scandal – Dreamyoga

I have been peripherally linked to two major scandals in modern science “Cold Fusion” and “Room Temperature Superconductivity”. A man for whom I was a post doc was linked to Martin Fleischmann who was his supervisor. I had a few conversations with an ex-student about the more recent room temperature superconductivity controversy. It was mooted that I might join the start-up.

If you are an accepted “bishop” like Fleischmann it is easier to survive than if you are a mere curate like Ranga Dias.

“Science” tends to permanently excommunicate those found guilty of breaking the “rules”. It can have harsher penalties than for a priest sodomizing choir boys. If you do not toe the line you are perhaps contumacious. If there in not enough cap doffing…

Contumacious – click here

The pressure to publish and get good publication metric data is immense, perhaps stupidly so. I have yet to hear of criminal prosecutions for falsifying data. Though it is clearly criminally fraudulent to obtain research funding based on lies and “making shit up”. The temptation is there. Grant income bestows kudos and ensures “tenure”, if such a thing still exists. People find it hard not to blag and hype.

Today I have had a look on the internet for Ranga Dias. Since he left University of Rochester he has disappeared into the aether. There is a great deal of “pile on” for him and there is even glee-full hand rubbing at his fate. I do wonder if the pile on would have been less if he was a white establishment figure.

I suspect he may struggle to get high status employment in the West ever again.

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All “religions”, “parties” and “cults” have a form of shunning and excommunication whether that excommunication be occult or otherwise…

You don’t have to wear weird or groovy clothes.

Group mind uses excommunication to punish errancy and divergence…it demands compliance.

It is as old as the hills….

In general people have a fairly fixed idea about how the world is, how people behave and what is expected. Which is a nice way of saying that people are prejudiced. The fact that I resigned my job at a decent university without any other, better job to go to, was for many a non sequitur. They could not get their head around it. It did not compute. Some invented some imaginary scandal to explain it, scandal ever being bread and butter in perfidious Albion.

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People do not associate words on perception and meditation with a smoking skinhead bovver-boy. Nor do they image that a piss artist front row rugby player can chant in deep voice. People are set in their ways and their minds are a tad concrete.

I quite like having more than one working explanation for any given situation. I do not have to settle in any absolute way for which one is “right”. Modern education insists on getting the socially accepted “right” answer to exam questions. Students want to learn how to produce and parrot the “right” answer so as to get “A” levels and degrees. People are trained to think in an absolute binary right-wrong way.

The most logical explanation from a socio-political point of view is that I am simply a burn-out who could not hack it with the big boys, the big cheeses.

Another explanation is that I am off the map. I differ significantly in orientation from most. I just don’t fit. I am a square peg which cannot be hammered into a round hole. No drama. People have long been wary of things which have not been mapped out.

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This means that only the foolhardy might seek to touch me with a barge pole. I could be infectious. Association with me could be career threatening.

I have been told by others that people do not want to be seen associating with me in public.

There is no incentive in a “what-is-in-it-for-me” sense to interact with me in any way, whether meaningful or otherwise.

I will likely remain off the map, uncharted.

People can choose to choose whatever it is they want to choose. Their choice is their choice. I have no wish to influence. If they make poor choices that is not my problem. I never advised them and they never sought my advice. People need to learn in whichever way helps them to learn.

This notion of standing back, non-interference, is neutral. It is nether life enhancing nor life destructive. It is an approach which does not make sense to others who wish to interact, to impinge, to affect and to influence. Some cannot resist trying to guide the lives of others and bend them to their will.

Non-interference is a direct consequence of emptiness, lack of will or ambition, is not on the map of modern ways of living. It is not there in “opportunity” land. After all “opportunities” should and must be seized!!

Why?

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Being Off the Map