Discussion of the 'silent majority' is had here at 52, 53 minutes in-- https://johnbatchelor.substack.com/p/america-in-vietnam-1964-1975 . There's just this universe of damned things we go by in our day-to-day, in which we go on from the last time any of us may have cried on our mother's shoulder. We call it 'progress' but it's a condition of stasis or of normality perpendicular to the plain of lived reality for increasing milliards worldwide. What differentiates it from true things to want to be concerned about is its insistence on a test of claims to knowledge and perception that unseat monetization and a superstructure of pelf-- https://scienceandculture.com/2025/07/an-ancient-argument-for-the-soul/ .
Discussion of the 'silent majority' is had here at 52, 53 minutes in-- https://johnbatchelor.substack.com/p/america-in-vietnam-1964-1975 . There's just this universe of damned things we go by in our day-to-day, in which we go on from the last time any of us may have cried on our mother's shoulder. We call it 'progress' but it's a condition of stasis or of normality perpendicular to the plain of lived reality for increasing milliards worldwide. What differentiates it from true things to want to be concerned about is its insistence on a test of claims to knowledge and perception that unseat monetization and a superstructure of pelf-- https://scienceandculture.com/2025/07/an-ancient-argument-for-the-soul/ .