No breakthroughs? But what about the development of the microprocessor and thermonuclear weapons?
There have been lots of scientific breakthroughs; yet now the result is that we have more science and technology than we reasonably know what to do with in a sort of adolescent period of humanity. The humanities need catch up with the natural sciences and we need a renaissance of the same power and magnitude as that which took place during the Enlightenment. Science can show us how to kill and how to save life, but it cannot tell us when to kill or when to let people die. That is an entirely more subtle matter. The birth of the modern (re: the Enlightenment) raised science to nearly a religion which has failed us in the larger order of things. And then postmodernism is utter drivel (game playing of the mind, mental masturbation). We need go someplace new. The traditional liberal arts have taken a beating in our scientifically-oriented century. They need to return to the forefront of our attention, in my opinion. Q: I completely agree with you!
