Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom thought very poorly of the Humanities departments and Social Studies in universities. Not that he thought to shut their doors once and for all. Rather he thought they face a crisis that had been developing since around around 1600. What is the natural man? Noble, blank, or evil? What is the self? But unless there would be an answer, he surely thought these two parts of universities ought to be closed. [But he would have agreed with STEM and Technical schools].

But he like other great thinkers thought that the USA was great. The only question was how to keep up that degree of excellence.

You see in the deepest philosophers nowadays this one constant factor belief in the greatness of America. Hegel called the USA "the State of the future" as Walter Kaufman brings and I vaguely recall seeing that myself in Hegel--I think.]. Even Howard Bloom [the Lucifer Principle.]

[This would bring a question why Hegel has been used for everything except to support the idea of the Constitution of USA. This clearly ties in to the fact that most people that major in philosophy lose their common sense [or start out without much ]. So they find rich ideas in Hegel, and use them in destructive ways. For some reason Hegel is used a lot by Marxists in exactly the opposite way he intended.]

Torah of the Dark Side.

What exactly was the reason or the issue that Rav Nahman of Breslov brings up in his LeM I:12 and I:28 about Torah scholars that are demons? I do not pretend to  reach the depth of Rav Nahman's thoughts. However I would suggest that the issue is that there is such a thing as straight Torah--that is the kind of Torah that I would learn in Litvak Yeshivas that is the basic attitude that, "we have only one doctrine: to learn what the Torah says, and to keep it."
That is the basic approach of the Gra, Rav Israel Salanter  and Rav Shach.
But there is also Torah of the Dark Side. Rav Nahman actually warns us in the   LeM ["hashmatot" printed in the back in most recent editions.]

video for String Theory

I ought to add here that to really get to String Theory, one ought to get through Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory first. [ Even though QFT is different than String Theory still, it is hard to understand Strings without first having a background in QFT.]

Brian Greene for Quantum Mechanics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFrBr8oUVXU

The Infra Red Telescope of NASA will be looking for planets that are possible for humans to live in.
When was the Infrared telescope invented?





Photo in Life Magazine about the first infra-red telescope.

July, 1954; page 24

This would be the first of its kind invented by Philip  Rosenblum.


The question however is even after finding a new world, how to get there? For that we need to study String Theory. This is to be able to find some crack in spacetime=some way of making a worm hole. After all, we can not go faster than light. So to get anywhere in our galaxy, we need to skip over [or under] space time, not go through it.

Now there is some kind of fundamental existence that is not space or time. This is actually stated in Lemaitre who discovered that the universe is expanding. [Friedman discovered that Einstein equations do have solution than can expand or contract.] 

Anti Enlightenment started almost at the same time as the Enlightenment. And Allan Bloom claims that this difficulty is what is at the root of the malice and sickness in the universities.

But he leaves out Kant and Hegel. Why? [I think that he must have thought they did not solve the problem-- even though clearly both meant to.]

I wrote all this before so why am I repeating this? Because of an added thought that Friedrich Jacobi  was on the opposite side of the Enlightenment and it was his idea of faith [or immediate knowledge [not through reason] and not through the senses] that was a target of Hegel.
This is in spite of the fact that both Kant and were trying to get to God--the Absolute Spirit.
But they thought that subjective faith was not the way.

The other interesting thought is that the root of this difficulty in some way I think was even back in the Middle Ages when the conflict between Reason and Faith was a major issue. But in the Middle Ages it was thought that there must be a way to synthesize them.

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