Where Did All the Scientists Go?

Growing up in the 50’s & 60’s was a marvelous experience.  There seemed to be a limitless horizon to life.  Great discoveries were constantly being made, the transistor (i.e., solid-state electronics), lasers, nuclear science, satellites, space exploration, organ transplants & artificial organs, and the list goes on.  Seemed like a break-thru a week.  At the heart of all this was the scientist.  They stood on the top of the heap known as humanity, super smart, impeccable integrity, someone you aspired to be.

Somewhere after Apollo XI it all changed.  Slowly, instead of seeking truth, scientist began to seek popularity and consensus.  I don’t think existing scientists changed much, but that new crop, it was pale imitation.  Suddenly it was all about public good not public truth.  What you say is the problem with public good?  Good is subjective, it is different things to do people. The truth; well the truth is the truth; it is not subject to whimsical interpretation (despite what lawyer types may believe).

What caused this shift?  Greed and vanity.  The desire to rich and popular.  We slowly moved away from a privately run scientific community, to a publically run one.  In short, funding shifted to the government, most of it routed through the academic world.  Scientists slowly became highly paid government whores.  Scientific advancement left the world of type three’s and fell under control of the type ones (see The Three Types of People).  The types one’s quickly realized “science’s” value for controlling the type two’s.  Basically science became a tool of politicians to gain control.  A way to rationalize the growth of, and span of control of the government.

So whenever the government (as run by type one’s) wishes to expand its control over another facet of your life, there is a scientist standing there to give them the justification to do it.

Where have all the scientists gone, long time passing?

Where have all the scientist gone, long time ago?

Where have all the scientist gone?

Gone to whorehouses, every one

When will we ever learn, when will we ever learn?