Why the funky name? It seems to me that an awful lot of Americans are saying just that now-a-days. We live in a society based upon the advances brought to us by reason, science and democracy. Everywhere you look is high technology, in medicine, transportation, information, construction, agriculture, and manufacturing.
Yet much of this same society, while enjoying or even lusting over these advances, now appears to turn its back on reason, science and democracy. Inevitably, when one of these simple Americans is called to task, when they are presented with facts and logic, they become bothered and push away (at least verbally) both the message and the messenger. It's like they're saying: "Stop Making Sense!"
What's going on here? What are the implications? Why is it happening? What can we do about it? These are the questions to be explored here in this space. They are age old questions, ones for which no simple static answer may exist. But they are questions that our colonial forefathers worked hard to address in launching a new government. And this new government turned out to be wildly successful, eventually becoming the dominate world power in terms of wealth, knowledge and military might. It can be argued that we are as a nation diminishing in each of these categories. Again, why and what can we do?
If you'd like to share in the dialog, join me here for an exploration.
