Name: Havel Supplement: Yuval Harari Thinks Science is About Power. He's Not Wrong.
Uploaded: 2022-03-06T23:22:51+00:00
Duration: 8 min 31 s
Description: Harari describes the highest value of science "as an institution" to be power. He's not wrong, but he falls down in the implication that there's nothing wrong with this. His questioner gets the proble

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Havel the power of the powerless Yuval Harari power truth science

Harari describes the highest value of science "as an institution" to be power. He's not wrong, but he falls down in the implication that there's nothing wrong with this. His questioner gets the problem intuitively, but can't articulate it. It's precisely what Vaclav Havel describes as the equation of truth and power in modern technocratic totalitarian dictatorships.

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