Providentially, Learned Habits Can Be Unlearned, Especially

People Have A Hard Time Accepting Free-market Economics For The Same Reason They Have A Hard Time Accepting Evolution: It Is Counterintuitive. Life Looks Intelligently Designed, So Our Natural Inclination Is To Infer That There Must Be An Intelligent Designer--a God. Similarly, The Economy Looks Designed, So Our Natural Inclination Is To Infer That We Need A Designer--a Government. In Fact, Emergence And Complexity Theory Explains How The Principles Of Self-organization And Emergence Cause Complex Systems To Arise From Simple Systems Without A Top-down Designer.

Being A Skeptic Just Means Being Rational And Empirical: Thinking And Seeing Before Believing.

Myths, Whether In Written Or Visual Form, Serve A Vital Role Of Asking Unanswerable Questions And Providing Unquestionable Answers. Most Of Us, Most Of The Time, Have A Low Tolerance For Ambiguity And Uncertainty. We Want To Reduce The Cognitive Dissonance Of Not Knowing By Filling The Gaps With Answers. Traditionally, Religious Myths Have Served That Role, But Today — The Age Of Science — Science Fiction Is Our Mythology.

We Think Of Our Eyes As Video Cameras And Our Brains As Blank Tapes To Be Filled With Sensory Inputs.

Play Hard, Work Hard, Love Hard. . . .the Bottom Line For Me Is To Live Life To The Fullest In The Here-and-now Instead Of A Hoped-for Hereafter, And Make Every Day Count In Some Meaningful Way And Do Something-no Matter How Small It Is-to Make The World A Better Place.