Postby Technomancer » Tue Sep 02, 2003 4:08 pm
I don't think there's anything that I don't like about this series, it's simply awesome. There's great charcter development, and nothing is glossed over. The charcter's choices in the movie are not based on simplistic (or preachy) moralizations, but are shown to be arrived at after real personal struggle. Also, despite the brutal violence that occurs in this show, there is no attempt to water it down or to forget its awful consequences. In short, this absolutely one of the best anime I've seen.
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov