No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to… — Guy Debord
No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens....spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.
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