As Technology Accumulates And People In More

We're Living In Primate Heaven. We're Warm, Dry, We're Not Hungry, We Don't Have Fleas And Ticks And Infections. So Why Are We So Miserable?

We Adults Protect Ourselves With Laws, Police, Workplace Regulations And Social Norms And There Is No Conceivable Reason Why Children Should Be Left More Vulnerable, Other That Laziness Or Callousness In Considering What Life Is Like From Their Point Of View.

An Ideology Can Provide A Satisfying Narrative That Explains Chaotic Events And Collective Misfortunes In A Way That Flatters The Virtue And Competence Of Believers, While Being Vague Or Conspiratorial Enough To Withstand Skeptical Scrutiny.

If You Give People Literacy, Bad Ideas Can Be Attacked And Experiments Tried, And Lessons Will Accumulate.

I Do Look For Openings Where I Can Overturn Popular Misconceptions, But Unlike Christopher Hitchens, I Am Neither A Contrarian Nor A Lone Heretic. I Like To Have A Significant Number Of Academics Watching My Back.