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Taking science at face value is a willful disregard for the power of the human mind. It is a flight from the obvious fact that each time we open our eyes we create the world anew. We can only perceive based on what we are. We will NEVER see the universe for what it truly is, it is impossible. Asking why we perceive the universe that way we do is just as valid as quantifying those perceptions.
Reconstruction of the Queen of Night: The plaque as it should look after reconstruction
The same goddess appears on small, crude, mould-made plaques from Babylonia from about 1850 to 1750 BC. Thermoluminescence tests confirm that the ‘Queen of the Night’ relief was made between 1765 and 45 BC.
The “corporatization of America” during the past century has been an attack on democracy—and on markets, part of the shift from something resembling “capitalism” to the highly administered markets of the modern state/corporate era. A current variant is called “minimizing the state,” that is, transferring decision-making power from the public arena to somewhere else: “to the people” in the rhetoric of power; to private tyrannies, in the real world.
