A brief examination of some of the scientism-literature encouraging a Marxist-Postmodern society via feminism

One of the more interesting books I have managed to read in the last several years was The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Montreal born social scientist, Steven Pinker.

Although in interviews with Pinker, he comes across as a soft-leftist, a Trudeau supporting (Pre-Covid anyway) kind of archetypal Canadian, his book The Blank Slate is pretty much an examination of three concepts he claims are the source material for an attempt to move the West from a science based Socratic model to a Marxist based scientism one. And frankly it’s an awesome read.

The three concepts he cites which are responsible for the transition are, The Black Slate, The Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the Machine.

The concept of the blank slate is pretty much a marxist axiom. Marxists need to believe that all people are innately the same. That differences in outcome with humans have nothing to do with talent or any other kind of genetic adaptations, but differences in social circumstance leading to advantage or “privilege”. That humans are a kind of blank slate upon which, anything can be written. Therefore, any infant if removed from their parent’s preconceived values early enough can be sculpted into anything. Pinker’s book details how using both genetics and examples from many other species, this is distilled nonsense. And well refutes the examples used in the animal kingdom to ‘support’ the notion of the blank slate by demonstrating the behaviours cited. as in fact innate to the species listed. Pinker also explains the true mechanism of neuroplasticity, often used to try and prove that human behaviour is infinitely malleable, when in fact, it is an adaptive coping mechanism.  In other words, when the brain suffers an insult to one area, another area may in a limited way compensate for the damage, but if the part of the brain which interprets visual data is destroyed, the part of the brain which processes audio data will never reshape itself to allow you to see again. The brain, Pinker explains, is a stack of gadgets. This by the way, explains a great deal about us.

The Noble Savage is something especially Canadians are bombarded with as a kind of moral cudgel on a daily basis. The idea that humans are all born as good and Western society corrupts them, and we can see this by examining aboriginal people. Which if anyone actually does, may come up with a different image.

The Ghost in the Machine is the idea that there is self separate from your biological container so to speak. That reasoning and consciousness is separate from brain. This could be foundational to the notion being pushed on children that “they are born in the wrong body”. A metaphysical notion that would make most religious philosophers giggle, if not outright angry. As an interesting related aside, the Steven King Horror film, Pet Cemetery had as its main focus, a child that underwent a process which fundamentally changed his nature. The character’s name was Gage, which I assume was cleverly named after a real-life case of a man, Phineas Gage, who in the course of his daily work building the railroad, had a tamping iron penetrate his skull and go right through his brain. He lived, and was healed to physical health, but everyone who knew him said he was not the same man. Once you have cylinder of metal go through your brain, it just doesn’t work the same way.

And now, Erin Byrd on Sex at Dawn.

Those who have made it through the 3 hour + Maj. Stephen Coughlin video interview with myself and Sam Dubé, may recall a segment where Coughlin explains how Plato had explained that women should all belong to all men in common, and no woman is to live privately with any man. And the children… well read it below. It is from book V of Plato’s Republic.

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In very much the same spirit as Steven Pinker, enters Erin Byrd.

We have posted one of her videos before on feminism and its real origins and purpose. The reasoning and presentation was so good, I was gently admonished by a friend for not posting more or her material as well as explaining how people can see more of her.

In this video she takes on another book in very much the Steven Pinker style, although probably without familiarity with his work, called, Sex at Dawn”. In this video analysis, she explains how incorrect the scientism in the book is, which leads the reader to believe in the destruction of the family and a total sexual free for all, which the book claims is natural and healthy for humanity.

In other words, Sex at Dawn is very much like the literature Pinker takes on, which appears to be scientific in nature, but in fact is replacing reason and science with scientism and conclusions which are destructive to all existing human systems of culture and organization short of communism.

We here at Vlad, would argue that the book, Sex at Dawn is an attempt to move us to the Platonic model as described in The Republic book V, and which is all part of the same effort to deconstruct humanity as it is, and remake it as something utterly alien, and which always, always, fails.