So this is another rabbit warren that I've just stumbled across. Calling all researchers.
This started with a post by @NOMOCHOMO which prompted me to look a bit closer at the issue of Ethics in Technology as the field has clearly been infiltrated:
https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/3427427/20588434
In 2010, [ethics lawyer] Lawrence Lessig launched the Edmond J. Safra Research Lab. ...The Edmond J. Safra Research Lab was made possible, in part, by the generous support of Mrs. Lily Safra...and also by the support of the late Dr. Wallace J. Gardner.
Who is Dr. Wallace J. Gardner.? He's a dentist.
From the Edmond J Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard website: https://ethics.harvard.edu/benefactors
In 2013, the Center received a portion of the proceeds from the estate of Dr. Wallace J. Gardner to support ethics programming and activities. Dr. Gardner was a graduate of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM), and served in the U.S. Navy in World War II. He was co-inventor of "Audio Analgesia," received a distinguished alumnus award from the HSDM and was recognized by Harvard Medical School as a Third Century Fellow. He was a former member of the HSDM faculty, a member of the American Dental Assoc, and a Fellow of the International College of Dentists.
SOUND THAT KILLS PAIN - https://www.oxfordamerican.org/item/1346-sound-that-kills-pain 9archived: http://archive.is/vEf8c)
Excerpts:
..The dentist behind the Audiac was Dr. Wallace Gardner, a Harvard Dental School graduate who had stuck around Cambridge, opening an office near Porter Square, and had developed a thriving practice geared toward the city’s intellectual class. ..“There came a time around 1959,” he said, “when the task of pleasing a few of my cantankerous patients was just too much—frankly, I did not know what to do. I felt cornered.” That was around the time that a man named Licklider walked into his office for a routine appointment, and the life of Wallace Gardner took an unexpected turn.
...The list of people credited with inventing the Internet and modern computing is dauntingly long, but the Missouri native J.C.R. Licklider is somewhere near the top. “Computing’s Johnny Appleseed,” as he was once described by the MIT Technology Review, Licklider was the author of the seminal 1960 paper “Man-Computer Symbiosis,” which prophesied a future in which machine cognition would be more efficient than our own, in which we must think beyond “using computers in conventional ways” toward a system which would “require much tighter coupling between man and machine.”
..Lick, as he was known to friends, got along well with Gardner, and enjoyed discussing the machinery and other devices of the dentists’ trade. He had recently emerged from the Harvard Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory and was looking for applications for his research into pitch perception, “the theory of hearing and what went on in the brain,” as he put it in a 1988 oral history interview. Given his accomplishments in the field, he’d been invited to start an experimental psychology unit at a company called BBN Technologies, which collaborated closely with the military. They did abstruse testing on radar, sonar, and the long-term neurological effects of aircraft noise.
..Together we discovered that the music and white sound provided a perfect anesthesia for all dental work, including surgery.” Lick developed a version of the device at BBN for testing and before long he and Gardner were touring the country with their invention, logging roughly two hundred thousand miles, extracting wisdom teeth and “helping several women manage their pain during childbirth” with only pop music to comfort them. Gardner made the cover of LOOK magazine (headline: DENTISTRY GOES ‘HI-FI’). “It was the highlight of my dental career,” he’d say later.
https://imgur.com/a/Ozvkg5G Dentistry goes “Hi-Fi”
..Unfortunately, Lick lost interest in the project almost immediately. Due to the interdisciplinary quality of the city’s academic community, he’d also become increasingly invested in cybernetics and computing. He followed the ideas of Norbert Wiener with great interest, particularly those set forth in his then-classic “Cybernetics; or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine.” But Lick had begun to accumulate disciples of his own, and had started to take Wiener’s theories in stranger, more ambitious directions. Among other things, he’d begun to formulate the concepts that would later lead to the development of the ARPANET, the Internet's most direct precursor. ...Neither the Audiac nor Gardner appear even as footnotes in Waldrop’s biography of the scientist.
..Weisbrod finished his evisceration by referencing a magazine article titled “Going Deaf from Rock ’n’ Roll.” Why, he asked, do young people immerse themselves in noise that is so uncomfortable to older generations? He quoted a Florida teenager from the story: “The sounds embalm you,” the boy said. “They numb you . . .”
..If anything, Licklider’s involvement in the invention of audio-anesthesia at the very moment he was developing his notion of the “Intergalactic Computer Network,” shows he understood more about man-computer symbiosis than he’s ever been fully credited for. Headphones are painkillers—annihilators of the problem of awareness—and they always have been.
I will continue with pizzagate connections to this article in the comments section...
For music and media, Licklider foretold a digital future - https://web.archive.org/web/20150308092737/https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2015/03/06/for-music-and-media-licklider-foretold-digital-future/vhIyUMLjxQXAuWu3SP2G1J/story.html
Licklider’s polyvalent career — acoustics and ARPA, psychology and the Pentagon, auguring everything from online chat rooms to digital music to cloud computing — created an almost uneasy sense of prophecy. In a 2009 blog post, musician David Byrne only half-jokingly wondered if Licklider was an “Internet antichrist,” anxiously questioning (like so many) how the digital network’s accelerating ubiquity, the interconnectivity and lack of privacy resulting from “this volatile, disembodied mixture that Licklider predicted” would change society.
BBN Technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBN_Technologies
In 1966 the Franklin Institute awarded the firm the Frank P. Brown Medal, in 1999 BBN received the IEEE Corporate Innovation Recognition, and on February 1, 2013, BBN was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honors that the U.S. government bestows upon scientists, engineers and inventors, by President Barack Obama.[2] It became a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon in 2009.
..BBN is best known for its DARPA-sponsored research, but also known for its 1978 acoustical analysis for the House Select Committee on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
In recent years, BBN has led a wide range of research and development projects, including the standardization effort for the security extension to the Border Gateway Protocol (BGPsec), mobile ad hoc networks, advanced speech recognition, the military's Boomerang mobile shooter detection system, cognitive radio spectrum use via the DARPA XG program. In the early 2000s, BBN created the world's first quantum key distribution network, the DARPA Quantum Network, which operated for 3 years across Cambridge and Boston, and which included the world's first fully operational prototype of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector. BBN also led the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) project for the National Science Foundation, which ultimately built out programmable "future Internet" infrastructure across approximately 60 university campuses.
Voat related post: [Part I. FB and Zuckerface: Honeypots, the CIA, Clowns, and What Happens When You Run Up Against the Cabal(https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2504111 )by @migratorypatterns
Facebook - the CIA conspiracy
Facebook's first round of venture capital funding ($US500,000) came from former Paypal CEO Peter Thiel. Author of anti-multicultural tome 'The Diversity Myth', he is also on the board of radical conservative group VanguardPAC.
The second round of funding into Facebook ($US12.7 million) came from venture capital firm Accel Partners. Its manager James Breyer was formerly chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, and served on the board with Gilman Louie, CEO of In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm established by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1999. One of the company's key areas of expertise are in "data mining technologies".
Breyer also served on the board of R&D firm BBN Technologies, which was one of those companies responsible for the rise of the internet.
So much to unpack here. .. will continue in comments...
kestrel9 ago
This link seemed to fit here http://www.andcorporation.com/ (sorry if it's already here and I missed it)
WHAMMO63 ago
The chair has already been debunked as having been for deep cleanse facials.
letsdothis3 ago
Link?
flyingcuttlefish ago
On the dental chair - I heard on YouTube with someone an idea I think is true (George Webb maybe) ... they planted audio recorder in the teeth of some girls to help with blackmail operation. Evidently CIA does that trick sometimes.
letsdothis3 ago
Yeah, I was thinking that might be a possibility.
plancktonne ago
Ohio College Normalizes Pedophilia as a “Sexual Orientation”
Comment A; Well, the bright side is we can't sink any lower than this.
Comment B: Cannibalism.
Comment C: Once cannibalism is legal, paedophiles can serve as lunches for the homeless.
plancktonne ago
Don't forget about the hidden, lead-lined [sound-proofed] bathroom in Wexner's — later Epstein's — New York mansion. One bathroom, either in the New York or Palm Beach mansion, was equipped with a cart of dental tools though no dentist's chair. Are remakes of Little Shop of Horrors or Sweeny Todd on the horizon?
Vascodegecko ago
Lot of discussion a way back that they remove teeth prior to the nasty stuff on Pedo Isle. They do not want their pray to have weapons and biting genitals can be a problem. Sick bastards. They all need to be hanged publicly.
CornyGoatWeed ago
Was the chair in some kind of weird dungeon or something? I would want one in my house if I was rich- teeth like inevitably age and need work all the fucking time and who wants to leave their paradise fortress for that shit? Fly some guy in.
The_Real_Wahrheit ago
There were lots of convos a year or more back here on Voat (I think on PG) about DNA or stem cells in teeth, and then a bunch of other convos about children dentists that turn you in to CPS if you don't do their treatment plan, cancel, etc. I realized at that time I had taken my kids to a place like that, really weird and cultish! No more!
letsdothis3 ago
I see your point. I've had those thoughts too in the past. But what got me really interested is the history of the Harvard ethics research center and the connections with scientists like Minsky who are connected with Epstein. The whole start of the internet thing too has many possible connections with the Maxwell sisters. This all needs to be looked into.
NOMOCHOMO ago
the lessig/boychoir/castrato thread has led me to the history of castration/orchidectomy
this was/is an early form of transhumanism. Surgeons as early as the 1400s had actually refined the science of hormonal disruption to augment human abilities
Also michael jackson was definitely chemically castrated by Joe Jackson. HORMONE BLOCKERS.
letsdothis3 ago
What? Links or post please. That's very interesting.
Truthseeker3000 ago
I saw a video interview 4 parts each an hour long of Anneke Lucas, a child satanic ritual abuse survivor from Belgium, now in her early 50s. She stated at a chateau in Belgium there was a dentist chair in a room where a girl was tied to and tortured with electroshock by tasers and other instruments. She also stated that there was a way in which the torturers would get some kind of a sexual shock back from it if it was done right from when they shock a victim. I believe the dentists chairs are for that purpose only, for electroshock torture and programming.
Lansing-Michigan ago
Agree........this aspect of Jeffrey Epstein's past have been kept very quiet....even the women accusing him of rape have not mentioned it , as far as we know. There had to be experiments and MKUltra involved. Esp. at the New Mexico "ranch" ....................Think the govt. is covering for him??
fogdryer ago
I agree---not much talk
fogdryer ago
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3688656/A-fully-equipped-dentist-s-chair-close-photos-young-girls-backsides-eerie-images-videotaped-walk-billionaire-pedophile-Jeffrey-Epstein-s-Florida-mansion.html
the dental chair
think- ago
Thank you for your comment. I watched some of Anneke Lucas' videos too, but I didn't remember this detail.
Would you maybe have a link to the video - thanks!
On a side note, I am really glad that she got vindicated by the Epstein scandal - some people didn't believe her when she talked about getting raped by 'heads of states' and 'a member of royalty'.
Well, now they believe it, I guess.
shewhomustbeobeyed ago
ethics.harvard.edu - https://archive.is/l9gTo
oxfordamerican.org - https://archive.fo/vEf8c
images - https://web.archive.org/web/20190915154331/https://imgur.com/a/Ozvkg5G and https://web.archive.org/web/20190915155228/https://imgur.com/a/trYojqP and https://web.archive.org/web/20190915160523/https://imgur.com/a/N8KmRsA and https://web.archive.org/web/20190915160615/https://imgur.com/a/QOJPIxp and https://web.archive.org/web/20190915160701/https://imgur.com/a/fMLyIRY and https://web.archive.org/web/20190915160846/https://imgur.com/a/myRn1xo and https://web.archive.org/web/20190915160931/https://imgur.com/a/ljz8Q2U and https://web.archive.org/web/20190915161030/https://imgur.com/a/qDAwIez and https://web.archive.org/web/20190915160931/https://imgur.com/a/ljz8Q2U
bostonglobe - https://archive.fo/6DPwC#selection-667.0-667.56
wiki - https://archive.is/xjiDP and https://archive.is/g4rDy and https://archive.is/QPE5u and https://archive.is/p9FFr and https://archive.is/U0i8g
technologyreview - https://archive.is/VmxoZ
asc-cybernetics.org - https://archive.is/0bPB
newenglishreview.org - https://archive.fo/WW7Cc
dailymail - https://archive.is/vFHNg
samvac - https://archive.is/QslQV
medium - https://archive.is/iyjwe
theguardian - https://archive.is/vmYIU
ewetoob - https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=AbdJLjm5utc and https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=glbNQUNGsfU&feature=youtu.be&t=274
mikemcclaughry.wordpress - https://archive.is/4s88G and https://archive.is/WCEOz and https://archive.is/1PXR2
ecommons.luc.edu - https://web.archive.org/web/20190915160958/https://ecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4081&context=luc_theses
tandfonline - https://archive.is/LhRuz
ncbi - https://archive.is/NOonW
think- ago
Hopefully, the discussion about the pedos and pedo enablers at MIT will lead to a general discussion about science, and the selection of scientists.
It's depressing to see how Margaret Mead, one the heroines of anthropological research, not only wrote a study that was misleading and worthless, but also downplayed child rape.
Somehow this reminds of Kinsey - the general public, and probably many scholars as well, still thinks he was an important and excellent researcher.
Although he let pedos rape children to get his data, and his studies were rubbish.
Meanwhile, it turned out that the MIT put millions into the development of a 'food computer', but it didn't work.
So when donors came visiting, the MIT staff went to Home Depot to buy plants, and pretended they had grown these plants in their 'food computer'. LOL
It would actually be funny if it wasn't a typical example of what goes on behind the scenes at many universities, even 'elite' universities.
letsdothis3 ago
As I'm always explaining to some family members, just because a person is a scientist it does not mean that they have wisdom, ethics and integrity. Academics are just as flawed as the general population. Sometimes even more so because of their cocooned ivory towered environments coupled with, often, an underdeveloped personality due to a lifetime focusing on an increasingly specialised subject area.
weaselmonkey ago
Any connection between Wallace J Gardner and Bill Gates's stepmother?
Mary (Mimi) Gardner Gates, former Director of Seattle Art Museum
letsdothis3 ago
Need to look into that. I did note the Gardner surname.
weaselmonkey ago
Great OP, its crazy that there is no end to their deprivation.
think- ago
I think we've barely scratched the surface so far. :-/
think- ago
Do you think they put the girls in the dental chairs, and studied their reaction to pain, depending on which sounds they heard via headphones?
The NXIVM study of women's reaction to torture and rape videos comes to mind.
NOMOCHOMO ago
"pedo cush pedo cuddle" dental chair restraint from 1997
idk if this is related, but it wouldn't surprise me.
NOMOCHOMO ago
@letsdothis3
letsdothis3 ago
Thanks. Haven't heard of that before.
letsdothis3 ago
https://imgur.com/a/ljz8Q2U
letsdothis3 ago
For all we know, Epstein may have had some kind of fetish to do with his teeth.. the guy was weird.
letsdothis3 ago
I don't think they studied their reactions because they've had decades of experimentation already. From what I'm reading around the subject it can be used in hypnosis and as a form of control. So, perhaps a girl is being 'difficult'.. who knows.. this is only the start of this dig. But yes, the NXIVM case does come to mind.
letsdothis3 ago
“audio-analgesia" and MK-Ultra projects:
https://mikemcclaughry.wordpress.com/the-reading-library/mind-control/social-science-mass-conversion-and-holy-rollers-mkultra-projects/
Audio-analgesia and MKULTRA Sub-project 84 pg 44 : https://imgur.com/a/N8KmRsA
think- ago
Sounds like the summary of why they wanted to create MK Ultra Manchurian candidates.
letsdothis3 ago
Exactly...
letsdothis3 ago
More audio-analgesia papers:
Audio-Analgesia Evaluated as Hypnosis - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00029157.1967.10402565?journalCode=ujhy20 https://imgur.com/a/myRn1xo
letsdothis3 ago
Also, a number of experiments on guinea pigs have been carried out with the sound of high speed dental drills. Like this one https://ecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4081&context=luc_theses
letsdothis3 ago
I know that places like MIT Media Lab (which has a specialist section on music) is looking at encoding data in sound and music videos and immersive technologies. Wish I could find the article where I saw some of this explained. Anyway, that is why I include the following:
https://voat.co/v/pizzagatewhatever/2915785/15603283
Bjorn Tagemose is the creator of Gutterdamerung https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbdJLjm5utc
https://voat.co/v/pizzagatewhatever/2915785/15600746
SYNCORSWIM ago
What is the point of technology? Mind control? Lay it out for me in one sentence. And please tell me exactly how it's being achieved and the purpose of the dentist chair.
letsdothis3 ago
In terms of mind control, here's my latest post on the pizzagateTNT subverse: Neuroreality: The New Reality is Coming.....In the future, brain chips will govern how we experience reality. [JEFFREY EPSTEIN RELATED]
letsdothis3 ago
There are many points. (If you want to get some background info, visit my subverse here: https://voat.co/v/pizzagateTNT/16778070)
That's one.
Lol. Go do some reading.
YogSoggoth ago
That's 4 words. Can you break it down to 1? (sarc)
SYNCORSWIM ago
All I fucking do is read. Don't be an asshole. You're not getting to the point with this post. I know the many uses of technology. I was trying to force you to make a point. A wall of text does not a good post make. Anyway, don't you think it's strange that Epstein never smiles in any of his photos? The few that I have seen it looked as if his teeth and gums were fucked up. With all that money why didn't he fix his smile?
plancktonne ago
Some people just don't smile naturally. Smiling in photos is a fairly recent phenomenon, started after WWII when people began taking candid pics. Prior to that photos were a serious business — funerals and weddings mostly for average people — and everybody looks grim. It also may have been a holdover from the early days of photos, when everyone was admonished to hold still for long exposures.
SYNCORSWIM ago
I know the history of photography. Now it's customary to smile in photos. I think it's because he has a gummy smile.
letsdothis3 ago
Just wanted to reply to this. I understand that criticism..it's been made before. Let me explain, I am a raw researcher, because I have many leads I'm looking into, long ago I made the decision just to dig up the data... and the links. By posting the raw format it allows me to do quick searches and make quick connections.
My post is full of links and it is not for everyone. Some people want the context. That takes time to write a more journalistic piece. I don't have that time. I leave it for others to take the infomation in blogs and videos. And believe me, it happens.
I stated at the start of the post that this is the start of a dig. That means I don't have all the answers yet. Or maybe even , ever. But in this subverse, we also use posts to crowdsource investigations. It's not a newspaper, though we also have posts that simply reprint journalistic pieces and people who take the time to put everything into context. In the OP I ask for help from other researchers.
Since I haven't seen you here before I assume you're not familiar with the pizzagate subverse. If you don't want to read my 'wall of text', then don't.
Have a nice day.
SYNCORSWIM ago
Like I said before, I appreciate the info. It would help if you weren't a smart ass when someone asks your opinion.
letsdothis3 ago
I thought you were trying to be one. Sorry. A misunderstanding.
SYNCORSWIM ago
🙂
letsdothis3 ago
Seems we're getting closer to an answer to your question: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/3427665/20589618
SYNCORSWIM ago
I appreciate all the information and work you put into this post. But if that's a dentist chair, then for what nefarious purpose is it being used?
letsdothis3 ago
I'm in the process of trying to work that out. I have my suspicions but looking for solid data to back it up. Hoping other researchers will help.
Fyi, we have a long history with the subject of dentistry on pizzagate and many past posts. Examples here: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1619718; https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1852247; https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1882302
The_Real_Wahrheit ago
Sorry letsdothis, I posted a response a minute ago that was similar to your info here, not trying to plagiarize! TY for your links.
letsdothis3 ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gutenberg_Galaxy
Project Gutenberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gutenberg
related post: The Project Gutenberg eBook of Ely Cathedral, Fermilab and Freemasonry
Read it to get an insight into the minds of the psycopath.
YogSoggoth ago
This may sound far fetched (crazy?), but I think the Red Shoes thing does go back to Hans Christian Anderson. Alefantis had an image of a statue of some obscure raised deity(Antinous) because he was raised with the classics, and much more than the common man. These types dangle and obscure this in modern media on purpose as an inside joke for those more learned. Understanding the way the Gutenburg press changed the World is also above the common man. Wiener saw this coming. Licklider and others were only there to steal. Lermantov said as much in the quote. Kneehigh Theatre does a version of Red Shoes, as well as The Bacchae. Hardly a good ending in both tales, new or original. It always ends up with dead in the woods. As far as the Licklider name, I am looking at the timeline of the carpetbaggers, and after. Honolulu? NYC mostly. Ohio like the Wexlers. Philadelphia. Canada of course. Then there is the obvious connection between the arts and the donors, money laundering, ect.
YogSoggoth ago
Sam Vaknin, and Richard Routley-Silvan are definitely thinking thoughts that would get one biblically stoned in most places.
plagueship ago
It's not a dentists chair, it's a beautician's chair. Think about it, you have a lot of teenage girls coming over, what do you do most, check their teeth or make them up?
plancktonne ago
One of the bathrooms in either the New York or Palm Beach residence had a cart of dental tools, drills etc., but no dentist's or beautician's chair.
AngryMimi ago
I would almost agree with you except for who owns the house and the chair. There has been nothing "published" (that I have seen) indicating that the girls received beauty treatments and am not aware of anyone coming forward about what actually happened in said chair. But given all the players I would seriously doubt the chairs purpose as one of aesthetics. AND WTF do they need an ambulance for? I will tell you why they have that chair and that ambulance - it was a FANTASY island.
plagueship ago
Well the girls were being dolled up for the clients, makes more sense than giving them fillings.
Anyway look at this example and tell me it isn't the same thing:
https://www._amazon.com/dp/B01JB1AETU # beauty chair
https://_vigilantcitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/leadepsteinhouse1.png # epsteins chair.
letsdothis3 ago
That's fine too. We have a lot of posts in this pizzagate subverse that point to some sort of association with dentistry. I'll add the controversy over the chair at the top of the post for the political aetheists such as yourself who would ignore a post like this about the connections and history of the military, the internet and the obvious Epstein/Maxwell associations.
letsdothis3 ago
Margaret Mead posts:
flyingcuttlefish ago
I just posted a new one to get this viewed in a more modern light ...
https://9east71.home.blog/2019/09/16/opinion/
letsdothis3 ago
Thanks for the link.
flyingcuttlefish ago
thanks, I forgot this one. I will link it to my 971 blog in a newer post about these pervert scientists ....
letsdothis3 ago
Excerpts:
A moetotolo, or “sleep crawler,” is a digital rapist. He enters the home of a young woman in the early morning hours and attempts to insert one or two fingers into her vagina before she’s fully awake and able to resist. This was once a venerable tradition in Samoa; it was based on the ceremonial deflowering of a taupou, a high-caste virgin.
Margaret Mead was nonplussed when she was told about the practice soon after she began her research on Manu’a in 1925. She had to mention it; the custom had been reported by Western travelers since the early 19th century. Mead decided that the sexual assault added “zest to the surreptitious [consensual] love-making which is conducted at home.” (Mead 1928, 95) The girl, after all, was probably expecting a lover and may “indiscriminately accept any comer.” (No pun, presumably.) Mead also attempted to blame the victim. “The Samoan girl who plays the coquette does so at her peril.” (Mead 1928, 94) The moetotolo was often acting out of revenge for having been stood up...
..If Coming of Age helped launch the sexual revolution, it was also the Magna Carta of multiculturalism. Its unsubtle subtitle was “A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization” and the book hammered home its message in the last two chapters, “Our Educational Problems in the Light of Samoan Contrasts” and “Education for Choice.”
...But Mead presented herself as scientist, or at least an anthropologist. She also redefined what was noble about the savage. He had never been admired for his promiscuity. Quite the opposite: the mythical savage was purer, more faithful, more monogamous than the European. Mead turned this formula on its head, making his chief virtue the absence of what had come to be considered, and despised, as middle-class morality. Happiness had begun to replace nobility of character as a desideratum, and the Samoans were happy because they were laid back. Americans were unhappy because they were repressed.
In contrast to Westerners, a Samoan child learns that “sex is a natural, pleasurable thing; the freedom with which it may be indulged in is limited by just one consideration, social status. Chief’s daughters and chiefs’ wives should indulge in no extra-marital experiments.” (Mead 1928, 201)
Lovemaking, as Mead wrote in a follow-up study, is “the pastime par excellence.” “Sex is play, permissible in all hetero-and homosexual expression, with any sort of variation as an artistic addition . . . Love between the sexes is a light and pleasant dance.” (Freeman 1983, 91-2) “Romantic love,” she assured readers of Coming of Age, “as it occurs in our civilization, inextricably bound up with ideas of monogamy, exclusiveness, jealousy and undeviating fidelity[,] does not occur in Samoa.” Samoans “laugh at stories of romantic love, scoff at fidelity to a long absent wife or mistress, believe explicitly that one love will quickly cure another . . . Adultery does not necessarily mean a broken marriage.” However, when partners do agree to separate, “divorce is a simple and informal matter.” (Mead 1928, 104-5, 106, 108)
...Unfortunately, as Freeman detailed in two books, Mead had written a work of fiction disguised as an anthropological monograph. His most sensational finding was that she relied heavily not on testimony of adolescent girls, but on a sixty-sixty-year old half-Samoan widow, Phoebe Parkinson, “with singular gifts as a raconteur,” Mead admitted, and, especially, two Samoan friends her own age, Fa’apua’a Fa’amu and Fofoa. The two young women deliberately mislead her. “We were just joking,” said Fa’apua’a, in sworn testimony. “She must have taken it seriously, but we were only joking.” (Freeman 1983, 252; Freeman 1999, 3)
Mead's field notes are the smoking gun. They reveal, writes Freeman, that "the sexual behavior of the adolescent girls she had selected for study was never systematically investigated." (italics Freeman's)(Freeman 1999, 158) The American anthropologist Martin Orans, who also examined the notes, concludes that Mead's research was "seriously flawed . . . filled with internal contradictions and grandiose claims to knowledge that she could not possibly have had." He is incredulous that her book "could have formed the basis for an illustrious career," and disturbed that "virtually none of the numerous reviews of the Mead-Freeman controversy point to the profoundly unscientific nature of her work." (Orans 1996, 132)
...But for the few skeptical readers of Coming of Age, the elephant in the room was the moetotolo. Though she admits digital rape is “curious” and “abnormal,” readers learn that it is one of three forms of relationship between the unmarried that receive “formal recognition from the community," the two other being "the clandestine encounter" and "the published elopement, Avaga." (Mead 1928, 89)
Larry Nassar had a more effective modus operandi than the young Samoan men. As Mead delivered her revolutionary message in the guise of an anthropologist, so Nassar engaged in moetotolo (the verb and noun are the same) while playing the role of physician. He didn’t slip into his victims’ bedrooms at night; they were ushered into his examining room for physical therapy.
...Dr. Nassar, accused of abusing over 250 young women, would have won Olympic gold.
...The sexual revolution has been won. Multiculturalists no longer extoll the supposed enlightened attitudes toward sex of non-Westerners. They are admired merely because they have been victimized by Europeans, replacing the workers exploited by the bourgeoisie. But whereas not so long ago multiculturalists simply ignored the rebarbative patriarchal practices of their heartthrobs, like the segregation of and denial of rights to women, the burqa and hijab, cousin marriages, honor killings, female genital mutilation, etc., they have now begun to defend some of these.
FGM, referred to as “circumcision” or, better, “surgery,” is now regarded as a harmless cultural inheritance under assault by insensitive Islamophobes. The bioethicists at the Hastings Institute have given the practice their seal of approval. Mead was sympathetic to the moetotolo, and, so long as he isn’t a white male, he, too, may eventually find even more outspoken supporters.
think- ago
This.
Iirc, the NYT decided that it will refer to genital mutilation as 'cuttings' rather than as 'mutilation' in the future, because, you know, the term 'mutilation' might be off-putting for the perps. The perps!
Trigger warning -
And some 'feminists' have argued that genital mutilation shouldn't be referred to as 'mutilation' because even if you cut off the clitoris of a girl with a rusty knife, she might still be able to experience a vaginal orgasm!! /s
Remember the good ol' days when feminsts were advocating for the well-being of women, and not siding with perps who kill and mutilate them... /s
CornyGoatWeed ago
cointelproject and you are now their dupe mockingbird stooge dumbass. Obviously any woman walking around town who calls herself feminist would curl her lips in revulsion and hostility at the mention of it.
Try it some time, ask a woman irl
letsdothis3 ago
Yes, I remember.
letsdothis3 ago
Of mice, men, and computers - https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614119/of-mice-men-and-computers/
letsdothis3 ago
Norbet Wiener https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener