most probable explanation for the fundamental practicality of women versus the endemic romanticism of men is that women, from twelve years old to their mid-fifties, must handle their own blood as it pours from their bodies one week out of every four.
The signs of male mortality are much more abstract. Only war guarantees them a regular confrontation with blood, which may explain the romance of organized violence.
Men have always presented themselves as clear-headed and practical versus the female who is enveloped in a romantic mist. This is an early and persistent example of the DICTATORSHIP OF VOCABULARY. See also: TOUGH.
BLUE JEANS Â Â Â One of the most successful impositions of voluntary visual conformism in the history of the world. Curiously enough, the primary attribute of this particular piece of clothing is meant to be a rejection of conformity in the name of individualism.
BORING Â Â Â The scientific community speaks about its work in a cool and disinterested manner. To present an exciting profile would be unprofessional. Any excess of emotion would suggest a lack of neutrality and therefore a tendency to read what they want in the facts rather than reporting what they see. Scientific objectivity must therefore appear to be boring.
Scientists are well aware that their work is neither boring nor objective. If it were, very few discoveries would be made.
Social science, being falsely empirical, is triply obsessed by the obligation to present itself as the objective interpretation of observed reality. Since the more or less hard edges of scientific inquiry are not involved, social scientists are free to be more categorical about truth, reality and what they call facts. They therefore seek to be more boring than scientists. See: DIALECTS.
BRETTON WOODS Â Â Â A system for international financial management and stability which was put in place by the Allies, minus the Soviets, in 1944 and destroyed in 1973 by President Richard Nixon without consideration being given to a replacement.
Nixon hoped in this way to solve some short-term American economic problems by re-creating the sort of financial disorder in which the largest power would be best placed to benefit. It could be said that this was the single most evil act undertaken by an elected leader in the postwar period. Other leaders should not be discouraged, however. The opportunity to do worse is perpetual. See: DEPRESSION.
BRIEFING BOOKS Â Â Â The protocols of power in the second half of the twentieth century.
Whoever structures and/or writes the argument, which each book disguises as objective fact and disinterested analysis, ultimately controls the decision-making process. Briefing books are rarely read by those who receive them, but are referred to as if they contained Holy Writ. Where once a single collection of Testaments was sufficient, thousands of these contemporary gospels are now presented every day in every sector in every country. They assert brief moments of artificially constructed absolute truth. See: FACTS.
BUDDHISM (TIBETAN) Â Â Â The most popular form of Buddhism in the West because it has the least Buddhist content.
Like Christianity, Buddhism contains many schools. Some concentrate on providing their priests, preachers or monks with a living, usually by appealing to the least noble instincts in the population. The Tibetan approach combines Buddhist form with content dominated by the worst of animism.
Tibet is a country in which poverty was and remains the rule, where the monkhood has always been the equivalent of a privileged élite. For centuries religion has been the sole export and only source of hard currency. So a select group in each generation of monks would walk down out of the mountains to chant and teach in richer places. China was their primary source of income. The difficulty was that the sophisticated Chinese élites werenât particularly interested in the Buddhaâs argument.
The
The signs of male mortality are much more abstract. Only war guarantees them a regular confrontation with blood, which may explain the romance of organized violence.
Men have always presented themselves as clear-headed and practical versus the female who is enveloped in a romantic mist. This is an early and persistent example of the DICTATORSHIP OF VOCABULARY. See also: TOUGH.
BLUE JEANS Â Â Â One of the most successful impositions of voluntary visual conformism in the history of the world. Curiously enough, the primary attribute of this particular piece of clothing is meant to be a rejection of conformity in the name of individualism.
BORING Â Â Â The scientific community speaks about its work in a cool and disinterested manner. To present an exciting profile would be unprofessional. Any excess of emotion would suggest a lack of neutrality and therefore a tendency to read what they want in the facts rather than reporting what they see. Scientific objectivity must therefore appear to be boring.
Scientists are well aware that their work is neither boring nor objective. If it were, very few discoveries would be made.
Social science, being falsely empirical, is triply obsessed by the obligation to present itself as the objective interpretation of observed reality. Since the more or less hard edges of scientific inquiry are not involved, social scientists are free to be more categorical about truth, reality and what they call facts. They therefore seek to be more boring than scientists. See: DIALECTS.
BRETTON WOODS Â Â Â A system for international financial management and stability which was put in place by the Allies, minus the Soviets, in 1944 and destroyed in 1973 by President Richard Nixon without consideration being given to a replacement.
Nixon hoped in this way to solve some short-term American economic problems by re-creating the sort of financial disorder in which the largest power would be best placed to benefit. It could be said that this was the single most evil act undertaken by an elected leader in the postwar period. Other leaders should not be discouraged, however. The opportunity to do worse is perpetual. See: DEPRESSION.
BRIEFING BOOKS Â Â Â The protocols of power in the second half of the twentieth century.
Whoever structures and/or writes the argument, which each book disguises as objective fact and disinterested analysis, ultimately controls the decision-making process. Briefing books are rarely read by those who receive them, but are referred to as if they contained Holy Writ. Where once a single collection of Testaments was sufficient, thousands of these contemporary gospels are now presented every day in every sector in every country. They assert brief moments of artificially constructed absolute truth. See: FACTS.
BUDDHISM (TIBETAN) Â Â Â The most popular form of Buddhism in the West because it has the least Buddhist content.
Like Christianity, Buddhism contains many schools. Some concentrate on providing their priests, preachers or monks with a living, usually by appealing to the least noble instincts in the population. The Tibetan approach combines Buddhist form with content dominated by the worst of animism.
Tibet is a country in which poverty was and remains the rule, where the monkhood has always been the equivalent of a privileged élite. For centuries religion has been the sole export and only source of hard currency. So a select group in each generation of monks would walk down out of the mountains to chant and teach in richer places. China was their primary source of income. The difficulty was that the sophisticated Chinese élites werenât particularly interested in the Buddhaâs argument.
The
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