Pynchon knows this, I say. Sorta always known.

[Lemuel Underwing]

> No.  I respect and love and admire the creative and inventive
> possibilities released by scientific inquiry. But science and scientists do
> also get used for, and sometimes actively participate in some real bad
> shit. What I was meaning to say and I can see how easily I could be
> misunderstood was that we have many global problems that seem to require
> the immediate attention and investment of modern science: global warming,
> toxic materials in food air and water, rampant hunger and disease,
> deforestation, etc. but instead of applying the  powers of science to those
> issues we are spending money on hadron colliders and giant space
>  telescopes looking for the beginning of the universe.   The thing is there
> is really no need to rush these extremely expensive  and/or theoretical
> projects and every reason to rush to find better solutions for some of the
> major issues of immediate planetary concern.
>



Woa woa woa settle down there, sounds like that Awful Pragmatism psh, how
are we gonna be like Star Trek if we're focusin' on those little issues
like Global Warming, ha, probably just solve themselves. Give us Warp
Drives. Haven't you watched the  History Channel man? Aliens are
responsible for all this stuff, they're just testin' us to see if we can
get Warp Capability.
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