Thoughts...

Without science, philosophy is barren.
Without philosophy, science is blind, deft, and dumb.

Scientific progress is driven almost solely by the economy. Quite simply, commerce drives investment, and investment drives scientific progress. In such a system, the aim of this progress is to increase spending and consumption, and not necessarily to aid humanity in the short or, more importantly, long term. In this system, money is a rabbit, progress her hole, and society a fox making chase, ultimately blind to where her tunnel will lead him. The industrial revolution proved a daring chase down this rabbit hole. When we started this journey, the end was not in sight. Capitalism was young. Now, it is quite clear that this tunnel jets out of a precipice and into a dangerous chasm toward which the brainchildren of capitalism, corporations, are now dragging us. What still drives us after this rabbit, even now that the end is so near? Ignorance. A poverty of pilosophy sees us unable to halt in our tracks and make our way out. Like a weight tied around our legs as we struggle in the surf, corporations are quickly carrying us toward black depths, and collectively we are proving unable to muster enough ideological strength to unbind ourselves and swim toward the ever diminishing light above.