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I’m uneducated in any academic sense, having left school at fifteen. However, when I came down with ME/cfs thirty years ago, I decided to educate myself. Doing so, I realized that so much is wrong with our knowledge and society. This is the first volume of my reasoned rants. You’ll also find here my views on cults and conspiracy theories, and why they happen.
Anthony North
Thinker & Storyteller****7,453 Words to Save the UK and I,Writer are now FREE. Scroll down to find them.*****1955 (Yorkshire, England) – I am born (Damn! Already been done). ‘Twas the best of times ... (Oh well).I was actually born in the year of Einstein's death, close to Scrooge's Counting House. It doesn't mean anything but it sounds good. As for my education, I left school at 15 and have had no formal education since. Hence, I'm self-taught.****From a family of newsagents, at 18 I did a Dick Whittington and went off to London, only to return to pretend to be Charlie and work in a chocolate factory.When I was ten I was asked what I wanted to be. I said soldier, writer and Dad. I never thought of it for years – having too much fun, such as a time as lead guitarist in a local rock band – but I served nine years in the RAF, got married and had seven kids. I realized my words had been precognitive when, at age 27, I came down with M.E. – a condition I’ve suffered ever since – and turned my attention to writing.Indeed, as I realized that no expert could tell me what was wrong with me, I began my quest to find out why. Little did I realize it would last decades and take me through the entire history of knowledge, leaving me with the certainty that our knowledge systems are inadequate.****My non-fiction is based on P-ology, a thought process I devised to work with patterns of knowledge, and designed to be a bedfellow to specialization. A form of Rational Holism, it seeks out areas the specialist may have missed. I work from encyclopaedias and introductory volumes in order to gain a grasp of many subjects and am not an expert in anything, but those patterns keep forming. Hence, I do not deal in truth, but ideas, and cover everything from politics to the paranormal.When reading my work I ask only: do I make sense? Of course, an expert would say: a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I agree. And an expert has so little knowledge of everything.I also write novels and Flash Fiction in all genres.
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I, Essayist - Anthony North
I, Essayist
By Anthony North
Copyright Anthony North 2012
Cover image copyright, Yvonne North 2012
Smashwords Edition
No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission
Other books by Anthony North
Beginning in 2019 I’m publishing 14 volumes of my fiction, inc 7 novels in most genres, & 21 works of non-fiction covering cults, politics, conspiracies, religion, disasters, science, philosophy, warfare, crime, psychology, new age, green issues & all areas of the unexplained, inc ufology, lost worlds and the paranormal. Hopefully appearing at the rate of one a month, check out the latest launch at my bookstore at http://anthonynorth.com or buy direct from Smashwords for all devices at: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/anthonynorth
In addition to the above, you may like my ‘I’ Series – 8 volumes of flash fiction (horror, sci fi, romance, adventure, crime), 4 volumes of poetry & 5 volumes of short essays from politics to the unexplained. Available from same links as above. Also check out my bookstore for news of my books out in paperback.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Commonsense By Dictat
The Female Serf
Eco-Consciousness
Freedom & Unfreedom
I Gotta Right
Order & Morality
Whigging It
Money & Belief
Towards A General Theory of Crime
West Mind
Wealth Through Birth or Merit
The West Out of Control
The Enduring Student
The Pursuit of Freedom
Stat Life
Total Isn't Total
Dark Times
Total Thoughts
Libertarians Be Damned
Atlantis Or Utopia
Picasso Rising
CULTS
Who Joins a Cult?
Inferiority
Hysterically Speaking
The Guru
The Messiah Factor
Gotcha!
Persuasion
They're Not All Bad
The Abnormal Is Normal
CONSPIRACY THEORY
Don't Trust Fate
The Philosophy of Conspiracy
Suspicious Minds
When an Event is More Than an Event
History - Don't You Believe It
Postmodern & Conspiracy
About the Author
Connect With Anthony
INTRODUCTION
I’m uneducated in any academic sense, having left school at fifteen. However, when I came down with ME/cfs thirty years ago, I decided to educate myself. Doing so, I realized that so much is wrong with our knowledge and society. This is the first volume of my reasoned rants. You’ll also find here my views on cults and conspiracy theories, and why they happen.
NOTE: Where I write about politics and society, unless I say the ‘west’, I’m referring to the UK.
COMMONSENSE BY DICTAT
You’ve all heard about the research. It can come in many forms. Beefburgers can make you fat. That’s a classic. As if we didn’t know already. But to science, we don’t. If it isn’t proved, it may not be right.
We all know it’s right, because we’ve employed commonsense. But we’re not supposed to use that any more. Don’t you realize that? We cannot be trusted to be correct in our commonsense judgments.
This is a problem that is becoming dangerous.
What happens in science usually passes down to society. So hey presto! Welcome to political correctness. The vast majority know it is wrong to discriminate, but we can’t know this through commonsense. We’ve got to be told.
In the UK, health and safety is gathering ground, too. This is the real social stinker. Anything that can be dangerous if commonsense is not used must be banned - because we’re not allowed to use commonsense.
Commonsense, you see, has been politicized.
It has been taken away from us mere incompetent people, and placed in the hands of authority. And only their pronouncements can be classed as commonsense.
But of course, it isn’t commonsense they impose on us, but diktat. Governments have realised a new way to control – to politicize our value judgments themselves. And here, good reader, is the real irony. In the age of the individual, government is now guaranteeing that individuality is no more.
THE FEMALE SERF
Feminism was a marvelous thing. It was so right to give women equality in law. Okay, they may not have made it in many other respects, but it was one of the most fundamental requirements of democracy and freedom, and I applaud it. But …
There’s always a ‘but’ with me. Not concerning the correctness of feminism, but the motive for its acceptance in the wider social sphere.
Nothing happens today without a reason.
And often that reason is subtle. For instance, if women hadn’t demanded their rights by going out to work, could house prices be so high today?
High house prices demanded