RE: Needed: A new sub-subforum: "Skepticism, Pseudoscience & Just Plain Bat ...
February 16, 2015 at 12:24 pm
(February 16, 2015 at 12:02 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: Indeed. Which I appreciate varies depending on where you are according to the lowest common denominator. No offence but the American public can be frighteningly stupid at the shallow end of the gene pool.
I think any American with their eyes truly open couldn't take offense to that statement.
The thing that's really frightening, though, is the stupidity outside of the shallow end of the gene pool. There are plenty of capable Americans that have adopted the mantra of ignorance and exceptional entitlement, because that's what our culture preaches.
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