. Real scientists like Galois are monsters of will, and the preponderance of
men in the hard sciences is explained by this orientation of character, as also by
the fact that the minds of men more than of women are capable of sustained
focus on one thing (women are better at multitasking). There are women who
were great scientists, but, like women who were great chess players, or poets,
they are probably spiritual lesbians.
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on on science as religion of bugmen there's this:
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The modern peasant just replaces the artificial prejudices of superstitions and
village old wives’ tales with the superstitions of science, which he receives
ready-made from authorities among the popularizers of science. He loves them
because of the creature comforts he believes they provide through technology.
He is a cargo cultist—he knows nothing of what goes into the discoveries of
science, nor the way the substance is transmitted among scientists, he just has a
propagandized image of some of the results. This is no different from belief in
Big Magic, which is how many primitives think of science—the Big Magic of
the white man. It’s not even the substance of science that is the problem because
it could be of great use, as much as any other popular religion has been: the
problem is the frame of spirit that it puts the acolyte in. It makes him think he
has power over the processes of nature which are at present actually very poorly
understood. By removing primal fear—the only kind of awe that drives the many
—it injects a toxic mix of complacency, arrogance, brutality, fanaticism that is
all just under the surface only so long as times are good. Science as popular
religion brings no true consolation but instead feeds a kind of false pride, pride
in spiting oneself—does this sound familiar? It should sound familiar to women
most of all. It actually makes the many more servile to the authorities who are
presumed to understand and manipulate the technology. That is its purpose, to
make the many submit, which wouldn’t be bad, if they weren’t submitting to the
lords of lies.