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xela, you would made a good disciple of the great Socrates
although Socrates was condemned to self administer hemlock after being found guilty of corrupting the youth of Athens. An interesting offense, seeing as the Socratic method of gaining wisdom by "posing questions" and continually probing and questioning the infinite ether of knowledge is a teaching philosophy used today in almost every school. (some argue that education systems today avoid the Socratic method, especially with young children, and prefer the early schooling years to a military training type experience where the natural creativity and curiosity of children is "drummed" and hammered out of them. Out the other end are nice obedient corporate citizens who rarely question anything they are told and are driven by individualism and materialism.)
Science, as a grand pursuit of uncovering knowledge has been contaminated by corporate greed and market forces. Our political system has also suffered the same contamination, yielding to short term profits and thrills. I was particularly touched by a recent Nobel Prize in Physics handed out to inventors of the blue LED. Whilst this is a great invention which finally enables a white LED to be manufactured, how does this compare to say Paul Dirac's PhD thesis completed in his early 20's? or one of the 3 great papers published by Einstein in 1905?
Dreamless pathetic politicians and leaders controlled by greedy sociopathic and narcissistic bankers and corporate dead beats. A compliant corporatised media does the rest....
an endless stick indeed
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