This post was prompted by Supriyo's comment
What are the areas of study that human minds should direct their attention to? A pretty loaded question I must say. But I really think its a matter of personal choice, whether I study geography or literature. I believe you should do whatever interests you the most.
From a point of view of exploration any field is as important. People are able to predict a lot about earthquakes and all just becoz there are so many satellites in the space. Things are too intertwined to be segregated so it would be be wrong to say i should focus on biotechnology and not quantum physics. Its a big fuckin chaos out there so it really dosen't matter what you start exploring. Its all related in the end.
Though when it comes to funding research and allocating budget for different disciplines it really boils down to what is important for the industries and the corporations. So they would fund space research becoz there is a lot of cutting edge technology to be developed there and lot of big bucks to be made, but not sesimology. People lives are at stake, but for capitalism the welfare of people is never an issue. They would focus on such issues ONLY when they see it translating into some SHORT TERM PROFIT. Maybe once they see some capital gain from pursuing research in geography then they would invest in it, but not otherwise.
And tell me one thing, does it really matter to the US, "the research capital of the world" whether people die in INDONESIA? They killed 4,000,000 people in Indochina during the Vietnam war? For what joy? Nuthing, becoz they wanted to spend on the military. There was no need for THAT WAR !!
Though for the day: Is the nature more cruel or the human beings that inhabit it?
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hello-came here thru..i think it was lean's blog....interesting.
anjana.
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Well this is an interesting post... US amy be the research capital but it is seriously lacking in other things... and yes i agree with misty.. humans are definetly more cruelll :D
I was reading this book "Understanding Power" by Noam Chomsky and there he clearly shows how the American junta is taken for a ride.
And yeah I second misty and jane's opinion... SAD :(
the same thought of money control applies to almost everything around us.. sad but true
Think of some way in which research in
fields like seismology may be made commercially profitable. Then you'll see the money flowing in !
(But hey, I thought this kinda research already helped oil companies etc. to find prospective "rich" regions !!)
Well there is a lot of research in seisomolgy like finding out oil/mineral deposits, but incidently the regions do not overlap.
And secondly they would be scanning the incoming data for mineral deposits not tectonic plate movement...
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