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by swabby429 on December 21st, 2006

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I really would like to know why it seems that people, in general, the past few years, reject wisdom, intelligence and reason? It appears that there is massive movement towards humanity embracing superstition and discounting reason. Why?

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  • by LynfromNM on January 31st, 2007

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    It's easier and more convenient to shrug off challenges by assigning them to supernatural phenomena. Once our problems are in the control of supernatural beings, there is nothing humans can do about it, nothing is required of us and our challenge effectively disappears.
    Contributing to this abrogation of responsibility is our system of public education in which we are spoon-fed and not allowed to think or reason for ourselves, and in fact are discouraged from doing so. If humans are more likely NOW than in the past to reject wisdom, intelligence and reason, I think the expansion of public education has a great deal to do with it.

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