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Do secret worlds exist?

I'm not optimistic at all. Just telling it as it is. I just don't see that we were any better off in the hippie dippie psychedelic days. We are in no more of a mess than the drug addled were, we just have new problems. But humanity as a whole does seem to get generally smarter and more rational as time progresses.

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I didn't claim anything about the number of addicts. I wasn't claiming it is better or worse today. Only that his idea that alternative thinking somehow made the old days better and it is somehow missing today and so today is so much worse because of it. On the average, I think that rationality, on average, improves with each generation, and that is preferable to "alternative" thinking.

With the rise of religion....all the world over, today's lack of critical thinking and slide into the irrational is much worse than it was in the 70's. In the 70's Afghanistan, Iran and Iran were not religious sink holes. And, IIRC, neither was 1/2 the USA.
 
Yes, that is a new problem, but it has nothing to do with alternative thinking. Every generation has problems, and the cult of drugs and alcohol continues on unabated. I guess life really sucks for a lot of people because they can't take it straight.

Alchohol is a good drug becuase you start to notice when it affects you and its pretty obvious (health wise) You can go on a few benders and then get the chronic diharia and IF YOU STILL DO IT then you are a retard. Pretty sure most other drugs like weed, heroin, and meth, and perscription drugs you dont really notice your downfall.
 
Alchohol is a good drug becuase you start to notice when it affects you and its pretty obvious (health wise) You can go on a few benders and then get the chronic diharia and IF YOU STILL DO IT then you are a retard. Pretty sure most other drugs like weed, heroin, and meth, and perscription drugs you dont really notice your downfall.

I don't think alcohol is any easier to stop using.
 
With the rise of religion....all the world over, today's lack of critical thinking and slide into the irrational is much worse than it was in the 70's. In the 70's Afghanistan, Iran and Iran were not religious sink holes. And, IIRC, neither was 1/2 the USA.

Religion, in general, is not rising. Nationalistic forms of Islam are on the rise. But in general secularism and rationality are rising.

In the 70's, the West dominated the countries you now refer to as religious sink-holes. How did they get that way? Because religion was used a political tool in those countries by religious zealots as a means to assert nationalistic pride and boot the West out. It tells us nothing about actual religious beliefs in those countries in the 70's or today.
 
Religion, in general, is not rising. Nationalistic forms of Islam are on the rise. But in general secularism and rationality are rising.

In the 70's, the West dominated the countries you now refer to as religious sink-holes. How did they get that way? Because religion was used a political tool in those countries by religious zealots as a means to assert nationalistic pride and boot the West out. It tells us nothing about actual religious beliefs in those countries in the 70's or today.

Religion is rising. In fact, if I was a betting man, I'd say religion will be the new global scourge when I am dead and gone---the signs are everywhere, from Alabama to Yemen.
 
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