Potemkin wrote:The plague of Scientism can only be cured by more education, not less, annatar. After all, this sort of attitude - the idolatrous worship of science - can only arise in the minds of people who do not truly understand science itself, either in its historical development or its operational procedures. Scientists themselves make no such absolutist claims to Eternal Truth for their discipline which Starman takes it upon himself to make on their behalf. And it tends to be uneducated people who fall easy prey to charlatans of every stripe.
I'm not suggesting that everyone be mired in ignorance equally, Potemkin my friend. What I am suggesting is that natural more traditional society does not belabor people with an education that does not serve them or society very well, by the creation of an 'Intelligensiat'.... For which the 'Treason of the Clerics' is always the result. I'm not saying that when a man asks for bread for him to be given a stone, (when I say that all the science and philosophy is as Pascal said 'not worth an hour's pain'), what I am saying is that Faith and Wisdom and received Custom and Prejudice, serve man much better than the corrosive skepticism and cynicism of the endless Questioners. But you know this as well as I, when you read what Dante's companion had to say to he who loved Beatrice....
I absolutely agree with you that true science has no pretensions, and indeed is the good and helpful servant of Man in his Exile, and a true boon in his labors. What I suggest is this though; beyond 'Homo Faber' and Art, lie Magick and the Machine, and man is always ready, if not restrained, to make a Faustian deal with the Devil.
But enough talk of the Ideal, let me speak of the Real world. I live in a largely 'Republican' world, a world of Republics. I also know that Counter-Revolution is the opposite of Revolution, White Terror does not stand in place of the Red. Still, one has to start somewhere. In Europe, I support the remaining Monarchies such as those of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, likewise with the the English Crown-and thus Sovereign of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, among other places. I support Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, the Sultanate of Oman and the Kingdom of Jordan. I support Japan's Monarchy, and Thailand's, those of Malaysia/Brunei/etc..,. I support the Monarch of Swaziland. I also call for the return to their thrones of those Monarchs who have been overthrown. How and to what degree at first is not important. I am at least as much a supporter and enthusiast for Monarchy as the Republicans have been for Republics, whether called 'people's republics' or 'representative democracies'. Monarchies are simply just better, all around, than Republics.
Of course I know I live in what is called a Republic, and thus am loyal as a Citizen, as my Christian duty impels me to be. Good and lasting change is neither quick nor easy or turbulent and violent.