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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (64433)	10/28/2002 9:07:01 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

After listening to the speaker, I began to wonder if we really could enter into the mentality. Once you leave ignorance and superstition behind, it may be impossible to really enter into it, for purposes of exploration. Which, of course, poses problems. Because if the educated people of the world underestimate ignorance and superstition we could be done away with by those forces. We can look at the past effects of ignorance and superstition and agree that they are "bad", but will we recognize the real dangers to us from these things going forward? I'm not at all sure about that. Humans have never been very good about choosing the right things to worry about. If a society is obsessed with something, it usually turns out to be the wrong thing. Almost as if we purposefully divert ourselves from the things that truly need our attention. But hind sight is 20/20.