There is another trap which history proves, namely that of putting all the eggs in one basket. The combination of both above factors is the subject of the next part of this chapter.
For two centuries man has heavily relied on science and scientific thinking, so much so that most needs to be qualified by the scientific view including approaches to real problems, so much so that all eggs go into the one basket. The question is, where does science have its base? What does it do? And most importantly, why science?
To examine scientific thinking and what it does can be demonstrated by the analysis of a mirror. The mirror consists of glass, glass being transparent, glass married to a backing which corrupts the normal property of glass and produces reflection; reflection is no good without something to reflect. It therefore follows that when man stands before a mirror he momentarily converts himself from the reality of independently being to become pawn of the glass; however reflection is just an image but that image is a direct inversion of reality, a total corruption of natural reality. Consequently the product of the mirror is never a true reality and is dependent upon natural corruption and the construct of science is very similar; raw materials are taken and changed, corrupting natural reality. As far as relating mirror to putting all eggs in one basket is concerned, if man were to stand in front of a mirror all day every day, the purpose of the mirror would become lost; the purpose of man becomes lost but before this happens disillusionment sets in and stops the process well before it runs its course.
Science and scientific thinking has its origins in Greek civilisation, whereby that step by step approach, or completely random accident, lead to inferences of wider application. What was created was the origins of the fantastic in which reality was to play a crucial role in effecting. The other most popular Greek development was mythology, the invention of the truly fantastic, with sufficient ground in reality to make it meaningful.
It is important to remember that whilst science and scientific thinking be fantastic it is not magic. Magic makes things happen and appear apparently for no reason, or from nothing, whereas science is bound by finite reality and is totally dependent on reality to work.
The importance of science does not just rest in the synthetics it produces but also in the reality it consumes in the process. Science is a separating notion, i.e. it looks for difference in reality and happening and gives it selfish properties, namely how to profit science from the difference - that is to inflate the properties of difference, without losing the essence of differentness. The notion of separateness is an effective corruption of reality. Separateness is as opposed to individualism which is a natural commonality, and individualism is only supported by the unifying effect of reality - the development of relationship.
Science uses reality in a corruptive way and relies upon the inversion and distortion of real elements and their properties.
Science in effect is a logistical exercise in creating and using a disproportionate energy source, that creates synthetic power and synthetic product, the word synthetic being in itself a corruption of reality but synthetics relies on nature as its food for corruption.
The real corruptive influence in scientific thinking and science is represented in what it does to reality. Science aims to find and reason difference, which is an inverting influence upon man. It requires him to introvertedly press his brain deeply, to inwardly think using his brain as purely an energy source of solution. Science preys upon reality looking to corrupt into energy and synthetic material to create scientific power and eventual product. This mainly has an introverting effect as real energy sources such as gas, electricity and oil are inverted from millions of years of laying down into instant new or non-existence, other reality corrupted into the energy that produces synthetic power and production.
Science needs to turn the rarity of difference into a synthetic of commonality which requires further mass resort to energetic effort to achieve.
All the above adds up to the view that science is a corruptive influence using reality which has taken billions of years to accumulate and develop in such a way that it only renders short term gain, leading to long term uselessness.
Science bounded by reality, reality on earth which is unbounded by time. Time gives itself to real finity the existence to give it infinite possibilities, i.e. finite existence could last for ever and regenerable existence - life - has the capacity to regenerate for ever.
This means that reality needs to outlast science and that it will surely do; it will be damaged and in some cases, the damage will be irreparable, i.e. just have to be lived with, but nevertheless in-all time science is just an event.
This will be proved as science becomes increasingly untenable bounded by reality and real happening. Science is irrevocably flawed. By definition science requires difference, separate difference as opposed to natural individuality. Through being in the natural world separate difference is a rarity and therefore by definition it is in the minority. The earth's evolutionary process evolved out much separate difference making it rare, in favour of unifying individual as a common existence and a common need for relationship, consequently science flies in the face of evolution, upsetting and destroying the balance between what is naturally rare and naturally common, by inventing separate short term synthetic commonality at cost to true rarity and commonality.
Science bounded by reality is by definition a self-disabling force in that by definition rarity is in the minority and it is likely that science will simply run out of difference and different ideas. After all, after splitting the atom is the height of separation its product, anti-relationship, its consequence anti-value, therefore it is certain that scientific thinking will become a spent force leaving in its wake a trail of damage that could be irreparable.
All the energy used to create scientific power is real and the need to corrupt it from natural existence to new existence or from established relationship to new invented relationship puts reality under pressure; too much pressure and reality will crack-under the strain.
The products and production of synthetic things are undiscriminating factors; they do not care if nature does the job already or do not care what effect science has on the economy nor on social values. Once man perceives difference, establishes how to harness it, that seemingly is sufficient reason to do.
Science has no governing factors except those subjected to mathematics; no-one is saying why are you doing what you are doing? Therefore the production of new relatable products carries on willy nilly, only dependent upon the invention of synthetic relationships, whilst the inversion and power of synthetics creates new anti-relationships and therefore anti-value predominates in the world.
Science is not just a long term disabling corruptive force that flies in the face of all natural value by degree, but that its effects are most noticeable upon relationships. The creation of separation as a valuable notion has its toll in corruption and inversion in such a way that all relationships become confused; in essence the world IS ILL. The illness affects the creation of invented relationships and anti-relationships, which leads to the establishment of unnaturalness. This affects all reality; it affects man's relationship with himself, it affects man in relationship with his fellow man, it affects man in relationship with the earth.
All the above add up to the view that scientific thinking is both unnatural and corruptive; in the long term it will produce man's downfall as the elements and properties of the earth run dry. In its wake it will leave man nothing to work with.
Science has effect in other fields of human thinking technology, the latest of inventions, is nothing but the glorification of science, using reality in such a way that powers and produces synthetics. Much of the product of technology dissolves man from his central function - the ability to think and do for himself. Other products like space travel, that glorification of man's "power" over the universe, is simply misspent precious energy to produce a total irrelevance.
As science developed so did the ability to latch on to notions of the finding and the valuing of difference; consequently man set about the corruption that is scientific thinking into industrial thinking, the establishment of economy; its product profit and the continual push for more profit, makes more and more differentness to sell and buy. Hence man uses scientific power of the rarity made common and further to make natural commonality even rarer, what we are witnessing is total corruption of the earth, further requiring stimulation of scientific thought in the pressing rush to make differentness out of commonality. In that lies the seed of economy as we know it. It is all bounded by reality to give up of itself; the more the world presses reality the nearer it goes to extinction. Only intangible powers acting as happiness give way to misery, as man becomes more inappropriate to what the world has to offer. So all life will become fragmented.
We have not yet referred to putting all the eggs in one basket and what that does. In science man makes everything subject to qualification and analysis but what will become evident is that when one system of thinking fails to deliver the goods, disillusionment sets in and it will set in long before the actualities that make an entity dry up. Disillusionment calls a halt, but what is in its wake?
The effect of narrow thinking as an entity is shown up by what happened in Russia to communism. Disillusionment with the system created swift downfall, the speed of the downfall so great that Russia did not give sufficient time as to an alternative. The result in Russia's case is a cobbling together of ideas unsupported by the power of common people to think their problems through (too long protected by the State). All this means that Russia has created undemocratic "democracy", supported by a market economy which defies the concept of market.
What happened to communism could equally happen to democratic western countries; this time too much science will be the downfall.
This all suggests that the impending collapse of total science will cause fragmentation and fracturing of thinking causing reaction in man, giving rise to conflicts of thought resulting in eternal conflict of beings.
All of the above leads to the qualification of realistic thinking, the aim of which is to tune into the natural, relating factors that exist without external pressure, to emulate evolution in a way that ties man's activities together. Realistic thinking is all about the recognition of the inherent value of natural commonality and rarity and the individual classifications that make up natural reality to create stable, recorded, lasting relationships. Reality can be classified as below:
1. real existence-that is finite and not regenerable, i.e. the most vulnerable of reality;
2. real existence that is capable of regeneration - life;
3. infinite reality, eg time and distance that has an effect on the value of existence;
4. intangibles, the properties of life and the world that cannot be seen but which are really valuable, e.g. thought; 5. nothing is real, therefore it must have value being the interruption and individualising effect that does not exist but nevertheless is real.
Positive realistic thinking says that the relationship of the above factors represents all that is of value and, for instance, to say that there is this overriding relationship which time must not be allowed to devalue. Consequently realistics says there is no such thing as anti-reality; there is only nothing and something.
Realistic thinking does not seek to pressure reality into external power creation, but to harness inherent power, the emphasis being on power that produces and creates rather than seeing power as a hiatus with life of its own producing product only as a justification for power - an alter-ego.
Armed only with reason man can analyse and sort thought into a civiised shape, i.e. man can go shopping and pick the bones of any entity. The power to reason, to reason to relate, is all the natural facility the brain has to offer; therefore the brain is fragile requiring care of its use, not misuse. What common man needs is a broad understanding of how things work, not a separatist narrow knowledge as to how things work. If man chooses to "specialise" he still needs to retain the wider view of how his speciality affects everything else.
Realistic thinking sets the framework of thinking, and dictates the relating shape of thought, treating reality like a jigsaw, a 3D jigsaw with pieces for everything and nothing. What man has to do is to rationalise reasoning so that all elements and properties are recorded together with a scale of use monitoring the use of the earth's realities by treating differing reality and style of used thought to be put into an overall framework. What is required is a government backed council which oversees the use of the earth's elements and properties in a way that is proportionate, in such a way that never again is the use of the earth's realities disproportionate to that which is available and that never again is thought completely overtaking what reality has to offer.
Man has got so used to science that he agrees to its use without thinking - so much so that anything that requires a bit of thought runs the risk of being classified as science. There are many styles of thought which are not pure science, as follows:
1. Scientific thinking predominant but now wholly bad, certain products of science, say in medicine and communication, are very useful plus man has become dependent on them, but man needs to rationalise as to whether he can afford them indefinitely in terms of the reality that is being destroyed.
2. Mathematics - mathematics claims to be scientific. Mathematics through systems of code and practice attempts to bind reality into equating form when the truth is the other way round; it is reality's boundary that forms the boundary of maths; this has implications for maths. Maths sees reality as an existence and does not reckon with all reality, simply because maths does not attempt to value nothing and infinity rests heavily on the notional value of nothing. Maths works in the minus, suggesting an anti-reality, something unsupported in reality. Einstein's theory of relativity is not enough to explain the whole of reality, reality being inexplicable solely in mathematical terms. Consequently relativity has to give way to a relationship which includes intangibility and nothing as values; this says that everything is subject to evolutionary change in which there is individuality becoming a common rather than separate existence as nothing exists in total isolation. Hence questions and answers posed by maths takes place by using synthetic code, whereby a sense of equality and regularised shape can be achieved.
3. "Ologies" classed as science but generally relate to the collation of factual or guesstimated evidence which is subject to opinion and judgment forming.
4. Psychiatry inverts scientific principles and looks at difference with a view to finding similarity.
5. Work study analyses the present to record random happening, reviewing that happening within a time framework with a view to the most efficient use of energy and reality.
6. Arts and crafts - the products of the thinking of individuals in the form of self-expression. Art is generally maligned but remains a useful force for the future.
7. Communicative thought - how to forge relationships and find common forms of expression that facilitate the passage of knowledge. This style of thinking has implications for education.
It could be said that the whole of life is a learning process which only death stops. Yet much learning is crammed into the formative years of life; this learning must not be treated as learning for learning's sake but more a preparation for adulthood. Learning by the young in formative years must directly relate to the requirements of modern life, when the young become more free from parental obligation and supervision.
The young learn quickly and at an early age enjoy learning; most children become equipped with and efficient in many areas of communication before the age of 10; they talk, read, write; quantify, socialise, learn religion and so on.
The ultimates of human relationship
The human body consists of three major relationship factors, each one functional but related to the others. There is individualism and social response within the body; these functional responders are common to all men in related commonality from within. The major relationship areas are:
1. The heart which lies at the nucleus of the blood system;
2. The brain which acts as the nucleus of the system of nerve and thought.
3. The reproductive centre that acts in conjunction with heart and brain to effect functionality.
1. The heart is a pump that sends blood through the many canals in the body. The stimulation of breath affects the pump. The heart creates relationship of just being throughout the body. The mechanics of the heart can be described as the establishment and the ongoing of relationship, creating consequence of great value. The vulnerability of the heart is such that it requires protection - protection in use and of entity to prevent serious breakdown. What is established is the realistic thinking maxim of relationship; creating consequence of value is right at the centre of the human being.
2. The brain is the inherent powerhouse of nerve, thought and sense; the brain could be described as the supreme relater. This is because the brain system acts two ways, both to send information and receive it. It is the brain that not only establishes relationship and consequence from and to and within the being, but with the aid of sensory devices it is the brain that relates man to the universe around him. The strength of man's brain is unique in the universe. Its diversity of role in the whole scheme of things is truly fantastic, but it must be remembered that the messages to establish and maintain relationships and the consequence of those relationships be the key value of the brain; it must therefore be true that the brain's main function is realistic thinking. Yet the brain is human and not perfect and subject to certain traits, the worst of which is addiction or habit, i.e. the being is apt to become contained to and respond to limited desirable or undesirable stimulus.
The brain has a store of information - the memory - but even so the brain is apt to forget; quite often forgetfulness is as valuable as memory. There is no telling when? or why? the brain is to remember or forget or neither is either trait definable in the sense that the brain can equally forget what it should remember, and to remember what it would rather forget; this is not a precluder of either.
3. The Reproductive System: Here the system is purely to set up and develop relationship. The relationship alone is sheer value, preceded by foreplay which arouses the system. The relationship has consequences, the most serious of consequences being the inception and creation of new life. The establishment of new life is the major purpose of the reproductive system, although arousal of the reproductive system for its own innate value is seen as a powerful event. The fact that the system differs between male and female and that the establishment of male and female is a random affair, only serves to endorse the view that there is no overall plan for the existence of life.
The reproductive system has strong relationship between being and brain, all having consequences of value yet only desirable senses are used to effect and affect relationships. This brings into play emotion and belief, two strongly overriding factors in the brain that belittles cold rationalising. The reproductive system is naturally innately developed and evolved in such a way that reproduction capability develops of its own accord. It can be seen that throughout mammalian life there is an innate story of relationship, consequence and value, that naturally orders things.
Development or just complexity
The evolution of man from simple man becoming the complicated man of today suggests that man developed on all counts as time has passed by, therefore in theory it might be true to say that at some time in the future man will be superseded by an even more brainy and complicated being. The question is, how could the earth support such a being? It is having enough trouble supporting man. Therefore it begs the question as to whether, as far as man is concerned, the evolutionary process is complete? After all, even as primate or man, the individual beings have far more in common than they seemingly have different.
The physical being has remained little changed despite thousands of years. All primates/man have head, two arms, hands, fingers, two legs, feet, toes, organs, muscles, joints, plus sensory similarities such as mind, thought, and emotion.
Primate/man needs to eat, drink, sleep, play, work and so on. The only thing that is different between early man and today's man is the product of the brain, hence it becomes less questionable as to whether the brain really developed in the accepted sense or that as man gets older he simply passes information from generation to generation and that he becomes more switched on to himself and the universe around him, ie man's relationships with himself or the universe potentially grow to a maximum giving rise to complex consequences,all of which are the subject of valuation by man.
Christianity versus realistic thinking
Man's journey into the past; viz science and evolution, lead him to at least doubt if not downright invalidate "the beginning" yet this must surely lead to query over the notion of the end. In reality as a finite entity it is the bible that needs a distinct beginning and an end more than reality. The Book of Revelation and its content is alien to the rest of the bible, depicting scenes more like creating hell on earth and is totally destructive. Outwith the sun the universal planets and moons act peacefully in constant harmony, constant movement, movement without a real need for external input of energy. The burning question is why should it end? And if it does end, why should it not be in millions more years just like the past? It is unreal for man to go around thinking that it is all going to end any minute, something that must be unbelievable. The only thing that could conceivably happen in time is that the only thing that might remotely happen is the sun burning up, plunging the universe into eternal darkness. All the above is not meant to detract from the main theme of the bible, putting the soul beyond, putting belief and faith above sheer cold reasoning. It is believed that the human has powers of belief and emotion above and as protection from sheer cold reasoning.
The idea that there is some ethereal eternal existence beyond nothing where billions of individuals' souls reside, is beyond belief; that is to say that it is on another plane too deep and too high to fathom, like the soul itself. The spirit is only explainable in a similar way as what stillness is to a motor car, built for the sole purpose of movement yet nevertheless has an overriding need to stand still. The bible itself is full of moral, plausible, powerful fact and story that only helps man in his believing but often doubting way. The bible is like music having rousing beginning, long passages of rise and fall and rise again, finishing with loud crescendo. Life is not like music: it consists of humble beginning, a long stumble and either sudden or protracted end. Christianity must relate to reality otherwise it becomes unrealistic. On the whole, Christianity does man many favours but in the end he believes what he wants to believe; at the same time man cannot afford to believe that he does not need security of both soul and belief.
The fact that religion makes security of belief a common thing MUST ONLY BE GOOD. Yet the context of the end is out of keeping with all real believable notions man can have about the universe; this being the case man needs to plan as if the world goes on for ever, even if it may not. If the world goes on for ever man cannot deal with a notion such as "take the money and run". The legacy that man leaves on earth has to be meaningful and tenable for many generations to come. This is all to say that there is not really a conflict between Christianity and realistic thinking, both heavily into the need for relationships and the consequences of relationships; it is just realism to point out that there is no reason for an end to the universe and that it is probably more valuable for man to assume no end in the long run.
Power
Power is a nuisance. The evidence principally within man of power is that it is a consumptive thing that exists beyond reason but is this true of man-made power?: all power dominated by the top, even though in reality power is only supported from beneath, i.e. the true source of power lies at the bottom. The bible shows this through teaching that humility is more useful than sheer power in life, provided there is definition for it is definition that holds the key to direction. The combination of humility and definition leads to reasoning, the most valuable tool. In the universe as a whole what has developed is a kind of brainless physical reasoning and relationship, where the common majority of something exists in a formal pattern of both being and movement.
The universe achieves what man cannot achieve, for man is only regenerable life. Man's containment within the world is both causal and effective. Man, equipped with rationalising power, can only relate to the universe. Government and systems of government both suffer from the question of power and by degree some are worse than others, i.e. some actually create antisocial benefits.
What is the role of government if not to create social benefit? Failure to produce social benefit is the root cause of disillusionment that surfaces to overthrow government. Whether government should be essentially a political or an apolitical force simply depends upon the role of power, i.e. the definition of where real power has its base. The concept of individualism leading to socialism has undeniable definition in reality as the true commonality of power/humility surfaces; this all adds up to the view that the concepts of partyism and idealism are corruptions of rather than definitions of true power and reasoning.
Civilisation or tribalism?
Historically, civilisations show to be ‘blips" in all time events: events whereby people develop powers of relationship and anti-relationship, powers which put a minority in a dominant position, the dominant power of civilisation becoming overtaken by the effects of time as humility and definition gain support and strength.
Civilisation of peoples is largely used to overthrow the concept of tribalism - tribalism originally the majority way. In tribalism man sees the ability to exist within narrow dependence upon reality to support life, through the development of art and skill, both dependent upon what nature has to offer without so much pressure upon reality that it gives up of itself too much. Tribal man sets up and maintains a relationship with reality, also with the capacity to believe in and support the supernatural; all this means that in tribalism, civilised man has more to learn than to simply reject and/or press. Tribalism uses the combined context of self-sufficiency and related or relatable support. There is a marriage between, on the one hand what the individual needs and wants, and on the other hand, what the tribe can afford. The real value in tribalism is that it exists outwith external support and does not over-pressure resources. Consequently tribalism has great qualities of realism. Civilisation relies heavily upon-pressure upon reality, the establishment of new things and values. Civilisation falls into three main categories:
(1) The civilisation that is the society, i.e. the total body of civilisation: such society dependent upon power over what reality has to offer. A discriminatory force, civilisation turns the earth into a quarry, a source of increased and increasing value, notions that are not wholly supported. Civilisation relies upon strength over nature as opposed to the tribal way which relies upon marriage with nature.
(2) Civilisation of being/body. The benefits in civilisation are largely seen in how man appears and it is qualities of control over health and welfare that aid total social relationship. The commonality of being/body is treated commonly. The value in civilisation is heavily dependent upon what man does for himself to enforce need and to express and fulfil want: the civilisation of-being/body seen as a most useful tool and means of expression that civilisation has.
(3) The civilisation of mind. - The initial temptation is to say that there is no such thing. The mind used as a tool and a weapon to facilitate living within the boundaries of dvilisation, and the development of constant change, virtually an addiction to change, hence civilised mind is unstable and insecure - two anti-values. The lack of security in civilised mind leads man to treat life as a game, with winners and losers, thereby civilised man is at all times struggling not to be a loser.
The beliefs that back up rationalised mind tend to be the only security of mind; consequently belief is a stronger notion than the natural reality. The questions of the use of wit and power rest heavily in the mind as facets that are usable for support. Therefore it becomes a proposition to compare the tribal mind and the civilised mind and to ask which is the most stable and secure.
What becomes evident is that the concepts of tribalism and civilisation have beneficial properties, properties that can be married into a realistic management of lifestyle. The set up of small self-sufficient villages and small towns which rely heavily upon the inter-relationship of beings within it, is married closely to the concept of good health and well-being.
The past
The past represents a rich tapestry of event and non-event, pre-recorded history being a potential knowledge of an irrelevance to modern life insofar as the knowledge of the seed be unimportant to the hundred year old tree; the real thing being that pre-recorded reality was real, therefore impressing upon man the knowledge of previous fantastic existence.
Recorded history consists of those events and happenings that were evident before the present day. History says little about the aftermath of events, the uneventful, when man had to cope with the problems of change. History contains many things that are beneficial to modern man, a spread of knowledge that can be re-used, resurrected as a source for man's present and future application.
The present
The present is ongoing reality: life, existence and non-existence: the production and knowledge of relationship and anti-relationship at its most complex and different; therefore in unique present, man has set out before him a richness for analysis.
The present only exists because of existence in unique relationship. The consequence of the relationship between present and existence is being, that highly prized value.
The future
Realistic thinking says that it is unrealistic to think of an end to reality; that being true means that time represents a gift to man that is a useful but governing factor upon his state, ie if time is infinite. The earth, existence and life all have infinite possibilities. All this makes tomorrow as important as today in real terms. Therefore without an interventionist style of thinking the future becomes relatively predictable: a man so hell bent on science and scientific values that he uses up most of-valuable existence. The effect of science upon the economy will throw both economic and social considerations into chaos; the result will be fragmentation, a splitting up process of -which common man becomes the victim of his own greed. All this will make man less common too, and more inappropriate to what the world has to offer. The pursuit of the corruption of relationship, the superior creation of anti-relationship, will simply lead to the development of anti-value over value. The earth will be in an indeterminable period of what looks like regression; all concepts of "progress" shall become totally confused. The earth will fall into a dark period where the uneventful, the misery of aftermath, takes over. Man will be forced back into tribalistic behaviour out of need.
The above is avoidable; whilst it is not always possible to revert damage, it is possible to intervene. Realistic thinking aims at addressing the predictable, turning predictability into only possibility, and in the long term to turn possibility into the unthinkable.
Applied realistic thinking analyses subjects to the bone; such analysis produces reasoning.
To make it concise in short terms, realistics revolves around simple themes. Relationships cause consequences which are of value, anti-relationships have consequences of anti-value. The important thing in the future is to avoid anti-relationship, any real strength.
At the heart of reasoning lies the question why?, leading to the answer because; because of relationships there are consequences; because of anti-relationships there are consequences.
The burning question facing man is, does he want the disturbance of relationship and the massive creation of anti-relationship products to give him long term misery or does he want to address the problems he creates for himself. So the future of man is a gamble; such a gamble that man cannot afford to lose.
