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** Taoism, as with all ancient advice, is very vulnerable to misinterpretation. The flowery wordplay and metaphors of the ancient sages if anything only make it more-so. However, the underlying message is basically just Ockham's Razor, which isn't particularly anti-science NOR paradoxical. What Taoism is against is redundant complexity.
* There is a little bit of [[Fridge Horror]] when you realize that science actually needs conflict to develop. Most of the major advancements mankind made were either made for war initially, or put to use in war later. One real life example was [[World War 2]], where the horrible acts by the Nazis and Japanese actually advanced medical science, and we probably would not have nuclear power plants or sources of energy if it were not for the atomic bombs. These are only two examples on a very long list.
* This became all but an acknowledged policy of the American Republican Party in the post-[[Donald Trump|Trump]] era, born in part out of Trump's initial refusal to acknowledge the [[COVID-19 Pandemic]] as anything but a "liberal hoax" and later turning practically all measures intended to help slow the disease into tools of a cultural and political war against the Middle and Left. This inevitably merged with pre-existing anti-vaccine and Fundamentalist Christian anti-evolution groups, as well as expanding a growing party antipathy toward education in general (for example, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/09/10/gop-lawmaker-said-us-should-get-rid-colleges-being-liberal-breeding-grounds Tennessee state senator Kerry Roberts in 2019 declaring he wanted to shut down colleges and universities in his state for being "liberal breeding grounds"), until the Republican party was openly courting fringe groups whose tenets made them useful for supporting party goals.
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