President Obama said we’re going to restore science to its rightful place and transform our schools and universities to meet the demands of a new age. Scientists have been hard at work on that for 40 years. It doesn’t mean longer school days and more homework; it means a whole new approach to science and education. Find out how to get that education yourself with high school level books that are available at mainstream bookstores. This is an introduction to every other book on this site. Available in booklet and audio CD.


Evolutionary psychology is a biological approach to psychology that starts with human evolution. It’s the study of universal traits of humanity and of the origins of differences among groups. This is the most direct route to Peace on Earth. By discouraging people from learning about evolution, Christian fundamentalists are preventing Peace on Earth from happening. Available in book and two audio CD set.


The anti-globalization revolution is a struggle against the globalization of Capitalism. No matter what name it goes by, the concentration of resources among a small group of people results in a concentration of decision-making power. People are inherently self-interested, which means centralized decision making power can never be trusted. These and all the other main points of the anti-Capitalist revolution have been proven scientifically, while the idea that Capitalism can ever lead to a just or sustainable society is founded on lies and superstitions. Available in book and free audio download, and in condensed form in booklet and audio CD.


In the evolution versus intelligent design debate, the Christian fundamentalists had an advantage in that the Bible is a story of the world and a reference book to life, while the scientists don’t have anything similar. So this three-volume set is a scientific story of the world and reference book to life. Volume 1 is a philosophical approach to evolution and human psychology, which brings together major discoveries scientists have made into the origins of religion, the history of world civilization, the origins of emotions, social organization, learning, child development, and male/female relations. That scientific foundation creates a solid foundation for a humanistic philosophy of life, death, metaphysics, and choices we have for the future. Available in book and free audio book.


The philosophical foundation of Volume 1 is so solid that by changing a few words I switch to a scientific approach in Volume 2. That’s an easier foundation to use to build up to complicated forms of human behavior, like political, economic, and environmental systems. Available in book and free audio download.


Now that I’ve shown how the psychology of individual people turns into political, economic, and environmental systems, in Volume 3 I use that as a common ground to fit together the goals of progressive movements and ideologies. That includes the anti-Capitalist, anti-corporate, anti-border, anti-nuclear, peace, environmental, animal rights, and feminist movements, Atheism, progressive religion, Indigenous Decolonization, Socialism, Communism, and Anarchism. Available in book and free audio download.


The content of Planetary Biology and the Anti-Capitalist Revolution has been established so thoroughly that you can learn how the global environment and evolutionary psychology work with cycles you can see happening in a garden. That means all the third-world farmers who are being driven off their land by globalization can learn planetary biology as easily as anyone else. And that means they can prove that college educated politicians have no excuse for not knowing that Capitalism isn’t environmentally sustainable and will lead to people fighting over resources. The global educational feudal system ends here. Available in book and free audio download, and the text is posted in its entirety on this site.


This is a rigorous academic version of the connections between evolutionary psychology and the theatrical directing style developed by Constatin Stanislavski, and how I have used them to draw connections among the observations about life different groups of people have made. That is followed by a working class activist perspective on science and the education system in America. Beware, because this is college level evolutionary psychology, followed by my first hand account of what it’s like to have been condemned by the education system to live in a neighborhood where racial hate crimes are a fact of life. Available in book only.


This is an expanded version of Planetary Biology and the Anti-Capitalist Revolution, with 10 additional chapters on topics specific to the Anarchist movement. That includes classist attitudes by the middle class majority, and the misguided rejection of science. This is written for Anarchists specifically, so if you don’t have any experience in the Anarchist movement, you won’t be able to keep up with the terminology and obscure references. If you are an Anarchist, beware, because I grew up in Down East Maine, and I wrote this in my native dialect. If you middle class radicals can’t wrap your brains around the fact that the speaking habits of sailors and lumberjacks aren’t part of the system of oppression like you accuse them of being, you don’t have a global working class revolution. Available in book only until I can find time to finish the audio recording.

1: Scientific Shock and Awe

Welcome to Restoring Science to Its Rightful Place…  and Transforming our Schools and Universities to Meet the Demands of the New Age.  This is how to make sure President Obama keeps his promise, using books that are available at the public library.

I’ve been a high school teacher’s assistant, and I’m also a certified flight instructor, so I know a few things about science and education.  In my family we’ve been working on better approaches to education for about 75 years.   My grandfather also helped design the B17 and B25 bombers during World War II, back before there were computers.  Meaning, back when the engineer’s brain was the computer.

I was a volunteer in the War on Terror.  I trained as a helicopter pilot for civilian emergency services, since it was civilians who were being attacked.  But then the evolution versus intelligent design debate started up while I was taking my flight instructor training.  Between the two, I realized that I was volunteering to risk my life to defend my country just so a bunch of other people could stay home and keep on believing that people all over the world hate us for magical reasons no one will ever be able to understand.

That’s when I found out about evolutionary psychology.  Evolution is the biggest engineering project in the world.   In my family we’ve been talking about tradeoffs, adaptations, and efficiency around the supper table for generations, so now I’ve been an education activist for the past 5 years.

There are a lot of scientists who are looking for ways to use their new discoveries to make the education system more effective.  E.O. Wilson was the first to pioneer evolutionary psychology, which he referred to as sociobiology, and other people have been contributing to from various directions.  In Dr. Wilson’s book Consilience he talks about how the unification of all fields of science and humanities would make education a lot simpler because as I’m sure you know, unified concepts are a lot easier to learn than fragmented concepts.  That unification of knowledge would also go a long way toward making sure our political decisions get made based on evidence.

There are a lot of other people in the world who believe that political decisions should be based on evidence.  People like the protestors at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, and the protestors at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, and the protestors at the G20 meeting in London, and the protestors at the World Bank meeting in Washington DC.

So how big of a promise did President Obama actually make?

With all this talk of transforming the education system and making our political decisions based on evidence, here’s a couple pieces of evidence I haven’t been hearing anyone talk about.  The Constitution embodies a set of implicit assumptions about the world that, if true, and if applied in a certain way, should produce a certain result.  But the United States Constitution was written in 1787.  The Theory of Evolution wasn’t released to the public until 1859.  The Laws of Thermodynamics weren’t discovered until 1868.  The Constitution of the United States of America was written by people who had fundamental misconceptions about biology and physics.  That means human behavior, the environment, and economics.  Computer programmers call this Garbage In, Garbage Out.

Someone at the Origins conference at Arizona State University in April called the conference scientific shock and awe.  I understand the concept, but with all due respect, 70 scientists having a meeting is not shock and awe, even if it is broadcast on the internet.  Shock and awe requires a sufficient number of people to be sufficiently trained and sufficiently equipped to direct overwhelming force toward the achievement of an objective.  You force the enemy to understand that you have defeated him by forcing him to understand that you have eliminated every single asset he could use to fight.  The Nazis weren’t defeated because my grandfather designed bombers; they were defeated because people flew the bombers.  And of course, because someone trained the pilots.

So fasten your seatbelts, because this is scientific shock and awe straight from the front lines.  If at any point you feel like your brain is about to melt, don’t worry, it’s only temporary.

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