The systematic dismantling of humanities education hasn’t helped this either. That’s why we needs arts / humanities just as much as science. The nazis had science but they didn’t have any humanity.
Not that I support their ideology at all, but the Nazis gave the world some really cool shit. Jets, rockets and the ballistic missile, the modern highway system/overpasses, and advancement in nuclear fission. Just goes to show how much war seems to advance our technology tree.
I’d argue that the technological advancement was from spending a lot on that rather than societal goods, and the general removal of freedoms to trade for efficiency. This usually happens during war, but a society can’t maintain that, people get sick of it. If they didn’t run out of oil, they would have run out of the will to fight.
Their science was in many respects also questionable. Sure, they engineered alright but they also based sweeping policy on ridiculous race science and their astrophysics never would have panned out with their rejection of Relativity as “Jewish Physics”
Am autistic and can confirm that many aspects of their science are bullshit. Still deal with the impacts of this every day as many in my community are willfully ignorant about Hans Asperger and how concepts like ‘high’ and ‘low’ functioning are based in nazi ideology not science.
It’s exactly why I don’t participate in most communities for autistic people and instead look for those that brand themselves as neurodivergent-focused. There’s a lot of “I had it bad so everyone else should have it bad too” as well as conditioned acceptance of societal issues in communities that label themselves as autism communities in my experience.
Yep I’m right there with you. I find the push back against the neurodiversity movement in some of these autism communities really problematic as well. It’s often based on a significant misinterpretation of what the ND movement is.
The systematic dismantling of humanities education hasn’t helped this either. That’s why we needs arts / humanities just as much as science. The nazis had science but they didn’t have any humanity.
Not that I support their ideology at all, but the Nazis gave the world some really cool shit. Jets, rockets and the ballistic missile, the modern highway system/overpasses, and advancement in nuclear fission. Just goes to show how much war seems to advance our technology tree.
Also…Fuck Nazis
I’d argue that the technological advancement was from spending a lot on that rather than societal goods, and the general removal of freedoms to trade for efficiency. This usually happens during war, but a society can’t maintain that, people get sick of it. If they didn’t run out of oil, they would have run out of the will to fight.
Their science was in many respects also questionable. Sure, they engineered alright but they also based sweeping policy on ridiculous race science and their astrophysics never would have panned out with their rejection of Relativity as “Jewish Physics”
Am autistic and can confirm that many aspects of their science are bullshit. Still deal with the impacts of this every day as many in my community are willfully ignorant about Hans Asperger and how concepts like ‘high’ and ‘low’ functioning are based in nazi ideology not science.
It’s exactly why I don’t participate in most communities for autistic people and instead look for those that brand themselves as neurodivergent-focused. There’s a lot of “I had it bad so everyone else should have it bad too” as well as conditioned acceptance of societal issues in communities that label themselves as autism communities in my experience.
Yep I’m right there with you. I find the push back against the neurodiversity movement in some of these autism communities really problematic as well. It’s often based on a significant misinterpretation of what the ND movement is.