Philosophical Framework: “The Paleolibertarian Guide To Deep Tech, Deep Pharma & The Aberrant Economy” is the first in a series of volumes, to form part of The Paleolibertarian Guide (TPG) compendium. The TPG’s impetus is analytical in nature. This and future works in the series will systematically demonstrate that ANALYTICAL THINKING PRECEDES EMPIRICISM and is at the root of solid thought as well as good science.
Certain propositions in life need no empirical evidence for their validation. If anything, the constant insistence on scientism is in itself evidence of a deep corruption of reason. While solid empirical data are never to be dismissed, these are supplemental to a solid philosophy of science.
Derived from the Aristotelian method, the method Mercer follows is based in the laws of reason. To the extent that research contradicts reason, to that extent research is rubbish. The idea that SCIENCE WITHOUT THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE IS NONSENSE comes alive in Chapter 2: “COVID’s Cartel Of Cretins,” where vivid and fun examples of a priori truths are provided.
The Most Important Lesson of this volume is how to REPATRIATE THINKING OUTSOURCED to the expert class. For, these days, the simplest of logical deductions often appear to evade the ordinary man or woman. THE COGNITIVE CLASS often cloaks itself in the raiment of “science” and is instrumental in generating consensus. The ancient philosophical notion whereby some things are simply axiomatically true thus has profound ramifications for liberty. For a free-thinking people does not outsource thinking—the business of life—to anyone.
The Meat of the Book: Drawn from the term “Deep State,” the term “Deep Tech” captures the overarching, deforming power and reach into state and civil society of high-tech. Mercer contends that state ideology and the corporate creed have converged. Between them, they suborn the individual in one way or another. The State no longer merely silhouettes civil and commercial society; but is absorbing it. What’s more, corporate culture, Mercer’s purview in this volume, has been thoroughly co-opted by the State. Willingly.
“Deep State” is no conspiracy. The term had long since been deployed on the Left and by libertarians to denote THE STATE WITHIN A STATE, OPERATING, FOR THE MOST, EXTRA-CONSTITUTIONALLY.
Mercer underscores and deconstructs how the trauma of the Covid years was underwritten by giant government, Big Pharma, and the COVID Cartel, in informal cahoots with social media. Again, A STATE WITHIN A STATE, operating, for the most, extra-constitutionally.
“The Aberrant Economy” denotes the attitude of the multinationals toward economic growth. This attitude is today rooted not in healthy, community-based practices stateside and abroad, but in some aberrant economic gigantism. Mercer diagnoses economic acromegalia in Deep Tech, which contributes to practices that oft trample individual rights and other elementary decencies.
Just how the latter is reflexively achieved Mercer demonstrates by taking the reader through the COVID years, when “Agency And State Capture” were consolidated, and when individual and constitutional rights sundered. She touches on the deformed foundations of the American Third-Party run healthcare system, down to how Deep Pharma’s Patent Privileges subvert Market-Based Profits and Free Market medicine. Fault Deep Pharma, she advises, Not China.
After reading “HOMELESS IN THE HOMELAND” (Chapter 6), heartbreaking, the reader will understand how “High-Tech Compounds Homelessness.” Ultimately, the sundering of natural and constitutional rights by entities whose market penetration and capitalization is that of many countries combined means solutions are urgent. Provided.
Mercer rounds up by juxtaposing global integration with REGIONALISM AND LOCALISM, and spotlights the last inspirational capitalist heroes, leaving the readers with thoughts about charity and grace.