Øjeblikket said:exhibit A: in which you offer up an "evaluation" of me based on some halfwit author. (note the date to understand who started what they cannot accept)
http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=3968194&postcount=12
I am merely returning the gesture in kind, with an emphasis on your lacking analysis
At least you admit you have made no real argument.
I admit I know nothing; you on the otherhand seem to know everything, yet cannot offer any of your omniscience to me or any of us mere foolish mortals.
Now about the science aphorism of mine, which we have yet to really address. Of course, it is not a perfectly true comment. But it does contain as much truth as falsity; and to me it may be a totally truthful comment. One cannot apply aristotelian logic to everything, or really to anything for that matter, especially in the matter of any utterance of language. Your attempt to prove that my comment was false by pointing out your wifes role in science--and thus by the entirety of my thread is false as if a is wrong, then everything else must be wrong, and b the opposite as in your delightful comments must be right--is the sign of poor logic and an easily impressionable mind.
Now why did I make such a comment? Because I thik it is obvious since Science has assumed the mantle of the world, that it has brought much environmental ruin. Really without the aid of scientific knowledge and reasoning, would we have ozone depletion, smog, toxic chemicals, other hazardous chemicals in our food and homes, etc, etc, etc. And about the economic comment, yes I am making the same argument as no less than Karl Marx in his Grundrisse. Essentially as technology and science improves, and makes many forms of labor obsolete, the economy will collapse. Now this is a bit of a reach--and way in the future-- but in the last 20 years a great many good paying jobs have been elimanated due to technological advance.
This brings me to my thesis: thus, although science has made our lives more comfortable, has created better jobs, and so on, why are we Americans who have drank from the trough of scientific advance for so long, still so psychologically and spirtually miserable?