So much of what is considered science today is really just art. It’s a subjective interpretation of the meaning of data. Data does not speak for itself. It does not tell you cause and effect.
I propose that science without art is transhuman and it is pulling us into the hive mind and making Borgs of us. The problem with Cracker Barrel or Gladiator II and the credentialed experts that control ideas is that they are not making art; they are coercing us with agenda-driven imagery made to follow an algorithm of power and profit. The technocracy is not interested in art or subjective experience other than as tools to deceive, dehumanize and disempower. Science with its white coated experts is a perfect tool for this as is academia which pops out credentialed CEOs and marketeers that tow the line. The CB redesign was not over confidence in subjective judgement. It was purposeful, following an agenda to strip humans of subjective qualities like comfort, nostalgia, culture, etc. Enter Art. Art, as Jeffrey rightly intuits has part of the answer to our problems. It is, by nature subjective, and can circumvent the perverse logic of captured experts and around agendas fronted by well researched propaganda. Art can communicate subtly and in ways that resonate with the 'human' in us. It works in the realm of our deepest values that keep us sane, whole, alert, moral, and happy. The technocratic paradigm of the CB CEO and the Gladiator scriptors cannot connect to human sensibilities and they will fail because of it. True artists can understand the magic in a powerful movie or in a homey logo and reproduce these qualities. I encourage everyone to support art... it may just save us.
I established the Dactyl Foundation back in the 1990s with the hope of "bringing science into art and art into science" because I recognized the importance of fully grounded subjective interpretations in the process of discovering solutions to apparently intractable problems and, of course, in the process of creating original AND meaningful art. At first, I thought this article was going to denigrate subjective interpretations as "just art," but I quickly realized that was just the hook, and I should have had faith that Jeffrey Tucker would understand these things. He does, of course.
Of course, medicine is an art: bodies are complex systems that themselves "interpret" many signals: this is why we have unpredictable side effects and autoimmune disease.
This week I was interviewed by Bradley Miller about the necessity of our movement using art to reach more people. Reporting the facts only goes so far and the other side has degraded the devices of art -- using propaganda -- to do a lot of harm, which cannot be undone by reporting facts. Pardon the self-promotion but here's a short clip of the interview where I talk about my 9/11 novel, Locus Amoenus, and how I seek to overturn the official 9/11 narrative with an artistic narrative. https://www.instagram.com/p/DOJVjQAiYaK/
Apropos this article's theme, I'll mention there's a sequel to that novel called Orwell 2020 that's coming out soon with TrineDay, which did not focus group it. And music it very important to the story (initially the title was going to be "Covid-1984 The Musical"). In the final scene, a pianist plays Chopin's Marche Funèbre, which starts out somber and then switches to a ragtime tempo -- because the official narrative is dead, and we're winning this fight.
Authentic vs Synthetic Activation. This fourth essay shows how the Hell Hypothesis operates through "synthetic seduction"—the exploitation of evolutionary pleasure responses to deliver physiological disruption. The distributed Olfactory Receptor (OR) framework provides a mechanistic explanation for how beauty and food industries systematically hijack biological communication networks.
A forest foraging opening creates a baseline for understanding authentic chemical signaling, making the synthetic interference more stark by contrast. The false morel analogy effectively captures how chemical look-alikes can be deadly despite appearing identical to beneficial compounds.The dual terrain destruction concept strengthens the Hell Hypothesis by showing how internal nutritional chaos & external chemical assault converge through the same receptor systems. When the smell of brownies baking triggers pancreatic OR activation while synthetic lily-of-the-valley hijacks reproductive ORs, —that's systematic physiological confusion from multiple directions.
The progression from individual chemical exposures to population-level terrain destruction provides a framework that explains epidemic-scale chronic disease patterns. The Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) to My Backyard Is Poisoned (MBYIP) consciousness shift captures how chemical contamination has moved from external environmental concern to internal physiological reality.
However, our addiction pathway discussion remains speculative. While the neurochemical mechanisms are plausible based on organophosphate research, establishing genuine dependency would require specific studies demonstrating tolerance, withdrawal, and compulsive use patterns linked to OR activation.
The essay series provides a comprehensive analysis spanning microbiome destruction, mate selection interference, chemical warfare parallels, and distributed physiological hijacking. The Hell Hypothesis provides a unifying framework explaining how systematic destruction of biological foundations creates predictable disease patterns across multiple domains. Seemingly separate phenomena—hygiene practices, beauty standards, food processing, and chemical exposure—represent coordinated assault on human physiology through exploitation of evolved pleasure and safety responses.
▪︎ Bonquiqui Nails & Lily-of-the-Valley Perfume: How Synthetic Beauty Hijacked Human Physiology | mani & Claude, 5 September 2025, Alver, Norway, is.gd/qeQU4L
I propose that science without art is transhuman and it is pulling us into the hive mind and making Borgs of us. The problem with Cracker Barrel or Gladiator II and the credentialed experts that control ideas is that they are not making art; they are coercing us with agenda-driven imagery made to follow an algorithm of power and profit. The technocracy is not interested in art or subjective experience other than as tools to deceive, dehumanize and disempower. Science with its white coated experts is a perfect tool for this as is academia which pops out credentialed CEOs and marketeers that tow the line. The CB redesign was not over confidence in subjective judgement. It was purposeful, following an agenda to strip humans of subjective qualities like comfort, nostalgia, culture, etc. Enter Art. Art, as Jeffrey rightly intuits has part of the answer to our problems. It is, by nature subjective, and can circumvent the perverse logic of captured experts and around agendas fronted by well researched propaganda. Art can communicate subtly and in ways that resonate with the 'human' in us. It works in the realm of our deepest values that keep us sane, whole, alert, moral, and happy. The technocratic paradigm of the CB CEO and the Gladiator scriptors cannot connect to human sensibilities and they will fail because of it. True artists can understand the magic in a powerful movie or in a homey logo and reproduce these qualities. I encourage everyone to support art... it may just save us.
I established the Dactyl Foundation back in the 1990s with the hope of "bringing science into art and art into science" because I recognized the importance of fully grounded subjective interpretations in the process of discovering solutions to apparently intractable problems and, of course, in the process of creating original AND meaningful art. At first, I thought this article was going to denigrate subjective interpretations as "just art," but I quickly realized that was just the hook, and I should have had faith that Jeffrey Tucker would understand these things. He does, of course.
Of course, medicine is an art: bodies are complex systems that themselves "interpret" many signals: this is why we have unpredictable side effects and autoimmune disease.
This week I was interviewed by Bradley Miller about the necessity of our movement using art to reach more people. Reporting the facts only goes so far and the other side has degraded the devices of art -- using propaganda -- to do a lot of harm, which cannot be undone by reporting facts. Pardon the self-promotion but here's a short clip of the interview where I talk about my 9/11 novel, Locus Amoenus, and how I seek to overturn the official 9/11 narrative with an artistic narrative. https://www.instagram.com/p/DOJVjQAiYaK/
Apropos this article's theme, I'll mention there's a sequel to that novel called Orwell 2020 that's coming out soon with TrineDay, which did not focus group it. And music it very important to the story (initially the title was going to be "Covid-1984 The Musical"). In the final scene, a pianist plays Chopin's Marche Funèbre, which starts out somber and then switches to a ragtime tempo -- because the official narrative is dead, and we're winning this fight.
Authentic vs Synthetic Activation. This fourth essay shows how the Hell Hypothesis operates through "synthetic seduction"—the exploitation of evolutionary pleasure responses to deliver physiological disruption. The distributed Olfactory Receptor (OR) framework provides a mechanistic explanation for how beauty and food industries systematically hijack biological communication networks.
A forest foraging opening creates a baseline for understanding authentic chemical signaling, making the synthetic interference more stark by contrast. The false morel analogy effectively captures how chemical look-alikes can be deadly despite appearing identical to beneficial compounds.The dual terrain destruction concept strengthens the Hell Hypothesis by showing how internal nutritional chaos & external chemical assault converge through the same receptor systems. When the smell of brownies baking triggers pancreatic OR activation while synthetic lily-of-the-valley hijacks reproductive ORs, —that's systematic physiological confusion from multiple directions.
The progression from individual chemical exposures to population-level terrain destruction provides a framework that explains epidemic-scale chronic disease patterns. The Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) to My Backyard Is Poisoned (MBYIP) consciousness shift captures how chemical contamination has moved from external environmental concern to internal physiological reality.
However, our addiction pathway discussion remains speculative. While the neurochemical mechanisms are plausible based on organophosphate research, establishing genuine dependency would require specific studies demonstrating tolerance, withdrawal, and compulsive use patterns linked to OR activation.
The essay series provides a comprehensive analysis spanning microbiome destruction, mate selection interference, chemical warfare parallels, and distributed physiological hijacking. The Hell Hypothesis provides a unifying framework explaining how systematic destruction of biological foundations creates predictable disease patterns across multiple domains. Seemingly separate phenomena—hygiene practices, beauty standards, food processing, and chemical exposure—represent coordinated assault on human physiology through exploitation of evolved pleasure and safety responses.
▪︎ Bonquiqui Nails & Lily-of-the-Valley Perfume: How Synthetic Beauty Hijacked Human Physiology | mani & Claude, 5 September 2025, Alver, Norway, is.gd/qeQU4L