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SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 •dir. Jeff Fowler

Image macro making fun of the relative uselessness of the coin item in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, posted in 2017 by Nintendo UK’s official Mario Kart Facebook account.

I’m too involved now.

But now science is the belief system that is hundreds of years old. And, like the medieval system before it, science is starting not to fit the world anymore. Science has attained so much power that its practical limits begin to be apparent. Largely through science, billions of us live in one small world, densely packed and intercommunicating. But science cannot help us decide what to do with that world, or how to live. Science can make a nuclear reactor, but it cannot tell us not to build it. Science can make pesticide, but cannot tell us not to use it. And our world starts to seem polluted in fundamental ways—air, and water, and land—because of ungovernable science