/lit/ - Literature

Our society is not scientific. It is materialist, with illusions of objectivity, with arguments based either in humour or in a denial that is almost political, we are rational but not logical, hedonists without experimentation, we know a lot, but we misinterpret a lot as well, we are lost in translation.

I don't think science and logic is materialist in its core. I also don't think we are more "spiritual", on the contrary, everything is put on two extremes and both are materialist without they noticing, even religion.

The idea that science kills imagination, fiction, literature or philosophy only exists to those who thinks science denies any of that or that you have to fit instinct and imagination into some sort of rational mindset. These are separate by definition and they don't clash as mysticism clashes with scientific inquiry.

To put it in other terms, there is the brain, the mind and the spirit. The spirit is an idealization, the mind is abstract, the brain is material. Science doesn't care and shouldn't care about the spirit, because the spirit never really tried to prove itself and if there is evidence for it, it is not spirit anymore. The mind, on the other hand is not denied by science even if its not made of electrical signs, but languistic signs.

Communication brought very different realities closer to each other. What happends is that they clash, they degladiate and to do that they have to grow strong roots in what they believe, which is dogmatic, not scientific. You choose something to defend and stick to it to the end. The others are doing the same. You know those "atheists 0 christians 1" type of debates? Exactly. What is missing is thinking straight, is taking time our time before jumping to conclusions, avoid wild assumptions, etc.

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