[MD] Food for Thought

[david buchanan]

David M said to dmb:
Some interesting points. But what would a society controlled by intellect 
look like compared to now?

dmb says:
Imagine what the USA might look like if the President DIDN'T count Jesus as 
his favorite philosopher or anger the scientific community or use bogus 
information and fear-mongering to start an unnecessary war or defy the 
international community or pull out of international anti-pollution treaties 
or defy the Geneva conventions or the Bill of Rights or the system of checks 
and balances. Imagine what the USA would look like if the President weren't 
an anti-intellectual disaster on legs.

See, its not about trying to create a utopia for bookworms so much as 
avoiding some pretty horrible stuff. On top of the American blood and the 
billions and billions of dollars wasted, the estimate for Iraqi dead is now 
well over 600,000. This goes way past bad policy or mere stupidity. This is 
some kind of evil.

By the way, that figure is 20 times higher than Pentagon estimates allowed. 
(30,000) Think about that. That's not double or triple or even tens times 
more than their "official" numbers. They were off by 2000%. That's like 
guessing that New York city is 150 miles from San Francisco or that the moon 
is 12,000 miles away from Earth! The sheer scope of this discrepancy would 
be hilarious if we weren't talking about corpses.

I hope an intellectually guided society would NOT look like this one. You 
know, just for a start.

Thanks,
dmb

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