Bulletin N° 960
A Retrospective Tribute to “International Women’s Day 2020”
produced by the United Nations.
International Women's Day 2020 - United Nations Observance
(2:18:55)
Subject: Corporate Control: 'Artificial
Intelligence' vs. 'Human Intelligence'.
International Women’s Day 2021
Grenoble,
France
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
On
this Women's Day we must acknowledge that there are many unsolved problems and
many conundrums and paradoxes which apparently cannot be solved. Today we post yesterday's mail-out as our Bulletin N° 960, which includes a fourth essay by James Corbett,
who discusses a positivist idealism that has run amok. It’s the history of an idea
called "Eugenics," which postulates the ethics of ending a life
deemed “unfit to be lived.” But, Corbett asks: who will be the judge; who, the executioner, and
why?
The
cultural fragmentations and diversions of today are many and often violent; either
intentionally or unconsciously they divert attention from the fundamental
contradictions that are destroying our lives, and capture us into logical
categories not of our own making.
Thus,
we are confronted with the philosophical question: “You are what you do, or you
do what you are?” And we are reminded of that great American thinker, Frank
Sinatra, who was able to resolve this false dichotomy in the history of ideas that is embodied in the works of Spinoza and Sartre - the former introducing an
epistemology which contends that, "to be is to do"; while Sartre
signaled a new method for understanding one's existence: "to do is to be." It was Frank
Sinatra who instinctively cut through this Gordian knot in western philosophy with his penetrating
insight: "do-be-do-be-do."
Meanwhile,
parallel to the plethora of neo-positivist contractions, we are witnessing today at every level in the material world an
escalation in class warfare, a
conflict which threatens humanity itself and continues relentlessly with the
devastating destruction of an autoimmune disease out of control.
Below please find 4 items
which represent current discussions about the state of the society we are now
living in. These attempts to make sense of what is occurring around us - the
multiple man-made crises which are unfolding relentlessly – and our resolve to find
solutions together depend on frank public discussions, and not “social
distancing.”
·
The first item is a presentation prepared by Keith Knight on
“visual learning” and human intelligence, and his view of the requirements for
successful communication.
·
The second item, is James Corbett’s
analogy of “three dimensional chess” and how it pertains to our future
strategies to live a good life.
·
The third item, written by Kathy Dopp,
is an attempt to differentiate Corporate Propaganda from authentic discussions
of the evidence surrounding the covid-19 crisis.
And the fourth item, again by James Corbett, is a critique of "Bioethics and the New Eugenics."
While none of this is terribly new, readers might find it
instructive for understanding how a growing number of people are beginning to
contemplate possible solutions to the slow-motion collapse of Late Capitalism
and the delusional thinking that changes-from-above now generate.
Sincerely,
Francis McCollum Feeley
--
Professeur honoraire de l'Université Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur des
Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
http://www.ceimsa.org
1)
“How to Present Info for Visual Learners”
- with James Corbett and
Keith Knight.
https://www.corbettreport.com/how-to-present-info-for-visual-learners-solutionswatch-video/
(52:41)
Published March 2, 2021.
2)
“How to Play 3-D Chess” - by James Corbett.
https://www.minds.com/CorbettReport/blog/how-to-play-3d-chess-1212954655043592192
Published March 1, 2021
3)
“A
10-point rebuttal of Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan’s ‘Vaccine Apartheid’ ” - by Kathy Dopp.
Published March 2, 2021
4)
“Bioethics
and the New Eugenics” - with James Corbett.
https://www.corbettreport.com/bioethics/
(39:13)
Published March 6, 2021