(December 24, 2013 at 3:24 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Americans get doubly indoctrinated.... once for religion, once for country...
I'm not sure it's so much indoctrination as it is a cultural thing. I mean, most people can only hear a certain number of times that the emperor is actually wearing clothes before they just go along with it.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell