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01/29/2008: "We're in a dark age of ignorance"

The enlightenment was a beautiful thing. People cast aside dogma and
authority. They started to think for themselves. Natural science
flourished. Understanding of the real world increased. The hegemony of
religion slowly declined. Real universities were created and eventually
democracy took hold. The modern world was born. Until recently we were
making good progress. So what went wrong?

The past 30 years or so have been an age of endarkenment. It has been a
period in which truth ceased to matter very much, and dogma and
irrationality became once more respectable.

To roughly quote Dr. Colquhoun, "Truth has become less important than
the sincere desire that something shoule be true." It sounds bad. How
much trouble are we really in?

[ Everything is political now. Reality is far away. ]

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