Suspension of Disbelief

Man is set with his vices, stationary with his opinions and firm in his beliefs. We are a people of ancients. We rather the tried and true (or not so true so long as tried) path than set out and create our own way. Our biases are centuries old and our mindsets older still. Man is still trapped by the mistakes of its past and continues to make them relentlessly into the present. Friendly skies flown the wrong direction are more traveled than stormy ones headed the right. No one said change was easy. Yet as time passes, man's grasp of certain archaic principles will become increasingly unseemly to those of us who break with tradition and form our own paths. Religion, marriage, sexuality, superstition, and traditional values akin to these are up for grabs and I'm the merchant. Religion is the pacifier of the masses; it excuses the actions of leaders and trendsetters as they say: "This life is imperfect and must be tolerated. The next life will be great." The pro...

"Think of competing ideas as elements on the periodic table. One replaces another, replaces another and the atomic number rises the element becomes heavier and more dense. And, as with elements, it is clear that there then comes a point where each competing idea becomes less and less stable holding increasingly less validity for an ever shorter amount of time." "The purpose of government is solely to protect the rights of its people. Government ceases to govern and begins to tyrranize when the intentions of its officials overrun the rights of the people living in their nation." "There comes a point where ones former oppressors or the members of a formerly oppressive party have moved on from their flaws and isms and it is from there the downtrodden must learn to move on or else continue to downtrodden themselves."