Interesting.

  • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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    8 months ago

    Those who teach such ideas seem not to be aware that the world community of scientists would soon discard any hypothesis that conflicts with observation. That is why science has made such rapid progress since Galileo ignited the scientific revolution in the 17th century. Those societies that have lagged behind are those that tried to subordinate science to social convictions, including religions and such political dogmas as Marxism, nazism, fascism and similar movements that forbid free, critical thinking. We must go back to the optimism of the Enlightenment and teach the coming generations that whatever humanity knows has become known because of science. Everything else is wishful thinking, and may be so dangerous that it might spell the end of our civilisation.

    Sabine is that you? There is so much wrong with this shit, it is so funny how this resembles the exact same shit from Sabine lol.

    "Scientist man" thinks fucking 18th century capitalist UK was a bastion of free speech and critical thinking because it just happened to coincide with massive boost in material conditions from the industrial revolution and specialy the brutal consequences of colonialism.

    Of course incredily enlightened scientist man also thinks capitalism along with the liberal "democratic" order is well known to be completely lacking of ideological or political dogmas and exactly because of this we had progress!

    Its just also extremely racist implicitly, it begs the question didn't Africa or Asia get these same advancements? Perhaps because they were simply backwards and not as enlightened as we were?

    This writer can take his optimism of the "Enlightenment" and go absolutely fuck himself with it. All the benefits we got from things like the French revolution are definitely not to be taken for granted, but given this dipshit is talking about "fascism" along with "the enlightenment" I'm not even sure what is the historical perspective here other than [insert thing I know which is bad here].

    Even being so charitable it still makes him look like the same idiot he is supposedly argueing against, in fact a perfect example of the modern version of it. Anyway also just noticing this person is supposedly from "Istanbul Technical University", like damn talk about white man worship lol.