66. Why is science modern?

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In approaching universality, unity, and reality, we must recognize the duality of our world: its material part (quantitative, objective, individual), which is interpreted by modern science, and its spiritual part (qualitative, subjective, universal), which is interpreted by traditional science. What can unite the two is our consciousness, while ignorance is what divides them. If we break the world apart, we are breaking ourselves and our universality. Therefore, it can be stated that the world is what we perceive it to be: on one hand, objective, measurable, quantitative, material, and linear, and on the other hand, subjective, immeasurable, qualitative, spiritual, and vertical. 

The person who can unite these two perspectives within themselves is the true and normal person, the far-sighted man who primarily perceives the universal, subjective aspect of reality because they see the world with two eyes: one internal and one external. The short-sighted person lacks universality, both above and below, because they see the world as objective and external. This person is one who falls asleep to themselves or allows others to sleep them because they believe that only what is tangible and visible exists. Unfortunately, in today's interpretation of the "world," the liberal, modern, quantitative, profane, material, analytical, and rational approach predominates, which contrasts with the traditional, universal, spiritual, synthesizing science, and tends to rely on the following points: 

1) There is nothing above rationality, so intellect can be attributed to the mind: We have long known that not the mind has the intellect, but the soul. We do not say to the mind that is meaningless, but rather to the soul. The meaningless, individual self is the one that, bound to matter and rationality, is incapable of returning to the One. Our liberal predecessors confused mind, as the ability to think, with rationality, which is one of human characteristics. The "collaboration" between mind (the ability to abstract, to think abstractly) and the soul's meaning (universal self, permanence) or meaninglessness (individual self, change) is provided by the changing individual self (even the name contains the duality), which is able to stabilize and refer the information (abstractions) perceived by the mind to the realm of the universal self. But it is equally capable of doing the opposite, of remaining in change, in external, influenceable perception. The individual self is the boundary and the transition point between mind and the universal self. Perhaps what makes science modern is that it neither searches the One nor the human being.

2) Everything can be expressed by numbers, and whatever cannot be expressed does not exist: This is the starting point of rational and quantitative, mathematics-based science, where numbers have no quality. It likes that we have forgotten that quantitative numbers can only produce quantitative, mass-based human beings. A similar narrow-mindedness can be found in today's internet world, where some people believe that what isn't on the internet doesn't exist.

3) Numbers are equal, and since man is also a number (part of quantity, part of the mass), all people are equal: This concept of equality was manifested in the catastrophic 1789 French Jacobin and Girondist Freemason revolution (which claimed the lives of over a million French people), and later, on the same principle, in communism and today's democratic bluff. Since rationalism recognizes only the mind, where there is nothing beyond the world that can be understood by the mind, it follows that in the rationality of democracy, there is no metaphysics, spirituality, tradition, order, truth, or freedom—only the opposite of these. The repetition of large numbers and the probability of their occurrence gave rise to statistics, which helps demonstrate what we wish to prove, as the expert's rationality allows the result to vary.

4) Science evolves and moves forward: Since science thinks in terms of material and quantity, there was a need to introduce the concept of progress, where it was claimed that modern science is a direct continuation and more developed version of the earlier, traditional science. Of course, this is not true. They failed to mention that this is not a matter of continuity, but rather about material, profit, political power validation, and in one word, ignorance. The emergence of quantitative modern science may also be linked to the secularization of power, when the traditional turned modern, and the state replaced the role of religion. This also means that the clergy was weak and unable to authentically interpret universality, the teachings of the Gospels. It was unable to perform its only entrusted task: to teach. Earlier, power was exercised by religion, later and still today by the invisible hand and servant science. Philosophy served one or the other e.g. religious philosophy, or philosophy of science.

5) What is rational is scientific: so it can be explained quantitatively, mathematically, and if it is not rational, then it can be explained qualitatively, i.e., artistically.This is how quantity and quality, science and art, came to be seen as opposites, although both are part of the same duality. Box thinking is found in both camps.