Rickover effect (Theodore Rockwell)

 
Theodore Rockwell., The rickover efffect : how one man made a difference / 1992,  

p.157
As machines relieve of us the brutal, tiring, and time-consuming
labor that had been the lot of the majority of men
from time immemorial; as they enable us to universalize
affluence and leisure, we face a choice: we may take these
benefits and live the life of the idle rich of old, pursuing a 
good time and not bothering about the quality of our own
life or the life of the nation.  Or, we may decide to emulate
those ── and there were many ── who in the past considered 
wealth and leisure a trust, to be utilized for self-improvement
and for improvement of their particular societies.  The
choice is for each individual to make.  Moreover, each individual, 
under our form of government, has a right to speak
out publicly in favor of making better use of science and 
technology than is possible under present conditions.
   If those who agree with this new viewpoint became a 
majority; in other words, if a consensus is reached through
public discussion of this issue, the American people may
decide to take action.  The action may displease powerful
vested interest, but this is how we govern ourselves.  The
status quo has no absolute sancity under our form of government. 
It must constantly justify itself to the people in 
whom is vested ultimate sovereignty over this nation. 

                                               H.G.R.

p.201
The wise use of technology calls for a higher order of
thinking than we have so far accord it.  We have largely
left it to the management of practical men.  I submit that we
now have scientific knowledge of such immensely dangerous
potential that we ought to bring a broader range of 
intellectual power to bear upon its use.
   I think one can make a general statement that the
practical approach to a new scientific discovery is short-range
and private, concerned with ways to put the
discovery to use in the most economical and efficient manner, 
little thought being given to side effects and future
consequences.  The scholarly approach ── if I may use this 
term ── is long-range and public; it looks to the effects 
which the use of a new discovery may have on people in 
general, on the nation, perhaps on the world; present and 
future ... What is important is to recognize that each
approach is necessary to illuminate the problem and help
solve it.  To exclude the one or the other prevents finding a
way to reconcile technology and democracy ...
   Conservation had had extremely hard sledding in this 
country because we worship practical men and have little
respect for scholars.  This is not an intelligent point of view
in today's world. 

                                                  H.G.R. 

p.278
The professional person's standing in the community 
depends, in final analysis, on the public's insight of his
work, that is, on the educational level of the man in the 
street.  When specialized knowledge of professional people is
incomprehensible to the average man, he is apt to flounder
between frustrated suspicion and excessive awe, leading him
either to interfere unduly with professional independence or
to accept naively every claim made by anyone who calls
himself a professional.  The relationship between the expert 
and the public is one of the central problems of our day ...
   Thus we observe a widening gap between the experts 
and the public who depend for their well-being on the work 
of these experts.  This disturbing cleavage exists in the
humanities no less than in science.  Thus most people are not
well informed in such vital matters as the languages and cultures
of the various peoples who share this earth with us;
the historic, geographic and economic background of current
events; the place of American civilization in the estimation
of the world; and the real strength of our country in the
shifting sand of power relations. 

                                                    H.G.R.

   (The rickover efffect : how one man made a difference / Theodore Rockwell.,  1. rickover, hyman george.,  2. nuclear submarines ── united states ── history., 3. admirals ── united states ── biography.,  4. united states.,  navy──biography, V63.R54R63  1992,  359.3'2574'092--dc20,  united states naval institute,  Annapolis, Maryland, 1992 )
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