Forecasting and prophecy are two entirely
different things.
For example, there is no prophecy of the weather. However, there is early detection. Early detection is what a forecast is.
I count BW as a particularly talented forecaster. He is skilled in early detection and an outstanding practitioner of textured thought.
With the Internet, the gatekeepers (e.g., the NY and University publishers) lost their monopoly and are no longer able to block the best minds from being published.
Accordingly, the Internet greatly advantages those who care about and have the skills for detecting the best minds, textured thought, and evidence.
It is through textured thought that new evidence is brought to light. It is the very process of science.
Orthodoxy is the enemy of science and if you want to understand what I mean by textured thought, consider the quote below from Orwell. It expresses the opposite of textured thought:
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?… Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?…The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness”
— Syme, in George Orwell’s 1984
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