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A 4 page discussion of C.P. Snow's belief that our society is split into two separate components: an artistic component and a scientific component. Snow believed that the responsibility of healing all of the world's wounds fell to scientists. He believed that technology should be promulgated to all regions of the world regardless of the humanistic and environmental impacts of that technology. This paper presents the contrasting views of Jacob Bronowski and Frank Raymond Leavis and points to hydroelectric dams as evidence that technology is not always the most optimal solution. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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our society is split into two separate components: an artistic component and a scientific component. Snow observed that because of that split there is a corresponding gap between
the rich and the poor, a gap that exists not only within our country but between us and other countries. We are the technologically advanced and they, for the
most part, are the technologically backward. We are educated, they are illiterate. Social problems abound and we are looked to as the salve to heal those social problems.
Snow, in fact, obviously feels that the responsibility of both educating and technologically advancing the third world countries falls upon the shoulders of the worlds more privileged. He
views scientists as a key player in this equation, noting that they are the "directing class of a new society". Some would say that Snow advocates the proliferation of
industrialization. Snow criticizes those that advocated a slower rate of development or that caution about the potential environmental and humanistic consequences of rapid technological change.
As would be expected, Snow had many critics. One of the most vociferous of these critics was Frank Raymond Leavis, one of Snows contemporaries.
Leavis viewed Snows suggestions as crassly materialistic. He suggested instead the creation of the so-called "third realm", a world dictated neither by private or public interests but a
world with values and significance that cut across all arbitrary divisions. Leavis purports a world where human future is optimized by an emphasis on the maintenance of the "critical
function" of generating a "centre of consciousness (and conscience) for our civilization". Jacob Bronowski is critical of Snows theory of a dualistic world
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