Our Captive Culture
and the Bio-Social Forces that Will Free Us

by
Bruce Stewart
Copyright ©2005 by John A. Stewart

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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FORWARD (written by the editors)
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Basic Themes of Manuscript
Future Revisions

Contacts

CHAPTER 1: PREVIEW (modified by the editors)

The Normative Paradigm

The Bio-social Paradigm

Faith in the Normative Paradigm

Paradigm Shifts

Resistance to the Bio-Social Paradigm

Contrasting the Two Paradigms

Troubling Confusions About the Role and Goals of Scientists

Preliminary Illustrations

Social Change, Freedom, and “Constructive Autonomy”

Previous Commentators on the Conflict between the Two Paradigms

Debasing Science

Prospect

REFERENCES

CHAPTER 2: THE DYNAMICS OF CAPTIVITY AND FREEDOM (unchanged)

Some Basic Processes

Cultural Forces

Testing Theories

Social Prediction

Perception and Reinforcement

Thought Warps

Sources of Captivity

The Fear of Control

Contraventions

Social Selection

Ethical and Moral Motivation

Summary and Prospect

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CHAPTER 3: IN BONDAGE TO MASS KILLING (unchanged)

Inadequacies of Ethology

Normative Misconceptions

A Bio-Social Diagnosis

The Power Illusion

Military Money Power

The Dynamics of Future Change

The Strength of Tradition

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CHAPTER 4: NUCLEAR EXTRICATION: Reality vs. Illusion (unchanged)

On the Knife Edge

Nuclear Schizophrenia

Minimizers of Nuclear War

The Appeal to Ideals

The Breakthrough

The American Reversal

Technology-enforced Change

Future Nuclear Danger

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CHAPTER 5: IN THE GRIP OF NATIONALISM (unchanged)

South of the Border

Some Asian Cases

Some Contemporary Illustrations

Motivation on Nationalism

The Trials of Supranationalism

Analysis and Prognosis

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CHAPTER 6: LOCKED IN ILLUSIONS ABOUT GOVERNMENT (unchanged)

Some Democratic Illusions

A Tradition of Ignorance

Our Present Government

Obeisance of Scholars

The Case of R.M. Nixon

Democracy As Science

Managerial Government

Review

Prognosis

REFERENCES

CHAPTER 7: THE POWER OF MONEY
Money and Success
Changing Perceptions?
Money and Advertising
Media Oligopoly
Money and the Social Scientists
Political-Economic Money Power
“Easy Money“
Bio-social Dynamics of Money
Conclusion
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CHAPTER 8: THE POTENCY OF P. R. (unchanged)

Deceptions

Tobacco Power

Heath Care and PR

Conclusion

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CHAPTER 9: THE DOMINANCE OF ECONOMIC DOGMA (unchanged)

The Role of Government

The Meretricious Global Market

Anticipators

National Economic Concentration

Gilding the Lily

The Meretricious National Economy

Summary and Conclusion

Prognoses

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CHAPTER 10: TRAPPED IN CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR (unchanged)

Etiology

The Vital Factor

The Impact of the Media

The Problem of Guns

Hysteria on Drugs and Crime

Normative Criminologists

Reducing Crime

Two Perceptive Analyses

Conclusions

Prognosis

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CHAPTER 11: THE POPULATION-POVERTY SYNDROME (unchanged)

Overproduction

The Population Ideal

Under-Distribution

Motivations for Change

Some Predictions

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CHAPTER 12: RELIGIOUS CAPTIVATION (unchanged)

The Religious View of Natural Phenomena

Science and Religion

A Prominent Contemporary View

Religious Killing

Religion as a Front

Meretricious Religion

Religious Servitude of Females

Faith Ineluctable

Review and Prospect

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CHAPTER 13: TOWARD A SCIENCE OF VALUES (unchanged)

Ambivalence

Contributions

Qualifying Bronowski

Some Value Cases

Long Term Values from Science

A Computer Analogy

Material Values

Far- vs Short-Sightedness

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CHAPTER 14: SUMMING UP (unchanged)

Conflicting Interests and Partisanship

"Can Science Save Us?"

Reviewing Our Status

Final Thoughts on Freedom and Challenge

REFERENCES

Compiled Bibliography