Posted on 03/30/2007 5:19:12 PM PDT by antonia
Neatly put.
good post
I don't know about US and Israel being the most advanced.
I am sorry, but look at our school situation. A lot of
our scientific and technological advancement comes from
brains coming over from all over the world (Russia,
India, China, etc.) It is undeniably a good thing that
these people choose to come here (and certainly says a lot
of good things for the US) but it kind of undermines this
particular argument.
Hmmmm. Interesting point.
Thinkfood.
thanks
Yours is a point on a different topic, I think.
Sure, there's good brain power coming from Russia, China, India and such. But precious little innovation. Curious, to be sure.
It remains, and I don't think it is mere tribal arrogance to say so, that the U.S. Is the greatest source of technical innovation in the history of the world.
But still we're off topic somewhat.
The larger point above is that liberalism requires the abolition of truth. I think he's spot on.
Hmmmm. Interesting point.
Thinkfood.
-Traveler
To all,
I was talking about the sciece and education PRIOR to the leftist take-over of the schools and universities. Now that religion has been excized from our society (to the best of the leftists' abilities) science means nothing (i.e. bogus global warming beliefs, belief in Darwinism for no other reason than that it is anti-God, etc).
---Evan Sayet
I wonder why they don't want to seek the truth?
Leftism is a religion which attempts to deny being one, a morality which requires one to deny that morals exist, a professed belief that no absolute truths exist, which it insists must be believed absolutely. The very source of its passion is the sense of "rightness" which it gives its adherents; the more outrageously wrong its claims, the more passion they generate. After all, there is a premium on denying oneself for the Faith. A burnt offering of one's own brains is practically required to enter the Temple of liberalism.
I would argue that our decline in science is directly related to our decline in religious belief. Both can be attributed to the increased liberalism of our society, which is the author's point.
An additional thing that can be linked to the decline in faith and science is the decline in public morality.
All three share something in common: discipline in thought and behavior.
Liberalism undermines discipline in all areas of life and hence the disintegration of so much of our society and culture.
But then there's http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6502725.stm.
And about the greatest advances were made
when we were more religious, I don't know if this
can be measured... Surely the recent advances
(the Internet, biotech) count as great?
Exactly. Certainly the US is conducive to innovation, in its laws, economic, political system, etc. That's also WHY those people want to come here. But look at the graduate students in engineering and science - and you'll find a lot more foreign-born than Americans there.
I don't have statistics, so of course, I may be talking out of my a** regarding "more foreigners than Americans". Perhaps not *more*, but you get my point :)
Kinda like how "Bill Maher is the antithesis of comedy."
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