Thursday, November 01, 2001


Lost in the swamp of modernity (from the New Statesman). Found this courtesy of Jerry Pournelle. Essentially makes an argument that fundamentalism (in many incarnations) held back the non-Western world from generating ideas of scope and power in the 20th Century. Alternately you can interpret it as an argument for the power of a scientific world view in promoting new ideas.
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