But when young people become philosophical zombies, Democrats cannot rely upon their support because they easily lose enthusiasm and momentum and become apathetic like real zombies. Sure, it was heartening during the 2016 election cycle when the idealism of Bernie Sanders attracted so many young people. Ultimately scientific materialism produces a society of information junkies and pleasure junkies, or as neuroscientists put it, a society of philosophical zombies-zombies with experience, but with no causal prerogative. There is a real danger here, a crossroads within crossroads. Higher education with scientific materialism tends to produce a hierarchy-a meritocracy-almost as evil as plutocracy.
The other part of their support comes from young, science-minded, higher educated voters duped by scientific materialism to pursue a pleasure-oriented lifestyle remaining within the bounds of the human condition in the hope of being part of the elite meritocracy. Right now, in the U.S., the Democrats fight back in part with the support of the dumped, blacks, Latinos, and independent women. The rich/poor wealth gap can only be widened so far when it reaches a threshold, people revolt (as in the French Revolution). But Republicans cannot go on indefinitely giving rich people tax breaks. Republicans have the upper hand here they have the support of big money and a clear majority of white men and the women in their purview.
#PLUTOCRACY VS DEMOCRACY MOVIE#
Remember that scene at the dinner table of the movie Saturday Night Fever? “Everyone accepts being dumped on so long he or she has somebody else to dump on. In India, when a political party promises to maintain hierarchies of poor Hindus over Muslims, it gets votes. When a leader like Trump promises to maintain white superiority over blacks and Latinos, he gets votes. In their turn, they try to maintain these hierarchies. In truth, in the United States, ordinary people also have their own hierarchy: for example, white as opposed to black, “American” as opposed to Latino. It surely does not lead to better mental hygiene, for example. It is quite clear to Trump supporters that higher education under scientific materialism does not elevate the human condition, except perhaps financially. institutions of higher learning are using that right to reject the quantum worldview even though that attitude is anti-science. Even if one is aware of the quantum worldview, in a democracy one has the right to choose not to go there, not to engage in personal growth and potentiality, particularly when there is no easy road to it. The unity consciousness and the ways to cultivate it-meaning, feeling, and purposeful archetypes-are all in potentiality. The quantum worldview makes it easy to understand why. They do not see any other alternative than to accept the old hierarchy of plutocracy. They would rather hold on to their old religions. And ordinary people who are at the bottom, even in countries of affluence, can neither partake nor challenge the sophistication of conceptual materialist’s fake sophist thinking maintaining a mechanistic value-less worldview. People who are at the top levels naturally try to maintain those hierarchies. In every culture you look at today, there are hierarchies. Only the third integrative worldview promises to save democracy if history is any guide.įrom an anthropological point of view, we are still in the stage of the rational mind that favors hierarchy. Again, by contrast, scientific materialism has dominated the Democratic governments, and those administrations have moved us toward meritocracy and socialism. The Republican presidencies have tended to take us more and more towards a feudalistic autocracy. Which way, which worldview is in our future? Let’s talk short-term firstĮver since Ronald Reagan, we have been moving towards an anti-democratic political system the choice had been between feudalistic elitism and elitism guided by scientific materialism. This ends up in socialism.Īnd then there is the quantum worldview based on the new physics-a revival of democracy that ends up with equality and participation. Following this perspective ends up in a dictatorship supported by a plutocracy and oligarchy.īy contrast, there is the worldview of scientific materialism based on mechanistic old science-rule by meritocrats. There is the old-world perspective of feudalism-rule by a king in cahoots with a religious oligarchy.
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