The only way to arrive at "truth" is to allow the free exchange of ideas, debate them, and watch the false notions fall by the wayside under the pressure of logic. It's been that way since the days of Socrates... well, it WAS that way, before we came upon the modern Enlightened Era where it is now recognized that "truth" is generated by The Party, and must be force fed to the Proletariat...
Thank The Party for that enlightenment of the modern age! Just imagine what it would be like if we were still under the dogmatic dictates of the Church vs. Galileo instead of the dogmatic dictates of The Party vs. Free Thinkers.... no, wait, I don't think that came out right... or DID it?
It's also refreshing to realize that The Party finally realized that science changes. It was that way back when I studied science - it was changing constantly, as new information and observations presented themselves and had to be accounted for. We called that "discovery". Back then, we could not count on The Party to decide for us what was actually a new observation, and quash questions. It was. like the Dark Ages, pre-enlightenment. It's only very recently - thanks and all praise to The Party - that the notion of "settled science" has become a thing. Back in the day, there was no such thing as "settled science", a phrase which implies that questions and discovery have come to an end. Back then, science was actually fueled by questions and discovery. I know, weird idea, huh? Now, thank The Party, we have The Party to squash questions and suppress discovery, so that we can have "settled science", and sleep easy at night knowing that "the science" can now be "settled".
BUT we can rest secure in the knowledge that science only changes during election cycles - afterwards, when the political dust settles, we can be sure that The Party will redirect "science" back into it's proper role - that of herding the masses into line in political lockstep.
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Thank The Party for that enlightenment of the modern age! Just imagine what it would be like if we were still under the dogmatic dictates of the Church vs. Galileo instead of the dogmatic dictates of The Party vs. Free Thinkers.... no, wait, I don't think that came out right... or DID it?
It's also refreshing to realize that The Party finally realized that science changes. It was that way back when I studied science - it was changing constantly, as new information and observations presented themselves and had to be accounted for. We called that "discovery". Back then, we could not count on The Party to decide for us what was actually a new observation, and quash questions. It was. like the Dark Ages, pre-enlightenment. It's only very recently - thanks and all praise to The Party - that the notion of "settled science" has become a thing. Back in the day, there was no such thing as "settled science", a phrase which implies that questions and discovery have come to an end. Back then, science was actually fueled by questions and discovery. I know, weird idea, huh? Now, thank The Party, we have The Party to squash questions and suppress discovery, so that we can have "settled science", and sleep easy at night knowing that "the science" can now be "settled".
BUT we can rest secure in the knowledge that science only changes during election cycles - afterwards, when the political dust settles, we can be sure that The Party will redirect "science" back into it's proper role - that of herding the masses into line in political lockstep.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’