have we really advanced as far as we think we have? all around me i see the open-holed logics of idiots (not children, mind you, they know what the fuck is going on, they’re just conditioned to keep their mouths shut or think something else over years of brainwahing and “tough love”). i have been reading an old English text book, Thoughts and Experience in Prose (I am not sure whether it was originally for college or high school) but it has the writings of many of the founding fathers, thinkers, and political activists of the time (the 1800s). One of the Federalist papers is in there, a Ben Franklin account of Americans breaking yet another treaty with the Indians, essays on the university, state of art, education, culture, Thomas Pain’s Common Sense, Virginia Wolfe’s analysis of old letters written by noble men, the extensive list of good argument, logical analysis and a decent look into the minds that made this country goes on. The accounts of political descent of every idea in this country is brought up …. Why then, with such a stellar start that used to be common reading for a lot of people, has this country degenerated to a point where even the most fanatical Christians haven’t even read the Bible the whole way through and they base their lives and the lives of others in politics on excerpts they’ve only browsed? Why is the common reading in the supermarket Cosmo, Seventeen, and the tabloids? The works of philosophers used to change minds and effect people to the point of revolution (case in point John Locke, Thomas Paine, Frederick Douglas, Upton Sinclair), why are political activists, writers and philosophers now put on the back-burner of the American popular media, while the best seller lists become evermore finickle? (case in point Opera fuckin’ Winfrey and her stupid magazines and book clubs) But to be totally fair, we still have people like bell hooks, Naom Chomsky, Ralph Nader, and Micheal Moore. Just some thoughts to ponder, this not so much about science, we all know of the GREAT technological exploits/advancements of the 20th and 21st centuries … and why this went wrong is because of the philosophy behind them, not science itself …