Hilarious. An article I read somewhere.
'The term "suck" originated in San Francisco and New York City of the late sixties. It was used as a critical description of the relative merit of rock bands. If a band used material or styles from other bands, they "sucked", or were derivative, un-original.
Thus science, being first-person perception derived from highly controlled observation, cannot "suck". Indeed, science is the very epitome of originality and creative thinking. Science attempts to establish real perception of fundamental realities.
Anyone who has experimented with psychedelic drugs knows exactly what I'm talking about. A drug-associated perception, or an hallucination, is a product of one's senses when altered to perceive a greater field of view than under normal circumstances, an artifact of one's own senses. Many mistakenly derive emotional turbulence through the perception of altered states and reacting accordingly, do themselves or others harm. These perceptions are "unreal".
Science, however, attempts to establish a truer reality, a more exact understanding, that while it mimics "expanded consciousness" insofar as expanding the perimeters of perception, attempts to correct misperception or misunderstanding and just plain ignorance. Science is therefore the very opposite of "suck". Not only does science avoid imitation of what has gone before, but science '.goes boldly where no mind has gone before..', and rejects unreality.
The scientific mind ignores the artifacts of perception itself, knowing that our perception can be limited and distorted, dogged by "groupthink", canonical dictates, the arbitrary winds of cultural approval. The scientist, then, is the true explorer, the true original thinker, and the best approximation of the truest perceiver.
Science rocks.
"The real reason science sucks is that it makes us look bad. It makes us bit players in the Big Story of the universe…. Look at it this way: Before science, we humans had dominion over Earth, the center of the universe. Now we're just a bunch of hairless apes on a wet rock orbiting a minor star in a marginal galaxy." ,
