it's been a painful dialectic let me tell you

Science, modern science that is, has engulfed nearly our entire gaze. It has become the transparent self-effacing tableau on which we experience the world, the glasses we wear to judge the truth, the standard we hold against our experience. Self-obvious to most, the material, quantitative vision of the Universe that has developed since the so-called Enlightenment has become both the largest bludgeon wielded against religion whilst simultaneously being raised as the final stand of “truth”, the last fragile barricade erected by some religious proponents against an unstoppable onslaught.


The scientific world machine is so pervasive, so iron cast that it retrofits itself to the entire history of human experience. We therefore encounter in most modern historical narratives the tales of “superstition”, of “if only they knew” culminating to that pernicious statement we have all heard: “people used to think this, but now we KNOW…”. Of course this is only natural. History, as they say, is written by the victor. But I would prefer to say that history is not so much written by the victor as it is FRAMED by the victor. For that which changed in the 17th century during that tumultuous age in Western Europe, that which had been cracking for 400 years already but finally broke into pieces was the frame of thinking of the Middle Ages.




                                                                                               Jonathan Pageau




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