During the era of modernity, 1870s- 1960s , politics was science and science was politics , both united around the idea that ultimately physical reality was really quite simple and so should human reality be.
Simple, pure, few/big,slow to change, predictable.
Modernity and its science had never had a war where it could show its stuff, earlier wars being run by the old men who grew up before scienticism replaced religion.
Now there were old men running this war who were teenagers when scienticism was in its fullest flower.
Let the games begin !
But their best laid plans were soon burnt out shells and nobody survived WWII with their predictions intact, as the actual complexity of reality confounded the mightiest and wisest over and over.
Supposedly 1945 marked the apogee of modernist science, winning the war for the Allies etc ( insert A bomb and penicillin here).
In fact it was its nadir , the birthdate of post-modernity , post-modern science ...
Simple, pure, few/big,slow to change, predictable.
Modernity and its science had never had a war where it could show its stuff, earlier wars being run by the old men who grew up before scienticism replaced religion.
Now there were old men running this war who were teenagers when scienticism was in its fullest flower.
Let the games begin !
But their best laid plans were soon burnt out shells and nobody survived WWII with their predictions intact, as the actual complexity of reality confounded the mightiest and wisest over and over.
Supposedly 1945 marked the apogee of modernist science, winning the war for the Allies etc ( insert A bomb and penicillin here).
In fact it was its nadir , the birthdate of post-modernity , post-modern science ...
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