We got scared

CCIP · 01-27-12, 06:44 PM

I don't think Takeda meant to outright attack Einstein, but it's good to keep in mind that like most of us, he is a complicated personality. You can't look at his legacy with rose-tinted glasses and not connect his achievements to the bomb. That's one of the prices we've paid for progress.

And I also think the video is excellent, but I would rather people take the 2nd half of it with a grain of salt. It is a good example of looking at progress through those very rose-tinted glasses, whereas the truth is a lot more complex and impossible to separate from injustice and opaque motivations. People are strange creatures, and simplifying our drives down to fear and curiosity is really not enough to get at the nature of things.

01-27-12, 06:44 PM	#11
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	I don't think Takeda meant to outright attack Einstein, but it's good to keep in mind that like most of us, he is a complicated personality. You can't look at his legacy with rose-tinted glasses and not connect his achievements to the bomb. That's one of the prices we've paid for progress. And I also think the video is excellent, but I would rather people take the 2nd half of it with a grain of salt. It is a good example of looking at progress through those very rose-tinted glasses, whereas the truth is a lot more complex and impossible to separate from injustice and opaque motivations. People are strange creatures, and simplifying our drives down to fear and curiosity is really not enough to get at the nature of things. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)