The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #58954   Message #936377
Posted By: harvey andrews
19-Apr-03 - 06:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: Bogus science--warning signs
Subject: RE: BS: Bogus science--warning signs
"There is a certain type of personality that derives a sense of emotional security from familiar, established values. That type will almost always attack or debunk new or "radical" ideas. Call it the archconservative approach to reality.

There is another type of personality that is fascinated by new or radical ideas, because it finds them exciting, and it wants to be "in the know" and set apart from the common "herd", so to speak. That type will leap onto any radical or offbeat bandwagon it comes across. Call it the liberal-radical approach to reality.

Those two types of personalities detest one another, and squabble constantly. They each consider the other to be an idiot, and themselves to be eminently reasonable and sensible."

Now, there's a big part of me that sees the Emperor has no clothes. Seeing the Virgin Mary in a fencepost or the koran in some vegetable has me laughing and crying with frustration at the stupidity/cupidity of the human race. But I'm also fascinated by new ideas, willing things off the wall to be provable,looking all the time to be "in the know"
Am I schizophrenic?