Chapter 7
Neo-Tech Explained
Nicholas Rich (nickrich@netcom.com) wrote:
In article <4aqs8d$l5p@saims.skidmore.edu>, cjensen@soka.edu (Clark Jensen) wrote:
Clark
Nick, I think that while you are correct here, what you say paints a limited picture of the advantages of Neo-Tech. Many people reading this will first of all, will have a COMPLETELY vague picture of what you are talking about. Its better to explain NT first, rather than give examples of application, although through something such as business, Neo-Tech is easily explainable. I think many people will be misled by "business mode" applications. NT is really a whole new way of looking at things and thinking about them, that to say NT primarily gives us business applications would not be doing it justice. NT can be successfully applied to any situation, especially those involving money, power, or love. Neo-Tech does give us power through integrated thinking which translates into profit and values in the business world, but its power includes that of combating irrationality itself on global, local, interpersonal, and personal levels, which in turn, brings profound new benefits to any and every aspect of life.
Nick
I think you're missing what I'm saying. By "business-mode applications," I mean applications involving value production in all facets of human life, within a business-mode of thinking and action. IOW, red-black is a mode/process applied to everything you do, not just to the business or job you are in.
Clark
Right. This diversity and broadness of NT which allows its limitless application, is what makes NT so relevant to every aspect of life. I think your previous post did not make that clear. Now, I think it is clear to readers that Neo-Tech is business-like way of thinking which can applied anywhere.
From: mattkeys@netcom.com
Subject: What is Neo-Tech/Zonpower?
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 00:56:39 GMT
Neo-Tech is a noun or an adjective meaning fully integrated honesty based on facts of reality. Neo-Tech creates a collection of new techniques and new technology that lets one know exactly what is happening and what to do for gaining honest advantages in all situations.
NT epistemology is Objectivist epistemology. However, the essence of it is to perform integrated or "business-mode" thinking at all times. This is roughly analogous to Peikoff saying that a person should always be focused, just add a bit of a business specific context to it (IOW, always considering the "numbers", whether you're moving red-to-black or black-to-red, increasing good for me vs increasingly bad for me, in all situations, personal and business/work). You can exercise reason without being fully focused, or in a business-mode of integrated thinking.
Neocheating is the undetected usurpation of values from others: the unsuspicious swindling of money, power, or values through deceptive manipulations of rationalizations, non sequiturs, illusions, and mysticisms. ...All such net harms inflicted on society can now be objectively measured by the wide-scope accounting of Neo-Tech.
Intelligence is redefined by Neo-Tech as the range of integrated thinking. The range, width, or scope of valid integrations is more a function of honesty than of IQ. No matter how high is one's raw IQ, that person can be outflanked and outperformed by a lower IQ mind that is more honest, allowing wider-scope integrations. In the Civilization of the Universe, wide-scope integrations are what give conscious minds power. Neo-Tech intelligence supersedes the role of IQ detailed by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray in their controversial, best-selling book The Bell Curve (Simon & Schuster, 1994). Since fully integrated honesty, not IQ, is the key to long-range success and abiding happiness, all races have equal access to the limitless prosperity available from the Civilization of the Universe.
Vanishing Pips
Neo-Tech defines PIPS as people who purposely attack values produced by others by distorting out-of-context fragments of those values. Using those distortions pips attack with bogus, good-sounding criticisms mixed with disingenuous rhetoric. They make problems where none exist by conjuring up and then bashing strawmen.
Generally pips are people who never put their lives on the line to produce competitive values for society or exert the hard efforts required to do something excellent with their lives -- something about which they can be proud.
PIPPING means attacking out-of-context fragments taken from major achievements by others or businesses. Pipping means seeking unearned public attention through manipulated words rather than through productive efforts. Pipping is done to make oneself appear more important or moral than the achievements and businesses that person is attacking. ...Pipping is an attempt to glean unearned values and false importance.
Pips reject any response that puts their distorted fragments back into context. Pips refuse to look further or more broadly into understanding valid answers...or into understanding the accurate, full context of the values they are attacking. ...Pips are not interested in accurate answers, explanations, or learning. Thus, once pipping is detected, all communication or argument should cease. The attacking pips will then stand alone, appearing as pip-squeaks seeking unearned importance. ...Hence, such pips vanish in cyberspace.
Heroic giants in recent history were and still are attacked, harmed, and sometimes destroyed by self-proclaimed "victims" and attack-mode pips in the noncyberspace world. By contrast, in cyberspace, sincere questions and valid criticisms naturally occur concerning Objectivist philosophy with its live-action applications of Neo-Tech. Such valuable questions and criticisms deserve patient, respectful responses that are mutually beneficial. But, when pipping is detected, further communication not only wastes irreplaceable time of the respondent, but supports pips in allowing them to keep wasting other people's precious time - time needed to move toward creating an honest, rational civilization - an Objectivist civilization - here on Earth.
"What deep anti-life disease causes the conscious mind to attack rationality?
...Irrationality! Indeed, irrationality not only prevents the cure for all other diseases, but prevents the cure for death itself."
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From: think1st@netcom.com (THINKfirst!)
Subject: Re: Saint Ayn
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 19:04:46 GMT
Nicholas Rich (nickrich@netcom.com) wrote:
In article <ckincyDKsHzK.2GG@netcom.com>, ckincy@netcom.com (Chuck Kincy) wrote:
Challenge
Oh? I read it twice and I found no such clarity. Words do mean things, and I didn't see any effort to clarify this. Was it a footnote I accidentally missed?
Response #1
Well, there is a section on new words and concepts. Prior to the second reading, I always suggest that one proceed only with a complete understanding of the meaning of each concept.
Response #2
I'd like to make a brief comment on this. The "new words and concepts", in my opinion, are a little tough to grasp without the context of the material. On my first reading of the material, I pushed through without a complete understanding, and as the picture became clear, the meanings of the words became clear, too.
When I first started reading the Neo-Tech Discovery, I hated the way it said "Neo-Tech does this" and "Neo-Tech promises that" while only having "fully integrated honesty" as the definition. It seemed very circular. But as the pieces start to fall into place, the big picture starts to form, and the "new words and concepts" start to make sense.
So, I attempt to introduce those who have essentially NO pieces of the puzzle to deal only with current day-to-day words and concepts. This makes it easier initially for them.
The "new words and concepts" are the best and most appropriate for the context, but if they don't make sense, I have no problem elaborating for those making honest requests for information.
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