I was chatting with an English friend of mine the other day and we were discussing the Russian "hacking" of our election. As I've posted here, I told him that the Russians had merely used our social media in precisely the manner in which it was designed: to advertise a product/position/person without fear of anyone or anything questioning the truthfulness of the message. Then he asked me why I thought Americans were so vulnerable to such propaganda. In that moment an idea came to me which I may have always subconsciously suspected, but had never articulated clearly. I said, "I think its because of the number of churches we have and the fact that they are regularly attended." He said, "Why is that?" I said, "Because if you can convince yourself, in the absence of any evidence whatsoever that an imaginary invisible friend can cause you to live forever, you can convince yourself of anything."
The first thing we do is not kill all the lawyers, it's burn all the churches.
The first thing we do is not kill all the lawyers, it's burn all the churches.