On 13/10/17 17:59, Brian Holmes wrote: > On 10/13/2017 05:09 AM, Patrick Lichty wrote: >> Has the United states, and a large part of Western thought become so >> warped by populism and anti intellectualism (which is a complex and >> stack in itself) that individuals seeking a humane, objective society >> driven by reason, logic and empirical science look like some sort of >> freak show?
Does anyone remember the days before "climate change" was "armed with peer-reviewed science" when reason, logic and empirical science was under severe scrutiny as myths and illusions associated with colonialism, racism and destruction of the human habitat? Now it is cheered upon uncritically as fundamentalist bible belt loonies recite the good book. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
