The Thrill of Living In the Dark Age

IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, you almost feel as if you are living in the "dark ages". The dark ages, right here, right now, not just during the long lost middle ages, but right here, right now. Where to begin...well, for one thing, more than half, or about half, of the American people evidently do not believe in global warming. Is it any wonder than the the United States government is the only government on planet Earth which has no interest in or intention of dealing with, climate change? But then too, many if not most of the American people think that the theory of evolution is just a theory, and perhaps even a far fetched and incorrect one, when the fact is, it is a fact. Then there is this peculiar sickness which infects a tragically high percentage of the human population; the belief that God speaks to us in books, which we call 'sacred" or "holy" books", or "scripture". Every religion has one, right? Makes you wonder which one is the real deal. Makes you suspect none of the above. Evidently God assembled a large group of quarreling clerics in Nicea Greece in 325 A.D., and had them argue month after month, finally deciding what to put in their Bible, and what to leave out. Now that's the way to inspire the writing of the truth! Now, admittedly, this seems, on the surface, to be a rather strange way to convey absolute, literal truth to humanity. But it doesn't stop us from pretending! Not much does, it would seem. Most of us appear able to believe that all that noise about carbon in the atmosphere is just a lot of nonsense, or that the element carbon does not do what all high school chemistry classes and the periodic table of the elements say; no, no, global warming is a hoax perpetrated by people who hate progress and wealth. And to think, these few examples of dark age thinking by large parts of our supposedly modern and enlightened civilized populace are but the tip of the proverbial iceberg, when it comes to institutionalized inanity. Oh, the thrill of living in the dark ages, particularly in the great American fun house!