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MANTIS ANALYTICS...社会科学分析 |
PROJECT ANALYTICA...分析项目 | ... | DETAILS...细节 |
RESEARCH...研究 | TEACHING...教学 | |
The Mantis Institute, initiators of teachings and analects drawn from diagnostic, prescriptive and prognostic analysis, is recognized for research that combines scientific and metaphysical knowledge that provide meaningful interpretations on the complexities of civilization, the nature of collective consciousness, and the implications of automated life by Artificial Intelligence. Experienced in the role of researcher and teacher in university and high school settings, serves as a motivation for initiating open-source social science analytics; knowledge further developed in the classroom, being accessible to broader audiences. Analects are psychoanalytical narratives of analogy and analysis emphasizing ethically based education, governance, and humane, rational social practices to treat social problems. Analects that attempt to be balanced by the inclusion of alternative perspectives, will find little if no space in the middle of "no man's land." Analyzing society based on experiences and an education in the social sciences is no guarantee of objectivity. To feign objectivity, research must pass the test of peer review by institutions controlling the narrative.Yet, the analogy and the analysis rationales of Social Science were developed by the the mavericks of the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Modern Ages negotiating with or reacting to the powers of the era. To escape mediocrity, some minds aspire to be initiators of the "new" benefitting society, but that is rarely the case within monolithic institutions. It is a perplexing task to "thread the needle" of objectivity that examines forces that control its uses. Institutions do generate objective information but put it to subjective ends. 1 Yet, the purpose of "thinking" is to predict the future to escape the past by having information on uncomfortable suppressed subjects. To speak of what is questioned and cautiously whispered by the skeptical and ethically motivated are good deeds indeed. So, like the past, wisdom knows, that now and in the future - "no good deed goes unpunished." Truth: Social science studies free of value or beliefs are non-existent - only a question of the motive for "doctoring the information." Research is an industry cloaked in the "odor of goodness," technocrats serving power while claiming to be helpful. What good are statistics on the obvious, that the impoverished billions suffer the incompetence and negligence of elites monopolizing the instruments of state for questionable ends? |
Few are born teachers, a natural teacher is self-disciplined, yet knows when to ignore, bend, or break the rules; understands that students outnumber the teacher, but the teacher outweighs them. Most are concerned with what teachers do to students, but few are interested in what students do to teachers good or bad; impulsive, idealism needing self-discipline encountering seasoned cynicism needing rejuvenation. It is difficult to teach the factual truth, that power monopolies are insulated from an existence controlled and institutionally imposed on many others. Yet the bitter sweet fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, in the keeping of the gods is mastered through the School of Life, places where teachers must provide balanced answers to uncomfortable questions raised by pupils; an encounter between idealism and organized cynicism. Akin to pupae of a beehive require feeding, teachers of antiquity were surrounded by young disciples in a close relationship examining Providential Purpose. These masters were great ethicists of antiquity living within oppressive societies. Their analects have stood the test of time because they emphasize ethics and touch upon the psychology of the paranormal. Like disciples of antiquity, idealists, aspirants believing in a better world, their conscience is molded by experiences with failed role-models and few spiritual mentors, they seek the prophetic pragmatists of assurances of what is good. Teachers as technicians, distanced from pupils, are proctors of approved materials. Civic classes and school rituals support the state; and counselors, trained in behavioral psychology of the "carrot and stick" increase the distance between teacher and student. It is difficult to counsel students dealing with life when teachers are reluctant to answer social and personal questions: "Why is life unfair?" Or, "Who am I?" Or more dangerously, students questioning their civic class book and teacher. Questions not easily answered at the university either where the capricious winds of "correctness" dictate the answers of what idea or agenda that is in power. 1 Truth: Education is an industrial scale profitable industry cloaked in the "odor of goodness," all schools claiming to be good caretakers of children. Where are the caretakers of the hundreds of millions of children living in garbage dumbs, war zones, and refugee camps? These experiences serve as an education furthering difficulties or birthing ethical leaders. |
Footnote: 1, The author was employed as a senior researcher and liason for a medical institution under contract and the direction of two Florida governors of opposite political parties. This state contract to manage research grants issued to the university communities reflected research and policy that changed with political ideologies. |
Footnote: 1, The author, as a graduate student witnessed the purging of foreign students by zealot professors following the event of 9/11. later, as a university instructor, the [demeanor of] schooling reflected the ideology of those in control; and as a public school teacher the teachings of a civic class are to be reinforced. |
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The Grand Narrative of the West is Judeo-Christian in ethics; reasoning drawn from the Renaissance, the "Analogy," the “Analysis” from the Enlightenment Age, and the Modern Age legitimating Reason into institutionalized life. Yet in the Postmodern Age, these narratives, the creeds of ethics and reasoning, are "the mask of "goodness" concealing "the powers behind the throne" that practice the vices of unrestrained desire to rule. Life and its rituals are like a play; a theatre of stories of good and evil; of playwrights and their half-truths written for producers of realties. Narratives are works of persuasion. Most narratives are cynical, fearful and hateful, a few inspirational, and fewer still, rational or ethical in placing the stability of "the village" over ambitions of power. The "tone" of the language reflects authority - legal or social power authoring "scripts" that either stabilize or destabilize society. Theatre, where plays are staged; now actors are played by the alluring voices of digitized tonalities, AI seducing the audience with disinformation to affect thoughts, emotions and [reactive] behaviors. |
Modernity sought the virtues of knowledge, not the vices of ignorance; prosperity was to be to the benefit of all. Freud wrote of human nature concocting rationales legitimating irrational desires. Yet despite religious or scientific bodies of knowledge, still society is plagued by psychosis. Trust society and those that seek to control it to be what it is - psychotic - the "rule of the jungle," self-interest over idealism. The sources of disinformation are authorized authors of authority; narratives, authored on behalf of power, that are intended to "trigger" emotions of the targeted that confirms or negates one's values to the point of delusional belief, disbelief or apathy. The educated, socialized to believe "they know better," and the semiliterate that bear the burdens, are "triggered" by storytellers "fanning" an ideology that engineers confrontations. Rational inquiry questioning corrupted power as a source of instabilities that binds the sociopathic while alienating the ethical, elicits out of balance, irrational, emotional and physical reactions confronting the rational. |
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Mantis [< NL < Gk: mantik(os) for prophet] Social Science Analytics tempered by the metaphysics of Dao 道 ,.. 佛学 Buddhist and Messianic Gnostic analects. Being "centered" at the crossroads of beliefs, provides broader perspectives by delving into the complexities of society and the currents of chaos in an exploration of uncomfortable topics revealing the human condition. Analytics presented in a Dictionary of Social Knowledge based on extensive research advocating progress through ethical governance and institutional practices that mitigate suffering and preserve dignity. Narrative Basis of Bodies of Knowledge Analytical and metaphysical narratives are commentaries and storytelling "through the eyes" of the prophetic pragmatist reflecting upon paradoxical enigmas encountered within institutions, cultures and people "from all walks of life." An initiator of teachings and analects drawn from social diagnostics and prognostics, and metaphysics. Classified as social psychology studies on civilization by Cambridge and Oxford Libraries. |
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Note: Encyclopedia Analytica - 21st Century Human Condition, © 2025. Release Date: 2025 |
Note: [Edited] Analytic Entries from The Taboo Dictionary - Forbidden Ground A to Z, © 2016 |
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