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Originally Posted by Coyote!
Hey Toon'. There is a reason the initial responses to your post referenced especially charismatic political characters. Politics and religion all derive from a common psychological root; the proposition that belief can replace the unappeasable logic of reality.
Your lament that the understanding of important issues is ever more remote from that which exercises the majorities' mind is well taken. The fundamental cancer of democracy emerges when the mind of the "demos" is allowed to weaken or is distracted with bread and circuses. Unless this changes, the future looks more like Caesar than Jefferson.
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I agree and I feel this is exactly happening right now. Don't know much about the state in other countries, but here in Estonia major universities are troubled with constantly decreasing capabilities of the students. They admit that the level of the bright-minded students is always increasing but there is far less of them than there was earlier. I feel that it is just a matter of time when this crowd starts to bother scientific work. Something like the fear of the LHC project. My fear is that the average person distancing from these discoveries and basing their opinion of them on how one or another books tells them to think.
Irony of it all is that after something useful has been discovered average person very rapidly adapts to it and later starts to call it "advance of the mankind" or something like that
