Actually, it seems that bourgeois ideology has proved quite supple in adapting to scientific regimes: thoroughly anti-evolutionary until the triumph of Darwin, then Social Darwinist; classical in its physical analogies until the coming of Einstein, then relativistic... --CGE
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Doug Henwood wrote:
> ... Unidirectional, mechanistic thinking has nothing to do with the
> bourgeois mind? The old model, with genes as blueprint or master plan
> and the rest of the cell/body following its instructions bear a pretty
> strong relation to the factory - bosses plan and direct, workers
> dutifully follow. More recently, the model has been cyber-ized, with
> genes as software code - but again, the genes were calling the shots.
> Clearly, it's a lot more complicated than that, with environment and
> timing mattering a lot more than the old fundamental dogma had it.
> Doug
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