You are mostly right, there was much stupidity present in Lysenko and co as evident from their failures. But he wasn't wrong about genetics. He called out the dogmatism that saw genes as some imaginary cause that destined us to be what we are. Genes as destiny don't exist. Epigenetics show that gene expression is dependent on material conditions - they are symptoms of our environment.
And how much dogma is at the root of science? Science seeks truth and it conceives of truth as an abstract universal. What is the will to truth? The will to nothingness. Today it takes the exploration of nature and man further than ever in a particular direction, but it is also taking submission to the ascetic ideal and the established order further than ever. Science can wear a new decentralized mask but the will won't change, unless we do something about it!
Amazing post! Honestly DeSci and Refi are the only spaces that are working the initial visions of crypto pioneers.
You are mostly right, there was much stupidity present in Lysenko and co as evident from their failures. But he wasn't wrong about genetics. He called out the dogmatism that saw genes as some imaginary cause that destined us to be what we are. Genes as destiny don't exist. Epigenetics show that gene expression is dependent on material conditions - they are symptoms of our environment.
And how much dogma is at the root of science? Science seeks truth and it conceives of truth as an abstract universal. What is the will to truth? The will to nothingness. Today it takes the exploration of nature and man further than ever in a particular direction, but it is also taking submission to the ascetic ideal and the established order further than ever. Science can wear a new decentralized mask but the will won't change, unless we do something about it!