Postby Technomancer » Sun May 29, 2005 7:35 pm
bigsleepj wrote:Here's a better question: does he care at all? This is the kind of person who'd have run the McCarthy Hearings in the 1950s. I suppose back then anime would have been communist subversion as well.
I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
Seriously though who cares about this guy. Finding nutjobs on the internet isn't hard, and however crazy they are, they're still just idiots with a webpage. Until and unless this is a person that other people actually listen too, why should we worry about him?
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov