Christopher Michael Langan - FAQs About Reality: Chris Langans Social Media Posts, Book 1: Quora

CHRISTOPHER M. LANGAN

FAQs About Reality

Chris Langans

Social Media Posts

Book One

Quora

First published by Mega Press 2020

Copyright 2016-2019 by Christopher Michael Langan

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Langan, C. M. (Christopher Michael)

FAQs About Reality: Chris Langa n s Social Media Posts

1. Metaphysics 2. General Knowledge

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To the Members of the CTMU Community

who faithfully follow my work

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

FAQs About Reality contains Chris Langan's answers to questions posted on Quora during the years he was active, 2016-2019. Langan was banned from Quora for his conservative worldview and uncompromising debate style. Although Langan never broke Quora's rules or violated its terms of service, he was summarily deplatformed without warning. All of his posts were deleted or orphaned. With the help of members of the Mega Foundation and CTMU Community, the majority of his work on Quora was preserved in this volume.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Christopher Michael Langan is a noted independent researcher and reality theorist whose extraordinary intellect has not prevented him from living a rough, unsheltered, and exciting life. He is best known for his groundbreaking theory of reality, the Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU) . The CTMU is a reflexive, tautological, and profoundly self-contained intrinsic language through which reality exists and evolves by talking to itself about itself, thus serving as its own theory, universe, and model. Combining physics, metaphysics, and biology in a tight, elegant, and unique logico-semiotic structure called the Metaformal System , the CTMU provides a long-sought bridge between mind and matter, science and spirituality, and the internal and external aspects of human and cosmic existence.

Challenged from early childhood by extreme poverty and inadequate schooling, Chris learned young to value brawn as highly as brains. After working as a cowboy, firefighter, construction worker, and bar bouncer in various nightclubs throughout the New York metropolitan area, he came to the attention of the media in 1999 for combining one of the worlds highest IQs with limited formal education and a bare-knuckle lifestyle. Having conducted original investigations in fields including logic, mathematics, physics, cosmology, biology, philosophy, language theory, theology, economics, and the cognitive sciences, he has contributed articles on such topics to a number of scholarly journals and alternative intellectual periodicals. Some of these have been collected into books, starting with The Art of Knowing in 2002. In 2017, he began publishing a series of papers that have changed the landscape of science and philosophy. The most recent, Introduction to Quantum Metamechanics , is currently in press.

Chris is the co-founder and president of a non-profit organization, the Mega Foundation, which was established to offer aid, support and camaraderie to the severely gifted, a small and neglected population with whose plight he is intimately acquainted. He has carried on his work in the high IQ community through various organizations including the Mega Foundation, Mega International, and the Ultranet, which place emphasis on not just measured intelligence, but moral integrity and creative achievement.

A: ACADEMIA

Academic admission

1. Is there a "back door" to top universities?

Absolutely not, unless you have personal connections who can wire you into the system (or a fashionable complexion or sexual orientation which "merits" an exception).

I happen to be in a position to know this for a fact. Ive been featured in a NY Times number 1 best-seller as someone who fell through the cracks of the education system, but was nevertheless intellectually well-suited for a faculty position at a top institution like Harvard. Naturally, Harvard ignored this suggestion (apparently, Larry Summers or should that be Drew Gilpin Faust was too busy to notice the book and/or too important to care). I was subsequently contacted by a student at Syracuse who thought I should be welcomed onto the faculty; no cigar. Other similar initiatives failed as well.

Prior to that, my wife who happens to have a very respectable PhD had scoured academia for PhD programs willing to admit students directly, regardless of prior credentials. She found just a couple, albeit not in the US: they were located in Wales and South Africa. Neither wanted me even as a grad student, despite my evident ability to intellectually annihilate most members of their respective faculties in their chosen disciplines. Finally, we were forced to realize that it was all a facade at best, these places had merely established a pretext for admitting supposed outsiders through their nepotistic, crony-based, insiders-only friends-and-relatives programs. It was a complete joke.

In case this series of unfortunate events seems vanishingly improbable, consider what academia is actually about these days. First, it comprises a diffuse multinational metacorporation which is unabashedly in business for profit. Tuition, government grants, research funding, sports income, endowments, investments everything with monetary value feeds the bottom line, and this is ultimately all that counts. Secondly, its educational mandate has steadily given way to a mandate for ideological standardization, indoctrination, and socialization, putting it in the business of psychological mass production and social engineering. Unless one appears receptive to its standardized psychological conditioning, ones personal qualifications are all but irrelevant to admission. Thirdly, academia is an intellectual trade union which, while admirably inclusive when the money and credit flow inward, turns highly exclusive when the money threatens to flow outward. Defy it or even try to jump the queue, and unless you're one of the chosen few, it will make an example of you. Best get it straight as quickly as possible: in Academia, Inc., it's strictly pay to play.

But despair ye not, for there is still the conventional route to academic certification: run the admissions gauntlet, sit there like a good little boy or girl for 48 years or so, soak up the ignorance and opinionation of your instructors while latching onto any crumbs of actual knowledge that may accidentally exit their mouths as they scramble to advance their academic careers, and incur the customary mountain of debt. Then maybe, just maybe, youll be grudgingly admitted to the club.

(Alas, I no longer have that kind of spare time on my hands. How lucky for me that I can nevertheless make nattering monkeys out of most professional academics, and refrain from doing so more often only because it feels like taking candy from babies. ;)

January 17, 2018

Academic credentials

2. Is it true that "anyone with the slightest experience with academia would laugh at the very notion of some journal editor even looking at a submission from someone without academic credentials, even if that person really was an Einstein?