Social Impact essays

Social Impact essays It is impossible to consider the social and scientific implications of the quantumizing' of religion and science without putting that convergence into at least a recent perspective. The events of September 11, 2001, can That day, it became clear that all the supposed separations between nations, peoples and beliefs could be punctured by a group of extremists, spouting slogans but basically untutored in the new realities. The hijackers rammed the epitome of human construction with the epitome of human travel, and elicited the epitome of pre-modern response to it all from a government unaware that for most people, ideas of territory, ownership in the old sense, and the "Christian" order were all breaking down. This event, wrote British sociologist Zygmunt Bauman in the new-age journal, Tikkun, "fits the role of the symbolic end to the era of space better than any other event in recent memory." (Bauman, 2002) The event itself was grounded in old ideas of nations, one favored by God over others, and such pre-metaphysical realities. The U.S. government response to it was grounded in the same place, and the populace, by and large, stood behind it. But a year later, when that artificial separation between peoples was once again hauled out and waved as a banner when the U.S. invaded Iraq, there had already been a sea change of popular thought, and blue dove-bearing signs against the invasion sprouted on cars and lawns nationwide. Suddenly, people were aware that killing one person to avenge another contradicted the ideas of unity they were getting from both science and religion; they realized that religion and science both saw all nature as one, even if they knew nothing consciously about quantum physics (science) or metaphysics (religion.) In metaphysics, this is a fundamental statement: As above, so below: As within, so without. This is analogous to Einste...