Johnbrown said:
“So long as our machines work properly, does it really matter what our politicians and pundits say?”
Nothing operates in a vaccuum. Science and ideology are no exception to this rule. While I agree that science has honed and defended our critical thinking skills in the last couple of hundred years, this has only been possible because science and philosophy/ideology have led convergent paths, both based on rational thinking. This melding of free political thought and critical scientific thinking has led to the greatest advancements in civilization ever seen; freedom to think has meant freedom to create. Unfortunately this is changing; we are now seeing them on divergent paths, and the effects on critical thinking are disasterous. The objectivism and critical thinking of science and the intolerant dogmatism of postmodern leftist/Gramscian thought are completely incompatible. They are now engaged in a battle to the death, and the dogmatists are winning…
One only has to look at the baseness, nastiness, and irrationality of the “climate change” debate to see what happens when science becomes political. Any dissenting facts are buried, any dissenting ideas are howled down in the most vile terms, any critical thought is stifled… 2 plus 2 is simply NOT ALLOWED to equal 4, because it does not fit in with relativist ideology.
To see where this all will lead us, look to Nazi Germany or Communist Russia; the machines (both of science, and of the State) worked for a while, but eventually they broke down because the critical thinking required to keep them running, and to improve them, was silenced. Science was bent to fit political ideology, wasted on trying to produce the “perfect Socialist man”, or on cranks in white coats measuring skulls to prove who was, or was not “Aryan”… Nowadays, we see their modern equivalents in the explosive growth of psychological and “social science” quackery, all neatly packaged to fit political agendas. This is the path that Obama, Clinton, the “Greens”, and the “Security Uber Alles” crowd have planned for us, and our lobotomized public, drunk on reality TV, NASCAR, and celeb gossip are blindly following… Those who should know better have either been shouted down, or have gone over to the enemy; our schools produce mindless drones, our thinkers and political figures sell themselves to the highest bidder, and the vapid pronouncements of Hollywood celebrities are taken as religious truth, as they bloviate on subjects they know nothing about…
The machines are breaking down, as the power of critical thought that drives them slowly drains away. Not one person in ten thousand has the wit to see it…and when the machines finally stop, as they will if we continue to follow our present path, the explosion will echo across the planet…
