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I thought this would be a list of things like energy, food production, clean water, climate change, etc. But it seems like a list of politics inevitabilities in
by nibs 10y ago
I thought this would be a list of things like energy, food production, clean water, climate change, etc. But it seems like a list of politics inevitabilities involved in performing the science. Does it matter what form science takes if it works? I do not care that funds are being cut. The same thing applies to other fields that are both highly zero-sum competitive and highly valuable to society (law, medicine, politics). If you want to play the zero-sum game, expect the drawbacks of zero-sum games.
- internaut 10y agoScience has always been to some extent political. However increasingly people e.g. Thiel are wondering if some of them are actually scientists or whether they are actually technicians slash bureaucrats in disguise. Politics has a lot to do with the art of your Memeplex co-opting other unrelated topics or areas. For instance why are leftists so thoroughly associated with the environmental movement. I could make a case for why that should be so, but I know I could also make a case for why right wing conservatives would feel passionate about conserving the environment from a context of nationalism. You have got to deal with the fact that politics bleeds into everything, it is what makes moderating forums so difficult. Humans are intrinsically political animals and the internal social civil war between partisans is not about to end anytime soon. I'd be interested in understanding where this came from in an evolutionary context, because it must have been very important for survival (or it is a giant memetic parasite).