chaos
Jul 25, 2020 10:06:05 #
It used to be so simple--once upon a time
Because the world was full of ignorance all around and the scientist panned through it like a prospector crouched over a mountain stream,looking for the gold of knowledge among the gravel of unreason,the sand of uncertainty and the little whiskery eight-legged swimming things of superstition.
Occasionally he would straighten up and say things like"Hurrah,I've discovered "Boyle's third Law",and everyone knew where they stood.But the trouble was that ignorance became more interesting,especially big fashionable ignorance about huge and important things like matter and creation,and people stopped patiently building their little houses of rational sticks in the chaos of the world,and started getting interested in the chaos itself--because it was easier to be an expert on chaos.
(from "Witches Abroad"-Terry Pratchett
don't this remind you of the present day???
Because the world was full of ignorance all around and the scientist panned through it like a prospector crouched over a mountain stream,looking for the gold of knowledge among the gravel of unreason,the sand of uncertainty and the little whiskery eight-legged swimming things of superstition.
Occasionally he would straighten up and say things like"Hurrah,I've discovered "Boyle's third Law",and everyone knew where they stood.But the trouble was that ignorance became more interesting,especially big fashionable ignorance about huge and important things like matter and creation,and people stopped patiently building their little houses of rational sticks in the chaos of the world,and started getting interested in the chaos itself--because it was easier to be an expert on chaos.
(from "Witches Abroad"-Terry Pratchett
don't this remind you of the present day???
Jul 25, 2020 10:30:21 #
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