Duck duck gone

You\’d think …. well, I\’d think … that the days of the internet and DuckDuckGo would have led to such an explosion of accesible knowledge as to see the end of religious belief. I know, naive, the religious parasite always finds a way to survive and thrive.

I had pictured people who knew nothing of history, geography, anthropology, biology, geology, cosmology, languages, art, sociology, nothing at all, being able to gain not simply knowledge but even expertise. Instead there are a large number of people who present batshit crazy nonsense on the internet, and a larger number of people who belive them and live their lives accordingly.

In addition, and conversely, the internet could have been used to allow the religiously inclined, who notoriously don\’t read their own holy books but instead rely on priests etc to present them with cherry-picked summaries, to read and study all of their religious writings and realise they needed to reject them. Instead they found and believed another group of people who cherry-picked more than their priests and presented bat-shit crazy interpretations of scriptures.

Religious believers have always been ill-informed and totally uneducated about the world around them. But in  the 1960s I believed that science and progresiive politicians would together usher in a new and better world for its citizens. Now I can use the internet to discover that large portions of the world\’s population have instead been driven dangerously insane, have rejected science and progressive beliefs, and we are heading back to the dark ages at breakneck speed.

And I am too old to help prevent this.