Festival of Science and Art
john posted in politics & culture, technologies on June 24th, 2005
Festival of Science and Art ( de-it-fr only )
While we here in America allow cynical politicians to create strawman arguments about religion, in Asia they are committed to the marriage of science and business, and in Europe they are busy celebrating science and art. These days, holed up in the United States of Television it feels like the rest of the world is leaving us.
Of course, there is tremendous ferment here, and the Europeans and Asians were bound to catch up eventually. States like California are taking up funding for research in the absence of federal support. Robotics and private spaceflight are very strong here near the Mojave testing ground. Still, the constant fight to maintain basic respect for the scientific method is exhausting. The Bush administration continues to fight off the weakest attempts to start dealing with global warming, rolls back environmental protection, and promotes a bizzare energy policy. Given the prediliction for state and federal legislatures to become captive to right-wing demagogues like Tom Delay, maybe the answer is in cross-national organization that simply doesn’t depend on individual national eccentricities. This is the model of the Internet, finance, and the super-rich. Perhaps we have to accommodate to it.
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