Good book

I´m reading a rather interesting book (so far), called "Science and Poetry". A critical essay dealing with how science has come to be such an imperative (also imperialistic) matter in our society and how the historical context have come to tie science so closely to ideology. Fascinating stuff (guilty geeky giggle)!

But seriously, is an interesting critique, avoiding being obscure, and avoiding a polar point of view over the subject. She claims that arts should be recognized as legitimate and necesary means of knowing and exploring our reality and our notions of it.

Here is an extract that was strikingly interesting. A good comment on how easy is to accept an stablished discourse or way of being (in this case, science), but also aplicable to those who prefer the comfort of what is familiar and known before facing their own fears:

"... simplicity is one aim of explanation (...) but explanations must be complex enough to do the particular work that they are there for, to answer the questions that are actually arising. There are always many alternative ways of simplifying things and we have to choose between them. The kind of parsimony that is too mean to deal with the points that really need explaining is not economy but futile miserliness. For any particular problem, we need a solution that sorts out the particular complications that puzzle us, not one that ignores them because they are untidy" (Midgley, 2001, p. 8)