Science Is An Essentially Anarchic

Science Is An Essentially Anarchic Enterprise.

Human Paint, Produce Films And Videos; They Dance, Dream And Make Music; They Engage In Political Action, Exchange Goods, Perform Rituals, Build Houses Start Wars, Act In Plays, Try To Please Patrons- And So On... They Contain Patterns, Press The Practitioners To "conform" And In This Way Mold Their Thought, Their Perception, Their Actions, And Their Discriminative Abilities.

A Free Society Is A Society In Which All Traditions Have Equal Rights And Equal Access To The Centers Of Power. A Tradition Receives These Rights Not Because The Importance The Cash Value, As It Were) It Has For Outsiders But Because It Gives Meaning To The Lives Of Those Who Participate In It.

Knowledge Is Not A Series Of Self-consistent Theories That Converges Toward An Ideal View; It Is Rather An Ever Increasing Ocean Of Mutually Incompatible (and Perhaps Even Incommensurable) Alternatives, Each Single Theory, Each Fairy Tale, Each Myth That Is Part Of The Collection Forcing The Others Into Greater Articulation And All Of Them Contributing, Via This Process Of Competition, To The Development Of Our Consciousness.

When Western Civilization Invaded The Near And Far East And What Is Now Called The Third World It Imposed Its Own Ideas Of A Proper Environment And A Rewarding Life. Doing This, It Disrupted The Delicate Patterns Of Adaptation And Created Problems That Had Not Existed Before.