Who is ready to start discussing Kissinger/Bion, as per the pinned post?
Do not teach Critical Thinking, but rational thinking.
The term “critical thinking”, which is used liberally in education, is distinct from rational or logical thinking, which are rarely if ever mentioned in the curricula. Critical thinking is an instrument of propaganda, geared to indoctrinate students with critical attitude towards anything deemed non-reputable; to reject any argument or information arising from anywhere apart from trusted/official sources. Conflating the validity of the source with the validity of the information is of course a logical error, a category mistake. Similarly, finding a fault with a person or institution does not automatically invalidate their argument. I watched a video by an emeritus professor of psychology trying to explain what “critical thinking” is and why it is “good”, which amounted mostly to clumsy circular reasoning that “critical thinking” is “good thinking” and helps you being “effective”. It was almost comedic how she was struggling to justify this term without using either “rational” or “logic” in her explanation. There are over 100 recognised logical fallacies (look them up), but all are reducible to just three laws, which are in fact just different articulations of the same law (you could use non-contradiction as the one law with no detriment to your reasoning): the law of non-contraction, excluded-middle and the law of identity (I wrote several essays on these on my Substack). You do not need to understand formal notation to make sense of this, as you are already applying all these laws intuitively; you were born with the capacity to apply them, but bad choices, bad habits can progressively degrade the clarity of your discernment. Irrationality is not innate but a cumulative effect of irrational choices without facing their consequences.
https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/is-it-rational-to-trust-the-experts
https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/derivation-of-the-principle-of-sufficient-reason-from-the-law-of-non-contradiction
https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/the-law-of-identity
https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/the-law-of-excluded-middle
The term “critical thinking”, which is used liberally in education, is distinct from rational or logical thinking, which are rarely if ever mentioned in the curricula. Critical thinking is an instrument of propaganda, geared to indoctrinate students with critical attitude towards anything deemed non-reputable; to reject any argument or information arising from anywhere apart from trusted/official sources. Conflating the validity of the source with the validity of the information is of course a logical error, a category mistake. Similarly, finding a fault with a person or institution does not automatically invalidate their argument. I watched a video by an emeritus professor of psychology trying to explain what “critical thinking” is and why it is “good”, which amounted mostly to clumsy circular reasoning that “critical thinking” is “good thinking” and helps you being “effective”. It was almost comedic how she was struggling to justify this term without using either “rational” or “logic” in her explanation. There are over 100 recognised logical fallacies (look them up), but all are reducible to just three laws, which are in fact just different articulations of the same law (you could use non-contradiction as the one law with no detriment to your reasoning): the law of non-contraction, excluded-middle and the law of identity (I wrote several essays on these on my Substack). You do not need to understand formal notation to make sense of this, as you are already applying all these laws intuitively; you were born with the capacity to apply them, but bad choices, bad habits can progressively degrade the clarity of your discernment. Irrationality is not innate but a cumulative effect of irrational choices without facing their consequences.
https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/is-it-rational-to-trust-the-experts
https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/derivation-of-the-principle-of-sufficient-reason-from-the-law-of-non-contradiction
https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/the-law-of-identity
https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/the-law-of-excluded-middle
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Is it rational to trust the experts?
(No)
One of the key discoveries of W.R.Bion was that no matter how divided and irreconcilable people are, everyone can find something they hate in common. If what everyone hates is signified by a person, people can still cooperate against that person. In a sense, the commonly hated person becomes a mediator of human unity and a basis for improved understanding, a kind of therapist.
NOTES ON BION/KISSINGER (PART 1)
Ref: https://t.iss.one/NormalParty/2362
Task: Identify commonalities between Kissinger’s speech and Bion’s text.
1. Bion uses the term ‘neurosis’ for any compulsively irrational behaviour.
2. Bion observed that “Neurosis needs to be displayed as a danger to the group; and its display must somehow be made the common aim of the group. But how was the group to be persuaded to tackle neurotic disability as a communal problem?” Bion p13-14
3. “Society has not yet been driven to seek treatment of its psychological disorders by psychological means because it has not achieved sufficient insight to appreciate the nature of its distress. The organization of the training wing had to be such that the growth of insight should at least not be hindered. Better still if it could be designed to throw into prominence the way in which neurotic behaviour adds to the difficulties of the community, destroying happiness and efficiency. If communal distress were to become demonstrable as a neurotic by-product, then neurosis itself would be seen to be worthy of communal study and attack. And a step would have been taken on the way to overcoming resistance in the society.” Bion p14
4. Bions therapeutic model: “I found it helpful to visualize the projected organization of the training wing as if it were a framework enclosed within transparent walls. Into this space the patient would be admitted at one point, and the activities within that space would be so organized that he could move freely in any direction according to the resultant of his conflicting impulses. His movements, as far as possible, were not to be distorted by outside interference. As a result, his behaviour could be trusted to give a fair indication of his effective will and aims, as opposed to the aims he himself proclaimed or the psychiatrist wished him to have. It was expected that some of the activities organized within the ‘space’ would be clearly warlike, others equally clearly civilian, others again merely expressions of neurotic powerlessness. (…) As his progress appeared to be towards one or other of the possible exits from this imaginary space, so his true aim could be judged.” Bion p15
5. “With surprising rapidity the training wing became selfcritical. The freedom of movement permitted by the original set-up allowed the characteristics of a neurotic community to show with painful clarity…“ (Bion, p18)
Compare the revolutionising effect of ‘the freedom of movement’ (as discussed at point 4) with ‘the Freedom Movement’ and the ‘Spiritual Revolution’. Compare this to Kissinger: we must “go on a spiritual offensive” to “liberate freedom”, because “freedom itself is revolutionary”. If our society is neurotic (as a group), can freedom be liberated only through group therapy, allowing the freedom of movement (under the guise of the Freedom Movement) by withdrawal of constructive authority and its replacement by an anxiety-promoting (pathological) leadership? Would this reveal our neuroses to ourselves and help us realise the destructive effect of our dependency on political and community leaders? Where does legitimate authority originate when leaders cannot be depended on?
Ref: https://t.iss.one/NormalParty/2362
Task: Identify commonalities between Kissinger’s speech and Bion’s text.
1. Bion uses the term ‘neurosis’ for any compulsively irrational behaviour.
2. Bion observed that “Neurosis needs to be displayed as a danger to the group; and its display must somehow be made the common aim of the group. But how was the group to be persuaded to tackle neurotic disability as a communal problem?” Bion p13-14
3. “Society has not yet been driven to seek treatment of its psychological disorders by psychological means because it has not achieved sufficient insight to appreciate the nature of its distress. The organization of the training wing had to be such that the growth of insight should at least not be hindered. Better still if it could be designed to throw into prominence the way in which neurotic behaviour adds to the difficulties of the community, destroying happiness and efficiency. If communal distress were to become demonstrable as a neurotic by-product, then neurosis itself would be seen to be worthy of communal study and attack. And a step would have been taken on the way to overcoming resistance in the society.” Bion p14
4. Bions therapeutic model: “I found it helpful to visualize the projected organization of the training wing as if it were a framework enclosed within transparent walls. Into this space the patient would be admitted at one point, and the activities within that space would be so organized that he could move freely in any direction according to the resultant of his conflicting impulses. His movements, as far as possible, were not to be distorted by outside interference. As a result, his behaviour could be trusted to give a fair indication of his effective will and aims, as opposed to the aims he himself proclaimed or the psychiatrist wished him to have. It was expected that some of the activities organized within the ‘space’ would be clearly warlike, others equally clearly civilian, others again merely expressions of neurotic powerlessness. (…) As his progress appeared to be towards one or other of the possible exits from this imaginary space, so his true aim could be judged.” Bion p15
5. “With surprising rapidity the training wing became selfcritical. The freedom of movement permitted by the original set-up allowed the characteristics of a neurotic community to show with painful clarity…“ (Bion, p18)
Compare the revolutionising effect of ‘the freedom of movement’ (as discussed at point 4) with ‘the Freedom Movement’ and the ‘Spiritual Revolution’. Compare this to Kissinger: we must “go on a spiritual offensive” to “liberate freedom”, because “freedom itself is revolutionary”. If our society is neurotic (as a group), can freedom be liberated only through group therapy, allowing the freedom of movement (under the guise of the Freedom Movement) by withdrawal of constructive authority and its replacement by an anxiety-promoting (pathological) leadership? Would this reveal our neuroses to ourselves and help us realise the destructive effect of our dependency on political and community leaders? Where does legitimate authority originate when leaders cannot be depended on?
NOTES ON BION/KISSINGER (PART 2)
Ref: https://t.iss.one/NormalParty/2362
6. “Shortly after the new arrangement started, men began to complain to me that patients were taking advantage of the laxity of the organization. ‘Only 20 per cent,’ they said, ‘of the men are taking part and really working hard; the other 80 per cent are just a lot of shirkers.’ (…) I replied that no doubt the complainants themselves had neurotic symptoms, or they would not be in hospital; why should their disabilities be treated in one way and the disabilities of the 80 per cent be treated in another? After all, the problem of the ‘80 per cent’ was not new; in civil life magistrates, probation officers, social workers, the Church, and statesmen had all attempted to deal with it, some of them by discipline and punishment. The ‘80 per cent’, however, were still with us; was it not possible that the nature of the problem had not yet been fully elucidated and that they (the complainants) were attempting to rush in with a cure before the disease had been diagnosed? The problem, I said, appeared to be one that not only concerned the training wing, or even the Army alone, but had the widest possible implications for society at large. I suggested that they should study it and come forward with fresh proposals when they felt they were beginning to see daylight.” P18-19
Who do you think are the dysfunctional 80% in today’s society? Have they revealed themselves? Have they become aware of the danger of their dysfunctionality? And what is the appropriate therapy for the functional (but still ‘neurotic’) 20%? The problem of the 80% is also a problem of the 20%; a common problem.
7. “[A]ttention may be drawn again to the fact that society, like the individual, may not want to deal with its distresses by psychological means until driven to do so by a realization that some at least of these distresses are psychological in origin. The community represented by the training wing had to learn this fact before the full force of its energy could be released in self-cure. What applied to the small community of the training wing may well apply to the community at large…” p22
Is a therapeutic project on the global scale possible and manageable?
8. “A suspicion grows in my mind, until it becomes a certainty, that there is no hope whatever of expecting co-operation from this group […] No soon have I said this to myself than I realize that I am expressing my feeling, not of the group’s disharmony, but of its unity. Furthermore, I very soon become aware that […] every attempt I make to get a hearing shows that I have a united group against me. The idea that neurotics cannot co-operate has to be modified.” P52
Irrationality is manifested equally in those who have Covid/Antivaxxer oriented anxiety and those who have vaccine and NWO anxiety. If compulsive irrationality is a common property of both sides, then compulsive irrationality ‘unites’ both sides and is therefore a suitable basis for mutual understanding and cooperation, geared to resolving this common problem. Nevertheless, a group united merely by irrationality cannot cooperate rationally, but must first develop though a series of stressful failures.
Ref: https://t.iss.one/NormalParty/2362
6. “Shortly after the new arrangement started, men began to complain to me that patients were taking advantage of the laxity of the organization. ‘Only 20 per cent,’ they said, ‘of the men are taking part and really working hard; the other 80 per cent are just a lot of shirkers.’ (…) I replied that no doubt the complainants themselves had neurotic symptoms, or they would not be in hospital; why should their disabilities be treated in one way and the disabilities of the 80 per cent be treated in another? After all, the problem of the ‘80 per cent’ was not new; in civil life magistrates, probation officers, social workers, the Church, and statesmen had all attempted to deal with it, some of them by discipline and punishment. The ‘80 per cent’, however, were still with us; was it not possible that the nature of the problem had not yet been fully elucidated and that they (the complainants) were attempting to rush in with a cure before the disease had been diagnosed? The problem, I said, appeared to be one that not only concerned the training wing, or even the Army alone, but had the widest possible implications for society at large. I suggested that they should study it and come forward with fresh proposals when they felt they were beginning to see daylight.” P18-19
Who do you think are the dysfunctional 80% in today’s society? Have they revealed themselves? Have they become aware of the danger of their dysfunctionality? And what is the appropriate therapy for the functional (but still ‘neurotic’) 20%? The problem of the 80% is also a problem of the 20%; a common problem.
7. “[A]ttention may be drawn again to the fact that society, like the individual, may not want to deal with its distresses by psychological means until driven to do so by a realization that some at least of these distresses are psychological in origin. The community represented by the training wing had to learn this fact before the full force of its energy could be released in self-cure. What applied to the small community of the training wing may well apply to the community at large…” p22
Is a therapeutic project on the global scale possible and manageable?
8. “A suspicion grows in my mind, until it becomes a certainty, that there is no hope whatever of expecting co-operation from this group […] No soon have I said this to myself than I realize that I am expressing my feeling, not of the group’s disharmony, but of its unity. Furthermore, I very soon become aware that […] every attempt I make to get a hearing shows that I have a united group against me. The idea that neurotics cannot co-operate has to be modified.” P52
Irrationality is manifested equally in those who have Covid/Antivaxxer oriented anxiety and those who have vaccine and NWO anxiety. If compulsive irrationality is a common property of both sides, then compulsive irrationality ‘unites’ both sides and is therefore a suitable basis for mutual understanding and cooperation, geared to resolving this common problem. Nevertheless, a group united merely by irrationality cannot cooperate rationally, but must first develop though a series of stressful failures.
NOTES ON BION/KISSINGER (PART 3)
Ref: https://t.iss.one/NormalParty/2362
9. The key insight of Bion was that people experience anxiety in the absence of leadership. When their inquiry “what should I do” finds no authoritative answer, or is given only a general direction to “do whatever is right”, they experience unbearable discomfort. The common reaction is to engage with the group/community solely for the purpose of selecting a substitute leader who is expected to satisfy the individual’s need for direction. It is only through a series or failures in satisfying this need that an individual gains the capacity to form sophisticated groups capable to constructive cooperation.
10. Bion also discovered that the individual has two aspects: he is conscious as an individual but also expresses the unconscious proclivities of the group of which he is a member. The lowest energy state is that of total immersion in the unconscious behaviour of the group, which is associated with the minimum of individual consciousness: a primitive state. This is what Bion calls a Basic Assumption group. To become more conscious as an individual requires more energy (“work”), and if a sufficient number of individuals commits to this development, the group becomes “sophisticated”: a Work Group.
It appears that we are facing a genuine group-problem that can be solved only by the group, and the problematic group of which we are members is humanity.
A hypothesis. I propose that humanity is put, unwittingly or intentionally, in a situation that resembles Bion’s group therapy, to free us from the shackles of voluntary and yet destructive dependency. This view resonates with Kissinger’s aspiration to “liberate freedom”. The only thing I can say with certainty is that I do feel as if I spent the last three years in group therapy, and despite the initial agitation, my mental integrity has discernibly improved, presumably because of it. Curiously, at the beginning of this ‘process’ I did not at all feel that my mental integrity required any improvement, so I am pleased that my ignorance of the capacity for improvement has been corrected. I anticipate, on the grounds of this insight, that a further improvement is still possible. Perhaps the main indicator of the said improvement is the disappearance of anxiety associated with not having much control over the irrational behaviour of others, and the notable absence of desire to be in the position of leadership beyond the scope of my own actions.
Do you feel that your mental integrity has improved over the last 2 years?
Ref: https://t.iss.one/NormalParty/2362
9. The key insight of Bion was that people experience anxiety in the absence of leadership. When their inquiry “what should I do” finds no authoritative answer, or is given only a general direction to “do whatever is right”, they experience unbearable discomfort. The common reaction is to engage with the group/community solely for the purpose of selecting a substitute leader who is expected to satisfy the individual’s need for direction. It is only through a series or failures in satisfying this need that an individual gains the capacity to form sophisticated groups capable to constructive cooperation.
10. Bion also discovered that the individual has two aspects: he is conscious as an individual but also expresses the unconscious proclivities of the group of which he is a member. The lowest energy state is that of total immersion in the unconscious behaviour of the group, which is associated with the minimum of individual consciousness: a primitive state. This is what Bion calls a Basic Assumption group. To become more conscious as an individual requires more energy (“work”), and if a sufficient number of individuals commits to this development, the group becomes “sophisticated”: a Work Group.
It appears that we are facing a genuine group-problem that can be solved only by the group, and the problematic group of which we are members is humanity.
A hypothesis. I propose that humanity is put, unwittingly or intentionally, in a situation that resembles Bion’s group therapy, to free us from the shackles of voluntary and yet destructive dependency. This view resonates with Kissinger’s aspiration to “liberate freedom”. The only thing I can say with certainty is that I do feel as if I spent the last three years in group therapy, and despite the initial agitation, my mental integrity has discernibly improved, presumably because of it. Curiously, at the beginning of this ‘process’ I did not at all feel that my mental integrity required any improvement, so I am pleased that my ignorance of the capacity for improvement has been corrected. I anticipate, on the grounds of this insight, that a further improvement is still possible. Perhaps the main indicator of the said improvement is the disappearance of anxiety associated with not having much control over the irrational behaviour of others, and the notable absence of desire to be in the position of leadership beyond the scope of my own actions.
Do you feel that your mental integrity has improved over the last 2 years?
Do you feel that your mental integrity has improved over the last 2 years?
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71%
YES
17%
NO
12%
Not sure
Your rulers love when you rebel, provided you do so with the colour of your hair, the kind of clothes you wear, with your pronouns, the music you listen to. For those who need moral self-validation, the rulers provide a range of carefully curated social justice issues to rebel about under heroic influencers. Be a rebel! Express your difference. Protect the (approved) downtrodden. Save the world. The Galaxy needs you. Be like Greta.
The QLD Human Rights Commission has modified their statement on the question of vaccine mandates. Following my suggestion, they no longer claim that vaccine mandates do not violate human rights; I pointed out that by making that claim they were presuming a legal conclusion (after they argued to me that they cannot make a legal determination on the basis of my argument because only a court can make a determination). I also asked them to include the ‘right to life’ in the list of rights affected by the mandates, since vaccines are known to kill a percentage of people, but instead of adding this right to the list (and thus making the violation of the right to life look obvious) they simply deleted the entire section. All in all there is some progress, one step closer to the truth. The Commission did not notify me of the change. https://t.iss.one/NormalParty/2004
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Email Response to the Queensland Human Rights Commissioner (06.10.2022)
(My first email: https://t.iss.one/NormalParty/1846)
I have received a response from QHRC, in which the Commissioner expresses concern with how the vaccine mandates affect human rights.…
(My first email: https://t.iss.one/NormalParty/1846)
I have received a response from QHRC, in which the Commissioner expresses concern with how the vaccine mandates affect human rights.…
All doctors who administered Covid vaccines after the introduction of vaccination mandates were knowingly violating the requirement to obtain free and informed consent, irrespective of whether the patient requested the vaccine. Doctors were aware that all patients were subject to economic and social opportunity coercion to get vaccinated, and that most were liable to lose their livelihood if they did not comply. Under these conditions any request to get vaccinated could not be reasonably interpreted as consent.
I consider reflexive consciousness (the capacity to be a conscious Self, to think about Self) to be conditional on socialisation but only in an evolutionary sense: the development of consciousness is coextensive with the development of meaningful socialisation. The more conscious we are the more socialised we can be, and the more conscious we become the more socialised we can be. The process is incremental, just like the evolution of life. We could posit the lowest degree of socialisation as the reproductive interaction of the lowest, sexually differentiated life-forms. Their reproductive mechanism brings them together as a social kind. This must be associated with a degree of biological recognition that can already be classified as proto-consciousness, albeit not yet reflexive. With higher degrees of biological complexity there come more refined mechanisms of mutual recognition, which at some point allow for self-reflection. The threshold of this ‘elucidation’ is difficult to formalise, but the reverse process, the loss of reflexivity, is easier to imagine. A person traveling alone in a space ship, with no radio contact with anyone else but possessing automated technology for indefinite life preservation, would eventually lose their language, self-image and the capacity for self-conception, because it would lack experiential referents to sustain these meanings. Words/concepts without experience and context lose meaning. On this view, the loss of socialisation is bound to lead to the loss of reflexive consciousness (because of the absence of reflection/image of what one is alike). This brings us to the concept of Anthropos: of human likeness, one who is alike.
Reflexive consciousness is necessarily apparent to one another as consciousness (this is what makes it reflexive), and manifests through meaningful two way communication. Since this awareness is absent with animals, except in a minimal sense when the animal is socialised by being raises among humans who attempted to communicate with it and some rudimentary communication is possible, but this is not inherent in their animality but an effect of humanity. In these cases the animal can become marginally human, by human socialisation.
Reflexive consciousness is necessarily apparent to one another as consciousness (this is what makes it reflexive), and manifests through meaningful two way communication. Since this awareness is absent with animals, except in a minimal sense when the animal is socialised by being raises among humans who attempted to communicate with it and some rudimentary communication is possible, but this is not inherent in their animality but an effect of humanity. In these cases the animal can become marginally human, by human socialisation.
Follow-up Email to the Australian Human Rights Commission (18.01.2023)
(My initial inquiry: https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/email-to-australian-human-rights)
ATTN: Communication Unit
I did not receive any response from the Commissioner to my email dated 17 Aug 2022.
Could you please advice whether this non-response was intentional or just an oversight?
Regarding another matter for the attention of the Commission, I noticed the following statement on your website at https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/rights-and-freedoms/human-rights-considerations-vaccine-passports-and-certificates:
“Vaccines are effective in saving lives, and the right to life is a human right.”
In the context of vaccine mandates this statement is misleading, since the opposite is also true: vaccines are known to kill a small percentage of people. Vaccination mandates, by applying significant economic and social-opportunity coercion to vaccinate, are expected to cause a percentage of vaccine-related deaths, thereby extinguishing some lives, and the right to life is a human right.
For the sake of fair characterisation of the impact of vaccine mandates on human rights, I suggest informing the reader of the likelihood that the right to life may also be violated by mandatory vaccination policies.
Regards,
Michael Kowalik
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(My initial inquiry: https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/email-to-australian-human-rights)
ATTN: Communication Unit
I did not receive any response from the Commissioner to my email dated 17 Aug 2022.
Could you please advice whether this non-response was intentional or just an oversight?
Regarding another matter for the attention of the Commission, I noticed the following statement on your website at https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/rights-and-freedoms/human-rights-considerations-vaccine-passports-and-certificates:
“Vaccines are effective in saving lives, and the right to life is a human right.”
In the context of vaccine mandates this statement is misleading, since the opposite is also true: vaccines are known to kill a small percentage of people. Vaccination mandates, by applying significant economic and social-opportunity coercion to vaccinate, are expected to cause a percentage of vaccine-related deaths, thereby extinguishing some lives, and the right to life is a human right.
For the sake of fair characterisation of the impact of vaccine mandates on human rights, I suggest informing the reader of the likelihood that the right to life may also be violated by mandatory vaccination policies.
Regards,
Michael Kowalik
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Some narratives are too socially damaging to be simply ignored. It is important to identify the implications and consequences of Nativist Supremacism, which underpins the concept of First Nations and tribal sovereignty. The underlying toxicity needs to be unpacked and contextualised, so that people have the right vocabulary and understanding to deal with the associated social pressure and resentment. Those who live in Australia face this narrative and are forced to choose (to collude or to dissent) on daily basis. When they do dissent they need to be able to defend their position with more than “it is divisive”. If they fail this, they will become more resentful, and the narrative of resentment will still succeed in its aim. My approach is not merely to defeat the narrative of resentment but to replace it with a higher order sense of unity: All humans share the same ancient ancestors, we are all related, we are all the original owners of the Earth. Reason unites us.
Letter to The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (19.01.2023)
Dear VCAA,
I propose including the fundamental laws of meaning/sense, otherwise known as the laws of thought, as a new cross curriculum priority.
There are more than 100 recognised logical fallacies, but they are all reducible to just 3 laws: the law of non-contradiction (two opposite claims cannot be true at the same time and in the same respect, or, no claim can be both true and false at the same time and in the same respect), the law of excluded middle (a claim can be either true or false with no intermediate possibility), and the law of identity (everything is identical ONLY to itself, or, no two things are identical in every respect). The 3 laws are in fact just different articulations of the same One law of logical sense/meaning, and one could simply rely on non-contradiction to reach the same conclusions. For example, the ‘principle of sufficient reason’, which dictates that we ought not to assert anything as a ‘known’ fact without a proof, is reducible to the law of non-contradiction.
Including the laws of logic as a cross curriculum priority is the only effective antidote to misinformation. It would teach both the students and the teachers how to be more rational in every context. I suggest that making logic a cross-curriculum priority would dispense with the need for any other priority.
I can help you design and implement the proposed cross-curriculum priority.
Regards,
Michael Kowalik
Dear VCAA,
I propose including the fundamental laws of meaning/sense, otherwise known as the laws of thought, as a new cross curriculum priority.
There are more than 100 recognised logical fallacies, but they are all reducible to just 3 laws: the law of non-contradiction (two opposite claims cannot be true at the same time and in the same respect, or, no claim can be both true and false at the same time and in the same respect), the law of excluded middle (a claim can be either true or false with no intermediate possibility), and the law of identity (everything is identical ONLY to itself, or, no two things are identical in every respect). The 3 laws are in fact just different articulations of the same One law of logical sense/meaning, and one could simply rely on non-contradiction to reach the same conclusions. For example, the ‘principle of sufficient reason’, which dictates that we ought not to assert anything as a ‘known’ fact without a proof, is reducible to the law of non-contradiction.
Including the laws of logic as a cross curriculum priority is the only effective antidote to misinformation. It would teach both the students and the teachers how to be more rational in every context. I suggest that making logic a cross-curriculum priority would dispense with the need for any other priority.
I can help you design and implement the proposed cross-curriculum priority.
Regards,
Michael Kowalik
Countess media sources who were claiming (and still claim) that covid vaccines contain nano-bots and Graphene Oxide are now comprehensively discredited. https://geoffpain.substack.com/p/fifth-column-promoting-graphene-fantasies
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Fifth Column promoting Graphene Fantasies attempting to bring down Honest Campaigners
The campaign by those of us who want to end reckless Jabbing with GMO mRNA and other Covid19 treatments is being undermined by relentless Fifth Column subversives. Don't spread their rubbish.
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Sorry to disappoint all the nanobot people - Geoff Pain shows just what is in those vials of vaccine, and corroborates Kevin McCairn's analysis.
https://geoffpain.substack.com/p/relative-lethality-of-covid-19-vaccines
https://geoffpain.substack.com/p/relative-lethality-of-covid-19-vaccines
Geoff Pain PhD
Relative Lethality of COVID-19 vaccines - who is measuring the casualties?
Quantifying Deaths caused by jabbing with Covid19 treatments, none of which prevent infection or transmission, is a moving target for statisticians. Let's look at Deaths per Jab and Deaths per Jabbee.
Let’s play a game called ‘Diversity of Platitudes’. Let us see how many “diverse” platitudes you can collectively come up with!
“A platitude is a trite, meaningless, or prosaic statement, often used as a thought-terminating cliché, aimed at quelling social, emotional, or cognitive unease.” (Wiktionary) A platitudinous statement is typically true but trivial and uninteresting, and often involves a tautology. For example, ‘beautiful puppies are so sweet’, ‘we have to defend and encourage what is good and right’, ‘Ukraine has the right to defend itself’, ‘corruption is just wrong’ etc. Let us show WEF and those DAVOS muppets what “diversity of thought” is all about, shall we?
“A platitude is a trite, meaningless, or prosaic statement, often used as a thought-terminating cliché, aimed at quelling social, emotional, or cognitive unease.” (Wiktionary) A platitudinous statement is typically true but trivial and uninteresting, and often involves a tautology. For example, ‘beautiful puppies are so sweet’, ‘we have to defend and encourage what is good and right’, ‘Ukraine has the right to defend itself’, ‘corruption is just wrong’ etc. Let us show WEF and those DAVOS muppets what “diversity of thought” is all about, shall we?