The greatest risk for the inhabitants of our time, living in a fragmented world where togetherness does not exist, is to develop (even further) the indifference and the alienation towards other people, things, and surroundings, enclosing themselves in a type of autism. Trying to indicate how to rebuild the whole, this article draws attention to the meanders of one of the human creations, Science. It also emphasizes the need to rebuild unifying and totaling theories as the only way humans will manage to establish a degree of understanding that may allow them to live harmoniously with nature and themselves.
modern; postmodern; science; information; knowledge