Sadly none of this is a surprise. Critical thinking is becoming a rare commodity in America. I recently wrote the governor of New Jersey suggesting that the "big drones flying at night" over his state were likely unusually bright stars and the planet Jupiter and that he would do better having a task force looking for flying saucers. (I'm…
Sadly none of this is a surprise. Critical thinking is becoming a rare commodity in America. I recently wrote the governor of New Jersey suggesting that the "big drones flying at night" over his state were likely unusually bright stars and the planet Jupiter and that he would do better having a task force looking for flying saucers. (I'm a commercial pilot and can say that what you think you see in the sky at night can be very deceptive.) But I doubt if that is going to make any difference.
I also recently walked into a talk by a man who claims the Da Vinci code is real and the key to some sort of secret world order expressed in the Gnostic Gospels. In addition, every European royal house is descended from the barbarian tribes who were involved in a multi-century plot to overthrow the Roman Empire and are still in on a vast conspiracy. Right.... His audience was older, well off people who were completely enthralled and ready to buy his book. I understand he has a television show coming too. Maybe those of us who apply logic in our lives are in the wrong business.
Sadly none of this is a surprise. Critical thinking is becoming a rare commodity in America. I recently wrote the governor of New Jersey suggesting that the "big drones flying at night" over his state were likely unusually bright stars and the planet Jupiter and that he would do better having a task force looking for flying saucers. (I'm a commercial pilot and can say that what you think you see in the sky at night can be very deceptive.) But I doubt if that is going to make any difference.
I also recently walked into a talk by a man who claims the Da Vinci code is real and the key to some sort of secret world order expressed in the Gnostic Gospels. In addition, every European royal house is descended from the barbarian tribes who were involved in a multi-century plot to overthrow the Roman Empire and are still in on a vast conspiracy. Right.... His audience was older, well off people who were completely enthralled and ready to buy his book. I understand he has a television show coming too. Maybe those of us who apply logic in our lives are in the wrong business.