Wednesday, September 11, 2002

• The inevitable 9-11 post. Will likely offend.

  When you believe the impossible, you become capable of the unthinkable.

  Once the human mind has embraced a worldview which is incompatible with reality, it has become, to a certain extent, mad. The fundamental mechanism by which the value of actions is measured is short-circuited. The more passionately this worldview is embraced, the greater the madness, and, thus, the more likely that the madness will take the form of actions which are morally indefensible.

  From the Nazis (whose worldview was based on denial of the facts of genetics, history, and archeology) to the Communists (whose worldview was, and is, based on denial of the facts of economics and human nature) to the Fundamentalists (Islamic, Christian, and Jewish, among others) who worldviews are based on denial of the fact that their sacred tomes are the products of fallible humans, not infallible gods, we see the results of this insanity, in the mass graves, in the crematoriums, in the smoking rubble.

  Shortly after the 1999 Columbine massacre, I wrote that God[1] was the source of, not the answer to, the problems of the twentieth century. The hole in the skyline of Manhattan is ample evidence that this remains true in the twenty-first.

  Do not feel. Think. Do not believe. Know.

  [1]It must be noted that, by 'God', I do not refer to any specific deity or belief system, but to the aggregate sum of human irrationality, even that which professes to be 'atheistic', such as Communism. The enemy is not any particular belief, but Belief itself.

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