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      • #1 – Is It Time To Panic Yet?
      • #2 – What’s Your Brand?
      • #3 – Can We Go Home Again?
      • #4 – Panic in Dystopia
      • #5 – Let’s Talk
      • #6 – The [G]Rand Illusion
      • #7 – An Authentic Hero
      • #8 – I Share, Therefore I Am
      • #9 – Is Religion Killing Us?
      • #10 – Relax! It Will All Work Out
      • #11 – Is The Universe A Friendly Place?
      • #12 – The Animal That Kills
      • #13 – Blustering, Bumbling Braggadocio
      • #14 – The Coming Apocalypse
      • #15 – Planned Obsolescence
      • #16 – Vive La Difference or Maybe Not!
      • #17 – Oxymoronic America
      • #18 – Are Males Really Necessary?
      • #19 – Common Sense
      • #20 – Which Side Are You On Boys?
      • #21 – The War Lovers
      • #22 – Was Racism in America Inevitable?
      • #23 – Our American Culture: An Addictive System
      • #24 – The Truth Matters but What Is the Truth
      • #25 – Intuition or Intellect? You Choose
      • #26 – Faked Out
      • #27 – The Ever So Gradual Awakening of David Brooks
      • #28 – A Happy Ending? Forget That!
      • #29 – Gobble Gobble
      • #30 – The Disintegration of the American Economy
      • #31 – Discontinuation Syndrome
      • #32 – Fear and Loathing in America
      • #33 – Seeking Power by Creating Fear
      • #34 – American Dystopia
      • #35 – Community in America: Toxic Groupthink
      • #36 – No Thanks, I’d Rather Suffer
      • #37 – American Foreign Policy: Grand Strategies or Grand Blunders?
      • #38 – Too Late Or Is It?
      • #39 – Strategy and Tactics: Catastrophe in the Colonies
      • #40 – Dead Souls
      • #41 – Soul Sickness
      • #42 – Feeding Our Ravenous Dark Side Identity
      • #43 – Fake News – Confused?
      • #44 – Everyone Knew
      • #45 – Listen My Children and …
      • #46 – Seduction and Denial in Iowa
      • #47 – Our Pathological President Errr … Precedent
      • #48 – Who Are We?
      • #49 – Predator and Prey: Survival of the Fittest
      • #50 – Bowling Together
      • #51 – Lower Expectations
      • #52 – The Apprentice
      • #53 – The Great Lie
      • #54 – Transcending the Nightmare
  • ABC’s of Simple Reality
    • Table of Contents – ABCs
  • ART and Simple Reality
    • Introduction – Art & Simple Reality
      • Exploiting Art
      • The Good, the True and the Beautiful
      • Art and Soul: Translation, Transformation and Transcendence
      • What’s Happenin’ Man?
    • Chapter 1 – Simple Reality and the Birth of Western Art
    • Chapter 2 – Architecture
      • Man and Nature
      • Building Utopia
      • Architecture and the Afterlife
      • Exposed
    • Chapter 3 – Dance
    • Chapter 4 – Essays
      • The Simple Truth
      • Darwin and P-B
      • The Didact
      • Tongue in Cheek
      • Excuse Me!
      • The Inward Light
      • That’s Me, That’s Not Me
      • The Shifting Observer
      • Authors Know Best
      • Blessed Richard the Hermit
      • Canine Consciousness
      • Solitude
      • Success
      • Another Escape
      • Death and Transfiguration
      • Enlightenment
      • Survival of the Fittest
      • Yearning for Utopia
      • The Clapping of Tongues
      • Behold, the Sun
      • The Pogo Paradox or Chicken Little?
      • The Universal Terrorist
      • That’s Right! Not!
      • Not You Again!
      • Knowledge, Illusion and Groupthink
      • Laughing and Lying: Why We Can’t Stop
    • Chapter 5 – Film
      • Illusion or Reality? Which is Which?
      • Lost in Space with HAL: Episode I
      • Lost in Space with HAL: Episode II
      • The Power of Suffering
      • The Spirit of America: A Mockumentary
      • Suffering and Sentimentality
      • Inanity and Insanity
      • Old Paradigm Denial
      • Zombies in Paradigm B
      • The Observer
      • American Fools
      • Gi’mme a Drink!
      • The Nitty Gritty of Walter Mitty
      • “Peaking” at Death
      • Building a Cathedral
      • Seeing Our Shadow
      • A New Me
    • Chapter 6 – Graphic Arts (including comics)
      • Embracing Life
      • Utopia, Dystopia: Which Way?
      • A New Feminist Story
    • Chapter 7 – Humor
      • Stand-Up and Be Counted
      • Polite Suicide Prevention
      • The Agonies of Mark Twain
      • Read ’em an’ Weep
      • Blood Brothers
      • You’re Out!
    • Chapter 8 – Illusion
    • Chapter 9 – Journalism
      • Fear and Loathing in the American Dream
      • While Rome Dallies, the Unfaithful Burn
      • Zombieland: Mindless in America
      • Chasing Wisdom
      • Open Mouth, Insert Foot
      • Gangster Narrative
      • Tell It Like It Is Bro!
      • Bill, Bill, What Were You Thinking?
    • Chapter 10 – Music
    • Chapter 11 – Painting
      • Introduction – Painting
        • The Color of Night
        • Nurturing Narrative
        • The Birth of Paradigm B
        • Revolution: Political and Artistic
        • Radical Changes in Painting in the 20th Century
        • Awakening Thru Art
        • A Visionary Awakening
        • Vanity, Vanity, Painting Vanity
        • Painting Peace
      • Intellectual Pointillism (Divisionism)
        • Oneness Painted
        • Painting Feeling
      • Painting during the Middle Ages
        • Reality Show
        • The Wise Old Woman
        • The Universal Annunciation
        • The Holy Trinity and Transformational Wisdom
        • Realist Ahead of His Time
        • Awaiting the Apocalypse
        • Art and Nature
        • Absurdity in the Middle Ages
      • The Renaissance
        • Painting Propaganda, Truth and Beauty
        • Art and Suffering
        • Michelangelo, Plato and Transcendence
        • Michelangelo Caught Up in the Shift
      • Baroque Painting
        • Art and Intuition
        • The Peace Within
        • The Birth of the Child
      • Romanticism and Realism
        • Reality and Realism
        • Bridging the Inquisition and the Enlightenment
        • Saboteur
        • Art and Self-reliance
        • Entering the NOW
        • Government Sponsored Self-destruction
      • Impressionism
        • Resist, Resist …
        • The Father of the Shift to Modern Art
        • Cezanne’s Tapestry
        • Painting and the Algebra of Self-realization
      • Post-Impressionism
        • Simplicity’s Champion
        • Seeking the Present: Monet and Mania
      • Cubism
      • Dada and Surrealism
      • Expressionism
      • Abstract Expressionism
      • Pop and Op Art
      • Unclassifiable Renegades
    • Chapter 12 – Performance Art
      • In the Dark
      • Provocation
    • Chapter 13 – Photography
    • Chapter 14 – Poetry
    • Drama
      • Listening to the Dead
    • Essays
      • The Heroic Mike Tyson
      • In Consideration of the Ultimate
    • Music
    • Novels
      • Order vs. Anarchy
      • Zombieland: Fiction is Reality, Reality is Fiction
    • Rhetoric
    • Short Stories
      • Diseased
      • Storied Fear
      • The Bartleby Decision
  • Essays on the Nature of Reality
    • A Scientist/Philosopher Searches for Awareness
    • Choice and Change
    • Choose What You Identify With: Immortality or Death
    • The Death of Optimism
    • Lucretius: The Poet/Philosopher
    • Medicinal Murder
    • Mindfulness Training
    • Much Ado About Nothing
    • My Name is Jesus and I’m an Alcoholic
    • No-thingness: Field and Form
    • Pick a Bug!
    • Paradigm B and Paradigm A: The Book Analogy
    • Redefining Faith in God
    • Robins Again? Oh Good!
    • Schnapps and the Search for Identity
    • The Shattering and Splitting of the Human Community: The Long and the Short of It
    • We, Thee or Me?
    • What Really Matters?
    • Viewpoints: Perspectives on Religion
    • Zombie Eating Zombies: The Aggregation of the News Media
  • Simple Reality: The Essence
  • Science & Philosophy
    • Chapter 1 – Science, Technology and the Failure to Ask Profound Questions
    • Chapter 2 – Philosophy: the Failed Search for Wisdom
    • Chapter 3 – Insights Into Human Inquiry
  • Trilogy 1 – Where Am I?
    • Chapter 2 – Paradigm B: Sleepwalking in America
    • Chapter 3 – Paradigm A: A New Reality
    • Chapter 4 – Paradigm Shift: Taking the Next Step in The Evolution of Human Consciousness
    • Chapter 5 – Change and Choice
    • Chapter 6 – Insights Into the Human Narrative
  • Trilogy 2 – Who Am I?
    • Chapter 2 – The True Self and the False Self
    • Chapter 3 – Archetypes and Identity
    • Chapter 4 – Typology and Identity
    • Chapter 5 – The Shadow and Identity
    • Chapter 6 – Mythology and Identity
    • Chapter 7 – Insights
  • Trilogy 3 – Why Am I Here?
    • Chapter 2 – Religion and Human Behavior
    • Chapter 3 – Psychology and Human Behavior
    • Chapter 4 – Insights and Human Behavior
  • The Human Community
    • Chapter 1 – Where We Have Been
    • Chapter 2 – Where We Are Now
    • Chapter 3 – The Future of the Human Community
    • Chapter 4 – Insights – Community and Simple Reality
  • More Detail
  • Glossary
  • The Books

Chapter 1 – Science, Technology and the Failure to Ask Profound Questions

Table of Contents

  • Introduction to Science & Technology
  • A New Perspective
  • The Atomic Meltdown
  • Blowin’ Smoke
  • The Illusion of Physics
  • The Self-Destructing Human Animal
  • Robots, Welcome to Hell
  • Extremophile: Fact or Fantasy?
  • Einstein Shifting
  • Science to the Rescue – Not!
  • The Long Journey Through Nothingness
  • Much Ado About Nothing
  • Too Soon
  • Which Cohort?
  • We Can Run …
  • Big Brother to Big Bots
  • Too Much Breeding?
  • The Intellect and Swimology
  • And For What?
  • Silly, Silly Sleepers
  • Science and Evolution
  • Science, Religion and Mysticism
  • The Mystical Moment
  • Oneness
  • Science and Food: See What We Mean?
  • The Evolution of the Frantic Search for Power
  • There’s Nothing Out There!
  • The Truth is Important
  • Steve Jobs: Intuition and Intellect
  • Climbing Jacob’s Ladder
  • The Heart’s Mind
  • Silicon Self-Deception
  • Going Somewhere?

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Science & Philosophy: The Failure of Reason in the Human Community

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