “a prisoner of the American media business.” He describes the media as “a much more vexing monolith than religion and God.”
The media is “the massive and ridiculous systems that we’ve built to control and market expression and culture…” He thinks the media is coming apart. New technologies revolutionize production and distribution. He talks about the “inevitable disorder and randomness of closed systems” as elements which bring down these closed systems. His conclusion: the breakdown of the media “can be a positive development.”
Modern Shaman Brian Greene is in the payroll of this Big Media. For Big Media science is what sells. Irrational and absurd sells, therefore, irrational and absurd is defined as science by Doctor Shaman Greene. All Doctor Greene does is to stamp Columbia UniversityÁ-?s seal of Authority on the scholastic absurd packaged as science.
“Much more vexing monolith than religion and God…” As if religion and God were different things than Big Media. Religion and God are the products of the Big Media. Religion and God are the Big Media.
Big Media, Big Book and Big School make up the Big Org.
And no doubt its breakdown will be a positive development.
I am optimistic about this.