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Originally Posted by Dozer523
I'm pretty sure the ownership comment was just the natural progression of all things PS to eventually come circle back to blame someone and ascribe it to a defect of philosophy and character.
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Hey - let's blame it on the 'Space Race' and the 'Spirit of Science' and our national push to become the world's most technologically advanced society... 
Richard 
Education and the Spirit of Science
EdPolicieCmsn NEAofUS, 1966
The Impact of Science and Technology Today, PP. 3-4
Today, the worldwide pursuit and spread of science and technology are commonly recognized. There is less recognition that the values and modes of thought which underlie science and technology also are becoming pervasive in the world. Yet these values and associated modes of thought may in the long run be more important to mankind and to education than the visible fruits of scientific and technological pursuits.
The most commonly recognized manifestations of the scientific and technological revolution are the material ones. The physical accoutrements and institutions of the advanced societies have been and continue to be altered; the living standards of many peoples have risen. But much more is changed than the material conditions of life. Modern industrialized societies possess basic elements which make them unique in history. Old routines and time-honored patterns of existence have been destroyed or profoundly changed. Economic systems are modified at an accelerating rate. The methods and results of science introduce a widespread skepticism and willingness to forgo traditional ways in art and philosophy, and they both force and enable theologians to consider new ways of defending the validity and relevance of faith.
In addition, the scientific and technological revolution affects the very texture of thinking of thecommon man. The gulf inspirit between this age and all previous ages is perhaps more vast than the gulf in external appearances. Newor modified values and attitudes, combining to producea new perspective on life, are gaining currency in the industrialized countries. The spread of technology is accompanied byan increasing respect for utility, efficiency, and practical results and an increasing interdependence of individuals. The spread of science promotes respect for the role of reason in human affairs by demonstrating the power of the mind when used in accordance with the spirit of science. There is a tendency to be suspicious of absolutes, a respect for tentativeness, a kind of working skepticism. Science poses a clear challenge to pretensions of absolute certainty. It promotes respect for intellectual flexibility and creativity, for the ability to revise or discard old hypotheses and to form and substantiate new ones. There is also a tendency to see the world in an evolutionary frame of reference, to recognize that what exists now may not have existed in the past and that all things are in a process of becoming.
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
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