Propaganda and Communication in World History vol. III

"Must science serve political power? At least one fundamental statement about our time arouses little disagreement: the science-based technology of Western European civilization is moving toward universality. Almost everything else is open to debate...Despite the remarkable, even explosive, expansion of knowledge, and its global diffusion, it must be conceded that, up to the present, the aggregate impact of the scientific revolution has failed to revolutionize the basic structure of world politics...knowledge is more commonly used for the relative benefit of the few than for the benefit of all. How can we account for the historic subordination of knowledge to the institutions of war and oligarchy? Certainly there is no lack of hortatory rhetoric celebrating the latent universality of the fruits of knowledge of all mankind, or of the the fraternal unity of all who contribute to a verifiable map of nature, man, and society. Up to the present, a root difficulty appears to be that however universal the manifest content of scientific propositions, or the procedures by which they may be verified, they are parochially introduced...institutions of war and oligarchy continue. Evidently, we can have scientists in government without having government for science or man."