Subcultures notoriously like to cast themselves in the role of exemplars of rationality and outsiders as cast out by their "irrationality" -- as the murderous machineries of racism daily attest -- and technocentric subcultures (engineers, coders, geeks, whatever) are surely not much less prone to this sort of thing than anybody else is, as perhaps Snow's "Two Cultures" reminds us best.
The reason this is not as equivalent an exchange of charges as it might initially seem is because it seems to me that scientific rationality is easily affirmed and championed by those who might affirm and champion nonetheless other available modes of rationality as more apt to our circumstances
Let me be clear, I am not just claiming that there is a place for morals, aesthetics, ethics, and politics, in a world that properly respects scientific rationality, I am saying that all of these are modes of rationality
clipped from: amormundi.blogspot.com