“It has taken us centuries of thought and mockery to shake the medieval system; thought and mockery here and now are required to prevent the mechanists [technocrats] from building another.”

Dora Russell,* The Right to Be Happy (1927), preface. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mockery (*see sidebar)

Monday, October 23, 2023

Pscience* at Work

[Repurposed | Recycled Pursuant to the Times]

Pscience*: the man in the middle. Name them pillars!

Joseph Morewood Staniforth | 1899


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*Pscience: (as in pseudo-, psychopathic, psy-opic) also known as the aggressive repetition of belief and opinion or propaganda presented as science fact in support of power-gain-glory-control agendas.
See G.K. Chesterton: https://voices-from-the-dust.blogspot.com/2021/05/085-science-new-creed.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/10/pscience.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/06/death-of-science-tyranny-of-pscience.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/10/pscience.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/06/death-of-science-tyranny-of-pscience.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/07/a-representative-history-of-pscience.html
See also: https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2011/09/some-scientific-truths-more-or-less.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2013/11/open-system-closed-system.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2013/10/gaffs-in-pursuit-of-truth.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-new-creed-new-persecutors-new-faith.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-science-of-science-fraud.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2016/09/one-more-nail.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-science-of-money.html

Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Modern_Blind_Sampson_-_JM_Staniforth.png
File URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/A_Modern_Blind_Sampson_-_JM_Staniforth.png
Attribution: Joseph Morewood Staniforth, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Date: 14 February 1899
Source: http://papuraunewyddcymru.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/3283108 Evening Express
Description: Political cartoon by JM Staniforth. A Ritualist clergyman, [2021 pscientist] blinded by his faith, threatens to bring down the pillars of the Church of England [but in 2021: Divine Rights and God-given freedoms]. Repurposed | Recycled Pursuant to the Times

Joseph Morewood Staniforth (better known as J.M. Staniforth) (1864 – 21 December 1921) was a Welsh editorial cartoonist best known for his work in the Western Mail, Evening Express and Sunday weekly the News of the World.[1] Staniforth has been described as "...the most important visual commentator on Welsh affairs ever to work in the country." From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Morewood_Staniforth