Yes, like in the Shaw citation below, progress might be made by “unreasonable one” but is it the right progress to be made?
I think that we should try to adapt to the world instead of trying to bend the world to our needs. Technologically, we might seem to be advancing a lot, but scientifically, we are more or less stagnating.
There has not been any major discovery in physics for the past century or so, and physic is the base of all sciences. We invent new theories but we are stagnating comparatively to the centuries before.
We need some new goals. We need to go back to be advancing knowledge for its own purpose, not to enslave nature. I am ready to bet that it is also a lot less work or wasted resources.
>>> ” “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw ”
” I don’t think that these people, all of a sudden, had an epiphany after they retired. They knew all about the rot in the system they were part of, while they were part of it, but they’ve had too much to lose. You could argue that they should have said something before they retired, but that requires a moral backbone we can’t expect most people to have.
When people retire, the threat of getting fired disappears. Old people can speak freely to a degree most other people can’t. “
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