Science Against the Day Labor

[alice wellintown]

Late in his career, in perhaps his greates work (AGTD),  P returns to the
boy-books of his youth,  to Tom Swift Adventures, to his parody of Twain.
Early in his career, P wrote about a boy who reads the Swift books, books
that were the product of the *Stratemeyer Syndicate. *
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 5:05 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

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> *E = MC2*
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> Morris Bishop
>
>   What was our trust, we trust not,
> What was our faith, we doubt;
> Whether we must or not
> We may debate about.
> The soul, perhaps, is a gust of gas
> And wrong is a form of right-
> But we know that Energy equals Mass
> By the Square of the Speed of Light.
>
> What we have known, we know not,
> What we have proved, abjure.
> Life is a tangled bowknot,
> But one thing still is sure.
> Come, little lad; come, little lass,
> Your docile creed recite:
> "We know that Energy equals Mass
> By the Square of the Speed of Light."
>
>
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> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:55 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The urge to dominate and control supersedes all mankind's efforts.  That
>> is more Pynchon's message than Science Vs. Madonna.  GR (&V) is more about
>> a different S&M.
>>
>> Poelker's sin was to whore himself for his love of scientific pursuits.
>>  He had no ideology, only his own obsessions.
>>
>> Pointsman's sin was self advancement.  He used his method as a tool to
>> dominate others, not for ideology.
>>
>> Even school children know that technology can be a blessing and a curse.
>>  Cults are the tools of people, and cultist and their leaders are
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, April 18, 2013, alice wellintown wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>>>>> 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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