(Does that include churchianity today - where we assume those Old and New Testament warnings are not for us? - CL)
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/06/no_author/are-we-smarter-than-our-ancestors/ | When I was a kid, the postman semi-annually delivered a booklet-sized mail-order catalog with an odd mix of hundreds of household gadgets and cheap novelties: personalized pencils, cat toys, jumping beans and kitschy doorstops, et al. The catalog also displayed the above-pictured LP cover of Orson Welles’ 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast mockudrama. As did the sensationalistic record cover, the catalog’s caption said that panicked Americans ran screaming into the streets or had heart attacks after hearing a radio report that Martians had invaded the US; specifically, my native New Jersey. Intrigued, I uncharacteristically asked my mother to buy the record. … Continue reading → www.lewrockwell.com |
Most contemporary people share a delusional conceit about how sophisticated they are compared to those in prior generations. They look back at popular acceptance of an earth-centric universe, alchemy, witchcraft and witch trials, bloodletting, phrenology and other discredited scientific paradigms and say, “Ha! We’d never fall for anything so stupid!”