> Witness the facts of the eradication of superstition and prejudice in the > Soviet Union.<
There was an article in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN awhile back about the re-emergence of superstition (on a mass scale) when the old Soviet Union keeled over and died. At first it looks as if the USSR's CP and its educational system were working hard against superstition so that when they stopped working it surged back. But the evidence suggests instead that (1) the end of prejudice under the USSR was only superficial in the first place; and (2) the popularly perceived use of science to legitimize the system led to science losing its legitimacy among the people, so that once the old system fell apart, a lot of people rejected science and embraced superstition. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
