Until recently we were making good progress. So what went wrong?Bush got elected. I blogged on a topic that is further attributing this endarkenment period. It's about generations now growing up with no ethics or morals and no ability to "do the right thing" for fear of abandonment. http://dailytri.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/snitchin-ie-i-dont-care/ PZ said it best We live in a time when governments can use lies to justify foreign wars of opportunity, and the people who are punished are those who dared to question it; when religious kooks can sell 75 million copies of books that predict, and revel in, the imminent bloody obliteration of all non-christians, and the greatest outrage is reserved for the fact that a few atheists have books on the bestseller lists; when science funding is on the wane and science education is being corrupted, and those who struggle to keep biblical bullshit out of the classrooms are called intolerant and unamerican. A few years ago Carl Sagan could write about lighting candles in the dark, and we all focused... Use those candles to light a fire. We need to blaze; we need to lase.How do we get past the dogma of superstition? These things are taught from earliest childhood and maintained even as adults. Facts, reason, logic, mean nothing to a truly hypnotized person. I think that a cursory glance at the history of all religions will show that under their authentic teachings gather vast crowds of the superstitious and weak. For them the feelings of powerlessness and confusion are solved by a quick-fix adherence to a simplistic 'belief'. However, in a grossly irreligious world such as today's the rise of even absurd 'spiritual' yearning may be a healthy sign, and also many individuals go through the baby bit on their way to more mature wisdom. |
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