The main mental setting of technogenic civilization is aspiring to the making progress permanent increase of scientifically-technological power of society, which serves liberation of man from under authorities of laws of the biological reproducing. Acquisition of political value by scientific conceptions (politization of science), have a few lines, general for any variants of modern technogenic society:
We will take the liberty to draw a conclusion that political (not only bio-political) conflicts and crises, related to politization of science (not only genetics and biology) and with the phenomenon of bio-power, are not simply descendant a local socially-historical situation, arising up in totalitarian former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Rather, they can be considered the extreme cases of deviations of general mechanisms of social homoeostasis, sharp violation of relations between separate social institutes any society, including democratic and liberal USA, Sweden, etc. Progress of politization and/or ideologization of science leading, in extreme case to violation of ability of the science as social institute to execute the basic function (to get new knowledge), unconnected directly neither with the totalitarian political mode nor with the unmarket economic system. However, both these the factor predetermine, morally, large probability of crisis scenario of co-operation of science and society. Commercialization of science (and its homologues in an unmarket economy ( «converting of science into direct productive force») and strengthening of direct shape-generating influence of natural science on mental stereotypes and elements of spiritual culture, it is obviously possible to examine as global description of evolution of civilization in modern age. — 224 —
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