re: #81 Kronocide

Ok, well, then, I take back that part of my statement.

However, I have read (and heard) enough of Mooney to stick by my initial assessment that he is stuck on containerizing the views of groups. By that I mean he fixes the views in time and space too much, whereas I think things are much more in flux. For example, it wasn’t so long ago that the Democratic party was the one with the anti-creationism gang. These things change with time, as groups reassemble themselves to their liking.

I also believe, very much so, that humans universally are “anti-scientific” in their views of much of life. The Scientific Method as it has come to be known hasn’t affect the choices and thoughts of most people about most things. I can put together a litany of lists - from blood-type fallacies in the Far East to all the Abrahamic religions to shamanism to those who think they have the inside track on playing the lottery.

Hard core rationalism is an aberration, historically and socially, and I wonder if Mooney would agree with that or not (I suspect so.) I suspect that the contemporary society in which Mooney partakes the most - the highly educated, well paid, urban living professionals of his comrades - would like it to be true that rationalism and modernism will be successful in taking over society from the forces of mysticism, but I am much less sure that will happen.