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Eulogy for reason.

(11/03/2004; 10:54am) - Eulogy for reason.

The long glorious journey that was The Age of Reason begun roughly three hundred years ago in England, France and America and posited the transformative notion that reason could combat ignorance, superstition and tyranny.

Yesterday, a majority of the citizens of the United States of America, decisively rejected the ideals of The Enlightenment. No longer does the most powerful nation of the world wish to rely on reason and intelligence to rule her actions. The roar of the World Trade Center collapse was the silent death knell for rationality. We now live in a world of "good" and "evil" and Power tells us which is which. These characterizations were rejected by our intellectual forefathers, and had been further undermined over the last few centuries. But to be rational is difficult. In this post-9/11 world, we don't want to know why, we want to be righteous.

Welcome an age of ignorance, superstition and tyranny. The current world struggle is not between "good" and "evil", but between fundamentalism and rationality. Yesterday, the cause of the human mind suffered a devastating blow.

-andrew