Re:TheAshLad - Sandbooks

and it is beneficial for the individual for it. releases one's energies and
makes one realize the powers at one's. disposal. Free associations
where everyone does what best suits their. talents replace the petrified
institutions of the day no function. must be allowed to become fixed
'the commander of yesterday can. become a subordinate of tomorrow.
Teaching is to be based on. curiosity and not on command the 'teacher'
is called upon to further. this curiosity and not to rely on any fixed
method. Spontaneity. reigns supreme in thought (perception) as well as
in action.. One of the remarkable characteristics of postenlightenment
political. anarchism is its faith in the natural reason' of the human race
and. its respect for science. This respect is only rarely an opportunistic.
move one recognizes an ally and compliments him to keep him happy..
Most of the time it is based on the genuine conviction that pure.
unadulterated science gives a true account of man and the world and.
produces powerful ideological weapons in the fight against the sham.
orders of the day.. Today this naive and almost childlike trust in science
is endangered. by two developments.. The first development is the rise
of new kinds of scientific. institutions. As opposed to its immediate
predecessor late th. century science has given up all philosophical
pretensions and has. become a powerful business that shapes the
mentality of its. practitioners. Good payment good standing with the
boss and the. colleagues in their 'unit' are the chief aims of these
human ants who. excel in the solution of tiny problems but who cannot
make sense of. anything transcending their domain of competence.
Humanitarian. considerations are at a minimum and so is any form of
progressiveness. that goes beyond local improvements. The most
glorious achievements. of the past are used not as instruments of
enlightenment but as means. of intimidation as is seen from some
recent debates concerning the. theory of evolution. Let somebody make
a great step forward and the. profession is bound to turn it into a club
for beating people into. submission.. The second development concerns
the alleged authority of the products. of this everchanging enterprise.
Scientific laws were once thought. be well established and irrevocable.
The scientist discovers facts. and laws and constantly increases the
amount of safe and indubitable. knowledge. Today we have recognized
mainly as a result of the work. of Mill Mach Boltzmann Duhem and
others that science cannot give. any such guarantees. Scientific laws
can be revised they often turn. out to be not just locally incorrect but
entirely false making. assertions about entities that never existed. There
are revolutions. that leave no stone unturned no principle unchallenged.
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