The More You Look, The More You

That Which Destroys The Old Mythos Becomes The New Mythos.

The Tv Scientist Who Mutters Sadly, "the Experiment Is A Failure; We Have Failed To Achieve What We Had Hoped For," Is Suffering Mainly From A Bad Script Writer. An Experiment Is Never A Failure Solely Because It Fails To Achieve Predicted Results. An Experiment Is A Failure Only When It Also Fails Adequately To Test The Hypothesis In Question, When The Data It Produces Don't Prove Anything One Way Or Another.

To Speak Of Certain Government And Establishment Institutions As 'the System' Is To Speak Correctly . . . They Are Sustained By Structural Relationships Even When They Have Lost All Other Meaning And Purpose. People Arrive At A Factory And Perform A Totally Meaningless Task From Eight To Five Without Question Because The Structure Demands It Be That Way. There's No Villian, No 'mean Guy' Who Wants Them To Live Meaningless Lives, It's Just That The Structure, The System Demands It And No One Is Willing To Take On The Formidable Task Of Changing The Structure Just Because It Is Meaningless.

Schools Teach You To Imitate. If You Don't Imitate What The Teacher Wants You Get A Bad Grade. Here, In College, It Was More Sophisticated, Of Course; You Were Supposed To Imitate The Teacher In Such A Way As To Convince The Teacher You Were Not Imitating, But Taking The Essence Of The Instruction And Going Ahead With It On Your Own. That Got You A's. Originality On The Other Hand Could Get You Anything -- From A To F. The Whole Grading System Cautioned Against It.

We Have Artists With No Scientific Knowledge And Scientists With No Artistic Knowledge And Both With No Spiritual Sense Of Gravity At All, And The Result Is Not Just Bad, It Is Ghastly.