Three Step Program Towards Rational Thought
Let's All Settle Down and Teach the Children Well.... Political and cultural authoritarians are scared that they are losing control of society and are becoming increasingly shrill about it. It's nothing really new, as fears have been gradually heightening over the last year. We've repeatedly seen presidential candidates and others use race, religion, domestic violence and international terrorism to whip people up into irrational fear. Meanwhile, the children are watching. I fear they are learning the wrong things about the world. In just the last month alone we've seen terrorist acts, both foreign and domestic. Turkey has suffered a military coup. ISIS is being framed as a threat to Western democracies. We've seen people wrongfully killed by the police. We've seen police assassinated by a murderous military veteran. Cops are scared. The people are scared. People are perplexed that the best the two major political parties could do was Trump and Hillary. (...