In the real world in which only significant accomplishment counts, a dynasty is something based on reality, rather than some buffoon achieving godhood because he bombed some defenseless people in a desert.
Note: when you have military aircraft and the other team does not, killing from the air has no defense and it's logically impossible for any attack of that nature to be anything more than murder.
The Huxley dynasty began with Thomas Huxley who was born in the early 19th Century. Just as Aldous Huxley has been regarded as one of the ranking geniuses of the Last Age, Thomas Huxley had an even more formidable reputation in a different way as he was instrumental in supporting Darwin's "Origin of the Species" and in exceptional research of his own. (WIKI: Thomas Henry Huxley)Thomas Huxley fathered Leonard Huxley who in his time fathered Aldous Huxley. The interested student may wish to review the life of Leonard Huxley to discover what he did with his life and it doesn't appear he did much publicly but he fathered Julian Huxley who is well-known to biologists, Aldous Huxley who is well-known to just about everyone and Andrew Huxley who won a Nobel Prize in physiology in 1963.
There are dynasties and then there are pretenders.
The irony is the tremendous respect my ol' Dad had for the Huxleys but, as a geneticist, he was thinking more in terms of Thomas Huxley's support for Darwin and perhaps not so much in terms of Aldous Huxley's famous experimentations with mescaline.
This is a dynasty which isn't based on pop star fame for which the only requirement is a hit record and boobs but rather it's based on intellectual accomplishment and not for a simple few years of political pandering but rather something that has existed and has been acknowledged by the entire scientific world for the best part of two centuries. Now that's a dynasty and not the pretensions of a self-important buffoon who bombs people for the same reason they want to bomb him ... and it has nothing whatsoever to do with oil.
Some say the Kennedys represent a dynasty as well but that only goes back to the middle of the 20th Century and I have not read nor have I researched anything prior to that. The family terrifies Republicans and with good reason but it really hasn't shown much for legs as it will take another century or so before it really counts. I doubt Republicans are much terrified of the Kennedys today except insofar as they're afraid of any liberal with money. Look at how they shred George Soros.
Alex Fraser, my ol' Dad, had a formidable mind and he left behind substantial scientific accomplishment. Achieving a status of intellectual godhood is probably not possible in the Modern World because all the hipsters think they know better, hipsters always have, but it wasn't so notorious in times gone by as it is now because this time others think that means something. What means something is what they will leave behind except the biggest collection of autobiographies, complete with selfies on every page, the world has ever seen ... but will never read.
It's the same situation as Facebook in which people put things on their Walls but complain others never read them. Of course they don't as they go into Facebook to read about themselves. You must know this going into it or Facebook will break your heart ... instead of just wasting your time. But Facebook doesn't waste your time, it simply provides the mechanism whereby you can.
Hot tip: when you can only connect with friends online, you don't have any friends. But Apple's Digital Touch is precious ... really. Please, please digitally touch me as I have no doubt it will change my life.
I don't understand? I'm sure I don't, Hipster Honey.
Holy mackerel. I've become a square (lowers head in disgrace).
Opinions of hipsters are irrelevant but the opinions of the world's scientific community don't change with the whim of every pretentious new Parisian designer. I believe I saw the other day they're experimenting with nudity in fashion these days and they're definitely making a big deal out of nipple power. These facts demonstrate to me only one thing: the hipsters know little or nothing of fashion as transparent tops for women were high fashion in the sixties and it wasn't simply so some journodork would put it up as a headline in a tabloid. As with much of what hipsters do, it's too little, too late, and based on a woeful lack of knowledge.
As any Euro can tell you, there's no fashion in nudity but rather it's a way to market to Americans who are terrified of it. The irony is that which the hipsters fight was created by their parents. It didn't exist in the hippies as they didn't care if you were black, white, gay, straight, whatever. If you were experienced was all that was needed to known. Given the tremendous bias that's crept into the country over the last thirty to forty years, who do you think put it there.
(Ed: reformed hippies who have seen the light?)
Good chance they're in it as there's nothing so self-righteous as a reformed roue. Read sometime books about religion from convicted killers. They always find the Lord.
(Ed: even in this you bash religion?)
Well, no. I bashed flipped hippies and serial killers. I assumed there would no problem. Silly me.
In fact, Thomas Huxley, despite widely advocating and possibly inventing 'agnosticism,' was also a consultant on the British educational system and part of that was to be dedicated to the reading of the Bible, something which he insisted provided moral instruction and, perhaps more importantly to him, extraordinary writing. Apparently his intellectualism did not lead him to consider at substantial depth what the Garden of Eden myth did to the rights of women for the next two thousand years.
(Ed: bashing the Garden of Eden is not bashing religion?)
Nope, that's bashing fantasies as I've yet to see a picture of Eve ... without a belly button. There's only one process that makes a belly button and that process is not being created from a rib.
(Ed: that's the fault of the artist and not the story)
Well, no. If there was something to be learned from the story, apparently the artists didn't get it so the story did not work. That the Equal Rights Amendment was shot down in the 80's under Reagan and never mentioned again is another example of it.
(Ed: the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment is the same as Eve being painted with a belly button?)
Precisely the same as both originated in the same place.
(Ed: the history of persecution of women goes back much longer than that)
True enough but the Bible codified it and the Koran flogged whatever life remained completely out of it. Women are property. Fuckin' deal with it.
Where all of this comes back to dynasties, genetics and the search for the Holy Grail is that my grandfather, Thomas Fraser, must have been born around 1890-1900 as my ol' Dad was born in 1923. I'd like to think, with no justification whatsoever, that his name came from the understanding of what Thomas Huxley did. There may even be some rationale to that as Alex spoke more than once about creating a family of Huxleys. It doesn't seem unreasonable to think his ol' Dad laid that trauma on him as well. (It's probably not unrealistic to believe most geneticists want to create a family of Huxleys)
That my ol' Dad respected his father shows what a mind he must have had. There was no respect whatsoever for his alcoholism but he had near-reverence for his father's mind and often said Thomas would have been better-suited as a schoolteacher.
Well, thanks, dear ol' Dad as life really hadn't bestowed enough trauma so there's another one. Unless I can find a bone on a beach and discover a previously-unknown kind of dinosaur, I'm a complete failure as a dynasty creator?
(Ed: the failure may have included the fact that you have no children)
Quite so but I wasn't the one trying to create a dynasty ... or live within the constraints of one that existed already. That dynasty loved music but played it zero percent of the time. So I went my own way. That didn't go the way of the family but I'm not the only one.
Until I die I will never understand this but Doc has three guitars on his wall in his house. I did not get close-up with them and couldn't play one anyway because they're strung left-handed. What I did see was that they weren't cheap junk but rather some special design and my preference for Godin is similar in that neither of us was satisfied with the same Les Paul everyone else plays. I did own one and she was beautiful but she wasn't The Guitar for Me.
Doc and I have never spoken of it and I have no idea what he did with them. That does make a bit of a hole in the heart but it's not an open wound and it ends up with ... well, that's unusual, isn't it.
(Ed: what's the deal with all this introspection?)
It's really not so much introspection as you haven't learned much of anything about me or Doc, for that matter, as the point is the preservation and continuation of thought over many years and what it takes to exist within a world in which the collective mindset is no more impressive than that of a jar of peanut butter.
(Ed: evidence?)
Rick Perry
Anyone in Iowa
Anyone for whom the Bible is the only book they ever read and/or quote
Anyone for whom the Koran is the only book they ever read and/or quote
Bombing people for no good reason other than aspirations toward divinity
Manifest Destiny
People who talk of civil rights but who have no idea who Stokely Carmichael was (WIKI: Stokely Carmichael)
(cough)
Any questions?
(Ed: Iowa isn't a complete waste. Johnny Carson was born there)
Right and there's one key point to that: he left.
(Ed: puh-leeze get yer computer fixed)
Do believe I see it too and that's why the massive drive to get it fixed. The situation is clear: you don't need the philosophy and I should be playing. It will come, it just can't come as soon as I would like. I haven't smoked anything, tho. That may make a difference.
Note: I do not want to hear another word about instant gratification (larfs).
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