/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2685993
Who gives a damn about explainations
I know that learning only makes you more conscious of your ignorance, but what is that in comparison to the scientific discoveries we have made?
Or would you rather be sitting in an unheated log house writing out messages in fountain pen by candlelight? Would you prefer to walk everywhere?

someone read the tractatus...

> mfw that of which we cannot speak we must pass over in silence

>mfw i have no face

Fuck Huxley, Brave New World is one of the reasons people are so reactionary to genetic engineering. You even mention enhancing intelligence, and peopel go off on a rant how it would stratify society and the Alphas would enslave the epsilons, and so on. Also, I've seen people use BNW as an argument against drug legalization.

>>2686032
>fountain pen

Expect fountain pens are better than the pens we use today.

"Zip, zop, zoobidee bop."
Cliff Huxtable

>>2686043
>hey guys let's hate on the author and not the readers

>>2686045
Well you know, i'd rather type..

>>2686060
dicks

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley

>>2686070

You said it, Aldous. I consider how we used to have such nice CRT TVs and monitors with nice colors and fluid motion. And now we have piece of shit LCD displays with lousy color and motion blur.

We didn't move forward; we went backward.

aldous huxley looks like patrick batemen.

dubz get.

AH was also big on hallucinogens and Eastern religion. Pretty cool guy.

>Author and writer of social commentary
>valid opinion on scientific matters

I enjoy his books, but he should not be taken for anything more than the above. l

i dunno why people hated on the world of BNW, i'd love to live there; free sex, drugs with no side effects, instant death when you're 60. (also flying cars). Basically you party nonstop until you die, or you can go live in the jungle with the hippies.

Oh Aldous, why can't you be more like your brother Julian? At least HE knows technology can be used to radically improve the human species.

>>2686134
Neither Slavoj Zizek or Noam Chomsky are political scientists, but their commentary should still be taken seriously.

>>2686096

Yeah its always fun having to move a 3000lb tv when you switch apartments. And 640x480 resolution on a 42" 4:3 monitor looks awesome.

"Blah."
- Aldous Huxley

"The great thing about the internet is, you can attribute out-of-context quotes to historical figures and be sure most people won't spend the 0.3 seconds in Google it would take to verify them."
-Abraham Lincoln

>>2686156
You're right. Huxley should be ignored, not because he has no background in science, but because he's demonstrably wrong.

>>2687411
>implying anyone believes a "quote" with ridiculously erroneous grammar.
THAT IS NOT HOW YOU USE A COMMA YOU FUCKING RETARD.

>>2687411

>>2687439
Wrong about what?

stupid materialist

The scientific and technical explorations have given the Common Man all over the world a notion of physical possi­bilities. Thanks to science, the under-privileged are coming to believe that no one need be underfed or chronically diseased, or deprived of the benefits of its technical and practical applications.

The world’s unrest is largely due to this new belief. People are determined not to put up with a subnormal standard of physical health and material living now that science has revealed the possibility of raising it. The unrest will produce some unpleasant consequences before it is dissipated; but it is in essence a beneficent unrest, a dynamic force which will not be stilled until it has laid the physio­logical foundations of human destiny.

Julian Huxley

"Honey, pass the LSD so I can kill myself"
Aldous Huxley