Someone should take urgent steps to liquidate any shred of influence on the educational system this lot up above might possibly have, even if, as I would expect, it is already infinitesimal.
They have not mentioned human beings and their social organisation for over two pages.
It is a form of rough love making.
Anti-IDers think God is a fable designed to uphold capitalist exploiters and the concept of sin is a fabrication intended to make workers feel guilty about demanding their rights. Hence God has to go and capitalist exploiters will have to use terror or pharmaceuticals or surgery in order to keep the shops stocked with goods, the roads open and everything else running (Heaven forbid!) The alternative, of course is to have no capitalist exploiters (Heaven forbid!), no sin (Heaven forbid!) and no guilt (Heaven forbid!). The wealth presumably to be equally shared out (Heaven forbid!) and the Dow Jones at Zero (Heaven forbid!), shagging in the streets (Heaven forbid!), price gouging (Heaven forbid!) and, ultimately a smoking ruin (Heaven forbid!). A war of all against all.
Meanwhile the chattering classes chatter on with the detritus of each individual chatterer's happenstance reading doing battle in isolationist, lonely ego blurtings of no consequence to anything outside of their uncrackable eggshells.
A sense of sin and guilt provides a young person with an inkling into the insight that temptations succumbed to ( a media need) have no penance on the end of them. That "love" (copulation to an anti-IDer) does not have henpecked husbands and impotence and families-
Quote:Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.
P Larkin --This Be The Verse.
and big fat arses on the end of it and that yummy-yummy grub does not have arteriosclerosis as bedmate and that a large pile of other self indulgencies come without risk.
Heaven help us all if anti-IDers prevail which, of course, they won't because technical expertise, even the warmed over leavings of worshipped deities of the human sort, does not run and organise a superpower with heavy responsibilities to humankind just like the inane and infantile ramblings up above contributes nothing to the debate about how classroom preparation for adulthood should be organised.
When the author of A Clockwork Orange was a schoolboy he was seduced by a 40 odd year old widow who he met in the reading room of the Central Library in Manchester where she was studying the Communist Manifesto. His third, and last, visit to her flat took place after they had been to a Halle concert where he asked her, in between the copulations, how she reconciled the "spiritual transports of listening to Brahms with a metaphysic that denied the non-material. Epiphenomenal, or something, she said; mere excitation of the nerves. Like this. And then we were at it again."
And that was before Armstrong wrote A Materialist Theory of Mind.
Everything anti-IDers say is correct in its jejune simplicity (how else could they know it?) and ruinous and they are frightened out of their wits at the idea of trying to show that it won't be ruinous because they know they will get the floor wiped with them on the issue. That is why they stick to these displays of what, in reality, are the equivalent theologically to kids in a nursery banging on a drum for the simple reason (and all reasons are simple to anti-IDers) that one gets large effects with little effort.
And rl is the minder who is conducting their ridiculous orchestra and has no intention of raising their sights beyond the horizon they are already familiar with. Goodness gracious no! They might catch a glimpse of a tit at the Superbowl.
They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing but they don't say it loudly enough.
