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The Future Model of Human Consciousness Part II
Some Thoughts On The Recovering Scapegoat Continued from Part I The List I Time is moving too fast and life has never been lived so wastefully. Everyone thinks with a watch in their hand and no one thinks of tomorrow - or even of today. Of course, there are probably any number of exceptions to that rule. In that case, certainly one of them would be the recovering scapegoat, for reasons we'll explore in Part II . The idea being that in this one exception lies our only real
PRC International
Dec 28, 202522 min read
The Future Model of Human Consciousness Part I
Some Thoughts on The Recovering Scapegoat In the end, the most important things in life are food, clothing, shelter, and healing. Note to Reader : PRC Writings is a fluid journal and so is undergoing continuous editing and revision. Since, like all of my writings, this essay is an interim report, there will be no attempt to be exhaustive, or to anticipate counter-arguments. However, unlike most interim reports, I don't let what I publish stand as is. Hence, the editing and
PRC International
Dec 9, 202515 min read
Self-Expression? WTF?
Introduction Like most people I thought I knew what was meant by the term self-expression . But the more I thought about it the more I had my doubts. After a while I realized that the problem wasn’t so much with the word expression as it was with the word self . And the problem was that every time I heard others use the term self-expression , and every time I used it, the emphasis was put on expression , as in I want to express myself , and certainly never, I want to expres
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May 23, 202515 min read
Spinning Top
A Things To Know List There are five ways in which the world as a Spinning Top is hostile and dangerous not just to the individual, but...
PRC International
Apr 12, 20253 min read
Self-Transcendence Part V
Today and Tomorrow Part I Self-Betrayal Part II The Destroyers Part III The Heroes Part IV The Defenses Part V Today and Tomorrow Preface This five part series might have been titled The Power of Imperfection , that is, if that title wasn’t so self-helpy. But, the point still stands as we shall see in Part V , ie; there is a power in imperfection, so long as that imperfection is acknowledged and inspires us into thoughtful action. I Toward the end of Part IV I wro
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Apr 4, 20257 min read
Self-Transcendence Part IV
Part I Self-Betrayal Part II The Destroyers Part III The Heroes Part IV The Defenses Part V Today and Tomorrow The Defenses Introduction So that there’s no confusion, let’s clearly state exactly what the problem was. Given what was happening to European culture in the 19th century, and to its geographical extensions as well, namely the United States, the artist and intellectual, the thinkers, writers, and innovative scientists, could only become alienated within the
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Mar 29, 20257 min read
Self-Transcendence Part III
Part I Self-Betrayal Part II The Destroyers Part III The Heroes Part IV The Defenses Part V Today and Tomorrow The Heroes In...
PRC International
Mar 13, 20256 min read
Self-Transcendence Part II
Part I Self-Betrayal Part II The Destroyers Part III The Heroes Part IV The Defenses Part V Today and Tomorrow The Destroyers Introduction Self-Transcendence Part I ended with: "Now that I have offered an answer to the question To what extent is self-transcendence self-betrayal? , maybe we should back up a bit and ask a much easier and obvious question, What is self-transcendence?" Readers familiar with my writing on this subject know that the simplest answer is.
PRC International
Feb 26, 20259 min read
Self-Transcendence Part I
Part I Self-Betrayal Part II The Destroyers Part III The Heroes Part IV The Defenses Part V Today and Tomorrow Self Betrayal...
PRC International
Feb 8, 202511 min read
DIE Is a LIE
The whole point of DEI is to slander Reality and kill Life. That's why I refer to DEI as DIE Woke, or simply DIE. I'm not the only one...
PRC International
Jan 8, 20254 min read
Anti-Racist or Anti-Reality?
Do anti-racists (con artists formerly known as race-baiters) find “racism”, or invent it? They invent it, of course. Why? Because they're not anti-racist, they're anti-realty. That’s why there’s always a disconnect between their definition of racism (which they rarely, if ever, offer) and an observable instance of it in the real world (which often enough turns out to be a lie). Why do you think their interpretation of “racism”, and everything else, is so aggressively, so laug
PRC International
Dec 1, 20245 min read
Off With Their Heads
Why The Hostile Elite Hates The Western Canon Quick Note : All of the poison of their envy, calumny, and rancor, will never be enough...
PRC International
Aug 14, 202438 min read
Truth? What's That?
Interpretation In An Age of Explanatory Collapse Truth? What’s that? The most obvious answer is that Truth is a word, like the word God . Before God is anything it’s a word and words come from human beings, not God. Now you can say that words come from God, including the words God and Truth . And from there you can say that God is Truth . You can then say that, well, since God isn’t here at the moment, you are going to speak for him, or her, or it, or whatever. If you
PRC International
Jul 6, 202418 min read
Cultural Transcendence? WTF?
In suffering, creator and creation are one. For today's entry, a quick look at Cultural Transcendence . First, the effort to achieve cultural transcendence is a consequence of a Culture Crisis. We are living in a culturally critical period today. Any help we can get in understanding how to deal with it is bound to be of some value. Second, Cultural Transcendence is a term coined by the cultural historian and behavioralist Morse Peckham (1914-1993) to describe a process one u
PRC International
Jun 27, 20249 min read
Playing God
In An Experiment In Explanation I wrote about what I like to refer to as Know-It-Allism . I described it as a disease found in individuals and groups who boldly assert that I/We have all of the questions and all of the answers .* I also said that an understanding of Explanation is the best defense we have against Know-It-Allism . But is it? Well, in one sense, yes, it is. On the other hand, in another and very real sense, no, it isn't, at all (for what is meant by an unders
PRC International
May 14, 20247 min read
The Woke Delusion
So what is The Woke Delusion? The Woke Delusion is The Delusion of Perfect Adequacy . And exactly what is The Woke Delusion of Perfect Adequacy? Good question. But we’re not ready to turn to that just yet. What can be said about it now is that the whole Woke thing, Identity Politics, CRT, etc. is properly subsumed under Critical Theory, and Critical Theory has always been a closed system. As with any closed system, surface differences notwithstanding, what they all have in
PRC International
Apr 20, 20246 min read
A Word On CRT
Fortunately, for today at least, a word is enough. In An Experiment In Explanation I mentioned what I refer to as Know-It-Allism . In the next few entries my aim will be to direct attention to the connection between Know-It-Allism and Salvation Systems, and the relation of both to the dysfuncitonal and maladaptive belief in perfect adequacy , and the relation of all three to our current and devastating culture crisis. One obvious example* today of a Salvation System, or Ut
PRC International
Mar 15, 202412 min read
An Experiment In Explanation
From the beginning PRC has been an experiment. Not just an educational experiment, but an experiment in Explanation . The fact is, even...
PRC International
Dec 23, 20235 min read
Friendly Reminder: A Work In Progress
Just a friendly reminder to PRC Readers and an equally friendly heads up to those joining us for the first time. This is a fluid journal. Meaning, all of the entries here are undergoing constant revision. In short, like PRC , Writings is A Work In Progress . The most obvious reason being that, like everyone else, I don't know all there is to know, even about what interests me. And I don't know it all for the same reason no one else does, not even the smartest among us, beca
PRC International
Nov 19, 20234 min read
Why PRC? Revisited
Hi Everyone! Now that you're here, and before revisiting the question Why PRC? , it might be better to answer, briefly, the question What Is PRC? Happily, a brief answer is all that's necessary. Now that I've retired, PRC is simply the website and Writings . Writings is a journal of sorts, a very fluid journal that is undergoing constant editing and revision. It doesn’t offer a formal argument or historical account. What is offered are some questions and some common them
PRC International
Oct 26, 20235 min read
PRC Update
Hello Everyone! A Quick Update and a Hello to New Readers! PRC has been around in one form or another since 2001. Over time I converted what started out as English classes into a one-man educational consultancy with a global reach. And though I retired in 2021, I was happy to receive a lot of positive encouragement to keep this page going. So here we are! The Writings section is a collection of essays, long and short, and some multi-part entires (one such, CRT? WTF? , is mo
PRC International
Sep 30, 20234 min read
Principles? What are they?
Preamble The short answer to the quetsion What are princples? is that principles are the foundational propositions of a belief-system. ...
PRC International
Jun 29, 202213 min read
Beyond Technology and The Vital System of Ideas
We live with technology, not by technology. To the extent we do live by technology we live an inhuman life. Of course, the hostile elite...
PRC International
May 29, 20227 min read
Explanation and Power: Q & A Part X
Q: We were talking a bit about what you referred to as Redemptionism or Revolutionary Utopianism, which you said is an attempt to escape...
PRC International
Apr 23, 202213 min read
Explanation and Power: Q & A Part IX
Q: So, to continue from where we left off. You were saying, in so many words, that in its attempt to escape from the randomness of the...
PRC International
Apr 12, 20223 min read
Explanation and Power: Q & A Part VIII
Q: Ok. We left off with a few words about the Individual. You said that the individual is the cyclonic center of disturbance in the...
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Apr 12, 20226 min read
Explanation and Power: Q & A Part VII
Q: To pick up where we left off. You said, in effect, that because of the instability of meaning, culture is constantly threatened with...
PRC International
Apr 8, 202213 min read
Explanation and Power: Q & A Part VI
Q: Let’s turn our attention from Interpretation to Learning. Ok? A: Ok. Q: We left off with a discussion on the factors of learning ,...
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Apr 8, 20227 min read
Explanation and Power: Q & A Part V
Q: So, could we start with a discussion about modes of Interpretation? A: Sure. It’d help to simplify things by focusing on the two most...
PRC International
Apr 8, 20223 min read
Explanation and Power: Q & A Part IV
Q: Part III ended with me saying that the conversation seemed to be moving in the direction of Interpretation and you agreed. So could...
PRC International
Apr 8, 20224 min read
Explanation and Power: Q & A Part III
Q: In Part I & II we talked about the basic proposition of PRC and of related things like verbal and nonverbal behavior. I would like...
PRC International
Apr 1, 20225 min read
Explanation and Power: Q & A Part II
Q: At the end of Part I you said there is no verbal escape. But, to be honest Paul, and with all due respect, I'm not entirely...
PRC International
Mar 27, 20225 min read
Explanation and Power: Q & A Part I
Note : This Q & A is my response to Peckham's summary of his luminous Explanation and Power : The Control of Human Behavior . Since questions are the foundation of PRC a Q & A seemed to me to be the most appropriate way of representing that response. The source of this Q & A are questions that I have asked myself about Peckham's work in general and Explanation and Power in particular over the years, as well as questions that partners, students, friends, etc. have asked me,
PRC International
Mar 26, 202210 min read
High Culture? WTF? Part Twelve
LX In section LIX of Part Eleven we gave a brief presentation of the necessary conditions for successful alienation: * Social...
PRC International
Jan 3, 202213 min read
High Culture? WTF? Part Eleven
LV The question we asked at the end of Part Ten was: Can the teaching of the Arts & Sciences contribute to the creation of a kind of...
PRC International
Dec 28, 20217 min read
High Culture? WTF? Part Ten
L Culture is Directions for Performance and a Social Institution is a Performance in Response to Directions . However, it could also be...
PRC International
Dec 19, 202113 min read
High Culture? WTF? Part Nine
XLV We began our look into High Culture by defining it as high-level problem solving and significant innovation . By now it should be...
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Dec 14, 20219 min read
High Culture? WTF? Part Eight
XL To summarize what was said in Part Seven , We can turn our social institutions into learning organizations by cultivating a radical...
PRC International
Dec 4, 202112 min read
High Culture? WTF? Part Seven
XXXII Can we do it? That’s the question we’re asking ourselves here. And, if we can do it, how? Well, if we’re going to answer these two questions it might be good to make it as clear as possible exactly what we mean by it . Can we do it? Can we do what ? What does the it in the above question refer to? Well, in the first place, words don’t refer , people do . So, the right question to ask would be: What are you referring to in that question? For an answer let’s go back t
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Nov 18, 202116 min read
High Culture? WTF? Part Six
XXV At the end of Part Five we talked about setting up a program devoted to developing the attributes of wisdom. Why would we want to do that? Because the attributes of wisdom are central to the activities that we’ve subsumed under the term High Culture. So? One might ask, What do we need High Culture for? The answer is that without both the attributes of wisdom and the values and activities of High Culture mankind won’t make it. Meaning, culture in general will lapse into b
PRC International
Nov 8, 202111 min read
High Culture? WTF? Part Five
XX Picking up where we left off at the end of Part Four , there is another kind of directions best referred to as meta-directions . These are directions not for performance but for generating directions for performance. An explanation will help clarify this. When we look up the hierarchical regress of explanation, we see theory emerging from specific directions (or exemplary statements ). But, when we look down from the top, we see specific directions emerging from theory;
PRC International
Nov 3, 202110 min read
High Culture? WTF? Part Four
XVI To understand the symbiosis of the Corporation and University, we need to give Culture a more precise definition, and also spell out the term aristocratic culture and its relation to wisdom , which we will do in Part Five . For now, however, a word on Culture . To repeat somewhat differently what was said earlier, Human Behavior may be seen from two aspects, or it can be understood as a general category subsuming two further categories. One aspect or category is Cultur
PRC International
Oct 30, 20218 min read
High Culture? WTF? Part Three
X At the end of Part Two I said that the University is vital to the existence and persistence of the Corporation, and the interest of the Corporation in the University is obvious. How is it obvious? Just look at the Board of Trustees, whether of public or private universities and colleges (if there are any of those still left). The simple facts are that the corporations of the United States own the universities and that the University is primarily an instrument of the Corpo
PRC International
Oct 28, 202113 min read
High Culture? WTF? Part Two
VI At the end of Part One section V our discussion turned to the connection between Social Management, Social Institutions, Social Interaction, Explanation, Cultural Impoverishment, etc. Now we need to relate them to the three social institutions that we’ll focus on in this entry. That way we can show the relation of all of them to our subject of High Culture and offer some answers to the questions put in our problem-solving formula: Situation - People - Problem - Tools . S
PRC International
Oct 27, 20218 min read
High Culture? WTF? Part One
Introduction Let’s dive right in and start off with an obvious question and a straightforward answer. What is meant by High Culture ? High Culture = high level problem-solving and significant innovation. Both of which require the attributes of wisdom . Which brings us to our next question. What is meant by the phrase high level problem-solving ? Well, certainly one answer would be that a high level problem is a problem people start revolutions about. That’d be one answer. Bu
PRC International
Oct 26, 202116 min read
CRT? WTF? Part VIII
Part I Opening Remarks Part II Bit Of Background Part III Perspectives Part IV Cultural Impoverishment Part V The University Part VI...
PRC International
Sep 29, 202132 min read
CRT? WTF? Part VII
Part I Opening Remarks Part II Bit Of Background Part III Perspectives Part IV Cultural Impoverishment Part V The University Part VI...
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Sep 26, 202131 min read
CRT? WTF? Part VI
Part I Opening Remarks Part II Bit Of Background Part III Perspectives Part IV that Cultural Impoverishment Part V The University Part VI The Elite’s Real Agenda Part VII Collapsing Narrative Network Part VIII Closing Remarks The Elite’s Real Agenda Note : I'll start by putting the above title in question form so as to turn ParVI into a Q & A. I have, by the way, played fair and written these questions down as they came to me. And they came to me easily because they
PRC International
Sep 25, 202135 min read
CRT? WTF? Part V
Part I Opening Remarks Part II Bit Of Background Part III Perspectives Part IV Cultural Impoverishment Part V The University Part VI The Elite’s Real Agenda Part VII Collapsing Narrative Network Part VIII Closing Remarks The University Critical Theory in general and Critical Race Theory in particular are modes of criticism. And yet, I am not aware of their practitioners, or anyone who supports Critical Theory enough to become hysterical whenever they’re challenged or
PRC International
Sep 24, 202115 min read
CRT? WTF? Part IV
Part I Opening Remarks Part II Bit Of Background Part III Perspectives Part IV Cultural Impoverishment Part V The University Part VI...
PRC International
Sep 23, 202118 min read
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