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To: Solon who wrote (50481)	3/23/2014 12:07:48 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

<<People are learning that they no longer have to pretend to have cornbread for brains. People are becoming proud to declare they are free thinkers. For centuries people had to pretend to be gullible because their very life was at risk. Even now, people desiring public office of any kind must pretend to be religious. But society is making baby steps and once the tide turns we will have a wonderful society of secularism.>> The 60's was the period when thinking overtook 10,000 years of primitive beliefs worldwide for the first time. It was the culmination of many small movements like the beatniks, and artists and thinkers around the world finally reaching critical mass. The 60's was the first massive existential movement in the history of mankind.