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April 14, 2009
'On the level of stories about tooth fairies'
Topics: Political News and commentariesWe've seen this before, it's an old story, now being re-enacted by Barack Obama:
"We will restore science to its rightful place..."Read it all.
--Barack ObamaUnpacked, this sentence means: "Under my administration, Americans will have fewer choices about how they live, and fewer choices as voters because, rightfully, those choices should be made by officials who rule by the authority of science."
Thus our new president intends to accelerate a trend a half-century old in America but older and further advanced in the rest of the world. There is nothing new or scientific about rulers pretending to execute the will of a god or of an oracle. It's a tool to preempt opposition. The ruler need not make a case for what he is doing. He need only reaffirm his status as the priest of a knowledge to which the people cannot accede. The argument "Do what we say because we are certified to know better" is a slight variant of "Do what we say because we are us."
Posted by Hyscience at April 14, 2009 10:34 AM
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