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| | The Role of Knowledge and Culture in Public Policy on Illegal Drugs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The specifically modern evils of pollution, ecological degradation, growing inequality in the world, the thermonuclear threat, seem inseparable from the progress of scientific knowledge, and the subjugating and destructive powers that have arisen from scientific knowledge escape control because everyone "is becoming increasingly ignorant of existing knowledge", of "what science is and does in society". |
 | | With humour and verve, Milan Kundera believes that the most important of his century was Flaubert's discovery of stupidity, which, he emphasizes, is even more significant than the most surprising ideas of Marx or Freud: far from yielding to science, technology, modernity and progress, stupidity, on the contrary, advances with progress. |
 | | Technology enables us, in particular, to hope that we can solve certain flagrant problems of inequality through the social organization that it can better provide, on the condition that it is put in the hands of ethically sound individuals. |
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