W.D. Clarke’s Reviews > The Science Delusion: Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers > Status Update

True art proposes the possibility of individual and social freedom, and asks us the question (in the context of e.g. Of Montreal's music),
“Can you return to being in the world in the way you were in the world before you heard this song?”

For Stephen Pinker, the brain is a “biologically selected neural computer.” What's more,

art is a “biologically frivolous and vain” activity interested only in critical obscurantism, social status, and the tickling of the brain’s dopamine reward system (like cheesecake).

And I think this computer needs more cheesecake.

Ahh, the good ol days OF the neoliberalism-Big Science dynamic duo, before Q finally caught Bill Gates putting microchips in all the vaccines...

While science continues to pummel fundamentalism, the far more destructive work of what C. Wright Mills called the “power elite” gets a pass. Where is Richard Dawkins’s book on the almighty, self-correcting Market God?