Advancement of our Technical World, our Science, has created a battle-zone, of narratives. Authentic-Science versus Misinformed-Science. And the Misinformed-Science is winning. We seem to have sacrificed our Values, our Morals and Ethics, to achieve the science of Industrialization over our own humane-beliefs, and our very sustainability toward survival, on this planet.
We seem to pass it all off as Science Fiction. Yet, those of us interested in Science, as necessary advancement toward civilization – know the term to be a metaphor of absurd hypocrisy.
When we acknowledge the very roots of Science Fiction, Mary Shelly’s “Frankenstein”, historically, we discover from the outset, the intrusive qualities of science, when ethics and morals ignored. This ignorance, the human behaviors, pave the way toward Individual, as well as cultural, an obscure narcissistic dysfunction, where pathological lies excepted as truth, and control of the scientific narrative, taken over by questionable individuals. Politics and industry, and science, becomes a tool to achieve monetary record-breaking profits. Evidence of this abundant.
Authentic science, within a truthful presentation of data gathering, the allowance of “all” information gathered used to process and generate a truth, apparently disdained by politicians and industry alike. No longer are there individuals that would make a stand and “Fight for the Integrity” of science, other than a few, against those who lack ethics, in reality, those who control the budgets and who control the narrative within those budgets, as well.
The fact is, Science and a thorough understanding of it, can be, and should be, a positive-influence upon our perceptions of Nature, Wildlife, and all the things around us, inclusively. The paradigm that “all” Carbon-Based Life” on this planet matters, is a dynamic of proven necessity, as well as to be respected as such.
It is merely the lack of our, profoundly, human-nature, that misdirects our ethics.
1. We favor wars to be of necessity, yet sacrifice human’s and our Natural Resources abundantly, freely, without explanation toward the ethics or morality of it all.
2. Then we find, it’s all based upon our Hunting-Culture as a heritage to be honored, that combines modern-technology with false-narratives and disinformation, to achieve a false-pretense, via disinformation campaigns, to kill-off Wildlife (i.e. a population control, considered a sport, that is questionable at best), then referring to it as Wildlife Management, or worse, Conservation.
3. Then an extrapolate of hunting is trapping — a culture that assumes sacrifice of Wildlife, under the distinct guise of heritage and historical significance for our culture, for clothing, or entertainment as a sport, remains a thing of necessity.
4. We then go to the destruction of our Wildlife and Lands, being far more prominent, morally decayed, and lacks ethics, precisely, yet false narratives promote these unethical values as being worthy and respectable necessities, as the American Way — Ranching & Industrialized Corporate Culture, alongside our Political Culture, that ignores ethics and morals completely. Sacrifices abundant, and some become rich, the general public loses many Natural Environments, once cherished by all.
And worse yet, all of the above give us ingenue excuses, and lies, while doing so, favoring their definable mis-conduct as something of a historical heritage. It all evolves into an assimilation of sacrifice, those things and life-forms of, what they assume, as “less-value” and okay to be sacrificed; thereby, defined from those, supposedly those of us with advanced intelligence, awkwardly and arrogant at best, to be of necessity. In truth, a painful paradigm of ignorance, bigotry, and obscure bias.
The type of science that generates these types of “Mind-Set-Dynamics”, as obviously illogical as it appears, and it being even close to acceptable, what so ever, we can assimilate as a science itself. This being the science of “False-Narratives”, or as some would say, “Propaganda” (never the less what we call it, it is very dangerous), and bad conduct, conducive of keeping the general population of people in a shroud of Darkness.
Science Fiction, although it is fiction, and at times novel entertainment, does apply its significance, in the many warnings given to us, from Science Fiction writers, historically. Where we set our ethical bounds, and moral virtues upon boundaries of acceptability, attention must be given. I will leave this conversation with a short speech by Albert Einstein:
“It is not enough that you should understand about applied science in order that your work may increase man’s blessings. Concern for the man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors… in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind.” – A. Einstein — In a speech given at the California Institute of Technology in 1931, Einstein warned students about the dual nature of technical progress.
“We live in a period, of communication, when “Branding”, or the concept of a “Commercialized Identity”, is used dishonestly. But how does it affect us, since we are within the categorical framework of “The General Public.” We are manipulated daily by the media. It is then, we are referenced as “The General Public”, or becoming nothing more than a statistic – a demographic (i.e. a continued assault upon personal identity, and they are winning — We have to obtain the “Truth” ourselves, yet we accept their version only — $$$$ over humanity).
Evidence? How many times have we seen the politician, or the corporate Administrator, or hunting, trapping, and ranching people state, (as they continue the obvious destruction by them, of our environment and wildlife, Wolves & Wild Horses among others, daily and unnecessarily), or make believe, I should say, it is beneficial and tell us, “It is humane, because it makes the State $-Billions’ of dollars a year, and we feed the World.” Yup, they want us to believe their less than 1% of Public Lands Beef Sales, compared to the overall Commercialized beef industry percentage of 98.7%, yearly in sales, is feeding the World.
Which, their statement is a lie, and after years of feeding the General Public disinformation from all-out propaganda campaigns, laughingly obvious. More troubling is their embellished, statistical pie-charts here, and there, and ultimately the bigger pie-chart; as if the smaller pie-charts less truthful, and the largest pie-chart supposed to be more truthful than all those small, troublesome pie-charts — and their comments, or pie-charts and statistics, never supported with credible evidence.
Communication today has evolved into an agenda of powerful-propaganda-campaigns, disguised as advertising (yet another systematic approach to the individuals identity theft) is all attributes, to sell to the public, not products, directly anyway, but the people or company involved in manufacturing products or services. Obviously, the communication conflict arises when the people, the producer or manufacturer of a product, or, the sport we discuss, are in conflict with Truth.
How does this “truth” become so wayward. How is it we accept toxic chemicals as beneficial, and yet, many more people make fun of those who demand healthier products, and make threats, hatefully, toward those who are asking honest questions about obvious toxic and poison products; or, pointing out skinning an animal, like a Mink while still alive, to be abusive and inhumane?
Or baiting wildlife only to shoot them? Yet, the sport of hunting & trapping is accepted by many, and of course accepted by the family & friends, or else! As those who do not accept it, trouble right around the corner (especially when living in small towns, and social politics in play) they will be disdained, lose friends, and even face brutality, or worse, death? Where does such a gap become reality, and why & how did the truth simply disappear? Should we be concerned about this . . . Much more information available, with evidence, which this above is only the tip of the iceberg, so to speak.
“The identity of the individual was long ago subsumed by the Spectre of the public.” — Soren Kierkegaard, M.A. Philosophy
We can explore this phenomenon that describes the erosion of selfhood through mass attention. As the boundary between private individual, and the public gaze, dissolves. People become, essentially what they are not, but images of what the public accepts (i.e. often from the latest motion picture, or the current musician or . . .); whereas, some folks take the movie or television program as reality. . .
The same with groups, well, they become the images of a past, whether it be heritage, or myth, or formal disinformation centered around themselves, changing history entirely – Academically, we refer to it as “historical revisionism or historical negationism”. Others simply refer to it as a “deliberate distortion or falsification” of history.
Heavy-Adventure programs, especially westerns, are evidence of how history is changed, in today’s “Escapist Environment.” And nobody the wiser, or even curious, as the dramatic elements of the storyline, soothing at times, or an adventure we would never, in reality, come close to, and yet, there we were taking part, mentally, within it all.
We then become the “Targets” (yup, The General Public), so to speak, of “industrial-commercialization” as well as “Identity-Theft” and “Identity Politics” (as one does not function without the other) for fear of being disliked, or hated, by our group of peers; whereas, the “Product” of the Disinformation (i.e. an altered history of disinformation, or, both assimilated into what they want us to believe, and ultimately the statistics show us — becomes the ultimate truth).
Yes, Advertising, then, becomes a reality. Implications toward several levels of psychology apply here. The fact is, a “truthful” individual has no chance of survival. The General Public is taught, via Propaganda (i.e. Advertising), that what was, in truth, a miscommunicated-rendition of life, yet given to the public to exploit a false rendition of heritage or history, turns into a ‘Truth”. This is where, for some, the “mythologized public images” first seen, often manipulated to sell a product, yes, but subliminally (a vast history of this situation exists) to develop hatred toward those who would disagree. The basis, or premise established, simply for sales-origination, ultimately for high-level incomes.
We can intermix the commercialized versions, and place them into the false-reality category, as well, within a group format – i.e. hunting, trapping, ranching, et al. This is the process where the formation of groups to maintain their dishonest appeal, making what they are doing (skinning animals alive, killing wildlife unnecessarily, slaughtering predators, shooting wild horses, et al.) and making it all appear acceptable; thereby, at times, needed (e.g. the false statements of Population Controls, where the outright falsehood, becomes an acceptable “Truth”).
This becomes the opposition, and the mis-use of terminology takes place – Yet, in good propaganda, our attention is re-directed toward the oppositional challenge; whereas, death becomes a tool — yet, we can disconnect from the reality, and keep our proper-distance where we maintain the thought, it is needed for the betterment of the social-majority = Sacrificed for the good of . . .
1. Harvesting Wildlife rather than use of the term Kill, Murder, or Slaughter; 2. Fallacies when debating or arguing or twisting meanings; 3. Equivocation is using the same word with different meanings; 4. False Equivalency used often today, in politics and hate-speech, draws incorrect parallels between two vastly different situations; 5. False Dilemma is framing an issue with only two extreme options, when indeed, many other possibilities exist; 6. Ignoring Facts and Credible Science & Statistics.
Today we see Destructive Commercialization taking place, forced upon our Public Lands. Those involved wrap themselves in what they refer to as Heritage, or Historical Value (until we research the myth, the lies, and used only to subordinate, disenfranchise the public, or to spread fear).
We no longer even bother ourselves to Evolve with, or alongside Nature. i.e. Ranching, Hunting, Trapping, Corporate Greed, Mining, and other elements of Special Interests, and how they evolved into a status of non-compliance, many seem to avoid, or do not care enough to be concerned – as the destruction out of site, because the commercialized news only generates news of dramatic forms – to sell products, in accord with the Demographics from the General Public. Neglect of Regulatory Measures to safeguard the General Public, simply does not exist.
What is troubling to many one week, is forgotten by the next week, if no form of updates given on a regular basis — What the News is supposed to give us, but do not do so.
This statement, “The identity of the individual was long ago subsumed by the Spectre of the public.” — Soren Kierkegaard, M.A. Philosophy, captures how the privatization of experience and the policing of digital or institutional conformity often eclipse personal heritage. It reflects modern struggles with hyper-visibility, where unique, lived realities are swallowed by broad, performative public personas or a “cancel” culture.
This concept touches on how a person’s authentic inner self is often eclipsed by the expectations and scrutiny of society. When an individual becomes a public figure or spectacle, or a Group becomes extremely large (monetarily wholesome, and pays vast advertising dollars), their private life gets replaced by a societal “Spectre”—a constructed identity that is consumed and defined by the masses rather than the person themselves.
When a group runs into a problematic negative feedback, from their situations, i.e. Pro-Slaughter Groups or Experimental Pesticide Groups experimenting on our Nation’s Wild Horses with toxic chemicals while calling it “fertilization control”, and it becomes obviously a lie — they simply change the name of the Group. A new form of proaghanda / advertising takes place.
This dynamic is widely explored across literature, history, and psychoanalysis. We indulge ourselves into the realms of escape, but do not provide room for Our Endeavors beyond personal satisfaction, comfort, of what we can do comfortably, and without much thought or effort, at times. To many, Nature and wildlife exist only within a zoo, or the local park, and when wanting to feel really wild, perhaps walk the dog near at dog park.
Many assume keeping the squirrels out of their hot dogs, or the Raccoons out of the Vienna Sausage cans, they just opened and set near the picnic table, to be enough inter-action with wildlife for the next few months. And killing Deer, or Bear, or Cougar, when they see it on a television program, and advertised as a Manly Adventure, becomes their reality of Nature, and Man’s quest to Survive the Elements – after all, it is presented within a dramatic outline! A storyline, displaced by adventure and intensity from the drama, the music, all building to its crescendo, and to the ultimate-needed needed commercial.
Now we are looking at AI! It is devastating our landscapes, and only a few more healthy landscapes exists. Soon, if allowed to build more, our landscape will be denuded of water, forests, and wildlife in total.
This is not a story in the movies or on television. It is Reality. Are we really prepared for a future of more and more lies, faked-heritage as well as faked-history, as a tool for Wilderness and Wildlife Management? “ — John Cox, M.A. C/M
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