So in the name of being open-minded, I tried the “scripture mints” that came my way through interesting channels. On the whole, I have a rule that I will consider anything, but if I figure out it’s based in bad thinking, I bail out and head for the hills, never to return. My first concern, [...]
Posts on ‘July 8th, 2009’
Diversity is destructive
If you watch Hollywood movies, they give clear advice to those pursued by another human: go hide in a crowd. Our current mania for diversity reflects the individual desire to hide in a crowd. If there’s a dominant ideology, then we can be seen as not participating in it. But if there’s no ideology, culture, [...]
The climate change elephant in the room
Humans are funny. Because we are personalities that control the mind and body, we view the world through the same filter, and tend to defer to authority even if it’s incompetent — so long as it leaves us alone. No obligation to others means we’re just fine pretending we’re solitary hunter-gatherers, even if we depend [...]
Why you lose your (cr)appetite
I bet you’ve often heard people say how junk food products they remember from childhood “don’t taste the same anymore”. My mother used to say it about a particular brand of energy drink, my father about a particular brand of chocolate biscuit. My great-grandfather used to say it about Coca-Cola (well, he was right there, [...]
