Earlier I posted an article to Facebook, but my comment was slightly ranty. And there was a typo. And FB wouldn't let me edit.
So.
Reposting here instead.
Marco Rubio is still pandering to a base that will not win him a national election.
It is disappointing that in an age of technological advancements and the degree which science plays in our everyday lives that we still have "leaders" who would deny or try to minimize all that science IS, and all that it DOES, for all of us every single day. This is our future we're talking about. Understanding the past, exploring everything around us, will lead us there. By acting as if science is a great mystery, by not promoting scientific study and the potential for technologies ushered in by scientific curiosity, by not recognizing the research, by not providing the funding necessary and by withholding the means to promote the ideas that lead to discovery, a great disservice is being done to the citizens of the state of Florida, and the United States itself as a nation with an economy still trying to get its groove back.
Ignorance - whether it is genuine or is a politically-motivated affectation - should not be a desirable trait in someone serving in the Senate on a committee with "science" in the title.
Of course, Senator Rubio is probably really only concerned with the "commerce" and "transportation" portions of his charge, which obviously have nothing whatsoever to do with science. I mean, what has science ever done for commerce and transportation, right? And the "S" in STEM-centered learning that our current Governor wants the educational curriculum to focus on (to the detriment of the arts, but that's another post for another time...) can't possibly stand for SCIENCE!
4 comments:
at least there are a few students that make it. its sad, how much people already "know" and how little they wonder.
We suck the wonder out with things like standardized testing and core curriculum and Dancing with the Stars and reality tv and the general day-to-day banality of modern living. I love this technological age and I loathe it at the same time. It is eroding our collective sense of the fantastic and dulling the majority even more than they were already.
Yes. That's why I haven't hooked up cable TV and the internet at my new place. Its why I read a book, or cook a nice meal and sit in silence. Fleet foxes style. But with better musical results.
You capture the milieu of our eroding collective sense of self perfectly with your words. You are, a writer, perhaps?
Yes.
A writer? Perhapse. (I play one on the internets.)
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