ANALYSIS: So.. we deal one faith for another?
The deterioration of reason and logic in the quest to correct “oppression” is one of the odder features of DEI/critical theory.
We’ve seen this with the female movement, in special, less known is how it’s creeping into painful disciplines like science.
For instance, remember last summer when an “indigenous scholars” group warned that listening — yes, just , listening — for alien civilizations could be viewed as “eavesdropping” or” surveillance” ( do we have the aliens ‘ permission )?
What about the American government’s attempts at “decolonizing light“? Or the Stanford University intellectual who claimed attempts to conquer Mars are “patriarchal” and “another case of female privilege”? Etc. …
Now, Wesleyan University Dean of Social Sciences Mary-Jane Rubenstein, a “philosopher of science and religion” ( who’s also affiliated with the school’s Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program ), says she’s noticed how “many of the factors that drove European Christian imperialism” have been put to use in “high-speed, high-tech forms”.
Stern wonders if” colonial practices” like “exploitation of economic resources and the death of landscapes”, all “in the name of ideals quite as life, society and the forgiveness of humanity”, may be part of boy’s expansion into space.
Of course, we’re fairly convinced that, especially in our own renewable program, there is no life — not yet microbes — about which to fret. Thus, what’s the great deal if we help keep Earth by exploiting Mars, Mercury, the comet belt, etc. for material and other assets?
Rubenstein points out that Robert Zubrin, president of Mars Society, has made this specific case to her credit. In a 2020 op-ed, Zubrin ripped a “manifesto” from a NASA DEI — variety, equity, and inclusion — group which had argued” we must constantly work to prevent bourgeois removal on other kingdoms”.
For “brilliantly demonstrates how the ideologies that have caused the demise of college liberal arts education can be used to stop space exploration as well,” Zubrin wrote.
MORE: A professor of physics says we must “admit we live under Aboriginal stars.”
Zubrin noted that since the DEI group does n’t have any scientific basis, it must use” a combination of ancient pantheistic mysticism and postmodern socialist thought,” such as claiming that harming them would be just as immoral as anything that was done to Native Americans or Africans.
But Rubenstein ( pictured ) says various Indigenous beliefs” stand in stark contrast with many in the industry’s insistence that space is empty and inanimate”.
These include a group of native Australians who claim their ancestors “direct human life from their home in the galaxy” ( and that artificial satellites pose a threat to this “relationship” ), Inuit who claim their ancestors actually reside on “celestial bodies,” and Navajo who revere the moon as sacred.
According to Rubenstein,” Liberal space enthusiasts do not need to believe that area is populated, animate, or spiritual in order to handle it with the care and respect Aboriginal communities are requesting from the industry.”
However, in his assessment of Rubenstein’s text” Astrotopia: The Hazardous Religion of the Corporate Space Race”, Vox.com’s Sigal Samuel noted , “in fact, some believe these heavenly bodies should include basic right of their own”.
So … critical post-modernists would have humans prioritize Natives ‘ beliefs in the exploration of ( lifeless ) space … over those of European Christians? We may skip extracting important nutrients from comets, comets, and neighboring stars … because they all have some sort of “pantheistic spiritual” Bill of Rights?
The Left’s claim to be the “party of research” is something to think about the next time.
Further:’ Individualism’ is example of ‘ white dominance’ in astrophysics: professor
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