A deeply insightful quote from Simone Weil appeared in Malcolm Muggeridge's writings.
Everything that is most retrograde in the spirit of religion has taken
refuge, above all in science itself. A science like ours essentially
closed to the layman, and therefore to scientists themselves, because each
of them is a layman outside his own narrow specialism, is the proper
theology of an ever increasingly bureaucratic society. 'It is secrecy,
mystery, that is everywhere the soul of bureaucracy,' wrote Marx in his
youth; and mystery is founded upon specialisation. Mystery is the
condition of all privilege and consequently of all oppression; and it is
in science itself, the breaker of idols, the destroyer of mystery, that
mystery has found its last refuge.Only registered users can write comments.
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