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Tuesday, December 9, 2003 - 7:51amSanction this postReply
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Okay, don't yell at me.(grin!)
When I first started trying to find information about Objectivism on the Internet, I found two places: ARI, and something called www.neotech.com.
Neo-Tech claims to be based on Rand's work, but I can't figure them out. I just wanted to know if anybody out there knew anything about them. I found a FAQ about them, but it didn't explain anything, really.
From their current website (and archived versions on www.archive.org), it looks as if they read a TINY LITTLE BIT of something by Ayn Rand, took the terminology, and lumped in a whole bunch of New-age gibberish. I mean, they go from "fully integrated honesty" and "mystical neoCheaters" right to "Gravity computer" and "the Nuclear decision thresh-hold".

I guess my question is:
Does anybody know any more about them than this?
And do you think they give Objectivism a bad name?

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Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 11:13amSanction this postReply
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Henry,

The only semi-informative reference that I've found (and perhaps you've seen the same one) is on a "Criticisms of Objectivism" page listing the links to critical articles from various authors.

Basically, the short summary given with a NeoTech link mentioned NeoTech as a Scientologist's version of Objectivism.

I haven't found a functioning NeoTech link yet (although I must admit that I have not yet attempted a systematic review of cyberspace in order to elucidate the origin, nature, and validity of NeoTech).

Ed

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Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 5:06pmSanction this postReply
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Here is what I know and think I remember. Decades ago, there appeared some advertisements in libertarian magazines for a book by a Mr. Frank R. Wallace in which he explained a method for winning at the game of poker that he called "neocheating." He seemed to be a somewhat wonky Objectivist, intelligent but eccentric. He also ran ads hawking books and/or materials on what he called "psychuous sex" -- sort of a manual on how to achieve sexual ecstasy.

I got the impression that the book on poker was a big success, and that this went to his head, convincing him of his genius and causing him to ultimately come out with this big confused mess called Neo-Tech.

The comparison with Scientology is very apt.

Rodney Rawlings

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Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 7:47pmSanction this postReply
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yeah, that's what I'd found out so far, too. I've been able to successfully track down several of the books on amazon.....selling for 175.00 or thereabouts. I read their "orientation and definitions" on www.neo-tech.com. only thing is, Scientology actually looks coherent in comparison to Neo-tech.

Thanks for the info! :)

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Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 5:26amSanction this postReply
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Scientology is a highly precise and oiled mousetrap. At least they have the brainwashing part right. Neo-Tech is not even a mousetrap : more like claptrap.

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Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 11:15amSanction this postReply
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***chuckle***
I like that, Francois! Actually, Scientology IS much more slick in it's presentation, you're right.

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Friday, January 16, 2004 - 8:50pmSanction this postReply
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I may be of some assistance to you on this matter.

The Neo-Tech movement purports to be an underground endeavor with a variety of books that it renders available via covert channels of distribution for extremely large prices (most of the titles are derivatives of "The Book"). In 1986, an innocent publishing center headed by Dr. Wallace had been raided by IRS agents for no apparent reason (though there were falsified charges of tax evasion), after which there was no further disclosure of the locales and magnitude of the Neo-Tech endeavor.

Dr. Wallace has created an intriguing theory of business management which eliminates unwieldy centralized corporate structures in favor of delocalized mini-entrepreneurships which communicate with the company head via immensely cheap and economical means (i.e. fax machines and computers) and merely give reports on their progress. Sales and production methodologies are left entirely to their determination, and only their profit is taken into account by the company head in the evaluation of their competence.

I have, over the past year, come across the rough equivalent of 700 pages of Neo-Tech literature, which caused me to react on a spectrum ranging from admiration to skepticism. I do not view seriously the Neo-Tech theories of a race of intelligent super-beings (Zon) that created the universe, but I do see merit in Wallace's deliberations in the realms of business and politics. (One of "The Books" presents an excellent case as to why the FDA is the single most criminal, murderous, and destructive organization in the United States government).

I encourage you to examine Neo-Tech for yourselves at http://www.neo-tech.com/index.php

The site is more extensive than it appears at first glance. Navigate through it, and you will find more than enough information on the general Neo-Tech ideology (though not its "self-help" techniques). I encourage healthy criticism and analysis of where our differences with Neo-Tech lie. My question to you, which I have not yet resolved myself is as follows: "Can Neo-Tech thinkers become viable allies in Mr. Emrich's proposed coalition of rational men and organizations?"

I am
G. Stolyarov II

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Wednesday, January 21, 2004 - 8:30pmSanction this postReply
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The other bloody board was shut off by our nanny moderator.

To continue:

Good points Tommy,

To Vertigo:

Who said anything about it being Americanized? The term lit or lighted, may be used, as explained, and this is an English definition. For instance, go to the very english BBC page, at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3149404.stm
and search for the term lighted.

"For about 10 seconds, the evening on Saturday got lighted up. I panicked and took my kids inside the house."

Then try the English site about Positron Emission Tomography Scanning, at: http://www.ebme.co.uk/arts/pet.htm

of concern are lighted up in a three-dimensional image for physicians to review.

I wonder, could these very english journalists and scientists be wrong?
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