‘Ignorance and Superstition, in My Own Home Town’ (2014)

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Shameful, isn’t it?

I haven’t looked at the Community Calendar in donkey’s years, so I don’t know if we’re still having an annual Animal Spirit Guide Event. Nor do I know if any more mandalas have been displayed at St. Luke’s Church. I suppose it’s possible the Event petered out after the Great Squirrel Spirit handed out one too many bad stock tips.

Ignorance and Superstition, in My Own Hometown

Funny, isn’t it? The more high-tech scientific stuff we have in our lives, the more superstition we collect to go with it: almost like they were two sides of the same coin. (I was going to say “record,” but that would only bounce off anybody born after 1990.) And this with the costliest and most intrusive education system ever devised by fallen man.

On second thought, it’s doing exactly what we should expect of it.

‘Witch Doctor: Have Spells, Will Travel’ (2015)

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Remember how we all thought the blessings of technology would banish the fog of superstition?

That was a superstition, too.

It begins to look more and more like fancy high-tech gizmos and deeply benighted superstition can not only co-exist, but even feed off one another. Yo, hey, this is an important discovery! Like, the more “science” you pour into people’s lives, the more superstitious twaddle they believe. Nobody expected that.

https://leeduigon.com/2015/09/21/witch-doctor-for-hire-have-spells-will-travel/

And so we have witch doctors advertising their services on the social media…