Are Ideology and Morality like AIG and Citibank?

calvo wrote: Are ideology and morality too big and complex to be encompassed by science?

What do fish think about Tolstoy?

Can our high tech species, where extraordinary power rests in ordinary hands, survive such a situation?

High tech species?
By definition, extraordinary power can't lie in ordinary hands.

How can the human species adjust?

No. But I don't understand what we are supposed to adjust for.

 

Darwin informs us that the species that fails to adapt to its changing environment will soon become toast.  If we lack the intellectual sophistication required to make a science of these two concepts, ideology and morality, then we lack the sophistication required to adapt to our changing environment and thus will shortly become toast.

 

Any domain of knowledge can be studied in a systematic, disciplined, and empirical manner.  Our educational system prepares us only to act as producers and consumers and not as sophisticated citizens capable of meeting our changing needs to adapt.

I don't see how questions of morality and ideology (throw in religion since it belongs in the same category) are any different now, except in detail, than they have ever been. Certainly they have no greater role to play now than in the past.

Morality, ideology and religion can be and are all studied scientifically by anthropologists. Just as they are all studied by historians using historical techniques.

Darwin informs us that the species that fails to adapt to its changing environment will soon become toast.

Last I checked, Darwin was a biologist, and while he is one that put forward some great theories, those theories aren't gospel.

If we lack the intellectual sophistication required to make a science of these two concepts, ideology and morality, then we lack the sophistication required to adapt to our changing environment and thus will shortly become toast.

History informs us that war is our constant companion.  This indicates that we have little moral sophistication, i.e. little sophistication regarding relationships.  Before technology placed such extraordinary power in the hands of ordinary people this was not such a big problem.  Now however it is a means for the destruction of the species and possibly all life on this planet

I hope you understand that science is a set of tools or methodology for studying something. We have sciences to study ideology & morality. I think perhaps you wish to have a way to Engineer morality. This too may be possible after a much greater understanding of it may be reached, but I think you'll find that most people will think that Engineering Morality is immoral.