Science and technology are tools. Like means of production, they are used to serve the class that owns them. If the owner class wants "democracy", sure, they are interlinked. If they want to torture some folks, technology can be used to that end too.
Tweet being by Greta is irrelevant, an 18 year-old activist can have bad takes time to time. I saw this type of take a lot, and seeing it get liked 150k on twitter made me post it here. Disregard Indian chuds under the tweet: https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1358056887204384770
How is democracy like science? Well they both claim to be broadly accessible but are in reality paywalled.
Both claim to be open to everyone equally, but a cohort of old white men end up being in charge in both.
Linking science to personal freedoms, in particular freedom of speech, doesn't seem like a good idea.
Science sprang fully formed from the mind of Benjamin Franklin in 1776.
Man, Hindu nationalists are fucking wild. Pathetic sordid bunch to be mocked and scorned lmao
Edit: I feel like this is the one cohort I am prejudiced against. And I don’t know whether to feel bad or not. Hindu nationalists like raping women, killing Muslims, attacking farmers, and rabidly stanning modi on twitter
Probably the single dumbest group of chuds next to Australian and Polish ones
Science is also fundamentally undemocratic because no amount of popular opinion can create or overturn a result.
Do liberals really think the politicians serving the energy industry really don't believe in geology and chemistry?
This is a power struggle and they think it's a fucking debate.
I'd say technology certainly is, but I don't really think science is a tool, at least anymore than say set theory is a tool, or the decimal expansion of τ (or 2π ≈ 6.283180) is a tool.
