Change?

[The Stranger]

I would not go so hard on The Stranger... I mean, from what I saw it as, he is not touching upon any specifics or the living standards, etc. I though he was speaking about the general collective spirit, the culture, the intellectual side. At least that is what I saw it as . I doubt he was simply discounting most of what science has done in practical applications. the only problem is, theory is the grandmother of invention and what seems theoretical today will soon find practical application to-morrow

you saw correctly :)

science at the top may be questioned, and there it continues to grow... but no one is checking the foundations... no one is looking wether they are even there.

take causality for example, how can we explain that? is it truly so that one thing causes another? or is that the way we immanently look at things? if not, then can we look at it in a different perspective? is it possible for a human being to see one ball touch another and not think that one caused the other? and if not, is that so because it is truly and beyond question objectively TRUE and so that the one causes the other, or is it because we cannot see it different than that?