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> Hang on to your knowledge of nature people; because this society is going Kansas.

I don't understand. Hasn't Kansas generally turned away from science and toward religion?

I believe OP was trying to riff off the famous line from the Wizard of Oz, but muddled the delivery. Perhaps he put too much focus on STEM in his education.

That's an interesting interpretations.

I was under the impression the Kansas reference was basically an insult both to the direction of society and Kansas, but then I wasn't sure how that fit in with the claims about what sciences are useful or "real". Yours might make more sense.

Then again, I'm not sure sense is what was being made, there, anyway.

> I was under the impression the Kansas reference was basically an insult both to the direction of society and Kansas...

Okay, that makes perfect sense. Thank you.

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