Posted on 07/02/2021 4:21:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
I suppose it was not entirely his fault. The Distinguished Visitor was only delivering a message, you see. While he was part of the faction that had created the message, he had not actually formulated what he was going to say. That, it became obvious, had been done by someone else.
The occasion was a joint Physics–Social Sciences colloquium at one of the campuses of the University of California. Ronald Reagan was president. The president had recently established his Strategic Defense Initiative, also somewhat derisively called his Star Wars Program. The topic of this day was defense against ballistic missiles using high-energy lasers (HELs). Since that was a big part of my professional activity, I was looking forward to the event.
The Distinguished Visitor was indeed distinguished. He was a key figure in the academic world, a presidential science adviser, a JASON (the top technical advisers to the Pentagon), and he had made significant contributions to theoretical physics.
The venue was the main lecture hall of the Physics Department. In marched the Social Sciences faculty. Down the aisle they strutted and captured the front rows, the seats normally reserved for the physics faculty. The physics professors, quite conscious of the deliberate insult, took the seats in the far back. There I joined them.
Eventually, the Distinguished Visitor arrived. He was late, well more than an hour late. "Traffic," he mumbled as he began his lecture.
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“He Who Has the Gold Makes the Rules”
Taught my children this truth.
God
-—— Physics–Social Sciences colloquium-——
Aahh.......a colloquium. I think perhaps that California may be the only place in the world where they have colloquiums.
I suspect that such colloquiums are events where you get paid to accomplish nothing but occupy a seat.
Psalms 50:10 "For every beast of the forest is Mine, The cattle on a thousand hills.
Psalms 50:11 "I know every bird of the mountains, And everything that moves in the field is Mine.
Psalms 50:12 "If I were hungry, I would not tell you; For the world is Mine, and all it contains.
Completely deflated, his presentation shredded, the visitor apologized.
As I sat down, someone sitting behind me tapped me on the shoulder. The individual was a physicist of considerable accomplishment and reputation. "Chet, I'm so glad you said that. It needed to be said." I turned to my friend. "Greg, that really was your job. Why didn't you guys speak up?" "You don't understand," he replied. "The visitor is the National Science Foundation. He controls our research funds. We can't challenge him."
This was my real introduction to the Golden Rule: "He who has the gold rules!"
I no longer believe in the “collective wisdom of the vote.”
That requires an educated populace, which we no longer are.
And this new World is geared toward ruling the Least Informed by the Most Misinformed.
As a sidebar, i have a client that has worked with/for Fauci and asserts the facts that few like or respect him, but needed to follow his directions because he held the pursestrings to the government bag o’ money.
Explain please? (I confess I don’t recognize/get it)
Thank you. I’ve led a sheltered life.
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