https://hexbear.net/post/78985

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Treating a science as a religion :visible-disgust:

    Nobody cares what Pasteur would have think of today's microbiology, he didn't know about viruses, we do now. But of course he was a great scientist of his time.

    And no, the progress that has been made in microbiology since Pasteur's time is not "revisionism".

    • TheHero [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Socialism absolutely functions as and is treated like a religion for a lot of people. Denying that is ignoring reality.

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        But should it work as a religion tho?

        • TheHero [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          Obviously not because that leads to complacency and delusions that don't help anyone. "Communism is inevitable" is just end of days evangelical crap for leftists.

        • Gayan [undecided]
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          4 years ago

          It kind of has to. An economic system has to work on a sort of faith in the whole scheme. That can be faith in collaboration or faith in capital or faith in the crown and so on. Faith being a believe in something you have no control of and no real ability to predict.

          • RNAi [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            "Medicine is like faith cuz people have to believe in the doctors' advices and shit"

            It's about trusting in science and not be fooled by scammers (capitalist and petit burgeois)

            • Gayan [undecided]
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              4 years ago

              Social politics is a science, but the inherent mechanisms of a society are often led by the Tinkerbell Effect, in which belief, senseless or not, leads to progression in certain aspects.

    • maverick [they/them]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      It's a joke about leftist infighting and splitting lmao

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah I know, it's a nice joke; but I wanted to start a discussion about how a lot of people treat historic personalities as messias and shit.