Pynchon never said that. Never will. I know that. Because I'm pompous and don't mind speaking for people I don't know.

[David Morris]

JSB RULES!!!

On Sunday, June 2, 2013, Joseph S. Barrera III wrote:

> So, um, why do you hate science so much?
>
> I grew up a smart kid and learned about science and loved it without any a
> prior knowledge of power structures or anything. I just loved the concept
> of understanding the very fundamentals of things. I checked out books about
> atoms in grade school. I learned about quarks (still just a theory) when in
> junior high school -- also taught myself calculus that year. None of this
> was motivated by any plan to subjugate people, or be enslaved, or whatever.
> Later in junior high school I discovered computers (initially an IMSAI 8080
> running BASIC at 1 MHz) and that detoured me into computer science, but
> I've always kept an interest in physics. I've learned basic quantum
> mechanics and I'm trying to teach myself quantum field theory. None of this
> seems very associated with power. Any physicist interested in power has
> gone to Wall Street and translated their math smarts into complicated
> trading algorithms. The folks left behind are just interested in trying to
> understand the laws underlying the laws that underlie the laws of what we
> understand as physics. Modern physics knowledge doesn't even translate into
> political or military power! That was all discovered by 1930. There will, I
> promise you, never be a "Higgs Bomb".
>
> So of all the folks you could attack, why scientists? Why not kindergarten
> teachers or geriatric nurses?
>
> - Joe
>
>
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