On 9-5-2010 11:27, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> clipka wrote:
> 
>> Strangely enough, Einstein himself had a kind of "pop star" status at 
>> his time. Science was considered sort of "sexy" back then.
> 
> I'm told back in the Victorian era, engineers were regarded as gods.
> 
> Then again, back in the Victorian era we went from a world where 
> everything is done by hand to a work of fantastical machines that are 
> still celebrated in steampunk to this day. I guess that's why!
> 
> Today for some reason it's fashionable to be stupid.

It is changing slowly over time. There have been periods where thinking 
for yourself was considered bad by the ruling class of the time. OTOH 
there were times when everybody of some standing was doing natural 
science (the period of Darwin and before) even math (Japan, forgot which 
period, where people nailed plagues to their houses commemoration the 
formulas they discovered themselves).

I guess you will have to wait a couple of years (50-500) to a period 
when the elite has nothing better to do than think.

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