Cognitive complexities arising
from critical thinking is the basis of human progress and compassion. Human
evolution is imprinted with thousands of years of insecurities of hunter gatherer
facing vicissitudes of nature and uncertainties of life. Most animals do exhibit
inductive reasoning -they need specific pattern to repeat to generalize, or
else they will not adapt to survive. So, it is but natural for cave minds to assume
correlation for causation. In much primitive societies even coincidences are
taken as correlation, and further extrapolated as causation with dangerous
outcomes. It is fertile ground for charlatans pawing on primal inductive
reasoning couched in modern language. Astrology is thriving ‘science’ in primitive
societies, crude minds through narrative control consolidate it above everyday superstitions
of common people to milk insecurities and authenticate squatter’s value system
of blessedness and unknowable intelligence. As they say a broken clock is correct
twice a day, for charlatans this meagre premise is enough to work out framework
of deceit and misery. Much of the world was in such dark spaces with few lights
of brilliance here and there. It took likes of Francis Bacon -consolidated
through immensely smart people across the world, to create framework of inquiry
to hinge humanity’s astounding progress. The reason why empirically rigorous inductive, deductive reasoning and
critical thinking is so very important.
Cave minds (primed in hunter
gatherer insecurities) are imprinted to look for easy connection to survive the
situation. That is how they survived sabretooths, infections, venom, toxins…death
stalking in every step for hundreds and thousands of years as they tried to comprehend
the unknown world. Systems like religion are primed in these insecurities to
assert as faith, as values and norms. These primal connections are therefore soul
satisfying for human facing complexities and insecurities of modern world. The lazier
they get expressions are nestled in cave exhibits. With revivalist forces capitalizing
on general lack in common people cave minds are active and asserting their space
for fantastic claims. Likes of Trump and RFK Jr are underbelly of West thriving
on luxury using general discontent of populace -valued in neoliberal transactions
and juvenile superficialities that they are incapacitated to think hence rush
for latest glitter couched in primal connections. RFK Jr in particular has unleashed
forces that undermine foundation of human progress that is set to cause immense
misery. Ofcourse pharmaceutical companies are greedy and predatory but that is a
ruse to undermine system of critical thinking so as to generally vitiate the
environment to control narration (hence all the issues of climate catastrophe,
biodiversity loss, sustainable values etc. can be undervalued for greed). He was
targeting vaccine with pseudoscience dirge from sidelines for some time now. Since
he was presented with position of immense power he has unleashed his devious plans
that sync with fantastical claims and posing as beholder of knowledge beyond the ambit of science. Narcist Democrats are equally responsible for empowering these psychopaths
as also the repercussions of pseudoscience on much of primitive spaces across world.
This is making lives much bleaker in a world that faces climate charged outbreak
of new diseases. Much of the challenges and strife in the world can be addressed with clear
thinking, empathy and awareness of human condition.
**Autism is something that is studied
in detail. It is not a disease but genetic condition that is open for further
research and understanding, and people with severe autism were targeted in past
and faced immense misery (for which humanity owes an apology). So, to target autism
makes JFK Jr a dangerous criminal.
When few people mention it to me I didn’t take it seriously later online self-diagnosis consistently put me in
autism spectrum. Well, since I could remember I liked to be more with myself or very few select people specific to the occasion ("soul selects her society then shuts the door to her divine majority"). I stayed
and worked in extremely crowded noisy places interacting with people -to become
a public speaker was an effort in itself, soon found that speaking to large audience was quite easy, larger the better, but shockingly easier than talking to
one person at a time. Had to take long breaks away from crowd to gather myself (I realize
that when I get stressed, I tend to repeat pattern, and use selective mutism in
unpleasant situations or to cut irritants from one’s life). I recall one of earliest jobs I took up in Madras (now Chennai), I had to teach working of ‘turbo
prop engines’ to pilot trainees of a flying club. I was too nervous and had to take few pegs and stuff mouth fresheners. It didn’t last too long. What I gathered
was my Tamil speaking skills went up by few notches after each peg, something
that is authenticated by IgNobel prize recently!
