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Albert Einstein: “A Foolish Faith In Authority Is The Worst Enemy Of The Truth”
Albert Einstein said:
A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of the truth.
Indeed, scientists have shown that people will go to absurd lengths - and engage in mental gymnastics – in order to cling to their belief in what those in authority have said.
Part of the reason so many are so vulnerable to naive belief in authority is that we evolved in small tribes … and we assume that the super-elites are just like us.
In reality, there are millions of psychopaths in the world … and they are largely running D.C. and on Wall Street.
These people have no hesitation in lying to promote their goals.
The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs told Morley Safer of 60 Minutes and CBS News:
Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you’re stupid. Did you hear that? — stupid.
And studies show that the super-rich lie, cheat and steal more than the rest of us.
Who’s to Blame … Big Government or Big Business?
Conservatives tend to believe that the captains of industry are virtuous and that the government can’t be trusted.
Liberals tend to believe that government servants are virtuous and that corporations can’t be trusted.
But the truth is that psychopaths are psychopaths … whether they’re in the private sector or government.
And there is no such thing as representative government or free market capitalism anymore. Big corporate money has coopted the government; and ill-guided politicians have destroyed the free market.
Corrupt government agencies and officials and corrupt corporations and executives have become intertwined in a malignant, symbiotic relationship.
And they’re trying to grab more and more power and wealth every day.
Big Business Has Turned Into a Criminal Syndicate
Big banks and giant oil companies have more or less become criminal enterprises.
And conservatives are not amused.
Government Has Gone Rogue
If the government were accountable, then government corruption, deceit and wrongdoing would be held to a modest level.
But the government is not accountable.
When bad government policy leads to bad results, the government manipulates the data … instead of changing policy.
Government pumps out massive amounts of propaganda through the mainstream and “gatekeeper” alternative media, movies, video games, and other venues.
The government has launched a war on journalism, and censors and manipulates social media. And see this.
The massive NSA is spying on all of us – including government officials, reporters, and everyone else – as a way to crush dissent.
And people who criticize government policy or government officials may literally be labeled terrorists.
No wonder the American public has lost faith in the 2 party system. And see this.
People of faith shouldn’t be fooled into blindly deferring to government authority.
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I would not put too much weight into what Dear Albert said about putting your faith in government as he thought that a committee of three or four "edjukated" Harvard or Princeton men should/could govern mankind. I give him points on math, other then that he was a ignorant man at life and freedom having effectively lived under house arrest and the hands of his paymasters.
Who said it's gonna get worse before it gets better?
Although he used the Tensor Mechanics to describe his General Theory of Relativity Einstein was NOT A MATHEMATICIAN.
As a matter of fact he continually ignored the Fundamental Therom of the Calculus in his Special Relativity Theory as he considered that Velocity and Time were continuous rather than digital. He was not fully aware of the implications of Max Planck's work in Quantuum Physics meant.
He still denied that during his tenure as Heisenberg and he had an argument about God's Dice Playing habits.
Physicists are not the best Mathematicians. We may use the Mathematics to describe our models but we are not PURISTS in any sense.
becareful
time and the measurement of time are two distinct things... time is more than likely continous but our measurements of it are not....
you claim phyiscists are not mathematicians and i agree yet you keep arguing math when asked how matter acts where it is not..... don't take it personally fenyman, in all his brilliance, couldn't explain magnetism. yet it is quite real...
should i not enjoy my dinner because i don't understand digestion?
tis true.. anything valuable that einstein may have contributed other than being the poster boy for the cult of personality that science has become, was done by others first....
Really? You are definitely a Science Illiterate.
Who wrote Special Relativity before Einstein?
Who redefined Gravity as a curvature in the fabric of Space Time, rather than as a Force which Newton declared centuries beforehand, as Einstein did in his General Relativity Theory? Einstein only overthrew Newton's Theory of Gravitation. That was not a spectacular feat of reasoning at all, right?
Who defined Energy as equivalent to Mass before Einstein?
Who defined Energy as equivalent to Frequency before Einstein made that declaration in his Nobel Prize winning paper on the Photoelectric Effect?
Back up your fucking words with SOURCES. I am all ears...
He was the very last of the Classical Physicists and opened up a totally different world in the Modern Physics.
Oh??? To let everyone know, "I did not know" is NOT A FUCKING EXCUSE.
Yes indeed you are in the land of the blind. OPEN YOUR EYES.
seems like i touched a FUCKING nerve.. and who are you to demand any fucking thing from me... ready tesla, heaviside, steinmetz if you want but you can continue to believe that matter acts where it is not through a medium (by definition post michelson-morley) lacking in attributes or properties, but you will be wrong... and to say i know nothing about what i am talking, then all the engineers (professionally licensed) and physicists i talk to on a daily basis must be just as confused as i am... go fuck yourself
and if you want to know how stated e=mc^2 look at jj thompson... before you start calling people illiterate you might want to check yourself and your high and fucking mighty attitude...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Thomson#Awards_and_recognition
Not a mention of Mass-Energy Equivalence is this biography...
Source?
http://books.google.com/books?id=L5s-XZg95kEC&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&dq=jj+t...
but i will relinquish that thompson wasnt the first... planck was there too
btw dont take wikipedia too seriously... it will bite you in the end
My quote was written by Einstein in a letter to Jost Winteler (1901), quoted in The Private Lives of Albert Einstein by Roger Highfield and Paul Carter (1993), p. 79.
Your quote is made up, although it is cute ...
mr george,
i want to clarify that my hatred for all things einstein does not blind me from the truth in your article... i apologize for all the einstein bashing i am doing, but please don't take it as disagreement with your argument...
keep up the good work
Just trying to lighten things up around here. I'm a regular reader of your website. ;)-
Your quote is made up, although it is cute ...
Actually, that quote is from Yogi Berra.
Didn't Yogi Berra say "I think I need a pic-a-nic basket!"...??
Come on, GW, weigh in on the Lenin quote.
You know you want to.
It's like the little novice who complained to her mother superior about the contruction workers outside her window:
Mother superior: "Yes, dear, they call a spade a spade.
Novice: "No, Mother, they call it a fucking shovel!"
The truth is the truth no matter who says it, though sometimes its sources are revealing:
"While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State."
http://thepeoplescube.com/lenin/lenin-s-own-20-monster-quotes-t185.html#...