America has never produced even one great theoretical scientist or one great philosopher/thinker.We've never been a nation of thinkers, but one of doers, so in STEM, we are tinkerers and engineers in the mold of Edison.All of our great theoretical scientists were European imports, from Tesla to the German guys who came over before and after the Third Reich, like Werner von Braun who took us to the moon and back. Americans have long been anti-intellectual, mocking men of thought and praising men of action. The CEO is much more admired than an Isaac Newton or a Gottfried Leibniz in this land of action. Can this be changed? Can America become a nation of thinkers too, not just doers? Or will we always rely on Europe for great thought?I am doing my part, writing a giant tome of philosophy and fundamental science and pure mathematics -- all intertwined in a system of thought to rival Kant -- and intend to publish this in a few years and it's all rigorously argued and extremely original; and it's in English, not the historically greatest language for such work (that would be German, with French in second place). But I am even innovating the English language and what it can do to complete this work.If it catches on and other follow this lead, then perhaps America can become a nation of great theoretical minds as well, like the Greeks, and not just engineers and statesmen like the Romans. We are of the same stock as Europeans, so we have their knack for creative pure science and thought in our DNA. It's our culture that's the barrier, a culture which dislikes deep thinking and mocks it in favor of execution of plans of action.
99% of the population shouldn't be thinkingit just leads them to hedonism and nihilism, very tragic
>>524111780That's the thinking of a rube.An educated population is essential to a free society, as the US Founders said and so too did the men of the Enlightenment of whom they were part.
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>>524111825the enlightenment was a mistake tho
>>524111780You are living in this world. 1% of the population (jews) think and dictate everyone's life.
>>524111536America theoretically produced a philosophical scientist.
>>524111536Ted Kaczynski
>>524112041The Enlightenment is why the West pulled ahead of every other civilization in the world, and in history (even Classical Greco-Roman Civilization, the runner up to the modern West), by a light year. You Romantics, like the hippies (neo-Romantics), have never been much on thought anyway, but rather are people "of the feels" as the cool kids say these days.And your postmodern gibberish is the death of thinking and has been the death of the West.
>>524112386He's bright, even brilliant, but not world-historical brilliant like the great men of Europe and the Classical world.
>>524111536I agree but society has never been more anti intellectual than now. Academia is controlled by jews/secret societies and is nauseatingly midwit centric and credentialist. It didn't used to be nearly this bad until fairly recently.
>>524112610He was never given a platform to develop and spread his ideas. Instead he was locked in a cage after fleeing persecution. You can't compare the two fairly.
Charles Sanders Peirce
>>524112751And that's what America does to its original thinkers -- hushes them up one way or another, declares them beyond the pale and outside of serious discussion. It's just part of our anti-intellectualism. And America has likely done this to countless such men in various ways, some ways more severe or cruel than others.We are of the same stock at Europeans, as are you Canadians, so it's our culture that shuts out men of great thought who are original.
>>524112698>I agree but society has never been more anti intellectual than now. Academia is controlled by jews/secret societies and is nauseatingly midwit centric and credentialist. It didn't used to be nearly this bad until fairly recently.AgreeAcademia is a cesspit nowadays, about, as you say, conformity of thought and credentialism, not about finding the truth. Today's ideal professor is not original at all. He or she just takes the next obvious step in some established subdiscipline. He or she is a replaceable cog in the academic machine, not a lone wolf genius, who is feared in America like an evil monster.
