Dear Mary,
Well, Darwinism continues to be attacked, & its adherants split up into
factions...
The level of intellect is high enough for science to be little more than
a form of entertainment: Mandelbrot sets were supposed to herald a
revolution in science, but I know of no practical applications, though
I've ordered videos of Mandelbrot & Julia sets that are quite
mesmerizing. In "The Meme Machine," Susan Blackmore defends the concept
of Memetics, & also is quite open about her sex life. This is science?
My two cents,
Jeff
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 00:03:31 -0500 "Mary" <mwittler@yahoo.com writes
>
> I think perhaps what Pirsig meant by this was not that we didn't
> have
> intellect before, but that the end of the Victorian Era was the
> first time
> in history when intellectual "truth" was valued more highly than
> social
> "truth". Prior to the 20th Century there were many scientific
> subjects and
> ideas which were labeled as taboo by society.
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