An Article Worth Your Serious Reading

Got called out in the night.  I'm just back at my place to pick up a few thing before heading back so I don't have time to write. 

In the meantime, you might want to check out this fascinating  article that touches on some of the same topics I've been writing about,  Controlled Measures
Phrenology lies at the heart of biometric governance.   Like all good articles, it could lead on farther into the topics it presents.  I totally agree with the idea that what we're seeing in the technological control of our lives grows out of those tendencies of Victorian science that was responsible for eugenics and, in the fullness of time, the Nazi version of eugenics.  The framing of determinism that became inevitable with the adoption of Darwinism had a huge effect on even how people see things.

I had a brawl on a comment thread of a Majority Report video promoting (the title says "debating") Maoism as a possible good.  I was, of course, disgusted and horrified, pointing out that when you are talking about Maoism you're talking about the version of Marxism which is, actually and irrefutably, the most murderous of all political regimes in human history.   Yet what passes as serious people on the left, in 2018, even as we have seen that in real life Marxism doesn't lead to a glorious stateless worker's paradise but a horrific Victorian capitalist gangster state on steroids, can, CITING THE 1960-70s ERA BLACK PANTHERS (also defunct after a brief era of violent futility) seriously promote Maoism as something admirable to young and youngish people. 

I pointed out that these folks, among those suitably horrified by the surveillance of Americans by the NSA and that even larger invaders of our privacy, private business, were promoting what was and is one of the most brutal surveillance states in human history.   I was hoping that if the mass murders didn't open their eyes to the nature of Maoism and the Marxism that has produced other such regimes, that the invasion of privacy issue might get their attention. 

But the article by R. Joshua Scannell touching on that is more worth reading than that video is worth listening to.

Got to go.  Till later.