There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge Isaac Asimov
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Religions business model
Religion is a smart business idea. They sell an invisible product and if it does not work, they blame it on the consumer. Unknown
Gods are fragile
Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
Chapman Cohen
Human decency
Human decency is not derived from religion. it precedes it
Christopher Hitchens
Data and privacy
Yes, your data is used to sell you shoes. But it also may be used to sell you an ideology.
Sara Morrison
What we MUST do
The only thing I MUST do is die…and uninstall WhatsApp
Lyssa
The Forest
The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe because its handle was made of wood and they through it was one of them.
Anonymous
‘Users’
There are only two industries that call their customers ‘users’: Illegal drugs and software. Edward Tufte
The evolution of religious beliefs
To early Man, the gods were real in the same sense that the mountains, forests, or waterfalls which were thought to be their homes were real. For a long time, the spirits that lived in drugs or wines and made them potent were believed to be of the same order of fact as the potency itself. But the human creature is curious and curiosity is bold. Hence, the discovery that a reported god may be a myth.
Max Carl Otto
Eventually, we follow the truth
How often it has happened that one man, standing at the right point of view, has descried the truth, and, after having been denounced and persecuted by all others, they have eventually been constrained to adopt his declarations!
Draper