So, I was looking at my two fair readers' blogs, and it made me think of a book whose jacket I read a couple of years ago. I bought it for a friend but never actually read it myself, but maybe I will now.....It's C.P. Snow's Two Cultures, and the idea is that there are two groups within the intellectual world: the artists and the scientists. The two groups are both looking for truth and for stuff that makes life more bearable, they're just taking different approaches.....but often they seem very isolated from one another. One of Snow's points is that virtually all scientists know, appreciate, love, and even create art, whereas most artists don't even know the most basic scientific concepts or philosophies, and they in fact recoil from anything even remotely science-y.

Maybe it just proves that art is a universal human pursuit, while science is something that a only a small portion of society engages in or even cares about.....which is interesting, considering the sea changes coming down the pipe. Am I an alarmist?