“When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall.” ― Adolf Hitler
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Political ideology has, through the ages, mystified nature to make it an organising principle of questionable doctrines, and of society.
But what *history* reveals is that nature is a fickle concept. It is easily bent to political purposes.
Science is resistant to this lesson.
But what *history* reveals is that nature is a fickle concept. It is easily bent to political purposes.
Science is resistant to this lesson.
Rudolf Hess: "National Socialism is nothing but applied biology".
That doesn't mean that greens are Nazis (though many might as well be).
But it should make us more curious about and leery of "applied biology".
That doesn't mean that greens are Nazis (though many might as well be).
But it should make us more curious about and leery of "applied biology".
It turns out that you can make an argument for socialism and capitalism using Darwin's theory of evolution.
And it turns out that you can make an argument for the abolition of private and public property using hypotheses about environmental degradation.
And it turns out that you can make an argument for the abolition of private and public property using hypotheses about environmental degradation.
And it turns out that you can make arguments for all sorts of anti-democratic political institutions using "biology".
Science and politics are not so easily differentiated unless you have your eyes open to -- rather than blinkered by -- ideology.
Only democracy can open eyes.
Science and politics are not so easily differentiated unless you have your eyes open to -- rather than blinkered by -- ideology.
Only democracy can open eyes.
All bad ideas in biology resurface as ideology.
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