Re: OT: Is science democratic? Oligarchic?

On Nov 24, 5:57 pm, John LaCroix <john.l.lacr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 24, 5:00 pm, Augustine <jacksones...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Nov 24, 3:15 pm, John LaCroix <john.l.lacr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The one thing I will hand to ancient cultures is that they were very
acute observers and dilligent in the manner in which they recorded
their observations...

Why only this one thing? Do you otherwise labor under the myth of
progress and its concomitant chronological snobbery?

No myth, just the facts as I see them. And one astounding fact is that
as far as science and technology goes
we progress at a much more rapid rate than the ancients. The pyramids
and other like structures are impressive, but to me
the tech to build a micro-chip is far more impressive. You can
question whether this sort of progress is good or bad (maybe the
ancients
were able to do much more but they didn't deem it necessary) but the
facts are the facts. But that's just the minority of us who don't
consider times
prior to the 1300's as the 'good ol days'...

And do you include in this technological progress our alleged capacity
to warm our planet to the point of our extinction, our killing
ourselves in one century alone (the latest) in greater numbers than
the sum total of all centuries combined, our ability to efficiently
murder enwombed infants to the tune of 50,000,000 in the U.S. alone
since 1973, and our ability to instantly wipe ourselves from the face
of the earth via nuclear bombs?

Not to mention our capacity to ensure that wombs bear no fruit at all;
to breed roses without any fragrance; to create laboratory babies; to
"compassionately" kill; to be entertained at all times to the
exclusion of contemplation of the highest things and to the
destruction of the family, each member isolated in front of his own
screen; to be plugged-in 24/7 to the point that silence is now almost
intolerable for most; to treat humans as technological objects and
describe ourselves as 'wired' etc.; to maintain populations in which
nearly all are drugged; to pathologize unhappiness as 'depression'; to
foster delusions of man as perfectible and sufficient unto himself;
and to create plastic faces and plastic souls?
.

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