From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sun Aug 25 2002 - 23:02:47 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>> spike wrote: Let us focus on the postive. Let us focus on that which
>> is noble, that which raises us above the wretched beasts
>> of the field. We have technology and science. That alone
>> will save us and take us to the promised future.
>
>
> Whatever happened to "The Truth Will Set You Free"?
Now more than ever.
> I can't imagine technology professionals or scientists not being
> interested in Truth.
Nor can I.
> It is the lack of truth that has lead to our current economic crisis
> on Wall Street.
Roger that. Thats why I am an openness advocate. Total
mutual transparency.
> Ignoring history or the truth is not the answer. No system that
> tries to ignore reality will be efficient. All of our systems, of
> science, of freedom, of the market, of society, are all dependent on
> the truth. Any system that ignores history or truth would be
> anti-exropian as far as I can see.
Exactly. I introduced SUP to emphasize that *we cannot get to
the truth,* not by current means in any case. All attempts at truth
in history and truth in current events are necessarily colored by
political spin and desire to generate profits. How can we even tell
what truth is, in the political sense? We cannot! Our best efforts
are consistently defeated. Intentionally!
I am proposing presenting truth in a way that we have a better
shot at achieving: emphasize truth in terms of science and technology,
for these areas can be more readily described by humans in colorblind,
genderblind and value-neutral ways. The SUP factor is lower.
What is untrue about describing war as wasteful, tragic, mostly
meaningless and profoundly destructive? What is untrue about
saying wars are won by those who control the best technologies?
Does it really matter which political view or which nation prevailed?
I want to derive a means of describing history that has equals signs
in it. I want to see a means of using computers and mathematics
to understand history. Otherwise we continue to do the same in
history education which we have been doing: chasing the wind.
I propose a new paradigm in understanding and teaching what really
matters in history, and I suggest that history isnt about war and it isnt
about rulers or political parties. Its inventors, Harvey! Its science
and technology that makes us what we are and will make us what
we can become.
spike
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