[Diogenesis]

Thank you for posting this and ignoring the ‘Luddites’.

[aruanan]

Thank you for posting this and ignoring the ‘Luddites’.

Funny, that, considering that the idea portrayed in the piece is the reigning theorem of the post-modern Luddites.

[aruanan]

Thank you for posting this and ignoring the ‘Luddites’.

The reason that people talk about the "body of knowledge" is that, like the body, there is system that serves to integrate and coordinate intellectual endeavors. The degree and efficiency with which it does it is open to question. But the idea that a body of anything should be "open to change" and "alternative this or that" would be like saying that various cancers are just alternative ways of an approach to biology that the body is trying to fight or that the body should be more open to trying different approaches to energy and resource use posed by various viruses and bacteria.

There are new and innovative ways of doing things and we see them all the time. Over the past 200 years we've seen greater and more frequent examples of this than at about any point in history. It may be that those who have a reigning theorem are reluctant to change it, but it's only natural that they would be, absent a really good reason to do so. And the reigning theorum usually does change as it comes up against a better and more efficient way of doing and explaining things. But it's unreasonable to ask that what is "established" take the attitude that anything is just as likely to be true as anything else.