The Eupsychian Party bases its survival on the efficacy of the Scientific Method in improving society. Without the empirical eyeglasses of a scientist, no human community can navigate its way into a better future. All one has to do is think about Carl Hempel's nomic phantasm here. No laws, no future. This might also be called eupsychian stoichiometry. For example, if we all took Obama's good advice to "get over it," we might improve our lot. This could even include a "CEO Rebate" of $500,000 each, but we would have to decide whether to use or not to use genital electrocution to get our result. There is no law against displaying electrodes with high-amperage wires. And remember that math problem about the truck that never hits the wall? But where does psychological torture begin? Read the three lines above again.If we discover ways to decrease sociopathy and increase altruism in utero, we will fail to push the methods on the future stack if we can't reliably replicate and instantiate. [Who would have thought that this would be caused by irradiation with old cordless telephones at 864 MHz. And what about that crazy idiot who bought them all up and gave them only to factually good people?]
No child left behind on their way to the front lines. [C. W. Mills must be howling in his grave. :-0]
But wait. Who defines "better?" What are their credentials? (Thanks, Ivor.) Who is right? It all depends on the future, doesn't it? Read those lines above again.
What if we will have found that what had been holding us back for so many aeons was prayer? Wishful thinking is good, for sure, but our therapist (God, I suppose, if we mean our species) has threatened to label us psychotic unless we get some results. He helps those who help themselves, etc., etc. All we have to do is bend a little and say "God will help us if we speak his language." How would God define "eupsychian" and "aggridant?"
Consider this browser helper from Faulkner.
TBC RSN. Promise.
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