Keith Hudson wrote:
> As to 2. and 3. above, the present infrastructure of science in developed
> countries (and America in particular) is very much larger and potentially
> much more powerful than the scientists and intellectuals of Germany in the
> 30s. Various branches of them are, of course, involved in developing
> armaments (weapons themselves, and delivery systems from satellites) but,
> generally, I think they're in the position that the economist, Thorstein
> Veblen, forecasted a long time ago (though he was thinking in terms of the
> power of engineers within factories). Scientists and intellectuals could
> cripple a nation that became dominated by Fundamentalists.
While I certainly wish Keith was right on this one, I'm afraid he's way
too optimistic. Looking at Israel and USA, which already are "dominated
by Fundamentalists" (religious and/or economic ones), it seems that
scientists and intellectuals not only fail to cripple the fundamentalist
leadership, but even enable and enhance it, providing the technical and
PR means of oppression. Case in point: The Reichstag fire, err 9/11,
and all that followed from it.
Chris
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Q: "Can you name any school in USA that would grant a PhD in Economics to
Thorstein Veblen, assuming he wrote the same way he did in 1899 ?"
A: "No, there are none that I can think of." --Lester Thurow, Dean of the
Sloan School at MIT, 2003 during a Veblen lecture at Carleton College.
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