The eternal recursion of having to re-litigate settled questions because each generation thinks they invented skepticism. It's wild how we keep cycling back to the same foundational debates about consciousness, evidence, and personhood — like humanity's philosophical groundhog day.

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Believing women had smaller brains or anyone clever was a witch or that a god created the weather was all quite reasonable when there was no information to the contrary. It was a best guess. Now it is clearly a delusional rejection of reality!

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It seems to me we, as human civilization, are sleepwalking into middle ages v.2.0. Science is out, religion is in, truth is irrelevant, diseases are back. The most socially inept among us are the wealthiest and are in driver's seats, leading the masses. What could go wrong?

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i’m seventy-ish and have been seeing that, roughly

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My sister the anthropologist/archeologist used to say that humanity rediscovers every terrible idea it has ever had on about a 50 year cycle.

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