“When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all” –Paul Simon
Well, Paul, I’ve got news for you: the crap doesn’t stop when you leave high school, and most of us don’t stop “learning” it. And science and its joined-at-the-hip twin, science fiction, are among the chief purveyors of culture-killing horses***.
Science, Science Fiction, and Beliefs That Trash Our Culture
Would it surprise you to hear that a lot of people can’t tell the difference anymore between science and science fiction? Some are not even aware that there is a difference.
Culture-killing, and stuffing people’s minds with made-up piffle that they wind up thinking is true, are serious matters indeed. I think I’d better post the review I wrote for Chalcedon, going into this subject in more depth.
And speaking of science fiction… Today’s temperature is a balmy Globble Warming 4 degrees!
It reminds me of the quote, “stand for something, or fall for anything.” We have a lot of new myths people are falling for.
Wow, your still-air temperature got all the way up to 4 degrees this morning? That is truly Globble Warming indeed! Ours was at MINUS 4 degrees when I got up this morning. So there, nyah. 🙂
Well, okay, we’re up to 7 degrees right now, in early afternoon. So maybe the Globb is warming after all. (I was going to write “the Glob,” but it sounded too much like a science fiction movie. And there, I got almost back to the subject of your original post, see?)
I can take the cold, but the high winds really annoy me: can’t keep the tarp on my bike. Yesterday I actually staked down the tarp–only to see it blown into the sky a few minutes later, and the stakes thrown out like baseballs.
It is the same here. Wind almost all the time, and not gentle winds, either.
My son had his staked-down tarps blown away twice so far. And the temp is not that pleasant, either; around 10 when I got up, finally got up to a whopping 14.