Science and Emotional Maturity
The bad news about using science is that it requires you to develop the intellectual and emotional maturity to accept that the world just doesn’t work the way you feel like it should, and that there are some people in the world who are a hell of a lot better at figuring out how it works than you are. I am one of those people, so consider yourself warned.
As a child, you had to learn that the world doesn’t always work the way you feel like it should. Did you think that changed when you were an adult, just because you no longer had your parents standing there telling you that all the time? A lot of people make that mistake. If you don’t devote a full-time occupation to continuing to figure out more about how the world works, it shouldn’t come as any surprise to you that people who do devote full time occupations to figuring out more about how the world works should’ve figured out more than you have.
One reason I had to write my special Anarchist version of this book was because for all their talk of global revolution, the most outspoken Anarchists I’ve met are so caught up in proving they can think for themselves that as soon as I start talking about science they practically accuse me of being the Anti-Christ. All I can say to that is, if you care more about proving your beliefs are right than you care about defeating your enemies, there’s a good reason you’re not winning.
The good news about science is that, as I’ve said, it proves that Capitalism can’t possibly survive, and any thoughtful high school drop out who can read a few books can prove why.
When you take that science a step further, it shows that the greenhouse effect, the energy crisis, the war in Iraq, the immigration crisis in America, and the Zapatista revolution in Mexico are all symptoms of the same problem. In fact, Capitalism itself is a symptom of the problem. But Capitalism has created what’s known as a positive feedback loop. It’s a symptom of the problem that’s also contributing to the problem.









