On Wed, 11 Aug 2021, Charles Curley wrote:
The signal to noise ratio is getting pretty bad around here.
"Around here?"
Every poster brings to the list a bit of the world-at-large as
they are experiencing it. This occurs quite outside of conscious
control. It is pre-reflective behaviour. Can't be helped but
then again do we want to stamp out our connection to um reality,
if you'll pardon the expression? It follows us through the door
when we enter.
My $0.05. I'll just leave quietly now if that's ok with
everybody.
--
...a society must incorporate the rationalizing
power symbolized by scientific knowledge, for
otherwise it will be a fatally split society-
split between a powerful elite and the
disenfranchised mass. To this we add now: an
irrational elite is the most dangerous of all.
Holton, Gerald. 1985. On the Integrity of
Science: The Issues Since Bronowski. Leonardo
18 (4), Special Issue: Jacob Bronowski: A
Retrospective (1985): 229-232.
