If you are raised to believe that
the Kool-Aide they are serving is manna from heaven, and that the Kool-Aide that others are drinking is the devil’s brew, then there is going to be trouble.
Science can tell us that it’s all
Kool-Aide -- until it can pass some predictable tests. It’s fine to believe whatever you want, but then recognize that
your Kool-Aide and their Kool-Aide is really the same drink with different
flavors, and the color you’re drinking is due to the accident of where you were
born and who your parents are, more than any undeniable truth.
If the
scientific community could find a way to convince people of this, that would be
one of it’s major contributions to the world. But that has not happened over the last couple of thousand years, since people divided themselves up
into tribes. But now, we have enough interconnectedness and enough information to know better. But believing that all humans are equal in their insignificance would deny our “leaders” a lot of power, something they
have always been very reluctant to relinquish.
So people continue to find reasons to justify deprivation, torture, rape, death and destruction. Believing in their hearts that it is the only way to survive. And once they beleive it, it comes true.
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