Agreed, not to go forward is to go backward. But what is it we should be conscious of? Particle physicists push their discoveries as "reality": so, if I don't know too much about particle physics , which is the case, then I am out of touch with reality? I don't think so. Certain things to me are outrageously inappropriate - wrong. There is a movie on Netflix, like so many others, in the setting of late 19th century gross social disparity. The subject isn't wealth/status disparity, but that is a sub theme: royalty and the suffering masses, which is at that time accepted by many as a given: the masses are supposed to suffer because their lack of elevated consciousness regarding aesthetics indicates and promotes their insensitivity to suffering. Unlike the elites. Nuts? I think so. I don't buy it, ignorance on particle physics or the workings of the universe notwithstanding. We live here and now, and there is plenty of evidence - going back hundreds of years - that we are way behind where we naturally should be as human beings, based on evidence easily available to all of us non- particle- physicists. That lack of humanity will be our downfall if we don't recognize and adjust it on a large scale, rather than merely throwing fish at the problem.
Agreed, not to go forward is to go backward. But what is it we should be conscious of? Particle physicists push their discoveries as "reality": so, if I don't know too much about particle physics , which is the case, then I am out of touch with reality? I don't think so. Certain things to me are outrageously inappropriate - wrong. There is a movie on Netflix, like so many others, in the setting of late 19th century gross social disparity. The subject isn't wealth/status disparity, but that is a sub theme: royalty and the suffering masses, which is at that time accepted by many as a given: the masses are supposed to suffer because their lack of elevated consciousness regarding aesthetics indicates and promotes their insensitivity to suffering. Unlike the elites. Nuts? I think so. I don't buy it, ignorance on particle physics or the workings of the universe notwithstanding. We live here and now, and there is plenty of evidence - going back hundreds of years - that we are way behind where we naturally should be as human beings, based on evidence easily available to all of us non- particle- physicists. That lack of humanity will be our downfall if we don't recognize and adjust it on a large scale, rather than merely throwing fish at the problem.