What's the Harm?
March 26, 2007
"What's the Harm?" I'm asked by people who see nothing wrong with majorities utilizing superstition as more than entertainment. "It doesn't really hurt for people to believe the outlandish, now does it?"
Well, yes it does.
Walls are solid whether you believe they are or not. Gravity will kill you if you challenge it from a great height and the world really is warming up, even if you, your leaders, and your political party see it as a liberal plot. ]
In styming the role of science in the public life, in making history a politically (and ego salving) alternative "intelligent" theory of origins, funding abstiaining boondoggles and parading an endless list of gotch-ya attacks, the reality of life is lost.
Slowly, but quite certainly, we loose the shared experience of struggle, adaptation, and success. Instead we become prisoners to political psychosies, delusions of convience, mutual manias that grow ever more elaborate, effusive, and finally vindictive inorder to provide an effective bulwark against a flood of inconvienient facts.
In otherwords, we die.
Posted by Jody at March 26, 2007 12:13 PM
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