If you're the kind of shadowrunner I'm thinking of, then tell me what megacorp your cyberdeck is from. I'm partial to old Fuchi gear myself, chummer that I am.
There's a need for people, that is universal, to offload responsibility and ambiguity onto external structures and people. I feel that this outsourcing is both necessary to function and dangerous in the modern world, where there are entire industries that directly profit from mistaken beliefs. We'll always have to battle with the salesmen of snake oil and beliefs that just aren't true - science is just the most recent battleground.
We need our Dunkelzahn! First Dragon President of what's left of the United States! Gerontocracy rules!
I also just read this book called _Hunters and Bureaucrats_ by Paul Nadasdy-- he talks about the Kluane people of the Yukon and their conflicts with the Canadian agency, wildlife service I think, charged with "conservation" and "management" of the animal population (and captured most likely by the big game outfits in the area). And just the different ways of knowing-- The Kluane having lived generations with the Dall Sheep and knowing their ways and when to hunt more, and when to hunt less, and the Agency so convinced of its tech modeling that it cannot admit that the Kluane might know something. It's frustrating. And this idea that everything can be standardized and "modeled."
I might not be so grouchy about science if the science-boosters ever actually owned up and apologized for some of the mistakes made over the centuries.
Also, Theodore Roszak points out in "Where the Wasteland Ends" that far more Jehovah's Witnesses stood up to Hitler's regime than scientists or engineers. Seems like a telling detail.
If you're the kind of shadowrunner I'm thinking of, then tell me what megacorp your cyberdeck is from. I'm partial to old Fuchi gear myself, chummer that I am.
There's a need for people, that is universal, to offload responsibility and ambiguity onto external structures and people. I feel that this outsourcing is both necessary to function and dangerous in the modern world, where there are entire industries that directly profit from mistaken beliefs. We'll always have to battle with the salesmen of snake oil and beliefs that just aren't true - science is just the most recent battleground.
We need our Dunkelzahn! First Dragon President of what's left of the United States! Gerontocracy rules!
I often come back to Jerry Mander..
I also just read this book called _Hunters and Bureaucrats_ by Paul Nadasdy-- he talks about the Kluane people of the Yukon and their conflicts with the Canadian agency, wildlife service I think, charged with "conservation" and "management" of the animal population (and captured most likely by the big game outfits in the area). And just the different ways of knowing-- The Kluane having lived generations with the Dall Sheep and knowing their ways and when to hunt more, and when to hunt less, and the Agency so convinced of its tech modeling that it cannot admit that the Kluane might know something. It's frustrating. And this idea that everything can be standardized and "modeled."
I might not be so grouchy about science if the science-boosters ever actually owned up and apologized for some of the mistakes made over the centuries.
Also, Theodore Roszak points out in "Where the Wasteland Ends" that far more Jehovah's Witnesses stood up to Hitler's regime than scientists or engineers. Seems like a telling detail.