(September 2, 2010 at 6:23 am)AnunZi Wrote: It terrifies me what is happening in America right now. The country that put men on the moon, has made some of the greatest scientific discoveries in human history seems to be sliding towards theocracy. Its like they way Europe was 200 years ago…..
As an American I can easily say that it scares me too, but movements as bad as this and worse have come and gone over the years before people start doing the next big thing. Honestly, this is probably considerably less worse than times like Mcarthyism back in the 40s and 50s.
But times are tough over here right now, so there's a lot of angst against everything right now and these situations always give rise to the crazies.
Though I could easily be wrong and in a few years planning on moving to another country as soon as the shit hits the fan, but it'd have to be pretty bad for that.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
