Quote Originally Posted by Newish Pie View Post

As a species, we carry a lot with us from our deep evolutionary past... we're not evolved for our modern world and that's causing problems. .
Right.

Every human invention adds another layer of chaos to the mix with both the good and the bad that goes with it, the unintended unforeseen consequences often only becoming apparent years, decades, centuries down the line.

Science *IS* a religion, people outsource their thinking to it, trusting it's going to solve all of humanities problems and explain everything.

In the west there's never been a more comfortable period in which to live where everything is available to you at the click of a button, food is available every day of the week less than 15 minutes walk away for most of us and yet we've got a huge percentage of the population now on anti-depressants, addicted to drugs or alcohol, divorce, single parents, self-harm, mental illness etc. etc. Science has done that to them. It's separated them from the land and put them in a human zoo.

Nobody should be intimidated by, nor have any automatic respect for scientists, academics, experts, leaders or whatever letters they've got after their name. They've got a headful of **** like anybody else but with a god complex in addition.

We need to get off our knees and start chanting "You don't know what you're doing, you're don't what you're doing" at the whole ducking lot of 'em.