More Evidence of the Hollowness of Western Civilization

Barnhardt ^ | March 7, 2014 | Ann Barnhardt

[No One Special]

I wrote in the John Maynard Keynes post about the hollowness and “fakeness” of Western civilization today. In case you didn’t see it, KD had a post up a few days ago about so-called “peer reviewed” scientific journals and how they are nothing of the sort. Utterly fake articles made by automatic word generators that literally string random polysyllabic words together into sentence structures – in other words, NONSENSE – are being regularly published in these journals. An investigative study found over 120 such articles over the past few years.

“Peer reviewed” science and academia is a LIE. Papers are published and certified as “peer reviewed” that have literally never been read by ANYONE, including the editors of the scientific journals. And yes, this echoes the fact that the so-called “laws” being passed and used to destroy civilization are likewise never actually read by anyone, most particularly the psychopath whore politicians who vote on them.

This has been a recurring theme of this website since its inception over ten years ago. Guys, I’m telling you, stupid people and/or frauds are running the planet. In fact, civilization is so far gone that the higher-ranking a person is, be it in academia, business, politics or the Church, the less likely it is that they have any degree of competence or genuine skill. This is a lesson that I have learned over and over and over again. The very people in positions of authority that we all desperately want to believe are not just competent but truly knowledgable and wise, are, almost without exception, bluffing or openly incompetent. The truly competent are marginalized at best, and destroyed at worst.

If you still believe in any way that higher-ups in the government, military, business world, universities or the Church are in any way competent to solve the unprecedented problems that humanity faces today (assuming that they want the problems solved at all), you are operating on a false premise that is so utterly contrary to reality that it defies quantification or even description.

Recognizing and acknowledging this sad and terrifying reality is utterly, utterly critical. You MUST have an accurate observation and picture of the battlespace in order to have any hope of formulating, much less executing effective tactics. You all think that you are battling veritable giants and geniuses, when in fact you are battling a cadre of puny imbeciles and obvious frauds.

The main quality these puny imbeciles and frauds have that is allowing them to roll over Western Civilization essentially uncontested is BOLDNESS.

They act. They play offense. But more importantly, YOU DON’T. Yes, they play dirty and we can’t. But the root problem isn’t that they are beating us by playing dirty. The root problem is that we aren’t playing at all. We are fielding no team whatsoever – not even a clean offense. We aren’t even on the field. We are all over on the sidelines curled into the fetal position, eyes shut tight, trying desperately to rock ourselves to sleep – while a team of five slobbering fools marches uncontested down the field over and over again in a game of 11 man football. So yes, a cadre of frauds and imbeciles can absolutely roll over an entire civilization IF and ONLY IF the civilization is so weak and whipped, so steeped in an effeminate desire to deny reality and avoid confrontation (aka, “be nice”), that the said civilization will surrender itself to said frauds and imbeciles to avoid any sort of masculine confrontation of reality, much less the execution of bold corrective action.

In short, we didn’t “lose” our nation and our civilization – we forfeited it.

It is indeed ironic that truly great men spring from cultures who don’t particularly NEED them, and those cultures that desperately need good men to lead them are all but incapable of producing them.

And this is why we pray, unceasingly, for the Divine Assistance and intervention in these especially dark days.

[exDemMom]

Wow—over 900,000 articles generated on that site so far!

I generated an article, “Why Nations Fail,” which contained a bunch of platitudes about education. It is like much of the literature in the social sciences—full of talk about how people should reach out and communicate with each other, no concrete workable or testable ideas anywhere.

Then I generated another article, “Namibia and its Own Arab Awakening.” Again, a lot of soft platitudes and little concrete information.

Amazing. It’s kind of scary that a random generator program should be able to capture so well the bulk and style of social sciences/liberal arts type writing.

[DBrow]

“A million articles per year? How can this be digested?”

Science articles are divided up by field. Currently I read space weather papers, cosmic ray effects on microprocessor papers, and total ionizing dose on MOSFET papers because that’s the contract I have.

I don’t need to read paleozoology papers or stuff on mycorhizal fungi ecology in boreal forests papers, stuff from CERN or RHIC (unless people use the accelerators to blast holmium ions into flash memory chips). There are millions of papers that are not relevant to me right now. A previous contract had me looking at and writing stuff on medical lasers including LASIK and prostate surgical lasers, but I don’t look at that now.

Nobody tries to take it ALL in, though I can see how it would be fun to devise some process to do that, sort of a meta meta study of “all science knowledge”.

[DBrow]

“You cannot look at me in they eye and tell me there are 1.2 million “discoveries” per year.”

Yes I can. There are some incremental papers that report on progress of a line of research, but there are many many discoveries every year. Go to a library and read Nature, Science, and any science journals thy have (best to go to a university library).

When I was working in infrared astronomy detectors and the related defense applications of that tech (a relatively small area of science), there were hundreds of relevant papers per year, sometimes more, multiply that by 10,000 science or engineering fields and you get a LOT of articles and papers.

Genetics and genomics generates several thousand relevant papers annually. I get Journal Of Forensic Sciences, there are fifty or sixty relevant “discoveries” per month, like new ways to get latent prints off of rifle brass or ways to determine the age of a skeleton left out in the elements for six years.