Again, pardon the tags.
This is an odd point for a post criticizing Tyson for promoting disenchantment. Also renaissance hermeticism was a step between scholasticism and the Enlightenment. Newton was an alchemist too. Magic can be dismissed as woo now, but it was at least as plausible as scholasticism when Bruno was doing it, and encouraged people to actually study nature because studying nature could tell them everything. Being a magician in the 16th century doesn't contradict being a protoscientist, and outright implies being a freethinker. I don't buy the broader criticism either, an interest in how the physical world works is not "I Fucking Love Existing Conditions". Imagining how gravity might be different accomplishes exactly nothing. But that argument was boring before the Sokal affair, and even Bruno Latour thinks foisting critique into science was counterproductive now.The reality – that Bruno believed in magic, worshipped the ancient Egyptian god Thoth, and was executed not for heliocentrism but for denying the divinity of Christ – is ignored, because that isn’t Fucking Science Love.
Holy shit, yes ! I get so mad when people try to reduce science down to thing we already know. We don't know shit, the world is fucking mind boggling and yet we have all these people trying to claim that anything not already understood by science is bullshit. Try to talk about theories and hypothesis with these people and they just shut it down because they just love science so god damn much. What ‘I Fucking Love Science’ actually means is ‘I Fucking Love Existing Conditions.’
IFLS is one of the worst things on the internet. It is times like this that I wish I was as eloquent as Maddox: You're not a nerd, geeks aren't sexy and you don't "fucking love" science. This is from 2014, and IFLS is even worse now. I've blocked all of their crap from my social media.
I'm a brand new user and I have a question for you. Why do you pardon yourself for using the tags? They seemed relevant. Is there a reason to not use them? Oh, and I laughed through the article you shared. Reminds me of how horrible that show "The Big Bang Therory" is and my internal groan every time someone suggests that I should watch it because I clearly love science. I studied philosophy, not science. I rarely bother to explain that I love investigating the ideas and arguments from many fields, not just science. Unless you want to count countless baking trials to get the perfect batch of chocolate chip cookies, my scientific research completed in life since school amounts to zero.
Heya, welcome to Hubski. I wasn't sure whether the tags I chose were the most fitting, but I couldn't find any ones that were better, hence the pardon. Nobody called me out on them, so I guess no one was bothered by them.
I don't hate him. But before he went mainstream and was just the guy who demoted Pluto, he was amazing. Go find a video of him from say 2002-2003 time frame... Phil Plait called it "Holding Court" Here he is from TAM in 2006. He has the passion, charisma and stage presentation to grab you and make you listen. the new Cosmos, by contrast, was downright bland, almost boring. The problem for people like this, all in my opinion, and the source of the meme "Going Hollywood" comes from. I'm not sure if I don't like NDT anymore or if the new influx of fans have ruined him for me. There comes a point in the fame spiral where the point is less what you are talking about and more the speaker himself. Tyson hit that point with me when he signed up to do the new Cosmos.