Sunday, September 26, 2010

Anti-Science Movement

Summary:

As technology began to grow, become more readily available, and more mainstream in the 70's, a movement began to fight back. Back by writers, a few main points to the argument were that people would be forced into jobs that wouldn't be gratifying, the technologically elite would be given too much power, and that superficiality and a loss of connection to the natural world would ensue.
In the 60's and the 70's nihilism became a popular idea. It was the idea that anything would be better than the existing system and that we would be better off to demolish the system and start over. This idea caused fear to some because they thought that it made too much room for technology to move in and take over.

Citation:
"The Anti-Science Movement of the 1970's." University of Wisconsin - Green Bay. 11 Mar. 2002. Web. 27 Sept. 2010.
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