Jim Penman

I have a strong sense that a conservative whilist, a prisoner of the present that like most right-wing conservatives detest erudition, finer intellectual points and complexities of the world, attempts to read everything into his theory by imbalanced pseudo-symmetries between case and case, while attempting to find further aspects in his anthropologizing theorem (Biohistory) that is neither biological nor historical and unscientific (lack of methodology) at best. One thought that occurred after biting through this poorly written, seductive to the undereducated and non-critical book is:

Genius and intelligence belongs to an individual that doesn’t and won’t be loyal towards an impersonal unit of political cohesion in order to preserve the system. It is the tyranny of impersonally bred forces controlled by the state that always ruined genius and individualism. Thus all genius both metaphysical, scientific and political is anarchic or (anarch-ic to use the Jungerian term) in its understanding, it is suppressed, cut down, destroyed by the same system that it is bound to reform. Genius and intelligence is always equal to dissent, for the nature of reform and stance is not agreeing with the status quo, whether it reaches melancholically to better days of the past, “Saturnium Regnum”, or that of potential in the future, whether metaphysical or arising in the world. From the perspective of a totalitarian technocratic “grand society”, or a well-functioning society on a strictly biological level, he is an enemy. As long as the genius is not institutionalized (lured away from its authenticity be governmental grants and bought and sold) it is a liability. Only in times of prosperity and freedom did genius thrive, in fact by supporting innovation, rule of law, loosening the grip of religion on society in the middle ages, supporting competition and trade did Renaissance come into being. In Whitehead’s “Process and reality” it is the giants that overthrow previous systems in small or large fashions that are alike to the builders of the new political, religious, technological and scientific paradigms.

The question I always ask when reading is: What kind of effect would the author like to produce in the world? Because reading this one, I expect that he would like an emperor in a totalitarian order that regulates every notion of private life, possibly he would love to be a subject to one, while destroying his own liberty even to write this book, as an enemy of state and religion, sowing “depravity and demoralization” with his scientism. So much for my opinion.… (mehr)

I have a strong sense that a conservative whilist, a prisoner of the present that like most right-wing conservatives detest erudition, finer intellectual points and complexities of the world, attempts to read everything into his theory by imbalanced pseudo-symmetries between case and case, while attempting to find further aspects in his anthropologizing theorem (Biohistory) that is neither biological nor historical and unscientific (lack of methodology) at best. One thought that occurred after biting through this poorly written, seductive to the undereducated and non-critical book is:

Genius and intelligence belongs to an individual that doesn’t and won’t be loyal towards an impersonal unit of political cohesion in order to preserve the system. It is the tyranny of impersonally bred forces controlled by the state that always ruined genius and individualism. Thus all genius both metaphysical, scientific and political is anarchic or (anarch-ic to use the Jungerian term) in its understanding, it is suppressed, cut down, destroyed by the same system that it is bound to reform. Genius and intelligence is always equal to dissent, for the nature of reform and stance is not agreeing with the status quo, whether it reaches melancholically to better days of the past, “Saturnium Regnum”, or that of potential in the future, whether metaphysical or arising in the world. From the perspective of a totalitarian technocratic “grand society”, or a well-functioning society on a strictly biological level, he is an enemy. As long as the genius is not institutionalized (lured away from its authenticity be governmental grants and bought and sold) it is a liability. Only in times of prosperity and freedom did genius thrive, in fact by supporting innovation, rule of law, loosening the grip of religion on society in the middle ages, supporting competition and trade did Renaissance come into being. In Whitehead’s “Process and reality” it is the giants that overthrow previous systems in small or large fashions that are alike to the builders of the new political, religious, technological and scientific paradigms.

The question I always ask when reading is: What kind of effect would the author like to produce in the world? Because reading this one, I expect that he would like an emperor in a totalitarian order that regulates every notion of private life, possibly he would love to be a subject to one, while destroying his own liberty even to write this book, as an enemy of state and religion, sowing “depravity and demoralization” with his scientism. So much for my opinion.… (mehr)