The Dark Past...

You know, if you have ever had any nagging questions about what the common public thinks it knows - even what is taught as fact at Universities - then what I am about to hint about, will confirm you into what Lionel Nation at RT News has coined as 'the Conspiratorium;' the place all of us live, who hold some belief in some dark and mysterious conspiracy, somewhere, somewhere, anywhere.  

I know, recently, I have taken to a lot of 'LOL'-worthy stuff.

If you listen to David Attenborough, you would presume that there was this whole body of textual material, written by 'the great founder, in ancient times, of scientific thinking' - Aristotle.

Let's face it, Aristotle is taught all over the world, at schools, in Universities, on television. So to what are they all referring?

I dunno. (Shrugs).

Hey, who the hell I am to make pronouncements on 'the great' Aristotle?

This is a modern luxury Antorini leather journal -
Aristotle did not use this; he wrote in papyrus scrolls, which
are all... ...gone. 

To my knowledge, the only complete work guaranteed to have actually been 'penned' (well, I use the word loosely) by Aristotle is a work about play-writing and the theater. And in it he talks about drama and comedy and theatrical catharsis. And there are some notes and lists of botanical subjects and some notes about animals to which the real 'Aristotle' affixed his hand-written name, the copies of which document are not contested as authentic and exact reproductions made in antiquity. 

All the rest of the stuff attributed either to Aristotle, or that makes long-winded commentary on the supposed ideas of Aristotle are in what is called the Corpus Aristotelicum - and these are a collection of works from the school of Aristotle that are claimed to mention all of his works (that we know about). They are not actual works, actually by him.

You will find, when you look, that everything that is attributed popularly as an actual work by Aristotle, is actually written by someone else; so, when you see 'the Organon' which is always said to be 'by Aristotle' is actually by someone called 'Andronicus of Rhodes,' and virtually every single other supposed 'text' or work by 'Aristotle' features some 'Aristotle' literally as a dramatic character in the narrative...

So really, when you think about it, this makes sense in that the Platonic School (which the historical person and student, Aristotle, inherited after Plato's death) had all these actual books written by actual 'Plato' in which this 'person' or 'character' called 'Socrates' takes the dramatic part, fulfills the role in the story or narrative account or explanation of something. There is no such thing as 'a book by Socrates!'

Whoar! These are nice - you write
lots of amazing stuff and carry it around in these

The 'actual' works of the actual 'Aristotle' were all burned in the fires of Alexandria, and the only remnants around the place turned up much later on as re-written texts in the hands of Arabic scholars hundreds of years later. And no doubt, they had a good grasp of what 'Aristotle' was writing about, but there is no genuine basis to any certainty at all, that what they had were actual, objectively and independently-verified, valid translations or transcriptions.

You see, here's the other problem - people like Plato, knew that ever since the murders of Socrates and a lot of the followers earlier, of Parmenides and Pythagoras, it was just not prudent, not safe, to be exposed as someone who personally possessed legitimate mathematical knowledge, or the kind of intense idea knowledge covering subjects like ethics or the early forms of 'psychology.' Such knowledge undermined the power of whoever the local or regional tyrant might have been!

And so I will heap coals on the fire by suggesting that there always has been a conspiracy of 'intellectuals' who overtake someone else's work, subvert it, and suppress the real thing, in order to maintain the status quo of the political gods of the day - and this is the true meaning of what today people term 'the Illuminati.' And you will see the dark but characteristic hand of this style of thing when you look at modern things like 'Common Core' and 'Writers' Workshops' and when you look at highly-promoted public 'thinkers' like Jordan Peterson and Reza Aslan and David Attenborough, and even figures of note in the world of popular fiction: people like John Le Carre, who at age 30-something, is claimed to have penned 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.,' a rather large tome...

The thing about 'Common Core' and 'Writers' Workshop' is this (IE formal - they talk about it specifically) idea they have about 'persuasive writing' - which is a concept that you can make people take actions by the way you hand them some words and also what those words are and how you have constructed those words into sentences and how you treated the ideas therein.