“Science denier!!” A snarky phrase I am sure most of you have heard many times. In the beginning of this Covid debacle, when there was clearly only “one science” approved and presented by the media, it took a bit of digging to find other scientific hypotheses. Now it is not so difficult to see clearly that there is a deeper, more robust, science that is contradicting the mainstream. But still we hear the mantra “follow the science!” “you are a moronic denier of science!” and as Fauci so famously put it, “if you are against me, you are against science!”
There was an older British gentleman I had the pleasure of listening to the other day. He had to take a train into a nearby city for a medical procedure. He had time to kill so he picked up one of the "free" newspapers to do some puzzles. He wondered how these papers could be free. Then he realised that if it weren't for these papers, all these commuters would actually have to think for themselves instead of being told what to think. And there was another edition at night so they could be told what to think that evening.
That is sadly what we are up against. Powerful people are always going to strive for more power. Rich people always want to amass more wealth. With so many people asleep, there is nothing stopping them. Somehow we need to trigger a Great Awakening instead of a (not) great reset.
"On just the same ground I dread government in the name of science. That is how tyrannies come in. In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular pretension which the hopes and fears of that age render most potent. They 'cash in'. It has been magic, it has been Christianity. Now it will certainly be science."
There was an older British gentleman I had the pleasure of listening to the other day. He had to take a train into a nearby city for a medical procedure. He had time to kill so he picked up one of the "free" newspapers to do some puzzles. He wondered how these papers could be free. Then he realised that if it weren't for these papers, all these commuters would actually have to think for themselves instead of being told what to think. And there was another edition at night so they could be told what to think that evening.
That is sadly what we are up against. Powerful people are always going to strive for more power. Rich people always want to amass more wealth. With so many people asleep, there is nothing stopping them. Somehow we need to trigger a Great Awakening instead of a (not) great reset.
"On just the same ground I dread government in the name of science. That is how tyrannies come in. In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular pretension which the hopes and fears of that age render most potent. They 'cash in'. It has been magic, it has been Christianity. Now it will certainly be science."
C.S. Lewis, 1958