Science Against the Day Labor

[alice wellintown]

Science is not simply a method, like technology it comes with an ideology,
and as we speak that ideology, driven by science, is, as several here have
confirmed, beyond reproach. Science is a culture. While it is also a
method, and in this sense it is like math, it is also a ideological force,
as it has been in bed with industry and agri-industry, and now with
business industry and tech-industry, and is the cult that capital has made,
and this cult is in direct conflict with labor. So, it is OK to resist
technology and the science cult? Absolutely.


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:25 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Empirical Practice" starts when a child reaches into a hot flame.  Even
> amoebae recoil when hurt.
>
> Do you imply that Religious Practice isn't reality based?  Religion knows
> how to control as a primary goal.
>
> Science doesn't have a mind of its own.  It ain't the anti-sacred.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Monday, April 15, 2013, alice wellintown wrote:
>
>> If God does not, as Milton sez in his famous sonnet, exact day labor
>> light denied, this hasn't prevented men from exacting day labor from men,
>> light, and even life, denied. Science was not much around to make safe the
>> lives of the working men and women we read about in AGTD. Empirical
>> practice was the method adopted, trial and selection, the railroad, the
>> mines, the textile mills, these had not science, and many lives were lost
>> because safety valves were not devised or employed to protect workers from
>> exploding steam machines. Sure, science would have made things safer,
>> better, if not for the workers, for the bosses  and their bosses, but for
>> safety it was the men who worked the mines the factories who improved the
>> work, the conditions, the safety. Even the laws of mechanical motion were
>> not trumped by these pragmatic and practical men who worked, for the most
>> part, without math or the scientific method. But once science began to
>> apply its method, like a man with a hammer who sees a nail in every grain
>> of sand, science applied its "scientific" method to every inch of man and
>> to every hair and every grain of sand. And so, science, systematically,
>> took over, from religion, from all other institutions of culture, and to
>> all inquires, to thought itself, to every mode of investigation, and it
>> claimed to have a better method for advancing all human persuits and
>> objectives, even the destruction of all human pursuits and objectives.
>> Moreover, not satisfied with using tools, extensions of human power, to
>> improve the human lot, to add human tools and science to the existing
>> patterns of life, as, say a farmer with a tool in his hand, science
>> fashioned organisms, including man, for machaniisms, for machines. So, the
>> huge farms, where science applied its method to plants and animals, and the
>> huge hospitals (white visitation) where science applied its methods to
>> human minds, and the huge, world wars where it applied its killing
>> machines, machines that a man might fly in, if he were fashioned to it and
>> not the other way round. This is Blicero's launch!
>>
>
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