Modern scientific elites function like ancient astrologers as oracles and servants of power.
Evidence
Modern oracles, like their ancient counterparts, constitute a privileged class who monopolize new forms of knowledge and alternatively panic and enrapture large audiences as they portray new versions of the future. … Similarly, modern scientists use their capacity to predict the behavior of narrow, closed systems to claim the right to predict and order all human futures. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 668
Categorization
- SEED: Angle: how expert forecasting authority structurally mirrors ancient divination, and what that means for who gets to ‘own’ the future in public discourse.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 668
- XREF: connects to: Modern scientific elites are oracles to the people and servants of ruling classes. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 668; Modern scientists hold the same prophetic authority as ancient astrologers. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 668
Broader Connections
- Modern scientific elites are oracles to the people and servants of ruling classes.
#corroborates(0.95) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 668 - Modern scientists hold the same prophetic authority as ancient astrologers.
#corroborates(0.90) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 668