Friday, 30 May 2014

Science as Salvation

Rating:
60%
Format:
Book
Year:
1992
Predominant Genre:
Non-fiction
Plot:
None…
Themes:
Wishful thinking | Totalitarianism | Political Correctness | Politics
Similar Titles:
None…
Best Performances:
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Boring little book written by someone who cannot communicate her subject clearly.

It concerns the many White scientists who believe Whites will someday progress beyond their bodies and their feelings towards becoming beings of pure intellect. None seem to realize that this sad state of affairs will give them little to actually think about.

The issue here is the usual White supremacist wishful-thinking concerning ultimate power - along with a freedom from the bonds of messy and imperfect being humans. Like Christians, such people hate everything that makes us human, like sex and love and passion; sacrificing these in favor of political dominion over the universe. You have to wonder what kinds of childhood such control-freaks had, don’t you?

Ultimately, these so-called scientists are simply frightened of dying and wish to abolish it - at least in their own minds. They see science as the natural heir to, and destroyer of, religion in their fantasies of human immortality and omniscience. Rather than abolishing the need for religion, they have simply made science a new religion to be worshipped - without question. Idealism, not as a means of changing the world, but of running away from it. Science as a slave for pressing current human problems on the Earth that scientists are running away from. Such scinentific mystics are offering salvation from earthly suffering by posing as omniscient technogods. Such scientific contempt for the human body is trying to render science as its own self-worshiping religion.


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Science:



No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.



Jacob Bronowski… (1908 - 74), British scientist, author. Encounter (London, July 1971).


Sleep of Reason:



The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.



Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes… (1746-1828), Spanish painter. Caption to Caprichos, number 43, a series of eighty etchings completed in 1798, satirical and grotesque in form.


Humans & Aliens:



I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.



Terence… (circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.


Führerprinzip:



One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.