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    I, Essayist
    I, Essayist
    I, Essayist
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    I, Essayist

    By Anthony North

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    I’m uneducated in any academic sense, having left school at fifteen. However, when I came down with ME/cfs thirty years ago, I decided to educate myself. Doing so, I realized that so much is wrong with our knowledge and society. This is the first volume of my reasoned rants. You’ll also find here my views on cults and conspiracy theories, and why they happen.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnthony North
    Release dateNov 29, 2012
    ISBN9781301867387
    I, Essayist
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    Anthony North

    Thinker & Storyteller****7,453 Words to Save the UK and I,Writer are now FREE. Scroll down to find them.*****1955 (Yorkshire, England) – I am born (Damn! Already been done). ‘Twas the best of times ... (Oh well).I was actually born in the year of Einstein's death, close to Scrooge's Counting House. It doesn't mean anything but it sounds good. As for my education, I left school at 15 and have had no formal education since. Hence, I'm self-taught.****From a family of newsagents, at 18 I did a Dick Whittington and went off to London, only to return to pretend to be Charlie and work in a chocolate factory.When I was ten I was asked what I wanted to be. I said soldier, writer and Dad. I never thought of it for years – having too much fun, such as a time as lead guitarist in a local rock band – but I served nine years in the RAF, got married and had seven kids. I realized my words had been precognitive when, at age 27, I came down with M.E. – a condition I’ve suffered ever since – and turned my attention to writing.Indeed, as I realized that no expert could tell me what was wrong with me, I began my quest to find out why. Little did I realize it would last decades and take me through the entire history of knowledge, leaving me with the certainty that our knowledge systems are inadequate.****My non-fiction is based on P-ology, a thought process I devised to work with patterns of knowledge, and designed to be a bedfellow to specialization. A form of Rational Holism, it seeks out areas the specialist may have missed. I work from encyclopaedias and introductory volumes in order to gain a grasp of many subjects and am not an expert in anything, but those patterns keep forming. Hence, I do not deal in truth, but ideas, and cover everything from politics to the paranormal.When reading my work I ask only: do I make sense? Of course, an expert would say: a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I agree. And an expert has so little knowledge of everything.I also write novels and Flash Fiction in all genres.

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      I, Essayist - Anthony North

      I, Essayist

      By Anthony North

      Copyright Anthony North 2012

      Cover image copyright, Yvonne North 2012

      Smashwords Edition

      No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission

      Other books by Anthony North

      Beginning in 2019 I’m publishing 14 volumes of my fiction, inc 7 novels in most genres, & 21 works of non-fiction covering cults, politics, conspiracies, religion, disasters, science, philosophy, warfare, crime, psychology, new age, green issues & all areas of the unexplained, inc ufology, lost worlds and the paranormal. Hopefully appearing at the rate of one a month, check out the latest launch at my bookstore at http://anthonynorth.com or buy direct from Smashwords for all devices at: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/anthonynorth

      In addition to the above, you may like my ‘I’ Series – 8 volumes of flash fiction (horror, sci fi, romance, adventure, crime), 4 volumes of poetry & 5 volumes of short essays from politics to the unexplained. Available from same links as above. Also check out my bookstore for news of my books out in paperback.

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Commonsense By Dictat

      The Female Serf

      Eco-Consciousness

      Freedom & Unfreedom

      I Gotta Right

      Order & Morality

      Whigging It

      Money & Belief

      Towards A General Theory of Crime

      West Mind

      Wealth Through Birth or Merit

      The West Out of Control

      The Enduring Student

      The Pursuit of Freedom

      Stat Life

      Total Isn't Total

      Dark Times

      Total Thoughts

      Libertarians Be Damned

      Atlantis Or Utopia

      Picasso Rising

      CULTS

      Who Joins a Cult?

      Inferiority

      Hysterically Speaking

      The Guru

      The Messiah Factor

      Gotcha!

      Persuasion

      They're Not All Bad

      The Abnormal Is Normal

      CONSPIRACY THEORY

      Don't Trust Fate

      The Philosophy of Conspiracy

      Suspicious Minds

      When an Event is More Than an Event

      History - Don't You Believe It

      Postmodern & Conspiracy

      About the Author

      Connect With Anthony

      INTRODUCTION

      I’m uneducated in any academic sense, having left school at fifteen. However, when I came down with ME/cfs thirty years ago, I decided to educate myself. Doing so, I realized that so much is wrong with our knowledge and society. This is the first volume of my reasoned rants. You’ll also find here my views on cults and conspiracy theories, and why they happen.

      NOTE: Where I write about politics and society, unless I say the ‘west’, I’m referring to the UK.

      COMMONSENSE BY DICTAT

      You’ve all heard about the research. It can come in many forms. Beefburgers can make you fat. That’s a classic. As if we didn’t know already. But to science, we don’t. If it isn’t proved, it may not be right.

      We all know it’s right, because we’ve employed commonsense. But we’re not supposed to use that any more. Don’t you realize that? We cannot be trusted to be correct in our commonsense judgments.

      This is a problem that is becoming dangerous.

      What happens in science usually passes down to society. So hey presto! Welcome to political correctness. The vast majority know it is wrong to discriminate, but we can’t know this through commonsense. We’ve got to be told.

      In the UK, health and safety is gathering ground, too. This is the real social stinker. Anything that can be dangerous if commonsense is not used must be banned - because we’re not allowed to use commonsense.

      Commonsense, you see, has been politicized.

      It has been taken away from us mere incompetent people, and placed in the hands of authority. And only their pronouncements can be classed as commonsense.

      But of course, it isn’t commonsense they impose on us, but diktat. Governments have realised a new way to control – to politicize our value judgments themselves. And here, good reader, is the real irony. In the age of the individual, government is now guaranteeing that individuality is no more.

      THE FEMALE SERF

      Feminism was a marvelous thing. It was so right to give women equality in law. Okay, they may not have made it in many other respects, but it was one of the most fundamental requirements of democracy and freedom, and I applaud it. But …

      There’s always a ‘but’ with me. Not concerning the correctness of feminism, but the motive for its acceptance in the wider social sphere.

      Nothing happens today without a reason.

      And often that reason is subtle. For instance, if women hadn’t demanded their rights by going out to work, could house prices be so high today?

      High house prices demanded

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