oh the last post was a reaction to reading In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan author of The Omnivore's Dilemma.
so F-ing stupid, to listen to food scientists, and nutritionists and all the idiot "experts" literally piece by piece try to retell us what for centuries we've already known and known better. if only we gave any credit to things such as story, and myth, and culture, and convention, and freaking intuition.
We are NOT stupid creatures. We already know how to live in this world. Grow up science and stop being so dang angsty.
plus, progress is not only achievable by science. so don't go accusing me of extreme conservatism.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
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In defense of food is a thought provoking read. But dont you think the true problem is not science but the prversion of science in the name of profit? Certainly religion, myth and what have you can be just as dangerous if perverted to serve evil ends
ReplyDeleteyes. certainly, that is one way to absolve science and find a surgically isolated bit to lay blame. it's not science that's bad, it's the way the Nazi's used it. Or, science isn't bad, it's the way Pfizer uses it.
ReplyDeleteThis type of argument is fine. But realize what's happening. Science is then a mere tool, not Science the ideology. This is part of the reason science the method, or activity is dangerous (which I think we agree upon) because it is unbridled to an ideology (which can then be labeled either good or evil).
The real sticker with science that pushes me to condemn it more than religion or myth (because both are guilty of everything I've said so far) is it's inherent resistance to taking sides in valuation. Think, when we consider perfect science, we think, pure objectivity, pure observation, pure neutrality. this is the inextricable characteristic of science as both method and ideology that make it WORSE than religion or myth which are proactively trying to take sides, categorizing the world into good and bad parts.
and so things complicate....