older contents:
| |
Armed struggle? Peoples army? Self-defense is common-sense!
more.
|
|
Raisethefist.com: Review: The Neanderthal Legacy
Review: The Neanderthal Legacy
by Parallal Perspectives Sun Jan 18 01:37:35 CST 2009
|
| |
|
|
Review of The Neanderthal Legacy by Stan Gooch. The book resurects Eugenics with a twist: the author claims that socialists & homosexuals are genetically backward & sinister.
|
My first reading of Stan Gooch was THE ORIGIN OF PSYCHIC PHENOMENA and I enjoyed that book very much. The style was engaging & the material thought-provoking. His latest book is THE NEANDERTHAL LEGACY and somewhere something went terribly wrong. Here the author's style is strident, argumentative & defensive. He treats his own anthropological speculations (the emphasis is on speculation) as literal & true fact that academics & us poor readers (he insists on calling us "students") are too dense to understand without his constant condescension & repetition.
It's offensively pedantic.
Not only this, but he is constantly interjecting his tiny kernels of insight with EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!!!!!!!!! Everybody knows (well, just about everybody) the excessive use of !!!!!!!!!is like waving your hands about, shouting LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME!!!!
The core of his argument is that modern man is the by-product of a genetic mix of Neanderthal & Cro-Magnon populations. Not only is this idea not original, it's science (that evil institution so despised by Gooch and other New Agers) is as false as the idea itself. There was a relatively brief time around 30,000 BCE when the two species may have (uneasily) co-existed during the last Ice Age. There may or may not have been inter-breeding. Gooch bolsters his argument by invoking the Old Testament. Certainly Neanderthal women were not the beautiful "daughters of man" that attracted the Cro-Magnon "sons of god." What little in-breeding that MAY have happened (the Cro-Magnon males must have been pretty drunk to find a Neanderthal female hot) would be--and is--totally negligible in terms of human genetics today, cancelled out by many tens of thousands of years. Cro-Magnon DNA is similar to ours because we are directly related to them. There has never been & never will be such a link to Neanderthal--because they were a different species.
As for Gooch's claim that Big Foot & other such mythical creatures prove his hybrid thesis, well...
The author claims to have discovered the Neanderthal source of the religious instinct--the menstrual cycle. This is more interesting & would have been original--had it not been commented upon by prominent occultists in the 19-20th centuries--not to mention the more esoteric forms of Hinduism.
Stan Gooch arrogantly waves aside all branches of thought that disagree with his own--and you better watch out if you do disagree with him, you'll find yourself on the author's ideological hit list along with "the board of the Royal Free Hospital, the Catholic College of Further Education, the New Scientist, the Spectator...we should get rid of all of them..." Page 69. This sounds like the ravings of a paranoid psychotic.
Despite his claims to higher consciousness, Gooch apparently finds nothing distasteful with scientists whose work seems to validate his own pet theories: "...Dr. Bernard...a psychic healer, Oscar Estebany, produced significantly faster healing in experimentally wounded mice..." Page 92.
Now that's real barbarism, "experimentally wounding" as in torturing animals to prove some crackpot theory. My goodness, me thinks I can hear knuckles scraping the floor from that lab...
On page 112 Gooch drags out the thoroughly debunked "Spontaneous Human Combustion" theory and, of course, presents it as an established fact. Why he felt compelled to wrest that old chestnut from the fire is anyone's guess. It makes no sense no matter how you look at it.
Politically Gooch is a frustrated reactionary. He lumps all leftist-progressive types into the left-handed (i.e. sinister group.) The right wing is symbolized by right-handedness. Simplistic to the extreme, but again students should just shut up and uncritically accept the Gospel according to Gooch.
I call the author reactionary because his core argument implicates the left as belonging to the Neanderthal (i.e. lesser race) group, and the right wingers to the more advanced Cro-Magnon.
"Steadily increasing Neanderthalism--socialism--in Britain has led to...a significant rise in level of crime, in cheating and double-dealing...one-parent families, the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and teenage pregnancies, the dumbing down of education...known and dangerous terrorists...so-called asylum seekers...are given a lifetime of free housing..." Page 126
So now we see the author's real agenda--but wait, there's more:
"My own view, of course, is that if large numbers of pedophiles were examined, they would show a higher incidence of left-handedness (just as do lesbians and homosexuals)...a higher incidence of the simian line--and so on for all the other Neanderthal characteristics we have listed earlier." Page 130
Got the picture?
This is nothing more than back room Eugenics dressed up in the grave clothes of ageing New Ageism, another Crusader Against the Scientific Establishment and The Evil Red Menace.
"One of the many outcomes of this situation, as we cannot stress too often, is the emergence and ever-growing dominance of the left-wing political movement, of left-wing thinking. Communism and socialism are...the Neanderthals' view of the universe." Page 135.
The author sandwiches this ridiculous rant in a chapter claiming that the Great Sphinx is a Neanderthal image and consequently must be 10’s of thousands of years old. We won't even bother to go there.
Gooch concludes his diatribe with Appendix 3, a seven page self-serving, self-aggrandizing listing of his good reviews.
Obviously we won't be on the next list.
http:www.gnostics.com
|
|
|
|
