Fooled Again: An Example of Good, Legitimate Spin

Consider human history and the wisdom shown with the advent of new technologies... "The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."
Albert Einstein

Hello Dear Readers,

As stated in my last entry, I'll be suspending my introductions of the various parts of our intuitive model (surrounding the "CHI Factorization") until more public interest is shown or awareness is created. Instead, I'll be posting what I consider to be the kinds of dialogue, sensibilities, and determinate issues that are worth your review and assessment. In this, I'll be pointing to various "primitives" at work within the dialogue so that you can start to see how the human "hyperconscious" works in its metacognitive mechanics, and we'll begin to introduce some of the key systems theory concepts in the mix as well. If you've any suggestions as to how we can better facilitate your apprehension & understandings, do not hesitate to let us know!

That said, I'd like to introduce you to a fellow blogger, Mark Crispin Miller - an erudite professor from NYU, and author of many books around the state of our union, i.e., Boxed In: The Culture of TV, The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder, Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order, and, his latest, Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them). His recent discourse delivered at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, was profound, inspirational, & delightful in the sense that his delineations were clean. He, unlike some who should know better, knew when to state opinion as such, defensible assertions were backed by reliable sources, etc. He made no broad sweeping generalizations... his reasoning was more "reflexive" than "oppositional." His use of language spoke more to acquired sensibilities that had previously entertained numerous complementary, though competing perspectives, rather than the more commonly held "cycloptic" visions of the "severely indoctrinated." Dear Reader, he came as close to encapsulating what I perceive to be the essential "due diligence" and responsibility in journalism (and investigative endeavors)... that should be emulated in our teaching & learning. Our pedagogical practices must entail the showing of these kinds of speakers in the classroom, if we are to prepare our youth to think more reflexively from a metacognitive level. Any of you who are teachers out there should consider the development of your student's intellect as a top priority amongst all your objectives. Above all, help spread the word, teach activism, and become the lighting rod of information and encouragement and dialogue and facilitation you were meant to be! I strongly encourage you to follow the link below as it will begin to help you see what we should look for in strong reconnoitering dialogue as opposed to much of the insipid illegitimate spin, "spun" at the White House and Capitol Hill:

http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/2006/04/c-span2-appearance.html

C-SPAN2 Appearance

Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them)
Mark Crispin Miller

Description: Mark Crispin Miller argues that the outcome of the 2004 election, in many states including Ohio, was manipulated to favor George Bush and the Republican party. He discusses the evidence he has for this charge and talks about the reaction that Sen. John Kerry had when presented with the evidence. Professor Miller also argues that the Republican party has been taken over by religious fundamentalists who see their opponents as evil and whose ultimate goal is to bring about Armageddon. The talk was hosted by the University of Massachusetts - Amherst.

As a final note in this passage, perhaps it is worthy to note that many have sacrificed - even with their lives - that we should remain a free and democratic nation. That confidence is being undermined and manipulated as though it were but a piece of disposable entertainment for the "power brokers" of this world... just so much trash for the "new world order" to burn. Our rights in this world are all we have... if we defer... if we push aside the responsibility of vigil over The Bill of Rights, we do indeed get what we deserve. I for one pray we do not "back up into our future" on this one. This is one issue, at very least, upon which we must "get a handle..." pray it be sooner, than later!

I have one more paradigm of the "CHI Factorization" to provide to you, the reader, before I suspend the "cerebral onslaught" altogether: We refer to it as "The Guiding Star for Goal Attainment." While it cannot supplant the seminal dialectics found in the model's architectures, it does, in fact, help in directing oneself within the day to day (temporal)context of realistic, concurrently orchestrated goals. You definitely will benefit from this "star," as many system attributes will "come alive" for you, as you choose to review & assess within the star's patterning. More elucidation on this will soon follow... hopefully before the end of the month. Bye for now... and remember:
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The Pivotal Role of Epistemology

The schematic below is from an excerpt in our outreach book written by yours truly: I'll later share the full portion of that entry; however, I thought a simple visual prelude to the more detailed explanation surrounding the discipline of in-depth epistemological reviews & assessments would perhaps engender some palpable sense of anticipation of what is to come... I will say that it has only been through the dialogues that follow the methodological standards assigned to epistemological surveys that our research could have laid its foundations properly...so that we could move with relative ease and confidence into each newly discovered part of the model on human intellect. Please note the central role that epistemological sensibilities have with the greater part of human investigations:



It should be noted that most of what we perceive in any given spacetime frame stems from previously acquired sensibilities: Certainly, the reliabilities of our "world-views" are a direct result of those acquisitions in "real-time." Consider this: We act more nowadays out of impulse than reflection... Aphorisms like "knee-jerk reactionism" and "bug up your butt," or "ants in your pants" point to that kind of behavioral predilection; and most often, we act impulsively, not out of necessity, but out of habituation. Likewise, our thinking is often "primed" to consider the world through filters (blinders) that create false dichotomies and oppositional thinking, rather than a more rotary functioning in our paradigmatic architectures combined with reflexive mentalities that seek out the complementarities inherent within nature.

This is what epistemological reasoning allows us to do within the acquired acumen & sensibilities: We are more apt to transcend the immediate difficulties in our lives and consider them in context or "the larger picture," rather than to go off "half-cocked" with "rockets in our pockets." Hopefully, this preface to the future posting on the "central role of epistemology," will help to lend added impetus to the ideas explored therein. I end with another excerpt from the prologue of our outreach book, Fearing * AMI Dearest. The offering below then represents an example of the reflexive, complementary thinking contained within true reconnoitering dialogue and the collective human intellect: