YOU ARE INSANE, THE COMPUTER SAYS SO!

Wow....Some truly scary stuff is being promulgated in the press these days. Some years back Chuck Colson wrote about the day when Christianity is going to be viewed as a mental deficiency or an aberration from the 'norm'. I remember being shaken by his insight because the way he explained it it made perfect sense in an abstract sort of way. The roots of this idea are found in evolutionary psychology and its impetus behind the Utopian philosophy that regards human beings a ciphers that can be moulded and manipulated, tinkered with and retooled, all to fit the visions of the social planners, or our 'betters' as many would like to think of themselves...the Titans, those 'born to rule' etc, etc.

What brings me to these sombre thoughts you ask? An article in the latest Review Magazine [issue 441, Nov 2016] I picked up when dropping off an entry to an exhibition.Allow me to quote from the article by Jessica Paterson:

"A study published in Current Biology demonstrated that there were structural differences in the brains of students with different political attitudes. Students with conservative political beliefs had an enlarged amygdala. On the other hand, students that tended towards liberalism (in the American sense) had more grey matter in the anterior cingulate cortex, the part of the brain that enables us to effectively process complex information. This is also the part of the brain that helps to regulate our response to an emotional event or emotional information....or as Darwin puts it; "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than knowledge."

Now I have to ask: which would you rather be? 

Ignorant and emotionally incontinent, with their..."brains literally paralysed by fear" (the theory behind why people are voting for Trump), or in charge of your responses, able to process complex information and in complete control of your universe.

Actual anecdotal experience of course sings a completely different tune, but Hey, lets not let facts get in the way of a good theory...after all; to identify another very powerful 'progressive' meme...isn't global warming all about what the computer models tell us and not about reality?