[MD] Journey to the Stars

[plattholden at gmail.com]

On 8 Jul 2009 at 11:28, Krimel wrote:

> John
> The arrogance of Humanism which treats the cosmos like an object that can be
> weighed, measured in age, analyzed and defined from man's  subjective
> perspective.
> Can anything cure such a wide-spread inculcation of hubris?
> 
> [Krimel]
> God, let's hope not.

[Platt]
God, let's hope so. It's high time to reject the hubris of the 
humanist/scientist worldview that we're just heaps of meat, that
when we think something it's just chemicals, when we love something
it's more chemicals, and when we die all the chemicals go back in
the ground and that's it. No wonder Pirsig summed up the state of
modern civilization by saying simply, " . . . the 'quality' of it was
not good." (Lila, 22)