The Czar has argued here that Republicans, and Conservatives in general, should be the stauncher supporters of science and technology, rather than let the Democrats invent the internet and the Liberals lead the charge against Creationist nonsense.

In short, promotion of science and technology is good capitalist business. The stronger ideas become profitable and lead to new things, while the weaker or unsupported approaches go away. Science is great for privatized medicine, and technology fuels the economic engine of business operations. All that good stuff.

This time, your Czar wants to look at the argument from the other side. Rather, why Liberal thinking is inherently anti-science and anti-technology.

We can start right away with the concept of multi-culturalism, or the erroneous but popularly enforced belief that all cultures, religions, beliefs, and credos are of equal value. One is just as good as another. This is, we can agree, a hallmark of liberalism (and it should be, because it effectively an “anything goes, Dude” approach to human interaction).

The world of science, we know, goes against this approach. Creationism is not just as valid and worth teaching in schools as Evolution. Homeopathy is not effective medical practice. Young Earth Theory is not acceptable to teach alongside astronomy and geology. Extremist Islamism is not valid theology. Revisionism is not proper history, and so on.

Think carefully on this. If all hypotheses are equally cool, and deserving of respect, then there is no value to scientific theory and experimentation. Peer review, which is the hallmark of modern science (as it presupposes the facts may be wrong and worth double-checking), becomes pointless. Conservatism, the motto of which could well be “Wait, let’s think this through, first” is in line with inquiry, exploration, hypothesis, testing, modification, correction, and promotion of smarter approaches.

A Liberal technology paradise would be everyone working with equal connectivity with equal equipment and equal tools. All applications would be the same. There would be no differentiation, no need for upgrades, no innovation. Software would be the property of the people, so there would be no development: we would be using WordStar 3.3 because no one would invest the time, money, and headache to introduce new tools and new streamlining. Compatibility would exist only because everyone was using the same products; otherwise, there would be no engineering leaps, no radical new stuff requiring device drivers, and no one screaming for a better way. Ironically, the Apple Big Brother ads would be frighteningly true.

Case in point, which combines the two: space technology. It was a conservative element that reacted to Sputnik, powering the development of space technology under GOP leadership. Science and technology flourished in schools and business. The Democractic solution? Burn millions and millions of dollars on lunar landing missions, only to just give up when the first goal was reached. NASA and JPL? Republican developments. The best the Democrats could do? Global Warming and dismantling of the nuclear power industry.

While liberals lay too-often-unchallenged claim to the domains of science and technology, they have done little to foster it. Instead, the conservatives are the ones who should look back and say, “Know what? I had something to do with that.”

And when the liberal replies, “People like you are driving science out of the schools,” the conservative should sigh and add, “People like me are why there even is science in schools, Front Lumps.”

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.