(February 9, 2015 at 3:35 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Capitalism is built on the assumption that all of us are too stupid to know whether or not we actually need the shit these companies are selling us. It's the marketing department's job to convince us that we do. Religion and woo doesn't even have to enter into it - the prevalence of Kuerigs is example enough.But it does prey on the human ego in a pretty clever way. It would not surprise me if a lot of the people who might pay for this service do so on the subconscious belief that doing so guarantees that they'll be raptured.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
