Ernest Becker, in The Denial of Death, likewise expresses his disgust with what he calls “scientific manipulators” who don’t take the misery and horror of human life seriously enough. They give the impression that “we can change the world” with this or that technology, or that we can manage pain and suffering, we can “legislate the grotesque out of it, inaugurate a ‘proper’ human condition.” This is why he feels that “in this sense, all science is ‘bourgeois,’ an affair of bureaucrats.”
