(June 6, 2013 at 11:54 am)Ben Davis Wrote: I always thought of the X Files as a thoroughly sinister example of subconscious messaging with the purpose of propagating the idea that 'you've got to believe something'. Just think of its catchphrase "I want to believe".
There seems to be a lot of that in American television and movies. It's the idea that not believing in something at least for the sake of believing somehow makes you a cold, hopeless person.
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
