Experts and Master Parasites

Professionals, middlemen and experts form the largest chunk

of parasites and render this age an era of weeds

The easiest method to identify the leading trend of a particular culture or age is to identify the most successful trend of that culture or age. In almost every modern event, we can trace a common syndrome, a mechanical sort of knowledge working as the fundamental behind all modern trends which can be eventually identified as PROFESSIONALISM. As the ‘mind’ behind every modern ‘success story’, the new code word, professionalism today is the much sought-after pre-occupation of all modern trends.

Be it in arts or in sciences, in sports or in politics, in fundamental sciences or in applied sciences, in philosophy or in theology, professionalism by all means has emerged as the only route to get to the top in an age that is technically managed by folk wisdom. Experts and professionals, today, are the top notches who have emerged as the new idols and the common factor in almost all modern success stories, particularly, in the advanced nations. Every enterprise, national or multinational, runs head over heels in recruiting the top professional for every strategic job.
Overspecialization—the supreme strategy of the parasitical-elite class—is over 2000 years old. This is a major strategy that is part of the AC System. It enabled criminal-minded rulers to control world populations for millennia without opposition Roman leaders divided knowledge and the professions into specialized fields that were cut off from the totality of knowledge. By doing this, the leaders blocked everyone from integrating knowledge. The unrestricted integration of knowledge would have enabled citizens to see right through their leaders' false power. Certainly, the leaders controlled the food and money supply in order to make everyone's physical survival dependent on the Establishment. And by dividing knowledge, they were able to conquer everyone.

What about citizens with highly powerful minds? What happened to those who had the potential to see through their leader's Plato-based frauds? How did criminal-minded leaders stop those powerful minds that could potentially collapse the rickety superstructure of false power? Simple. The leaders specialized everyone, especially the geniuses. By locking the mathematical and scientific geniuses into tiny realms of knowledge, all threats were effectively removed. Roman leaders were able to rule for centuries without opposition.Today, the parasitical-elite class continues to use this master strategy. A close look at the universities reveals that knowledge and careers are divided into increasingly narrower ranges that are cut off from the rest of human knowledge. Overspecialization reigns supreme in today's colleges, universities, careers, and jobs.Yet, an even closer look at this situation reveals the shrewdness of today's leaders. The leaders recruit the smartest, most intelligent children from grade school and integrate them into the AC System when they are twelve years of age or younger.

For example, today's leaders give tests to grade school children. They identify who the smartest children are based on the test results. Once they identify those children with the most powerful minds, they offer them scholarships and paid summer camps at prestigious universities. Once there, leaders feed the bright children Platonic and Kantian ideas. As those children are guided into dishonest idea systems a la Plato, Kant, Hegel, Marx, and others, they become trapped in a ring of corrupt ideas. By doing this, those who are a potential threat to the AC System are rendered harmless. Moreover, some transmogrify into Establishment servants; they become statist politicians, problem-causing lawyers, liberal journalists, and pseudo intellectuals.

Professionalism under attack

Today people sense that something terribly is wrong with our man-made mechanical systems. They believe there are too many designers, plotists, machinationists, experts and professionals in every field in the world today. There's a reason people hate them. It's because they have a monopoly on what rightfully belongs to everyone in human society. For example, they, like lawyers, have an economic interest in generating and prolonging problems and conflict in society. Laws--or rather the machinations of laws—are to experts and lawyers what fishing rods are to fishermen. What if there is flooding of fishers? An ideal example is the case of superfluity of laws and lawyers in modern society.

Mankind today needs to de-professionalize the human society, as then American Vice President J. Danforth Quayle, remaked:"Clearly, we need to de-lawyer our society." The nuanced version of this diversion argument was put forward in 1983 by Derek Bok. Derek C. Bok, in A Flawed System (1983). He wrote: "A massive diversion of exceptional talent into pursuits that often add little to the growth of the economy, the pursuit of culture, or the enhancement of the human spirit." Of late, however, the trend changed dramatically. Even in Western societies, recently, public opinion is increasingly dominated by unreflecting prejudice and an unwillingness to trust experts and professionals, even when they come with, what they claim, ‘factual evidence’. Experts no longer command respect, and polls show that the only scientists the public seem to trust are those who work for environmental pressure groups.

As if there is acute paradigm conflict, professionalism is increasingly coming under attack today, as Michael Ellner put it: “Everything is upside down in today’s world. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, major media destroy information and priests destroy spirituality". Members of the profession are today part of the market-led society they live in and when their values are no longer seen as credible or relevant in terms of money then they adopt the reigning society's values - or even that of the marketplace. For example, many doctors in the USA now do MBA's and become businessmen.

What are professional clowns? They are human beings that have tapped into the AC system first identified by Plato and then developed by Augustine, Machiavelli, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Keynes, Galbraith, and others. Professional clowns have figured out that by removing the essence of human beings—productive effort—they can usurp their way to unearned power, prosperity, and prestige. The essence of human beings always was and always will be productive effort: producing more values than one consumes. But those who consume far more values than they produce lose their humanity. They destroy their human nature and become humanoid clowns.
Such self-made clowns survive by creating chaos. That chaos arises from an endless stream of illusions and deception. As those illusions obscure the minds of human beings, humanoid clowns move in with force-backed agents to drain productive people everywhere. And those illusions make the draining of value producers appear necessary, moral, legal, and just.

Professional politicians, armed bureaucrats, political prosecutors, Establishment lawyers, biased judges, some academe, many journalists, high-ranking clerics, and fake businesspeople are professional clowns. They use the AC System to usurp ever-greater chunks of money and power from the only person with real power: the honest, value-producing individual—from the landscape gardener to the computer software mogul. “A nation as badly governed as America today is by professional politicians who may not know the term professional is an encomium when applied to apparachits like Rollins and Jordan”. Newsweek columnist George F. Will wrote on the American political scene referring to the Ross Perot election campaign in 1990 in the hands of seasoned professional.

Doing a critical look at salaried professionals and the soul-battering system that shapes their lives another American colomnist and author Jeff Schmidt addresses the tail end of this question in his book Disciplined Minds. He writes: “The status of ‘professional’ in America indicates to the masses that you have made something of yourself. You have become one of the best and the brightest. But what sort of Faustian deal had to be made to get there? The “best and the brightest” Americans, as historian Howard Zinn has pointed out, are the people who have engineered atrocities like the Vietnam War. More recently, these engineers have been manufacturing the consent of the two biggest American historical events so far in the 21st century: the farcical 2000 U.S. presidential election and the ambiguous terror of the War on Terrorism”. The major problems in the US system have arisen because the market has successfully overridden an already degenerate professionalism. Professional people have been complicit with the market in doing this. Medicine as a profit making business became legitimate in the USA at least long before corporate chains were founded. Professionalism has the most subservient in history because the market has triumphed. The market has succeeded financially, as it defeated human society, because professionalism fully surrendered.Why is this degeneration affecting professionalism to such suicidal level? Is professionalism inherently rudderless and basically evil? This study finds that it is.

Zeroing in on professionalism

After doing it for 20 years I left my profession in 1988, to find solutions to problems which, I came to understand, are being generated by none other than what we call professions and which are indeed the main problems of mankind today. That is, anything that we do by way of a profession seemed to end up problems for the society, in due course.
Strangely it was at a time when professionalism was riding high, especially in the developed societies, where it is being considered as the only panacea to solve their problems and achieve what they call 'progress’. The fact that I started fight professionalism seemed much outlandish, if not a bit eccentric idea, in the mainstream worldviews in the developed societies, let alone in a third world society like India which on the other hand is desperately trying to emulate and catch up with the developed, particularly the West.

Although I was fighting against the whole world on this idea single-handedly, I could however see the world simply being passive humanly and active only mechanically, which slowly started to vindicate my views. For I know the recent historical fact that when 99% of human race fight the world almost single-handedly, it is the rest one percent, who constitute the institutionalized world of the establishment, comprising the market force and these experts and professionals, that controls the whole world.

With most of the subsequent global events and developments vindicating my theses, every passing year made me more and more confident and convinced of this line of thinking. Branding PROFESSIONALISM as the number one problem of modern man, I was the first author in the world to come out with a book against professionalism. Released by then Indian Prime Minister Chandra Sekhar in January 1991, and reported and reviewed by the national press, including then American ambassador to India, and some prominent authors, Story of Man--Layman (1990) later proved to be a document of prophetic accuracy, as this book predicted almost all major global events that took place from 1991 till today.What immediately provoked me to come out with this book in 1990 was a major global event that was happening in the late 80s: The East European Revolution of 1989, which I could make out simply as the degeneration of top grade professionalism.

Marxism emerged and succeeded in the world primarily as the result of an anti-incumbency factor to then long prevailing capitalism that then was centered around big landed gentry and, to a lesser extent, big industrialists. Marxism subsequently came out victorious in the world threatening capitalism from its base and empowered two of the three greatest super powers in the world, namely, the former Soviet Union and China, as it swelled to every nook and corner of the world, including the great capitalist nations. But Marxism cannot and will not overstep capitalism simply because Marxism is there only because of capitalism. For Marxism is only a by-product of capitalism. Later, the real challenge to Marxism came, as an anti-incumbency factor, not from capitalism but something that encompassed both capitalism and communism, namely, professionalism. It actually was the result of beginning of degeneration of professionalism then in Marxism which is SCIENTICIF SOCIALISM just as capitalism which is SCIENTIFIC COMERCIALISM.\

Science of Professionalism

Now let us examine the common attributes of the following categories of people, put together, as a single class: the managers, the businessmen, the experts and consultants like doctors, engineers and lawyers, the career artists, the career sportsmen, the professional writers and journalists, the career politicians, the bureaucrats, the professional thieves, the professional killers, the prostitutes etc.In his book World Without Cancer author G. Edward Griffin exposes how corrupt politics and professionals join together to prevent real cancer cures—herbals, certain natural minerals and other cheap nature’s products-- from reaching the public and which incur no money in prevention. He writes: “Once you've got cancer you'll pay anything to try to stay alive. Cancer treatment is therefore a booming business, and cancer prevention is nowhere. That is the basic dynamic of the debate. Cancer surgeons can achieve the status of rock stars among their peers. Those who advocate prevention will most likely find themselves without funding, ridiculed and despised by the chemical industry, the pesticide industry, the asbestos industry, the oil industry and all their minions -- lawyers, bankers, engineers, reporters, professors, and politicians – who make a fat living off those who pump out cancer-causing products and dump out cancer-causing by-products, akin to toxic waste”. In one of German writer Berthold Brecht’s most well-known plays about Galileo Galilei's fight, we will meet such people of our time: professionals and business people who are very much aware of the truth, but nevertheless call it a lie and want to prohibit it, just for one reason: to make profit!

Thus all these people come under a single category called professionals. Besides, they all have certain common characteristics and attributes in their pursuits of ‘success’ in their respective fields. And surprisingly, as can be expected, the common characteristics and attributes, of modern experts and professionals, have most things in common with the common characteristics and attributes of MODERN SCIENCE.

Today, those who matter in the society, namely, the politicians, the industrialists, the bureaucrat, the experts, and the professionals of all hues, including thieves, terrorists and hired killers and the people behind the religion judiciary and media hierarchies, the heroes and celebrities of all fields etc, all have come to form a successful and well-knit clique in modern society--we call them the elite group and have come to exist as a class of their own no matter they belong to different religions- thanks to the singular global market force hooking them all as the players and actors doing the different roles of the same story and drama. Although the purpose and roles originally envisioned by the society for these different set of these professionals and leaders may be to serve 99 percent of the rest people of their respective class / caste / region / religion etc, these ‘privileged’ class, that form much less than one percent of the human race today, exist as a complimentary and supplementary constituent among themselves, particularly at a time when the whole society is passing through an advanced stage of decay and degeneration.

Professionals do not allow the decay or change in the natural evolutionary process. Through reforms and refinement, professionalism make the social system mechanical, permanent and unchanging. It is professionalism that makes capitalism tick and the social system do not decay to meet its natural anti-thesis. Thus modernism, the refined and reformed form of capitalism, has become the most unchanging and the most orthodox and reactionary social system is human history. The tragic result is that, instead of the man-made system decaying, the highly professionalized system makes humans, nature and other natural species ‘decay’. We experience this development when we see most of the plants and diverse species in nature shrinking fast and going extinct.

Builders of a close-ended society

Another vital fact confronting the modern world is the discovery of the method of training professionals, who specialise in particular regions of thought and thereby progressively add to the sum of knowledge within their respective limitations of subject. About the dangers of specialist training, ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD, wrote in Science and the Modern World: “In consequence of the success of this professionalizing of knowledge, there are two points to be kept in mind, which differentiate our present age from the past. In the first place, the rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called upon to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person for the fixed duties, who in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.”
In the second place, the modern professionalism in knowledge works in the opposite direction so far as the intellectual sphere is concerned. The modern chemist is likely to be weak in zoology weaker still in his general knowledge of the Elizabethan drama, and completely ignorant of the principles of rhythm in English versification. It is probably safe to ignore his knowledge of ancient history. Of course, these are all general tendencies; for chemists are no worse than engineers, or mathematicians, or classical scholars. Effective knowledge is professionalized knowledge, supported by a restricted acquaintance with useful subjects subservient to it. This situation has its dangers. It produces minds in a groove. Each profession makes progress, but it isprogress in its own groove. Now to be mentally in a groove is to live in contemplating a given set of abstractions. The groove prevents straying across country, and the abstraction abstracts from something to which no further attention is paid. But there is no groove of abstractions which is adequate for the comprehension of human life. Thus in the modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts. Of course, no one is merely a mathematician, or merely a lawyer. People have lives outside their professions or their businesses. But the point is the restraint of serious thought within a groove. The remainder of life is treated superficially, with the imperfect categories of thought derived from one profession. The dangers arising from this aspect of professionalism are great, particularly in ourdemocratic societies. The directive force of reason is weakened. The leading intellects lack balance. They see this set of circumstances, or that set; hut not both sets together. The task of coordination is left to those who lack either the force or the character to succeed in some definite career. In short, the specialised functions of the community are performed better and more progressively, but the direction lacks vision. The progressiveness in detailonly adds to the danger produced by the feebleness of coordination.

An era of WeedsProfessionals and experts form the largest chunk of parasites and render this age an era of weeds

As the parasites and the weeds, professionals survive at the cost and strength of the natural man, the common man or the layman. The natural man or the tribal can exist independently with the same status and harmony with nature as they have been living for ages. Even today if they are not ‘helped’, ‘aided’ or ‘developed’– which otherwise is disturbance in their harmonious evolution with nature––they will be far better of than they are today. But the regime of experts and professionals (loosely grouped in modern society as ‘developed’) cannot however exist independently. The very terms ‘developed’ is relative to non-developed and they do a one-up game –exploitations--on the natural humans categorizing them as ‘non-developed’. Thus they are a highly dependent lot on the so-called ‘non-developed’ for their being ‘developed’. In other words, professionals and experts are some sort of parasites in nature and have become a costly liability to common man and the man of nature.

Expertise is all about the study of the natural phenomena and duplicating it into finer models forms in controlled environment so much so that the man-made models revel and replaces the natural models. It is an indirect process in which the expert, professional play the middlemen and, in which process, common man and layman act as the buffer, target or consumer. The concept ‘developed’ is all about developing expertise of exploitation. Scientifically, professionals are the army of operators of such an economy, and exploitation is the only logical process. The world of professionals and experts always serve the highest bidders who naturally are what we call developed nations or the MNCs’. As the strong and dominant weeds in a garden of the once healthy natural plants, professionals and experts have at last replaced the natural plants; the garden itself is ending up as a garden of weeds. Now some stray natural plants, here and there, look bizarre and are mistakenly taken for new types of weeds –– just as the conditions of age old values and the ground realities today look like the new un-realities and new fictions––creating a situation of facts ending up stranger than fictions.

Modern psychiatry and the problems of chronic mental diseases

Why it is widely established that modern psychiatry is not in the best interest of the human race? Today most psychiatry physicians believe that they are faced with an increasing number of seemingly incurable mental and nervous diseases. . One strategy employed by those members of the medical profession unwilling to throw up their hands in despair (most of them prominent neurologists and psychiatrists today) is to label these disorders "degenerative. Once an individual suffering from such an ailment is relegated into the category "degenerate," all medical responsibility cease. No physician could "cure" a patient who was part of an inherently diseased strain of the human race. This degeneration theory enabled physicians to explain their obvious lack of success in curing mental disorders; degeneration allowed the practitioner to classify certain social parasites and social misfits as belonging to a pathological strain of the human race. The question involved is whether the physical and mental development of the human race, upon which the continuation of all cultural progress depends, is presently advancing or declining.

All social progress is a function of physical and mental improvement. The ongoing industrialization and urbanization, that have reached even the remotest part of the planet earth, not only effect profound changes in the social and economic structure of the ‘global village’ but also precipitate myriad serious social tensions and problems that, owing to the planet’s commercially competitive and the market-dependent political foundation, often threatened to upset the very stability of the modern society. Evolution is an ongoing process in respect of the body, intellect and society of humankind. Whether the continuing process of organic and social development resulted in further perfection or improvement, or its opposite, degeneration, depended first and foremost on the efficient operation of natural selection. Here my contention is that modern civilization and its social institutions impeded the efficacy of natural selection to such critical extent that today mankind, as a whole, is on the verge of extinction due to the chronic mental, physical and social degeneracy. Here the concern is the growing number of individuals troubled by nervous diseases as a consequence of the imbalance between the demands placed upon the nervous system by modern civilization and the nervous system's inability to effectively cope with the resulting stress. The natural nervous system is too ineffective to keep up with the fast pace of the highly mechanized commercial society.

Today there is no much biosphere left to sustain the natural life forms it fosted since millions of years. The constant modern human abuse of fragile ecosystems using the highly manipulative machines and hi-tech mechanical systems has left the once live biosphere as a dead one and replaced it with what may be called a ‘mechanosphere', which is a ‘live’ sphere only for machines or machinekinds and not for mankind. Thus the ongoing modern civilization imposed a serious restraint upon the efficacy of natural selection for humankind. Today the whole mankind is under the firm grip of degeneration. Degeneration thus is an anthropological question for which political solution, rather than any purely medical solution, is the need of the hour.http://www.fireflysun.com/book/john.php