Y'all wasting time on science which is just a surrogate activity...

Y'all wasting time on science which is just a surrogate activity. You should stop programming/ricing/discussing tech and start exerting yourself in a serious way, being in control o life-death issues. Build your own house, grow your food, hunt animals for meat. Otherwise you are just a tools of the system with deprived autonomy.

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87. Science and technology provide the most important examples of surrogate activities. Some scientists claim that they are motivated by “curiosity” or by a desire to “benefit humanity.” But it is easy to see that neither of these can be the principal motive of most scientists. As for “curiosity,” that notion is simply absurd. Most scientists work on highly specialized problems that are not the object of any normal curiosity. For example, is an astronomer, a mathematician or an entomologist curious about the properties of isopropyltrimethylmethane? Of course not. Only a chemist is curious about such a thing, and he is curious about it only because chemistry is his surrogate activity. Is the chemist curious about the appropriate classification of a new species of beetle? No. That question is of interest only to the entomologist, and he is interested in it only because entomology is his surrogate activity. If the chemist and the entomologist had to exert themselves seriously to obtain the physical necessities, and if that effort exercised their abilities in an interesting way but in some nonscientific pursuit, then they wouldn’t give a damn about isopropyltrimethylmethane or the classification of beetles. Suppose that lack of funds for postgraduate education had led the chemist to become an insurance broker instead of a chemist. In that case he would have been very interested in insurance matters but would have cared nothing about isopropyltrimethylmethane. In any case it is not normal to put into the satisfaction of mere curiosity the amount of time and effort that scientists put into their work. The “curiosity” explanation for the scientists’ motive just doesn’t stand up.

89. The same is true of scientists generally. With possible rare exceptions, their motive is neither curiosity nor a desire to benefit humanity but the need to go through the power process: to have a goal (a scientific problem to solve), to make an effort (research) and to attain the goal (solution of the problem.) Science is a surrogate activity because scientists work mainly for the fulfillment they get out of the work itself.

90. Of course, it’s not that simple. Other motives do play a role for many scientists. Money and status for example. Some scientists may be persons of the type who have an insatiable drive for status (see paragraph 79) and this may provide much of the motivation for their work. No doubt the majority of scientists, like the majority of the general population, are more or less susceptible to advertising and marketing techniques and need money to satisfy their craving for goods and services. Thus science is not a PURE surrogate activity. But it is in large part a surrogate activity.

91. Also, science and technology constitute a power mass movement, and many scientists gratify their need for power through identification with this mass movement (see paragraph 83).

92. Thus science marches on blindly, without regard to the real welfare of the human race or to any other standard, obedient only to the psychological needs of the scientists and of the government officials and corporation executives who provide the funds for research.

>For example, is an astronomer, a mathematician or an entomologist curious about the properties of isopropyltrimethylmethane? Of course not. Only a chemist is curious about such a thing,
False premise

How?

How come? Each scientists specializes in a very particular task. No human could be interested in properties of isopropyltrimethylmethane just by means of simple curiosity.

It feels good doing something my forefathers could not have imagined.
Any fucko can go to war and raise kids in a small house with a mailbox in front, but that's a stale concept.

>Each scientists specializes in a very particular task.
While this is true, it isn't true that ones interest only extends to a single field. My gf is doing a doctorate in medicine, and I'm very interested in her research although it isn't my speciality.

>No human could be interested in properties of isopropyltrimethylmethane just by means of simple curiosity.
That's demonstratively wrong.

Totally dude. You should go shit in a field and die at 45 while I waste my time drinking South American coffee and playing video games.

Would you be free doing that? Or would you have to go to work every day, take a bunch of crap from your boss, and then sublimate your anger and frustration with system into games and pornography?