wcaseym (83.90)

File: en·light·en·ment

June 26, 2012 – Comments (0)

I suggested on some other board earlier: 

"It is not [about] making decisions based on facts! Instead, it is making decisions based on "facts making"!"

Now, this: long but very good read - snip or two, first:

...Pope Urban VIII, ... in 1633 informed Galileo that the earth doesn’t move. ....

...On topics as various as climate change, military intelligence, and the course of the Missouri River, the reincarnations of Pope Urban VIII reaffirmed ... conviction that if the science didn’t prove what it had been told to prove, then the science had been tampered with by Satan.

Magic and the Machine 
Living in an American Age of Techno-Wonder and Unreason

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175561/tomgram:_lewis_lapham,_will_wonders_never_cease/

C.