“In a way, the worldview of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.” (George Orwell, 1984)
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The March For Science, according to various news article I have read, was
focused on the value of evidence-based science, an enterprise that is
apparently under fire. I suspect this is mostly a political broadside against
President Trump, specifically
when it comes to global warming,vaccines, and alternative theories to evolution.
Now, I am a fan of both science and evidence. Though the
march is largely symbolic and baldly political, I don’t think anyone actually thinks the theoretical
framework of the march is problematic (“Boo evidence and science! Stop learning stuff!"). However, the march seemed to me to be somewhat naive and far too narrowly focused.
