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Probably what depresses more than anything about where we are today is that it's 2007 and biblical narratives are still hanging around like a bad smell.

I doubt Bush is the antichrist any more than he's the christ.

I think it's more likely he's someone with serious psychological and emotional problems - which unfortunately are shared by a substantial segment of the US population.

Wilhelm Reich was a bit of a crazy too in some ways, but he tried to popularise the idea of Emotional Plague. And that's exactly where we are today, I think - a population with substantial cognitive and emotional difficulties, and no clear solutions.

It's the psychological equivalent of living in the Middle Ages, before basic sanitation was invented, and people died a lot for stupid reasons, pointlessly, and blamed it all on god.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Sep 20th, 2007 at 01:31:50 PM EST
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Science-y types often say "we evolved for life on the Savanna" (and as such we weren't meant to stare at computer screens all day, for example). On the cultural plane, religion also evolved and made sense for a different time and place. It's utterly outmoded today, but replacing that mental space with myths (or fewer myths, for those that can handle it) that work for us in the modern world is an exercise that will take many, many generations to complete as the inertia is so strong.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Thu Sep 20th, 2007 at 07:11:09 PM EST
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