Simplification of Philosophy: Magic of science

Technology seen for the first time is indistinguishable from magic. Priests and medicine men were the first magicians.

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As scientists evolved and broke away from the priests, they maintained the reputation of being regarded as semi gods.

Many believe that science magically provides all the answers to all the problems facing humanity. They believe that scientists, with their special knowledge, are like priests - to be trusted and to trust and to regard as saviors.

It is the scientists who tamed fire to feed and shielded people from the cold, and dark and from natural dangers. The scientists continued to tame language and writing. They were the spark of rationality that shone flashes of light on buried knowledge. With every spark, the tunnel in the mine of knowledge sank deeper and scientists like miners helped each other get ahead.

It is to the scientists that we owe everything we have in our highly technical world.

But scientists are human and humans are inherently very irrational, Their sparks of rationality are very easily smothered by shameless pride and limitless greed.

By cherry picking facts and data, scientists can prove whatever they are paid to prove.

Economists

Economists, claim to be either saviors of the poor or saviors of the rich, offer their conflicting theories to the politicians to test them on the uninformed gullible public. The various opposing theories end up with long lasting catastrophic results for the poor.

Nutritionists

Nutritionists claim to know what you need for your health but keep changing their minds on what is beneficial and what is harmful, mostly on advise from the agro corporations.

Geneticists

Geneticists are busy pretending to be gods working on producing one time seeds called terminator seeds that grow sterile plants. This would greatly counter the diversity inherent in nature, and also ensure a monopoly for controlling the world food supply.

Climatologists

Climatologists claim to be clairvoyants. While most weathermen can at best predict 5 days worth of weather, climatologists claim to predict climate 10 years ahead of time. Climatologists magically turn the hero CO2, food for plants, into the villain “Carbon“, a very dangerous pollutant that causes irreversible climate change.

They downplay the fact that CO2 plays a minimal role as a green house gas responsible for global warming. Records going back millions of years show that despite natural occurring catastrophes like volcanoes, sun eruptions, comets and other climate changing events, earth and nature has been able to maintain steady consistent cycles. Much like a heart beat or breathing. Like summer and winter, but lasting thousands of years, the climate alternates between global warming followed by global cooling.

The world climate need not worry about cities covered under thick layers of smog. After all it is localized and it is only pollution. The populace and their governments tolerate it as it is the price they pay for the energy they are addicted to.

Social scientists

In the name of social improvement, they promote the newest and cleanest energy source for their societies. At the same time, they promote the cleanest environment for them. Politicians propose to penalize the poor “fossil fuel burners“ with a carbon tax to help the rich update to their new clean “green“ energy - the talk of the world.

Biologists

Biologists want to be saviors as well. They point out that man is just an animal, and sometimes even not such a desirable one when considering how he is threatening the earth with doom. They chose to believe that life originated by random chance and reject the possibility of intelligent design. When confronted by the lack of sufficient time for life to have started on earth, they jump over and avoid the problem by postulating that life could have originated by aliens in our universe, or even from the infinite number of universes, as some distinguished theoretical physicist believe in.

Health sciences

The 2020 covid pandemic clearly shows that doctors have become salesmen for the pharmaceutical corporations whose mandate is to provide profits for their shareholders. Medicine has become politicized and financialized. They buy off politicians and the media to promote their agenda for profits. Doctors who do not follow this agenda face losing their license to practice and are silenced by being banned by social and mainstream media.. The agro corporations work hand in hand with pharma. They rape and poison the land and water. They grow plants and raise animals without any regard to quality, maximizing profits instead. People are left with foods that make them sick and pharma makes big profits keeping the sicken people alive.

Environmentalists

Environmentalists, out to save the environment, becomes protectors of animals, mostly protecting them from man. They promote more rights for animals than for people. They fail to mention that most species in the last 4 billion years became extinct. This is the life - death dance of nature.

Theoretical physicists

Theoretical physicists are scientists who excel in their art of magic and illusion. They use mathematics to shape reality in whatever shape they want. With increasingly expensive equipment, they probe deeper and deeper into atoms and farther and farther into galaxies in search for whatever direction their mathematics point to.

They use the concept of time, a measurement of motion, and make it into a reality by assigning it as an additional dimension of space. They use the concept of infinity as a physical reality by allowing additional universes to exist where everything that can happen has already happened. They use the concept of zero, a mathematical limit, and make it possible for particles to be distorted in their shape and vanish completely only to appear somewhere else without any cause. They accept paradoxes such as the possibility of time travel and the impossibility of traveling faster than light.

Scientists involved in the military believe they are invisible protectors of the populace when the populace is in danger, or a saviors of the populace whenever it needs to be saved. The world climate need not be saved from a world nuclear war, but the world population certainly does.

Shortly after the short war, the pollution over the cities spread out to the entire globe covering it with a deadly cold dark radioactive smog. With all infrastructure non-functional or destroyed, the populace slowly died out. There was nobody to save and no saviors survived.