If anyone learned the key science lesson of WWII, it wasn't the adults of the day.
Rather that science lesson was partially absorbed by children born in 1938 and afterwards , children too young to share the glow most in the Allied world felt about the supposed leading role science played in defeating the Axis.
I say partially because wartime science was generally blamed by these young people only for deliberately promising and then succeeding in killing as many people as it possibly could possible , particularly killing as many civilians as possible.
When its actual biggest scientific and moral failures were for what it promised both sides during the war but then didn't deliver.
Sins of omission rather than sins of commission.
So bad efficient science merely replaces good efficient science in the baby-boomer academics' eyes, when a more accurate and devastating charge is to say pure science was, and is always, overwhelming inefficient.
As it must be, as long as it continues to deny that reality is inevitably and invariably dirty , mixed , intermingled and impure.....
Rather that science lesson was partially absorbed by children born in 1938 and afterwards , children too young to share the glow most in the Allied world felt about the supposed leading role science played in defeating the Axis.
I say partially because wartime science was generally blamed by these young people only for deliberately promising and then succeeding in killing as many people as it possibly could possible , particularly killing as many civilians as possible.
When its actual biggest scientific and moral failures were for what it promised both sides during the war but then didn't deliver.
Sins of omission rather than sins of commission.
So bad efficient science merely replaces good efficient science in the baby-boomer academics' eyes, when a more accurate and devastating charge is to say pure science was, and is always, overwhelming inefficient.
As it must be, as long as it continues to deny that reality is inevitably and invariably dirty , mixed , intermingled and impure.....
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