kathrun ryun sindrum....

Wah wah wah. I wanna be different. I wanna make make my mark without doing anything. I know.Start pronouncing my words differently to everyone else. I'm in the meedja I can do whatever I like. Its called the the cult of meee sindrum. Howrever you cut it its infantile.
A bit like Steve Marshall in Australia. Just as well the rest of the international meedja don't see his items where he mangles his words that are not so much malapropisms but just plain ignorance masquerading as meaning. If his peers could see it they would laugh their f*cking tits off.
Is this what it has come down to now. Just make it up as you go and say what you like because no one least of all the editor in chief has any ability either to say you nay?
anyway.
Just read an obit for Jacques Barzun in a last years Time magazine.
He gave up on the noo noo heads too.
Like in the the New Scientist which seems to have become a journal shot through with speculative nonsense from scholars who have no idea of the history of their subject.
Now we have philosophers like Patricia Churchland who are supposed experts in the philosophy of neuroscience which attempts to clarify neuroscientific methods and results using the conceptual rigour and methods of the philosophy of science which is so much claptrap. There is no rigour in the philosophy of science.
Its just individuals pushing their own barrows. Philosophers are not scientists. Scientists hate philosophers because they arrive and say this looks easy. Maybe I can make a discovery in this field too because I am  just as clever as these guys. But they cant.
anyway Churchalnd for all her much vaunted reputation cant even make the connection between time and consciousness. They are both illusions. If you had a machine that had five senses plus speech, language, memory and cognitive function and ratiocination then it would believe that it was conscious too.
They also have a very unfortunate tendency to believe that behaviour is connected to phsyiology and chemistry.
They cant even remember John Locke.
Or maybe they dont want to.
They are so busy trying to make a new discovery that they cant see that the discovery is really into what and  why people think what they do rather than how they do it.
Barzuns scholarship was not innate.
He had to learn it but for todays manques thats too hard. They dont want to put any effort in.