The ugly truth of science

[alice wellintown]

True. MalignD at his best, is the best. Love him.

On Sunday, June 16, 2013, Paul Mackin wrote:

>  On 6/16/2013 10:00 AM, alice wellintown wrote:
>
>  Monte, the stick up your ass is taller than the Empire State and you're
> too fixated on me and what gives me the authority to post what I'm posting.
> Take it easy, dude. You read more like MalignD everyday.
>
>
> I kinda like the way malignd reads.  He doesn't suffer fools gladly and
> slaps down the obnoxious ones when necessary.
>
> P
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> Happy Father's Day
>
> May all our children at war return to their fathers and may all our
> fathers at war return to their children, healthy, and as soon as possible.
>
> And God Bless Our Terrific Scientific Nation.
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'montedavis at verizon.net');>
> > wrote:
>
>> No, Joseph. When Alice wrote here two weeks ago (the entire post):
>> "Science
>> is the project of little men who are easily enslaved and who crave
>> authority, though it is, at the same time, and necessarily so,
>> rebellious."
>>
>> It was, as she explained ten days later,  a "playful allusion to Reich's
>> _The Mass Psychology of Fascism_." Maybe to Reich's _Listen, Little Man_
>> as
>> well; Alice is very well read. It's not a quotation, paraphrase, or
>> summary:
>> in fact, Reich's "little men" were average citizens of mass society,
>> insecure and ignorant and seeking certainties in the fascist leadership of
>> Great Men. Fortunately, they could find freedom and autonomy in the genius
>> and mail-order apparatus of a scientist -- psychoanalyst-turned-"orgone
>> biophysicist" Reich -- and what could be farther from whacked-out,
>> messianic
>> pseudo-science than that?
>>
>> ... But I digress. The sentence and the thought are Alice's very own, and
>> they're PLAYFUL. Trust me on this.
>>
>> When Alice tells us that scientists "take comfort.. in mouse/clicking a
>> village to dust..."
>>
>> Or that science "hides its brain surgery butchery behind its rocket
>> science
>> superciliousness..."
>>
>> Or that "the scientists took over and they don't believe in anything
>> except
>> hubris and machines..."
>>
>> These aren't attacks, as you think. They aren't unfounded stereotypes, as
>> you think. They don't cast blame, as you think. They're the free play and
>> penetrating insight of a cultured mind. Trust me on this.
>>
>> How could they be attacks? Alice is "a science person" herself -- one who
>> will surely "kick [my] ass in the science ring," and no doubt yours and
>> JZ's
>> too, as soon as she gets around to it. She won't specify a scientific
>> discipline specified, won't offer any of her experience or attainments,
>> and
>> has *never* written here of science and scientists except in contexts of
>> condescension and contempt -- but she's a "science person." Trust me on
>> this.
>>
>> She's "married to a famous scientist" -- and trust me, what a marriage of
>> true minds that is!
>>
>> She loves her science (whatever it is -- don't ask because we've been over
>> all this, and the whole subject is boring, and why are we so angry
>> anyway?)
>> as much as her poetry. Trust me on this.
>>
>> She's also a world-class ballerina, a Formula One winner, a nominee for
>> multiple Nobel prizes, founder/patroness of an orphanage near Antofagasta,
>> and life chair of the Department of Omnicultural Studies and Plasma
>> Physics
>> at Miskatonic University. Only a little man like you could mistake her
>> for a
>> sad, strange online poseur and troll. Trust me on this.
>>
>>
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