RETHINKING CAPITALISM
ARTICLE BY JOHN KEANE
PROFESSOR OF POLITICS UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
“Not thinking” seems to be the slogan of the day when you consider that in the United States alone something like a billion dollars, yes, one billion, is being spent to generate ignorance about the anthropic origin of climate mutations. In earlier periods, scientists and intellectuals lamented the little money spent on learning, but they never had to witness floods of money spent on unlearning what was already known. While in times past thinking critically was associated with looking ahead and extracting oneself from an older obscurantist past, today money is being spent to become even more obscurantist than yesterday! “Agnotology”, Robert Proctor’s science of generating ignorance, has become the most important discipline of the day.
Excerpt from the article by John Keane
Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney
https://theconversation.com/rethinking-capitalism-20995
click on the above link to read full article
ARTICLE BY JOHN KEANE
PROFESSOR OF POLITICS UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
“Not thinking” seems to be the slogan of the day when you consider that in the United States alone something like a billion dollars, yes, one billion, is being spent to generate ignorance about the anthropic origin of climate mutations. In earlier periods, scientists and intellectuals lamented the little money spent on learning, but they never had to witness floods of money spent on unlearning what was already known. While in times past thinking critically was associated with looking ahead and extracting oneself from an older obscurantist past, today money is being spent to become even more obscurantist than yesterday! “Agnotology”, Robert Proctor’s science of generating ignorance, has become the most important discipline of the day.
Excerpt from the article by John Keane
Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney
https://theconversation.com/rethinking-capitalism-20995
click on the above link to read full article
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