How did it get so bad? How is so much of the population so ill-informed?
OMG, don't get me started. Answering this question is the kind of thing that can cause me to spiral off into rage and despair, and today i'm out of ice cream, so there's no telling what might happen
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Hey there! How's Baltimore? I hope you and the fam are doing well! What ever happened to your Manchester abode? Are you renting it out?
As for this post I was particularly irked by the commentary string following another snow storm here in A2 - I'm sure you hear the same nonsensical head-in-arse arguments everywhere too. I just hope the apathetic majority don't let the Rupert Murdochs of the world ruin everything. In the meantime, advocate for scientific method! It's sad this has to be advocated but here we are.
Hey, Judy. Things here are okay on the whole, and -- tho it took some time -- we do have our house rented out.
The issues re climate change are just part of the issue, as you point out. Scientific method is important for the world at large to understand and embrace, but i believe the resistance to accepting it is due to it being mis-sold by its proponents and mis-understood by just about everyone. The false dichotomy of science and faith is propagated so much by our current society that reason itself begins to be swept into one of the two groups i mention above, at which point it becomes an air-filled punching bag for one side and an increasingly meaningless battle cry for the other. We wont get very far until we all take a step back and redefine the space we need to work in.
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OMG, don't get me started. Answering this question is the kind of thing that can cause me to spiral off into rage and despair, and today i'm out of ice cream, so there's no telling what might happen ( ... )
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I hope you and the fam are doing well! What ever happened to your Manchester abode? Are you renting it out?
As for this post I was particularly irked by the commentary string following another snow storm here in A2 - I'm sure you hear the same nonsensical head-in-arse arguments everywhere too. I just hope the apathetic majority don't let the Rupert Murdochs of the world ruin everything. In the meantime, advocate for scientific method! It's sad this has to be advocated but here we are.
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The issues re climate change are just part of the issue, as you point out. Scientific method is important for the world at large to understand and embrace, but i believe the resistance to accepting it is due to it being mis-sold by its proponents and mis-understood by just about everyone. The false dichotomy of science and faith is propagated so much by our current society that reason itself begins to be swept into one of the two groups i mention above, at which point it becomes an air-filled punching bag for one side and an increasingly meaningless battle cry for the other. We wont get very far until we all take a step back and redefine the space we need to work in.
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