Sherry Turkle
Team Human
The History of Science
When I read the Royal Academy of Sciences, scientists or read Francis Bacon and see that he says, you know, empirical science will allow us to take nature by the forelock, hold her down and submit her to our will. It's almost like that would be what dream control is for is to get rid of that last urge for the soft, squishy, weird, unpredictable nature of really being human because it's not efficient. Right. Well, once you can control our dreams, then those, those things will go away too. That's the history of science at Francis Bacon. The domination and domination of women is just the story of the empiricist tradition.
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