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“Only bydiscovering alchemyhave I clearly understood that the unconscious is a process and that ego’s rapport with the unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution****, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche”…
— Carl Jung
**** - Please Read - The Labour of the Negative - Hegel's Dialectical Overcoming (Progressivism) and Nietzsche's Will to Power (Post-Truth) [LINK]
Refer - Charlie Rose Interview - Carl Sagan [LINK]
How can a Society embrace “science” when, over hundreds of years, it has increasingly been gravitating towards a Primacy of Human Consciousness [LINK] - a Primacy of Man [LINK]?
“The idea of relativity early was expressed by the Scientific Socialists and became a part of the basic understanding of the dialectical process of nature.To the dialectician, all unity is the combination of contradictions, the result of diverse strains. Society, rocks, cabbages, ether waves, chemical solutions, buildings, and the macrocosm itself, all these, large and small, are the resultant of opposing forces. Each unity is composed of opposites and will break up into opposites.To view things in constant movement, to see them as the result of constant movement, to mark the movements as contrary and conflicting, this is the dialectic method.The dialectician tries to see the relation of each part to every other part, and of each part to the whole, as their mutual relations evolve from moment to moment”…
— XVII. Scientific Socialism, The Conquest of Power, Albert Weisbord(Note - ideas that rest upon Marxist ideology foundations)[LINK]
A modern Marxist theory of knowledge (e.g. Scientific Socialism [LINK]) that is the antithesis of Aristotle.
Rather than identifying oneself with the world in knowledge, it was now a matter of transcending the natural world.
The affirmation of oneself apart from it [LINK] and above it [LINK].
A gnosis [LINK] and alchemic thought process (Dialectical Materialism [LINK]) that leads to the cogito (a Primacy of Human Consciousness [LINK]) that enables the Primacy of Man (Theology of Marxism [LINK]) to transcend nature & created Being (i.e. God as the Creator) and use the material World as a means for one’s own end [LINK].
Cartesian [LINK] Temples of Reason [LINK] and a Cult of Reason [LINK].
More and more Abstraction - Signs without Substance [LINK].
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An increasing denial of Being [LINK].
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A Theatre of the Absurd [LINK] [LINK].
What if the Primacy of Existence [LINK] - the act of Being [LINK] was the foundation of Knowledge [LINK]?
In contrast to a Marxist Theology [LINK] anchored in the Primacy of Conscious Man [LINK] [LINK] - Reality as a Social Construct.
“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness”…
—Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Now there might be some that say that Marxism [LINK] is anchored in materialism (Marx) [LINK] rather than idealism (Hegel) [LINK] - however, for Conscious [LINK] Marxist Man to transform Reality he combines idealism [LINK] with materialism [LINK] through praxis [LINK] to transform the material conditions - thought and action are unified within a materialistic framework.
“Thus, the concept of reflexivity yields a "shoelace" theory of history.
It must be recognised that the shoelace theory is a kind of dialectic.It can be interpreted as a synthesis of Hegel's dialectic of ideas and Marx's dialectical materialism.Instead of either thoughts or material conditions evolving in a dialectic fashion on their own,it is the interplay between the two that produces a dialectic process” …
— George Soros, The Theory of Reflexivity
A Primacy of Man in attempting to transform the nature of Reality.
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it”…
— Karl Marx
A technique of manipulation [LINK] and Social & Cultural transformation [LINK], also known as Dialectical Materialism [LINK] - refer to Marx [LINK], Mao [LINK] and Stalin [LINK].
In the context of Science, this dialectical technique, when combined with Nominalism [LINK] represents an Anti-Realism [LINK] - the inversion of Epistemology [LINK] and the inversion of the ideas contained in Sir Francis Bacon’s 1620 publication Novum Organum [LINK] which outlined a process of Inductive Reasoning that combined Empiricism [LINK] with Rationalism [LINK] to be known as the Scientific Method [LINK].
“Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system”…
— Rupert Sheldrake
Instead, the Marxification of Science [LINK] has increasingly led to Scientific Gnosticism [LINK] and Scientism [LINK] grounded in the Primacy of Conscious Man [LINK].
“in 1952, F.A. Hayek wrote what became The Counter-Revolution of Science.The idea is that in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a new conception of science was born, which reversed a previous understanding. Science was not a process of discovery by research but a codified end state known and understood only by an elite. This elite would impose its view on everyone else. Hayek called this “the abuse of reason”because genuine reason defers to uncertainty and discovery while scientism as an ideology is arrogant and imagines it knows what is unknown” …
– The Intellectual Roots of Techno- Primitivism, Jeffrey A Tucker
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Truth Claims as Tribal Social ( Marxist) Constructs - For example: Academic Peer Reviews.
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An Alchemy [LINK] and Hubris of Modern and Post-Modern Man. [LINK]