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Isaiah Berlin was a 20th century Russian-Latvian-Jewish polymath, who resided in England, with skills spanning philosophy, naturalism and writing. He was both a defender and critic of the Enlightenment. He discussed ‘Monism’ or the idea that one answer existed for a question.
According to Berlin, ‘Monism’ sat between Einstein’s ‘Relativity’ in which reality does not exist and which as a science and philosophy can be easily eviscerated (see here); and ‘positivism’ or extreme rationalism, the faith and cult that only ‘reason’ matters. His writings and critiques were prescient and are important as Western Civ is confronted by the ‘monism’ of ‘The Science’. Berlin wrote that ‘Monism’ possesses 3 components:
all questions have one answer,
there is a method to determine the answer and,
the answers are all compatible with each other (or make sense in a larger perspective or view).
Berlin discusses individuals in the context of Monism, citing for example that Plato is a very good ‘Monist’ whilst Machiavelli is not. This is a heuristic or ordering device for Berlin. Authors and philosophers can be categorised using ‘Monism’ as a classifier. Eras as well can be identified as patterns or trends for or against a ‘Monist standard’. We could classify for example the poorly named ‘Reformation’ as a rebellion against monistic Church power; or the current ‘climate rebellion’ against the monism of hydrocarbon-based civilisation and its power structures.
Berlin alleged that ‘Monism’ was the default cultural belief within Western civilisation, from Plato to modern philosophies. The Enlightenment for instance, offers up ‘reason’ (never defined), to be the one true guiding principle in life. The Enlightenment is a singular example of 'Monism’ and a very appropriate one. Berlin’s point about ‘Monistic’ faith or belief in ‘the one way’ is not as abstruse as it might sound.
The monistic faith of ‘The Enlightenment’ is rarely criticised. This ode to reason as an article of faith was in the main a contrived philosophy, leading to an era littered with propaganda and self-serving declamations. Newton’s medieval ‘giants’ were not only memory-holed but reduced to myth, fable and ignored. Culture and history were erased. Great works of art and architecture debased. Long eras of massive technological, intellectual and social progress foresworn and mocked.
According to ‘The Enlightenment’ hospitals, hospices, eye-glasses, mechanical clocks, blast furnaces, wind mills, steel, libraries, universities, ships, guilds, schools, writing scripts, books, extended trade, money, printing presses, steam engines and the like sprang out of mud or thin air (pace modern physics which believes in virtual positrons appearing and disappearing every second). Debauching the past and being ignorant is unenlightened.
If we take Berlin’s critique of ‘rationality’ at face value there is plenty in the ‘modern world’ which is far from ‘Enlightened’ when one looks at art, entertainment, academia, science, politics, morality or education. What is a woman? What ingredients comprise the mRNA shot? The addiction to ‘science’ or to ‘enlightened reason’ at the expense of everything else which makes life worth living, is simply a cult. It is a religious article of faith that the 17th-19th centuries were ‘Enlightened’. Given that few read or critically assess history or events, it is an easy lie for the great mass to ingest.
Berlin would probably agree with much of the above. He criticises the derivative philosophies of The Enlightenment, ‘positivism’ (hyper-rationality) and phenomenalism (physical objects are just things observed by sensory stimuli and are not necessarily real or existing), espoused by Hume, Kant et al, because both are reductive, or can be reduced to an essence and they equate meaning with ‘truth’. Berlin objected that the Enlightenment was often irreducible and had little connection to physical or objective reality. The same can be said of ‘science’.
The progenitors of the Enlightenment, namely, Platonism, Aristotelianism, Scholasticism, Cartesianism, Lockean and Humean forms of empiricism, Kantianism, and Hegelianism all reflect Monist tendency. These abstract and often useless intellectualisations end in the Enlightenment and its ‘positivist’ philosophy. It is obvious to any human who is sentient and upright that much of life and existence has precious little to do with reason.
We know that reason is usually optional for many. Take your average white-collar, middle-class man. He will describe himself as a rationalist-humanist, who is against the imposition of religion and has no time for the immaterial. How happy he is in his ‘reason’. He follows ‘science’.
Let us observe the emotional energies invested by this adult man into what must be termed a silly sport like football or something similar. Here we see energy, emotion and dedication. A religious devotion. The man will know everything about ‘his team’. Compare this fanaticism against the limpid, sanguine and apathetic reaction by the same man when he loses his freedom, is locked down, forced to wear a face nappy and is injected with poisons against the unreasonable and non-scientific claim of a flying virus. No energy, no emotion, and no dedication or even interest in what really matters in life. Surveying this very common person and making such comparisons does not inspire much faith in ‘reason’ or critical thinking.
Given human nature, Berlin was convinced that Monism led to a patriarchal political structure, with strictures on human freedom and expression. These ideas are expressed in ‘The Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West’. In this work Berlin outlines his view that the Enlightenment Monist theology would lead to a decline in personal liberty, as one form of governance is exalted above all others. This is basically, ‘what is right for me is right for you’, or in the modern newspeak, ‘what is right for everyone must be right for you’.
In the modern world if the elite or experts simply ‘know’ what is best and you do not, they have the right to coerce your compliance, because it is in everyone’s ‘best interest’ to do so. ‘No one is safe until we are all safe’ and other propaganda are simply expressions of this monistic rule. It is entirely a materialist-Darwinian concept, in which humans are not individuals, and do not have God-given rights, but are instead simply material to be shaped, formed, ordered about and regulated.
You obey, therefore you are.
Berlin writes, “In this way, the rationalist argument, with its assumption of the single true solution, has led by steps which, if not logically valid, are historically and psychologically intelligible from an ethical doctrine of individual responsibility and individual self-perfection to an authoritarian State obedient to the directives of an elite of Platonic guardians.”
This is a prescient point. It perfectly describes where Western Civ now finds itself. We are now hostages to the Platonic guardians called ‘The Science’ and its totalitarianism or as some of us call it, Scientism.
We see ‘Monism’ all around us today. We now have ‘The Science’, a cult of abject worship of an undefined philosophy related to technological advancement which has nothing in actual fact to do with science. In reality engineering preceeds theory and is fundamentally at odds with, and unrelated to, abstract mathematics or arcane theories called ‘science’. This truism is utterly lost in today’s worship of technology. Science is now conflated with technology, the two are entirely detached.
In the modern world, ‘Science’ is now the elite guardian of all. Only ‘The Science’ can be followed, and there is ‘One’ monistic answer. This Monism is reflected in Corona and endless drugs and vaccines, ‘Climate Change’, Gender fluidity, White racism, and public policy run by ‘experts’, ‘scientists’, and ‘academics who are specialised in the subject area’ and in every imaginable domain.
With monistic Scientism, there is no possibility of dissent. People are censored, pilloried, fired, bullied, threatened and impugned if they declare ideas or positions contrary to those of the Monist elite. Freedom, individuality, God-given rights and common sense are now sacrificed to political theology and the Enlightenment credo that there is only ‘One’ answer.
Berlin was in some ways a prophet. He oscillated between supporting ‘Enlightenment’ ideals and being wary of their inevitable outcome in the ‘One theology to rule them all’. Unlike most ‘intellectuals’ Berlin saw the threat darkly, he could not commit himself to a Vico-esque critique of ‘reason’ but he saw well enough where it would end. Even given his equivalency, Berlin is worth a read given the state of our world and the Scientism which abounds.
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Liberty, editor Henry Hardy, 2002. A single volume dedicated to Berlin’s views on ‘liberalism’ and freedom.
The Proper Study of Mankind, editor Henry Hardy 2002. A great overview of Vico, Herder and Enlightenment critics. Well worth a read to get ‘another side of the story’ qua the ‘Enlightenment’. Vico and Herder are largely unknown but had great influence as critics of rationalism and ‘positivism’.
“I agree with you that Dr Gerson’s cancer therapy had great merits and know with which difficulties Dr Gerson had to struggle. I would be grateful to you if you try to tell the people of America about Dr. Gerson’s merits and about the results he obtained with his therapy….I wish you the best with this difficult task.” Dr. Albert Schweitzer
“In the hand of the physician, nutrition can be the highest and best remedy.” Dr Max Gerson
Dr Max Gerson cured Albert Schweitzer of his type II diabetes, his daughter’s chronic skin condition, and saved his wife’s life from tuberculosis which ‘modern medicine’ could not resolve. Gerson and Schweitzer became life-long friends. Such success for Max Gerson was not unusual. Originally his therapy targeted tuberculosis and diabetes but he noticed it also arrested and often cured cancer.
In the 1940s and beyond he began to focus on restoring health to those afflicted by various cancers. According to his patients and notebooks Gerson’s success rate at stopping or remediating the spread of cancer in those deemed ‘terminal’ or beyond the help of ‘modern medicine’ was over 60%. These successes were confirmed in US Senate hearings in the 1946.
Few know of Gerson or his methods. There is a reason for that. It is called the American Medical Association, a creature of the Rockefeller Foundation which is the gatekeeper and curator of ‘medical science’. If you don’t promote drugs, pills, opioids, vaccines or chemical therapies, you will be censored, de-registered, de-licensed and increasingly in the ‘modern world’ de-banked. You might even end up murdered or ‘suicided’. The censorship of any treatment that does include expensive chemical brews is rife and endemic in the ‘modern world’.
Gerson’s approach is classified by the colossally ignorant Wikipedia as dangerous and ineffective. Unlike say the Corona quackcinations, or chemotherapy. This is typical of Scientism.
Dr. Max Gerson was born in Wongrowitz, Germany, in 1881, attending the universities of Breslau, Wuerzburg, Berlin, and Freiburg, graduating in 1909 and becoming a licensed physician in Germany. Gerson and his family fled the Nazi regime ending up in the US in 1936 and Gerson received a license to practice medicine in the state of New York in 1938. He became a U.S. citizen in 1942. In 1946, Dr. Gerson appeared before the Pepper-Neely Congressional Subcommittee, during hearings on a bill to fund cancer treatment research, providing evidence that naturopathy could cure cancer. He astonished the entire hearing with his success stories.
Case history of 10 cancer patients clinical observations theoretical considerations and summary
In 1958, after 30 years of clinical experimentation, Dr. Gerson published A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases to detail his theories, treatment, and results. His research included soil issues, the electricity of cells, how cancer cells ferment glucose, oxidizing enzymes, sodium/potassium balance, connective tissue, and other technical issues related to cancer. His treatment and approach were holistic. Cancer was (and is) a disease of the entire body. More here
“If there is proof that HIV is the cause of AIDS, there should be scientific documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There is no such document.” [K. Mullis, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, 1998, pp 171-4]
Kary Mullis, Nobel Prize for Chemistry and co-inventor of the polymerase chain reaction technology (PCR)
The Corona scam-plan-demic used templates from the Spanish Flu and AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) as part of its implementation. The AIDS scamdemic is mostly an untold story. The population at large just assumes that a ‘virus’, emanating from monkeys, which miraculously showed itself in the early 1980s, has caused a ‘sexually transmitted’ contagion. A cogent explanation of the AIDS fraud can be found in ‘Virus Mania’ chapter 3. This chapter lays out quite clearly why the AIDS fraud was fabricated; how it was carried out and why the Corona fraud possessed such a close resemblance.
In the ‘modern world’, most people don’t read; the vast majority know little to nothing of history, even very recent history; and the mass defer, bow and collapse before authority, whimpering their abject humiliated compliance to whatever the authority figure or agency of truth demands. Critical thinking within society has never been lower. The fact that AIDS provided a ready-made runbook for the Corona fraud is largely an unknown truth. But in the age of the sheeple, this is not a surprise.
In the past 40 years since its creation, the ‘AIDS’ drug and remedy market has provided some U$ 500 billion in total revenues for the pharmaceutical industry. A similar amount has been invested by governments in ‘AIDS Research’. The ‘AIDS’ industry over the past 40 years is therefore a U$ 1 Trillion market.
‘AIDS’ currently provides about U$30 billion in per annum revenues for pharmaceutical firms. Globally, at least U$ 30 billion a year is poured into AIDS ‘Research’ by governments. In 2024, just in the US alone, $28 billion will be invested by government into AIDS ‘Research’ and ‘solutions’. The total market size for ‘AIDS’ is therefore some U$60 billion per annum.
Within 10 years, the pharmaceutical industry will be earning over $ 50 billion per annum in drug revenues alone related to ‘HIV-AIDS’. No doubt ‘AIDS Research’ which has produced no value, no products, and no solutions, will likewise be worth U$ 50 billion by 2034. Follow that money to find ‘The $cience’.
AIDS is therefore a very lucrative market. There is no incentive whatsoever to find a ‘cure’ for ‘AIDS’. Given its amorphous character, there can never be a cure for ‘AIDS’. AIDS is everything and it is nothing. Like cancer, AIDS is the cash cow that pharmaceutical firms and their benefactors will milk forever. In fact, during the past 40 years
AIDS ‘research funding’ and financing, has often been greater than that other great fraud – cancer ‘Research’. From nothing, US ‘health’ agencies in the 1980s, have created an enormous market for themselves and their business partners the pharmaceutical firms, around the phantom they call ‘AIDS’.
AIDS as a market, provides the pharmaceutical criminality posing as an industry, with such largesse that you can buy the entire coterie of congresses, parliaments, regulatory agencies and media across the G20 as a cost of business. ‘Emoluments’, graft and bribes, will ensure compliance and obeisance when the cabal decides on the timing and implementation of the next great scamdemic from non-existing flying viruses. This was proven to be true with the Corona plandemic.
AIDS is still one of the largest businesses in Africa. Africans can ‘test’ ‘positive’ for AIDS at a very high rate, with many suffering from illnesses and symptoms now attributed to ‘AIDS’ including, malaria, tuberculosis, malnutrition, weight loss, diarrhoea, fevers and lethargy. To ‘save’ Africans, retro-viral drugs are issued at enormous profit. Tests, consultancies and other drugs to cure the after-effects of the AIDS ‘cure’ also comprise large market opportunities. Make them sick with drugs, supply more drugs as ‘remedies’.
AIDS is supposedly a sexually transmitted disease, yet there is no single, coherent definition of AIDS. According to the WHO the HIV ‘virus’ attacks white blood cells causing ‘AIDS’ and renders the victim weak and prone to degradation and injury from disease including tuberculosis and cancer. This virus is passed on during sexual contact, or through blood transfusion. There is no cure, though using condoms and refraining from anal sex with the ‘HIV’ infected are recommended, as are expensive drugs and therapies if one becomes infected with ‘HIV’.
As of 2024 some 40 million people globally are declared ‘HIV positive’, or at risk from contracting ‘AIDS’. The symptoms of AIDS are similar to many other conditions and diseases. It is a big tent. According to World Health Organisation’s 1986 definition of AIDS, symptoms can include weight loss, malnutrition, diarrhoea, itching, lethargy, and complaints known to any abuser of drugs and alcohol. In low income and impoverished countries these ‘symptoms’ would cover most of the population. This is not ‘scientific’. More here
