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By defending ideologies so much, scientists have lost sight of science—that is, their own knowledge. The aim of science is the objective understanding of reality, a knowledge that by its nature must be scientific, critical, and systematic.
In contrast, ideologies, philosophies, and religions have a very different objective from sciences. Their goal is not to know or recognize reality, but to intervene in scientific knowledge in order to manipulate and distort it according to their own ideological, philosophical, or religious interests.
The independence of science from the power of religions, philosophies, and ideologies is absolutely necessary to preserve human life in the best possible conditions of freedom and intelligence.
It is the endless story of Plato against Homer, Belarmino against Galileo, Kant against Newton, Protestantism against Darwin, Nietzsche against Maxwell, Heidegger against Einstein... it is also the struggle of literature against its enemies, past and present.
Because literature, which is not at all a science, shares with the sciences the challenge of facing a triple alliance of adversaries: ideologues, philosophers, and gurus.
Jesús G. Maestro
