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SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 02/07/2004 : 14:09:42
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Or, How Mumbo Jombo Conquered the World. A Short History of Modern Delusions. It looks lik4e a pretty good read. From The Guardian:
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Wheen's thesis is simply stated. Reason is on the retreat. The values of the Enlightenment - "an insistence on intellectual autonomy, a rejection of tradition and authority as the infallible sources of truth, a loathing for bigotry and persecution, a commitment to free inquiry, a belief that (in Francis Bacon's words) knowledge is indeed power" - are daily being betrayed. And, armed with a sizzling pen, a filing cabinet as big as the Albert Hall, and a banner bearing the legend "scepticism and sobriety", the crusading Wheen has come to open our eyes to the dangers of that betrayal.
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1141920,00.html
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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