Why do we hear and see famous movies and athletes, but inventors and different sciences, they do not exist, to know them and to honor them only after death?
It is a success made with the assistance of social media. Not all people are interested in scientific issues but most of them are interested in sport and TV.
Scientists and inventors didn't have the same platform with the athletes. Scientists and inventors make world better to live in but the athletes put smiles on people's face and make them happy. Scientists and inventors though uncelebrated, make life easier and comfortable to live in whereas athletes are the cynosure of every eye with many trophies in their honour.
I think most people want to know things that related to the happiness , for example many millions know Ronaldo and Messi footballer but no one of them know the presidents of these countries
Most of the people like cheap things, like cheap entertainments, cheap food, cheap garments, Cheap choices ...Only a few are outside that circle. But these outside people is supplying inputs to the mass. The scientists developed some medicines like antibiotic to reduce the death rate, discovering steps for growing more food for people to get sufficient food etc. -- in return, the 'mass' producing offspring without thinking anything.ares
The actors / actresses and athletes make you dream because often we also unconsciously identify ourselves in their roles. Scientists wake you up, interrupting this magnificent dream, and bring you back to the brute reality of everyday life. When you finally realize that the madman who was inveighing and firing lightning and flashes against pollution was right, he was already long dead along with a large part of the environment.
"People want not to know, they just want to believe" ; quoted from a book I lost it and I cannot remember its name. It was about Einstein and relativity .
"People like entertainment, they even follow the news for entertainment" , "People like what can be obtained freely and easily" :
Watching irrelevant TV program is easier and more fun than watching the falling apple / the moving moon and thinking about it for lifetime.
Speaking about a footballer (without any knowledge about football) is more fun than speaking about some truths that can caused people many legal commitments – like saving environment and seeking for WWW = a World Without War.
Being insistent on scientific methods may leads to a pretty dance experienced by Galileo Galilei , the inventor of the FM broadcasting system , and … .
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I think that it's because sportsmen/women, athletes, and actors are principally there to entertain. (although if one watches the footballers at the clubs which I support, sometimes that might be questioned!!).
By contrast, scientists and inventors are not.
That said, I do know a number of colleagues who, in their spare time, are first class fiddle players, and organists or amateur actors. Then there's Kenny Deuchar, a doctor who played football for a number of senior Scottish Clubs, and at the highest club level.
We are Intellectual people not Entertainer, Only same/our class of people can follow and understand us but of all age & class of people can follow actors and athletes.
Actors and athlets are performing infront of a mass... and the mass gathered can follow the theme but in scientific achievements it is mostly hidden till we succeed and our work can be understood by the fellow men. And our political system also hv a role as they soldom encourage scienists and researchers in a common platform.
They do play a good role but thats mostly artificial... but scientists do those work and research which mostly need based.. they are not the entertainers.. thay are the path finders..
Why the actors and athletes become famous , but inventors and different scientists were absent and show them at death ?
I think its because of the profession and the interest of general public.....lay man....a well education teacher....student or even a house wife are interested to know about actors...or athletes...instead of a scientist....only a limited community that are themselves associated with the field of education or sciences takes interest in scientists.....