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What's true about it? That, within certain contrived scenarios involving existential threats to humankind, humanities knowledge becomes useless? Science and te
by pw0ncakes 16y ago
What's true about it? That, within certain contrived scenarios involving existential threats to humankind, humanities knowledge becomes useless?
Science and technology are important, and deserve more respect and funding than they get in this society, but not to the detriment of all else.
- jlc 16y agoI think the standard (and weak) joke about the uselessness of humanities degrees is to some extent a red herring. The real subject of satire here are technophilic power fantasies, such as _The Core_, _Impact_, _Asteroid_, etc., etc.
- Semiapies 16y agoThe real red herring is the idea that this is satire with a message and not just a joke.