You’ll Never Ever Guess in a Million Years
Maybe I should do one before anyone else does.
I was just thinking, while staring out the window in a daze and scratching, that books are one thing and people are another. How about that.
People don’t like science. What’s up with that?
Multiculturalism – hmm – one sees the point, and yet.
I’ve been reading this book. Here are some quotations from it.
Here are some more quotations from that book I’ve been reading.
Richard Dawkins rocks.
I’ve read another book. Here are some quotations from it.
Here are some more quotations from aforementioned book. Aren’t you thrilled?
People say silly things sometimes. Here’s an example. Here’s why it’s silly. I never say silly things.
I agree with my colleague about that. [Okay that one’s pure fantasy.]
Secularism rocks.
My colleague is always right about everything. [Okay more fantasy.]
Some of us don’t like science because we got bounced between a lot of crappy schools when young that left out a lot of science or didn’t really do justice to any of it or both; because we are too lazy to put in the studying to make up for it; because when we do get our act in gear and start studying we find we’ve got a loose wire or two in the math module or a bum chip in the memory or both and can never make it as an engineer or astronomer or what have you. (Not to mention all the scare stories we’ve read about this or that going wrong–GM food, global warming and so on–these can be hard to evaluate without some background, so a lot of people just believe the worst, and blame science rather than the ignorance which is its opposite.)
–Some of us had all those things happen and still like science, trying to learn what we can about things we find wonderful. But the people who don’t find anything of interest except the trivial stuff everyone else has made fashionable–celebrity gossip, e.g.– I don’t know if there’s any help for them.
You commented: people don’t like science. What’s up with that
I don’t but it’s a good question. I think science is a ntural pleasure, deeply hardwired into our psyche. It’s highly adaptive. It pays to investigate, to spin complex hypothetical unseen cause and effect relationships in our minds. It’s possible the majority of us in America or elsewhere manage to repress this natural propnesity, but I think people like science, children certainly do.
Because science is hard and requires lots of study before we can attain even a basic understanding of it. Plus, it doesn’t confirm our cozy notions of ourselves and the universe. Too cold, too hard, so let’s ignore it and concentrate on gossip and fashion.
Yup. Plus those, you know, haughty people do it. Haughty, bossy, hoity-toity – terrible people, scientists are. I’m so glad I’m a Beta…