TO ALL ON THIS THREAD FROM JOHN GALT
To all MUNCHKIN-BRAINS
John Galt on POLITICS AND THOUGHT
Politics has less to do with 'conflict resolution' than as an artform in the
control and dissemination of information That's right...it's all about
filling in the blanks (missing information) with all the worst assumptions.
Politics has to do with feeding the poor deprived masses with limited
information...with turning them into rabid, frothing-at-the-mouth expectant
dunderheads. Forcing them to live in imaginary worlds of Us and Thems - a
black/white world, a female/male world, a semite/anti-semite world, and so
on...
Now, let us suppose there comes a time when everyone in the world will have
unencumbered access to all known and knowable information. What kind of world
will it be? Now you can continue to 'choose' that particular set of
information that fits your particular ideals of what and how things really
are. But you will learn, in the end, that the almighty human mind will have
it's own way...and this reflected as either a reborn Galted mind or as a
nervous breakdown.
Know, too, of the kind of information you seek and endear. Like those ancient
holy Jewish ascetics who led the path of the righteous to the Kingdom of
Heaven... perhaps one of the greatest criminal propaganda ploys ever hoisted
on humanity. Jumping Jesus!!! He led an upper middle class life!!! -
comparable to the Berkely students of the sixties! What a ruse!!! And how
many brains have been hijacked over the millenniums with that crapshit about
the meek! The point - be careful what you think you know as reliable and
valid information. There is much in the political history to unlearn.
But in this new world, where information is free and unregulated, how can one
even begin to rewrite history? Everything is recorded now, taped, digitized,
stored, etc.. Looks like the wholesale bullshit is about to end! And how much
of what we think we already know has been bullshit all along??? Time to look
a second time at what you think you already know, little ones.
There is, however, a negative side to this new world. NEW INFORMATION, when
introduced in the human brain, tends to throw things in disarray. Now John
Galt has known that 'thought' requires more than just nuggets of memory and a
string of associations (as you would have it), but, also and most importantly,
that it is MATHEMATICAL. That is to say, we do not think in terms of
'equations' but that the 'background processing' occurring in the individual
brain WEIGHS information and does so continuously and cumulatively over a
lifespan This feature of the brain more often reveals itself as intuition.
Individual brains are constantly being bombarded or 'impressed upon' by new
experience and information. You can imagine this as pebbles of varying weight
and at varying times, falling into a pond, forming streaming waves, colliding
and overlapping into a chaotic dance of ripples.
The strength of an 'impression wave' depends on the weight of the pebble and
the texture of the pond. As an example, take a relatively smooth pond (with
little history of prior pebble impacts), like an uneducated poorly read dolt
in his late teens, who is quite suddenly 'impressed upon' by a two-ton pebble
(let us say any Galted mind such as the esteemed Father Terrence). The
impression would be formidable and may take years to integrate.
Imagine becoming a communist or favoring 'heavy metal' or 'Rap' to Beethoven.
This represents the frailty of youth who fall victims to egoists, politics,
and other mass marketing ploys. But victims are not limited by youth, for NEW
INFORMATION, when introduced, tends to cause all individuals to MISCALCULATE.
The difference being one of scale, depending on youth, education, and/or
inherent analytical ability.
This miscalculation occurs precisely because the information is NEW and,
hence, is given an inordinate weighting or under-weighting, but seldom the
correct weighting. Calculations are dependent on the scope of information
available to it. It is why memories and their associations play a pivotal
role in thought. But, memories, too, can become a handicap...especially
strong memories against a backdrop of poor analytical processing. Memories
can take years, even a lifetime, before they are 'quantified' with their
proper weighting.
Now then, what will this new age of information bring? Probably countless
more well-informed individuals MISCALCULATING LIKE NEVER BEFORE. And that
should effectively leave the almighty Galt carrying the weight of the world on
his shoulders for some time to come
John (the weight lifter) Galt
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