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Is There a Rebellion Against Scientific Knowledge?

机译:是否有对科学知识的反叛?

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The unabomber, who had been killing and maiming people—mostly academics—for two decades, explained in a letter to The New York Times that "We would not want anyone to think we have any desire to hurt professors who study archaeology, history, literature, or harmless stuff like that. The people we are out to get are the scientists and engineers. . . . We advocate eliminating industrial society." The Unabomber, though, posed no more threat to industrial society than random bolts of lightning. There is simply no way back. Earth can not sustain its burgeoning population of 5,500,000,000 people without modern agriculture, transportation, immunization, sewage treatment, etc. With no control on population growth, technology is in a desperate race just to stay even. Nevertheless, growing numbers, in one way or another, share some of the Unabomber's romantic longing for a simpler world. Unable or un- willing to comprehend the technology on which they depend, they are deeply distrustful of the science behind it and reject the Western scientific tradition that created it.
机译:这位二十多年来一直在杀死和伤害人类(主要是学者)的人,在给《纽约时报》的一封信中解释说:“我们不想让任何人认为我们有意愿伤害研究考古,历史,文学的教授或类似无害的东西。我们所吸引的人是科学家和工程师……我们提倡消除工业社会。”不过,Unabomber对工业社会的威胁不外乎是随机的闪电。根本没有退路。没有现代化的农业,交通运输,免疫接种,污水处理等措施,地球将无法维持其55亿人口的迅速增长。如果无法控制人口的增长,技术就处于拼命的竞争中,以保持稳定。然而,越来越多的人以某种方式分享了Unabomber对简单世界的浪漫渴望。他们无法或不愿理解他们所依赖的技术,因此他们对背后的科学深表不信任,并拒绝了创造它的西方科学传统。

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