To Ian Sulky From
Ivor Catt 24jan98
It is the communication of facts which
most threatens an established knowledge broker.
He who claims that facts do not exist is an
intellectual terrorist, his objective being to prevent all communication.
(It is not in the interests of a paid knowledge broker for information flow to
occur other than to him and from him. Further, such information flow needs to
be within his paradigm, or his career ends and his mortgage is no longer
paid. Then his wife divorces him, and he loses all contact with his children.)
"From the known to the unknown", a
precept in theory of how to teach, indicates that the assertion that nothing
is known, is an attempt to prevent communication. From nothing, to nothing
more. Thus, the established knowledge base is totally secure - until
reality finally overwhelms it and the culture which nurtured the heresy, that no
facts exist.
Melanie Phillips, All must have prizes,
pub. Little, Brown, 1996, ".... the truth that there are no truths
....". The definitive book on the collapse of the English educational
system.
The Seven Per Cent Rule, Wireless World, apr88, p350. Five years before, my
brother in law only got a Diploma, not a PhD, in music because his thesis
(later published as New Found Voices, pub. Belvedere 1984), did not
contain a computer programme! Computers were so very fashionable. In
spite of this, I found that language PhD men in Hall at Trinity Cambridge were
not interested in going into the gap between computers and language.
Dear Ivor, Could you please remove the stuff that comes up under my name on the web,
Regards, Ian Sulky. 14nov02