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Science offers no comfortable illusions or sentimental escapism – it confronts us with reality in its unrelenting clarity and deciphers the causal mechanisms behind it. Integrating science into our thinking demands nothing less than the mental resilience to endure factual truth – including the realization that autonomous thinking and action represent the ultimate imperative of human existence.
Survival, whether on an individual, collective, or biospheric level, requires the uncompromising acceptance of empirical insights and the willingness to scale the often-uncomfortable epistemic heights of enlightenment. Instead, Homo sapiens tends to prefer existential stagnation, manifesting in emotionally ornamented disciplines like art – particularly in eras like the present, marked by crises and dissonance.
Yet the unequivocal maxim remains: The only viable path for humanity is the delegation of factual control to science, whose methodology and evidence-based approach alone possess the capacity to generate sustainable solutions to global challenges.
Regrettably, humanity persists in its affinity for intellectual comfort and emotional regression. Instead of striving for the summit of rational enlightenment, it remains trapped in a self-imposed cosmos of cognitive inertia and affective escapism – a tragic reality with the potential to dismantle our collective future.
A prime indicator of this populist, emotion-driven submissiveness is the perpetual attribution of blame for societal dysfunction to groups least capable of defending themselves: minorities and those labeled as minorities. Rather than assuming responsibility, projection and delegation prevail until all that remains is stagnation.
Humanity stands at a crossroads: Will we perpetuate what paralyzes us, or finally take the initiative to use our own minds and seek authentic, evidence-based solutions?
It is imperative to abandon dogmatic comfort zones, liberate the mind from affective chains, and confront the consequences of our actions rather than delegating them. The cost of “business as usual” is high: decadence, degeneration, and, ultimately, collapse. Yet the possibility of a renaissance of thought and action remains within reach – if we decide to use our reason not merely as a tool but as the highest standard of our decisions, in line with Immanuel Kant’s Enlightenment ideal.
The question remains: Do we want to cuddle or survive? … It seems all too likely that the preference has been, and continues to be, given to Santa Claus.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan
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2moGood to hear the use of technology