Why Xiv

By John Weyland

This book contains 59 essays. They are all meant to say something new about the subject dealt with.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 25, 2019
• ISBN: 9781728329741

John Weyland

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Published by AuthorHouse 10/15/2019

ISBN: 978-1-7283-2973-4 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-7283-2974-1 (e)

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Contents

Chapters

1.   Why Science Partly Ended Secrecy About Knowledge

2.   Way The Cause Of Depressions Is Easy To Understand

3.   How To Keep The Two Parts Of Women Apart

4.   Why Helping Others Is Not Necessarily A Good Thing

5.   Why You’d Have Thought The Chinese Would Have Wanted To Figure Out An Afterlife For Their Ancestors

6.   Why The Pill Did Not Solve The Sex Problem

7.   Why The United States Can Become A Country Where A Majority Lives Off A Minority

8.   Why Allegations In American Politics No Longer Have To Be Believed Because Of Proof

9.   Why the U. S. Constitution Always Had The Potential To Be Turned Into A Form Of Parliamentary Government

10.   Why Better Off People Are Better Citizens

11.   Why Newspapers Were Much More Credible Than Today’s Media

12.   Why The Real Problem Of Democracy Cannot Be Discussed

13.   Why What Made Men Great Made Them Stupid

14.   Why Men Created A Problem For Themselves When They Created Year-round Sex

15.   Why We Have To Sacrifice The Truth Because Of Democracy

16.   Why Does The United States Try To Impose Its Morality On The World

17.   Why Slavery Disappeared

18.   Why Isn’t The Welfare Cost of Illegal Immigrants Made An Election Issue

19.   Why Competition Causes Monopoly

20.   Why A New Race Is Developing In The United States

21.   Why Reconstruction Left Blacks Without Legal Protection

22.   Why Learning Throughout Most Of History Was Wrong

23.   Why You Would Have Thought Everybody Would Have Understood The Industrial Revolution

24.   Why Communism Is Hostile To Innovation

25.   Why Partial Expropriation Only

26.   Why Quantum Physics Cannot Be Reconciled With Einstein

27.   Why Government Debt Is Good For Business

28.   Why Did Other Forms Of Life Survive

29.   Why The Law Favors Rapists

30.   Why Christianity Brought Back Equality

31.   Why The Industrial Revolution And Democracy Occurred More Or Less Simultaneously

32.   Why The Whole Anti-colonial Movement Was Based On A Fallacy

33.   Why We Threw Away The Best System

34.   Why One Of The Many Advantages Of Non-democratic Governments Is That They Can Adapt To Changes In Conditions

35.   Why The Women’s Movement Wants Women To Get Back To Their Original Condition Of Independence

36.   Why There Will Supposedly Be An Economic Catastrophe

37.   Why Serfs Were Saved From Acting Like Traditional Slaves

38.   Why Social Justice Finds Nowhere For Billionaires

39.   Why The Welfare State Depends On Paper Money

40.   Why The Christian Religion Did Not Try To Reform The Institutions Of This World

41.   Why The United States Is Better For The World Than Europe

42.   Why Mexico And The Rest Of Central America Think They Have Figured Out A Way To Get The United States To Solve Their No. 1 Problem

43.   Why Peace Has Become Possible

44.   Why The News Media Repeat What They Know Are Lies

45.   Why You Would Think The Declining Birth Rate In The Developed World Would Be A Very Big Issue

46.   Why Human Males Can Have Sex So Frequently

47.   Why Whites Feeling Guilty Over Negroes Is Ridiculous

48.   Why Anybody Who Receives Welfare Should Not Be Able to Vote

49.   Why Suicide Has To Be Reconsidered

50.   Why A Minority Can Change Behavior In A Democracy

51.   Why You Don’t Have To Study

52.   Why The Combination of Democracy And Capitalism Has Created An Insoluble And Possibly Fatal Problem

53.   Why Capitalism Had A Means Of Preventing This Situation But It No Longer Works

54.   Why The Essence Of Capitalism Is Competition

55.   Why Socialism In The United States Is Just The Welfare State Under A Different Name

56.   Why Would Anybody Doubt That Women Have A Different Heritage Than Men

57.   Why Banks Should Be Forbidden To Loan Out More Money Than They Have

58.   Why The Aristocracy Did The World A Great Service

59.   Why Morality Is Self-Contradictory But Refuses To Admit That It Is

Chapter 1

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Science did not only advance knowledge. It ended—partly—secrecy about knowledge.

Science is always praised for advancing knowledge. It is much less frequently praised for spreading knowledge, which is equally important.

Before science the kind of knowledge science deals with was kept secret when possible. Those who discovered it wanted to make money from it or gain some other advantage. There were no patents.

There were no institutions devoted to providing knowledge. It was done by tradesmen or amatures. When tradesmen made a discovery they kept it to themselves. They were not going to share it with their competitors.

Some discoveries could not be kept secret. It was easy to steal them. That was how much new knowledge was spread,

But this was not so with many discoveries. Greek fire is a famous example. It was a great advantage in war. The Greeks were using it centuries before Christ. They were still using it during the Crusades. Other countries never found out the secret of it. Which was eventually lost.

Science was different. General knowledge was shared. Nobody owned it. At the beginning the sharing was done amongst individual scholars. The sharing was easy to do because they had a common language. Latin.

But the big breakthrough with science did not come until the establishment of universities.

Universities were meant at first for the training of the religious elite. The Church had accumulated doctrines which could not be acquired without extensive studies. That was provided by universities in Europe.

Science was developed largely through the efforts of individuals working separately. They shared their knowledge writing to one another. They did so well that the universities started including them in their studies.

This was all freely accessible. The