Good heavens! I had no thought of erecting any barriers not articulated by science itself, in its heuristic method, criteria for truth, modes of description and denotation, and so on. Unless I misunderstand you, we have no real disagreement here about the whatness of things, but the oughtness as it were. By all means, let the great scientific beehive buzz away, but when that buzzing drowns out the whispers of our gods, and when the torrents of honey that pour out of it flood and bury even the tips of our sacred mountains, something--however true--is going wrong.
I've not the slightest interest in restricting or fencing-out such production; I merely wish to fence-in another space that <u>happens</u> to be disappearing, at least since the modernist problematic was exhausted.
I'll say one thing more: I think our moral and religious evolution, which moves with aching slowness and by sudden starts, has long since been outstripped by our technical development; and the effect of this huge and ever-increasing gap is not only dangerous (which I don't mind much), but ugly and ignoble (which I do).
[This message has been edited by Brian Jones (edited April 15, 2004).]
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