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i agree in general with both filtherton and dippin above, so what i write here builds on them in a way, or presupposes that you've read their posts.
it seems to me that part of the problem the op is about is restated in the op itself. what exactly does the phrase "modern society" refer to? where is it?
same problem obtains for the category "science"---what are you talking about specifically? is there A Science in general? where is it? does it have special Science Buildings? how come no-one knows about Science Headquarters?
where does the simple alternative "science" vs "superstition" come from?
are all modes of being-sceptical about scientific activities in all social sectors the same? so there's no particular difference between "science" in the service of industrial food production and "science" in the service of--o i dunno---cosmology as a modelling experiment? how does that work, that there'd be no difference?
on what basis do you lump a preference for organic or locally-produced foods in with superstition? why is that preference not potentially a political matter (it is for me) and so a preference that one can come to on entirely different grounds from those which you ascribe to it?
another way: so are you saying that one expresses one's "faith" in this abstraction Science by eating fast food and drinking diet sodas?
how does that work exactly?
yet another way:
how is it the case that both the categories "modern society" and "science" are not expressions of superstition?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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