Part 8:5J The great obscenity

I and the 50 founding members of the World Transformation Movement (the organisation I established in 1983 to research and promote understanding of the human condition because mechanistic science wouldn’t approach this all-important subject) have been trying to interest the scientific community in the world-saving insights into the human condition that are being presented in this book for a full 30 years now, but, save for a handful of supportive scientists and some positive responses from other eminent scientists and thinkers, it has so far all been to no avail. All our submissions have been either ignored or rejected by the scientific establishment. In fact, the situation is much, much worse than this, for instead of attracting interest, debate and support, I and the World Transformation Movement (WTM) have been so ferociously attacked by the two biggest, left wing (dogmatic, pseudo-idealistic, ‘let’s pretend there’s no human condition and the world should just be ideal’, dishonest) media organisations in Australia, including its national public broadcaster, that I was made a pariah and the WTM completely marginalised. We endured this situation until, after 15 years of emotionally exhausting, and, for such a small group, financially taxing, defamation actions taken by us (which, we’ve been told by legal experts, involved the then biggest defamation case in Australia’s history), we finally managed to right the extremely serious wrong. Our monumental struggle against persecution—which has been so great that we have had to forgo having children to ensure we have sufficient resources of time, energy and funds to effectively resist the persecution and maintain our efforts to ensure these ideas lead to the transformation of the human race—is documented at <www.humancondition.com/persecution>. After all that we have been put through, the fact that our little, but mighty, band of brothers and sisters supporting these human-race-liberating insights are still standing on our feet and able to mount this further assault on the citadel of denial/​lying (mechanistic science) to try to crack it open and free the human race, is an absolute miracle.

Yes, this denial—this ignoring, rejecting and persecuting—has been completely and utterly unjustified; in fact it has been totally irresponsible, obscenely irresponsible. Certainly all these world-saving insights bring the historically unbearably confronting issue of the human condition into stark focus, but all the insights are presented within the framework of the compassionate explanation of the human condition, which means the need for denial of them has been removed. As emphasised from the beginning of this book, the human race has always lived in hope, faith and trust that one day the redeeming explanation of our psychologically distressed and insecure human condition would be found, and the most fundamental reason of all for freedom of expression to be maintained in the world is to keep the door open to that possibility. Science especially, having been charged with that greatest of responsibilities of finding these human-condition-liberating insights, must remain open to human-condition-confronting-and-explaining insights. Science holds the ultimate responsibility to consider, not ignore, or worse, persecute, scientific analysis of the human condition! What has been happening has been obscenely irresponsible.

So you can imagine our shock when, in 2012, we learnt that the three leading anthropologists responsible for putting forward the SDH, Wrangham, Hare and Wobber—all of whom, as has been mentioned, were made aware many years ago of my love-indoctrination explanation for the origins of our and the bonobos’ moral instincts—had made no acknowledgement or even mention of my synthesis in their 2012 paper, despite acknowledging the work of many other researchers in a detailed section on ‘evolutionary explanations for reduced aggressiveness in bonobos relative to that in chimpanzees’. Worse, it would appear that since they were each informed of my synthesis (in the case of Wrangham, on four separate occasions, the earliest being in 1988), what they have done is take virtually all the elements from my synthesis—such as the bonobos’ ability to throw light on our origins, and specifically the origins of our morality; that their social groups are much more stable than those of chimpanzees; the role of females in taming male aggression; the liberation of consciousness; the role of self-selection; the neotenising, juvenilisation process; the use of the domestication of dogs and foxes as an illustration of the neotenising, juvenilisation process; the significance of ideal ecological conditions; the use of sex as a device to reduce tension; the reduced dimorphism between the sexes; the reliance of males on their mothers for social standing; the lack of aggression between groups of bonobos; the lack of routine hunting by bonobos, etc, etc—and, leaving out anything to do with nurturing, presented it as ‘A new hypothesis’ (Ed Yong, ‘Tame Theory: Did Bonobos Domesticate Themselves? A new hypothesis holds that natural selection produced the chimpanzee’s nicer cousin in much the same way that humans bred dogs from wolves’, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2012). While it is extremely irresponsible to ignore and reject world-saving insights into the human condition, it is so, so much worse to actually take those insights and wantonly subvert the truth they contain. If that is indeed the case, and we believe there is no other plausible interpretation, then that is the very greatest of crimes against humanity.

What must be clear to the reader overall is that the obscenely irresponsible treatment of these world-saving insights simply must stop. The obscenity of the situation was made dramatically clear when in December 2012 it was announced that an American billionaire had pledged $200 million to Columbia University’s ‘accomplished scholars whose collective mission is both greater understanding of the human condition and the discovery of new cures for human suffering’ (The Educated Observer, Winter 2013); and, on 2 April 2013, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, announced a ‘Brain Initiative’, giving ‘$100 million initial funding’ (The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 Apr. 2013) to mechanistic science to also find ‘the underlying causes of…neurological and psychiatric conditions’ afflicting humans in order to ‘develop effective ways of helping people suffering from these devastating conditions’ (US National Institutes of Health, accessed Apr. 2013 at: <https://braininitiative.nih.gov/>). The mechanistic scientific paradigm, including all of its universities, have proved completely incapable of adopting a denial-free approach and addressing the human condition, and yet now, when the world is absolutely on its knees and desperate for the neurosis-and-psychosis-addressing-and-healing real insight into the human condition, that same mechanistic paradigm has been given $US300 million to turn around and do what it can’t, but what I and the WTM have already done! And, I might add, we have done this, 40 years of work in all, without any outside financial support—from academic institutions or from public or private benefactors. We have funded the whole effort from our own self-sufficient initiatives, efforts, and contributions. Indeed, as has been mentioned, rather than receiving any encouragement or financial support from the world at large, we have been attacked by the establishment and had to generate the wherewithal ourselves to fight and defeat that enormously powerful institution-backed attack! For example, as I have mentioned already, the principal media attack against us was carried out by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, a body which receives over a billion dollars annually in government funding. We have never been invited to participate in any major scientific or public forums, or been given a wage or grant by an academic institution to investigate any of the subjects that we have so effectively studied; quite the reverse—we’ve been brutally ostracised and forced to sustain and pay our own way to carry on our work and to fight the massive forces opposing it. Talk about David and Goliath! And it is not as though these huge financial initiatives that are now, in desperation, being made to specifically investigate the human condition can be oblivious to our existence and work because, for one thing, the WTM has the domain name ‘humancondition.com’ and any planned attempt, such as these, to supposedly properly address the human condition would, one would assume, have to be aware of our existence. So the mechanistic paradigm is saying it is finally going to bring ‘greater understanding of the human condition’, but has not changed tack at all and acknowledged those who have done just that! The hypocrisy and obscenity of what is going on is astronomical.

A summary of the 30 years’ worth of submissions to the scientific establishment of these world-saving insights into the human condition, into the origins of our moral nature and conscious mind, and into the integrative meaning of existence is described next in Part 8:6, while the full presentation can be read at <www.humancondition.com/​full-history-of-rejection>. (Incidentally, both provide details of the presentations of the whole synthesis, including the nurturing explanation for our moral soul, that have been made to Hare, Wobber and Wrangham.) These documents represent an extraordinarily long and determined yet futile effort—in fact, the ill-treatment they document is horrific, truly obscene—to have all these fully accountable insights properly considered by the scientific establishment and conveyed to the wider world. As has been emphasised, in the case of the origins of our moral instincts, there has been 140 years of dishonest biological thinking on this issue, mountains of books written and oceans of wasted effort since Fiske first solved the problem with the nurturing explanation—and 30 years now since I presented the nurturing answer to the problem in accompaniment with the explanation of the human condition, which is 30 years of terrible human suffering and acts of atrocity that have occurred on Earth from a lack of self-understanding in humans that should never have happened!!!

History certainly teems with examples of those who have been persecuted for telling the truth, for daring to defy the great denial blanketing our planet—what’s that rhetorical question in the Bible: ‘was there ever a prophet [a denial-free thinker] your fathers did not persecute’ (Acts 7:52)—HOWEVER, when all the truth about human existence is accompanied by the greater, dignifying, compassionate, redeeming and rehabilitating full truth of the explanation of the human condition, that denial is no longer justified. And of course that denial is so habituated—our fear of the truth has soaked into our bones—but, nevertheless, that door to the possibility of understanding the human condition must be kept open. There has to be sufficient strength of character, soundness, left on Earth for the full truth to be recognised and supported when it emerges, which—as has been fully evidenced—it now has, because if there isn’t then all is lost.

Since the great achievement of life on Earth has been the development of consciousness, it follows that for those charged with the responsibility of overseeing its maturity to enlightenment and sanity—namely the scientific establishment—to abuse that responsibility is the greatest of obscenities; worse, it is a spear through the very heart of all of life and meaning on Earth. It is the meanest, most bitter, most selfish, most bloody-minded, most hateful of the truth, most unnecessary behaviour this planet has ever witnessed. Our efforts at the WTM to have these world-saving ideas recognised by the scientific establishment are continuing and our hope is that those efforts will be successful.