"Antonio Vernucci" wrote in
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Interesting times;
The y2k bug demonstrated the corruption of engineering.
WMDs demonstrated the corruption of the intelligence communities.
World Financial Crisis demonstrated the corruption of the financial
system. And now science!

We are going OT, but just to add a few mo
- the widely claimed, though undemonstrated, hazard caused by
(low-level) radio waves demonstrates the corruption of the "green"
parties around the world, which use that argument to threaten the
cellular phone companies

- the unjustified panic for some deseases (mad cow, h2n1 swine flu)
demonstrates the corruption of the organization who should look after
our health

73

Tony I0JX

Rome, Italy



Comes from the illusion of control. Instead of learning from King Canute's
demonstration to his courtiers of their folly, a demonstration so vivid we
remember it today all over the world, although those who teach it to us
deliberately in schools more often try to make him look like the fool while
trying to control us and rear us in turn for control.

One reason I'm taking up SWL is that the internet has been great, most
useful, but it easily undermines a sense of how large and complex the world
is. SWL leaves no illusions about difficulty, distance, and luck, and fate.
It reminds me of days when it wasn't so easy to believe in illusions of
control.