Global Histories of Science Final Essay: Western science vs a science for the people

"I reject Western science’s claim that their conclusions about the world reflect all of humanity’s experiences. Having never seen a giraffe doesn’t mean they don’t exist, and what Western science is doing is ignoring giraffes they do see and claiming they don’t exist to everybody else, going around and spreading the narrative as far-reaching as possible. They actually caged up the giraffes and put them on display-- showed them to us-- and expect us to ignore their existence. I reject that notion completely. I would like you to leave this article questioning a lot, including this: why is there a rejection of love in science? Why do we not approach our analysis of the world this way, if it is a universal behavior of all humanity throughout all the recorded time we have? What do we gain from analyzing the world in a loveless fashion?" --page 12​

Both WSCP science and other cultures’ science can shape and reflect the world because science is humanity’s power to sense whatever “reality” is out there. There are methods to how the world truly works because the world is truly working. We do not understand every process or every detail about the earth, but we know there is something to study, that there is an endless, multigenerational journey we can embark on. However, what we actually perceive as "the world" in Western society is generated by WSCP science and not world-based. What has become clear to me while taking this course is that white supremacy is global. It is not an issue localized to the United States, or Europe, or even the whole of what the West considers the West. WSCP inherently wants to grow and corrupt all corners of the earth, because it is based in unfounded yet unshakable belief in the goodness of itself. In a sense, the entire universe has become the West, separated into the beneficiary and sufferers." -- page 13

"Western science has been able to enforce its claim of universality by breaking and beating the world into submission. There is a universal reality that we are designed to sense; it is NOT the universal reality that WSCP claims to reveal. I don’t see how any scientist, once they know this, can still legitimize WSCP science when they know how much of reality they’re excluding in their data collection. Isn’t that actually counterproductive to what your first intention was, to understand humanity and the world around us? How can you do that if you kill the humanity you find and destroy the world around you?" -- page 14

Now that we feel, we must act to express that feeling upon the world. We see the problem now, and we change it. Moreover we have moral and scientific responsibility TO change it. Can we please change towards pursuing the real reality of this world, the reality that is experienced by all of humanity? There are a lot of different worlds, and that is what makes us human. Individuality and being a conscious being means that you have a unique perspective on the world and that is your reality. Your reality is, therefore, part of the reality of the universe, that there is a possibility of someone like you existing in the world. Understanding both the unity and diversity of humanity should be the absolute foundation of our scientific practice, our international political world, and most simply, our society. Our relationships to each other, to the earth, to the systems that act on all of us, to the proteins that control each miniscule function in the body, are what make us humanity.  -- page 15-16