Matthew Syed need to be deported to America

Just listening to A New Frontier: 4. With the Gods with Matthew Syed and its all a bit of fanciful fun. The kind of conversations you have with primary school kids.. and then Syed admits that he is sympathetic to the idea of promoting off world colonies.

OMG

Anyone who promotes American Ideas seriously needs to be either deported or executed. American ideas are universally junk with no exception, and anyone who takes them seriously has a serious mental health condition. We criticise the Chinese for re-education camps but when it comes to American Ideas, people do need re-education.

I suppose another way to put that is to use American Ideas as a test. Try someone or yourself out on an idea. If you like it then check whether it was supported by an American. If it was then you have serious problems.

Consider the current program.

(1) Life, mankind and conscious all happened by themselves. The universe is capable of creating everything by itself. Whether that is God or by some "natural" process the point is that Mankind played no part. So why do Americans think they have anything to add? Elon Musk apparently is fuelled by broad ideas of evangelising human life beyond this planet. Given what a disaster humans have been to this planet, anyone with an ounce of humility and common-sense would realise that if we destroy this planet then we absolutely should stop ourselves spreading.

So far then all arguments point to appreciating what we have and looking after it. All our technology should not be trying to change things but nurture and appreciate the world that created us.

The Greeks even have a story to remind us the folly of pushing technology too far in Icarus

At bottom line all these fantasists are stumbling at a simple point. There is no point to life. They fight and struggle and do "great" things in order ultimately to prove that they exist and they are meaningful. The gods just laugh. Especially Elon Musk who has never and never will do anything. Whatever great things he thinks he will achieve, will always be eclipsed by the miracle that gave rise to him in the first place. The goal to a good life is not to get on the endless travellator of "progress" trying to achieve something to call your own, but rather to appreciate what you already have been given. It a hard thing for the ego to swallow that it is really irrelevant and if anything just a burden that makes life hard. But once you kick the habit then life is easy, full and without fear of being empty.

Other crazy ideas like "spreading consciousness" around the galaxy. Yet ask any of these people where consciousness is and they can't answer you. The brain they say. SO does that mean the world that you are conscious of is in your brain? So where is your brain? Is you brain inside itself? You have a contradiction at the outset.

Lets start again: where is consciousness.  

the point is that it is no where. Given that what is this crazy idea of "spreading consciousness". Complete idiocy.

And so the craziness continues in this program.

Earlier on the idea of sending future politicians on orbits of the Earth to give them a perspective. For 40 years I have been told to wear a cycling helmet by someone who once visited a hospital for people with head injuries mostly caused by cycle accidents. We can brainwash anyone by giving them personal experience. A politician does not need personal experience, their whole role (if they are any good) is to listen and have the creativity and sympathy to understand someone else's point of view without it being their own.

At every turn this program is junk. But it is fun. Like everything American it is fun, but it is junk and like American food you can eat it once in a while but you would not base your diet around it.

The fact that Matthew Syed admitted to be sympathetic to any of these American idea raises serious doubts about his mental health.

On aside a lot of these Evangelical Ideas seem to have come from the fusion of Christianity and Science in Russia. Ideas of copying the Gospels and resurrecting people from the dead and evangelising mankind into space.

Again there is always this issue. God is perfectly powerful enough to resurrect people, why do we need to do it.

This leaves only evangelising. Persuading people of the true nature (Law) of the world is what evangelising really is. It takes no technology or invention, it simply requires to cool them off from their worldly business, and just look again at the world around them that God made (if you are religious), understand it and appreciate what wonder gifts there are.

What a load of dangerous nonsense.