I found
this interesting in the posting Eric forwarded on The Information War: - Karen Watters Cole
Excerpt:
“Modern science also incorporates an anti-materialist bias, the dialectical
outcome of its war against Religion: -- it
has in some sense become Religion. Science as knowledge of material reality paradoxically
decomposes the materiality of the real.
Science has always been
a species of priestcraft, a branch of cosmology; and an ideology, a
justification of "the way things are." The
deconstruction of the "real" in post-classical physics mirrors the
vacuum of irreality which constitutes "the state". Once the image of Heaven on Earth, the
state now consists of no more than the management of images. It is no longer a "force" but a
disembodied patterning of information. But just as Babylonian cosmology
justified Babylonian power, so too does the "finality" of modern
science serve the ends of the Terminal State, the post-nuclear state, the
"information state". Or so the New Paradigm would have it. And
"everyone" accepts the axiomatic premisses of the new paradigm.
The new paradigm is very spiritual. Even the New Age with its gnostic tendencies embraces the New Science and its increasing etherealization as a source of proof-texts for its spiritualist
world view. Meditation and cybernetics go hand in hand. Of course the
"information state" somehow requires the support of a police force
and prison system that would have stunned Nebuchadnezzar and reduced all the
priests of Moloch to paroxysms of awe. And "modern science" still
can't weasel out of its complicity in the very-nearly-successful "conquest
of Nature". Civilization's greatest triumph over the body. But who cares?
It's all "relative" isn't it? I guess we'll just have to
"evolve" beyond the body. Maybe we can do it in a "quantum
leap."
DARPA and Wetware http://www.libertythink.com/2002_12_01_archives.html#90035865
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