THE PREROGATIVE & APHENOMENALITY

Actual social and political power is the power possessed by the forces dominating political and economic affairs at all levels of society, not just academia or research institutions.

In modern society, it is wielded on behalf of monopoly right. "Monopoly right" refers to the presumptive powers assumed by the largest concentrations of banking and industrial capital over anything and everything that takes place in government legislation or economic development.

How it is wielded follows this description of the Royal Prerogative described thusly in 1616 by the English monarch King James I, of the House of Stuart: "If there falls out a question of my prerogative or mystery of state, deal not with it, till you consult with the king or his council, or both; for they are transcendent matters."

Re-forming any model that is already essentially aphenomenal by, for example, improving this or that detail of the model, only re-directs the wielding of the prerogative. What is needed is RENEWAL of the entire knowledge-gathering task. Opposition to monopoly right is what opens and widens the space needed in which to carry out such renewal.

The content common to all aphenomenal models consists of the displacement of knowledge of the truth about whatever is natural and characteristic with "knowledge" gathered under conditions mandated in fact by the dictate of the prerogative but disguised as objective and controlled experimental conditions. In this act of displacement, the theory and practice of pragmatic philosophy, that "truth is whatever works", plays the crucial role.