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Friday, April 8, 2016

"The Internet Of Us: Knowing More And Understanding Less"

"The Internet Of Us: Knowing More And Understanding Less"

Alan: When the application of intellectual rigor to the pursuits of Reason is discarded or overlooked, no barrier remains between visceral reactivity and the deadly excesses of "damn-the-infidel" religiosity.  

Then, when "The Other" commits an outrage (or is deemed guilty by association) the door swings wide and the faithful wreak complacent havoc in the name of God.
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Immediately, "God made me do it" replaces "the Devil made me do it."


 As Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton observed, "The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil."

"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice.  The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization.  We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal.  Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good.  The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”  
"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton

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