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In my family we’ve been working on a new approach to science for about 75 years. Everything in the world is connected to everything else, and everything is important. Also, an accurate understanding of how the world works is the rightful property of everyone. Personal empowerment depends on effective education. My grandparents started on that from an engineering, philosophical, and educational direction. Discovering reliable information depends on observability, universality, self-consistency, reproducibility, and debatability—which are the foundation of science. However, other people have also discovered and made observations about patterns of cause and effect, like art and music, that were too large and complicated for scientists to study back then.
Some official scientists began pioneering this idea from their own direction in the 1960s, when they discovered global environmental unsustainability. They’ve realized that stabilizing humanity’s impact on the environment depends on the unification of all branches of sciences and humanities. To this point, we’ve been making a lot of decisions that solve short-term problems but create long-term problems because of things we overlooked. The environmental crisis has been caused by all those long term effects catching up with us. If we’re ever going to make that stop happening, we have to figure out how to stop making critical oversights.
Five critical discoveries have made unification of science almost complete. The Selfish Gene Theory, the Gaia Theory, evolutionary psychology, exponential growth in a finite system, and the Laws of Thermodynamics have connected chemistry to biology, chemistry to ecology, biology to psychology, math to ecology, and physics to biology and economics. From there, psychology is being connected to neurology, and psychology and ecology are being connected to politics. The final frontier in the unification of science is a perspective on psychology that can unify it reliably to sociology and anthropology.
The big oversight the official scientists are still making is the fact that the political system of America was founded by people who didn’t know any of these things, and who made faulty assumptions about them. Getting people to continue using the political system we have depends on preventing the public from learning this stuff. And a lot of powerful people have made a lot of big political plans that depend on our continuing to use the political system we have. Despite the big promise that all Americans have the right to an education, in a country whose government was founded on 18th century superstitions, effective education is political insurrection.