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> The world we live in gets scarier and scarier every year. One could accurately summarize progress since the Industrial Revolution as asking whether we could
by prottog 3y ago
> The world we live in gets scarier and scarier every year.
One could accurately summarize progress since the Industrial Revolution as asking whether we could (and how), and not whether we should (and why). You can see this expressed in the growing focus on STEM education vs. the liberal arts and results in things like remote-controlled Teslas.
Cave Johnson said, "science isn't about why; it's about why not". The traditional counterbalance of that "why not" -- classical education, religion, etc. -- have all been falling behind.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago> Cave Johnson +1 for the Aperture ref.
- ynniv 3y agoAperture Science We do what we must because we can. For the good of all of us.
- walleeee 3y agoyes, and instead of gradually retiring superstitious worldviews in favor of cautious, contemplative secularism, far too often we uncritically shift religious faith to technology this is yet another face of Moloch
- simonh 3y agoYes to liberal arts, absolutely, but it’s not liberal arts that’s trying to stick its oar in to the place of science in society. It’s made up bullshit ‘social science’ that’s one step away from parapsychology and crystal healing. Liberal arts is a natural ally and fellow traveller with science and technology. In fact much of early science grew out of liberal arts endeavours. Geometry from sculpture and perspective in art and architecture. Chemistry from developing pigments for painting.