>>14332439>They fear because modern western civilization is authoritarian under the guise of freedom. Those things feel far away from each other in relevance science is about discovery and trying to figure out how the universe works, even though our. Scientific method is not fool proof once you make it about you, you lose that burning passion to discover.
>When people start asking too many questions they begin to ask things like, "where does money come from?" "Why are a few people allowed to print free money?" And how does this relate to science, you went to economics and politics lol.
>People don't like too many questions.Why the fuck do you care what others think who are anti intellectual and asinine all just to and throw away rationalism, and passion to discover the unknown.
>>14332150>don't be too open-mindedI have to agree with this due to the fact that if someone gives you commands to play with fire lets say you lacked common sense and you were obident and your burned yourself that would foolish right, know how to spot awful advice or in general flaws in logic.
>philosophy can really mess you upIn what way ?
>why are you asking that questionQuestions lead to answers failures set stepping stones in the right direction
Democritus was a philosopher in around 400bc without him pondering if the smallest units of matter by getting sea shells and crushing them to a fine powder would be deemed atoms "indivisible" john Dalton would have never discovered the Atom, without someones idea of it existing so its retarded to go against philosophy in general, math is a construct without it nobody would be able to manipulate the environment and abstractness of the world around us.
We live a time of the internet we can read from the best and learn from the best but up to us what reality we want to inherent as long as its in the realm of reality never stop learning even if genius told you to stop, or stupid said so..