Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.”
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.
To such a world of conflict, a world of victims, and executions, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.
Writing my own novels in the ’90s…I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.