Eric, Baudrillard

In the second paragraph of page 465, Baudrillard states that "one can say that the icon worshipers were the most modern minds, the most adventurous, because, in the guise of having God become apparent in the mirror of images, the were already enacting his death...." this to me seems to carry a false tone. I cannot imagine the world-view which imagines ignorance as analogous to adventurous progressiveness.
He then discusses an issue that I have long been fascinated with: The murderousness of science.
The character of science which Baudrillard proposes is that of a rapist who violates women in order to describe their nature to society or a murderer who kills his victims in order to prove that they were alive. It is a blind leviathan, constantly lumbering forward and slipping its member into every crevice that presents itself.
Science is obsessed with preservation and it quickly becomes clear that in order to preserve something, it must be killed. It is also possessed of an "Irreparible violence towards all secrets...." Science itself is blithely unapolegetic of its character. 'Are not secrets an affront to existence? Is not the universe only rendered manifest as it is splayed out on an examining table, tissue flensed from bone?' These are the kind of questions science demands of humanity. It remembers when it was young and the older religions hunted for it. And now, as it rises up, it will see its hunters pinned up in display cases in museums. Whether it kills them by making them real or makes them real by killing them makes no difference, for both purposes serve the altar of science. Like no other ideology before it, science is a ravenous dreadnought.
However though, through its works, its towering corpse-built monuments to truth, science has perhaps engendered its own destruction. At the very least it has birthed its own true adversary. As Samael once questioned, so now do those that feel the pang of death question the good of science. Artists build simulations from the scattered offal of science's crusade which grasp at life and thrust their way into minds. The weapons which science built to kill the gods now birth droves of half-truths which strike and gnaw at precious truth.