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Paul Krugman: Conscience of a Liberal
The Confluence
Suburban Guerrilla Ian WelshI saw Tim Minchin perform this in 2012 in DC when I took Brook to the Reason Rally to see her idol, Richard Dawkins. It rained the whole day while we stood outside on The Mall. We had taken the train from Trenton and weren’t planning to stay overnight. It was January.
Had a blast. 😛
This is what many of us would like to say to the woo-woo believers and anti-vax crowd but minchin does it better and rhymes.
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Corrente (Lambert) Avedon’s Sideshow
The Confluence 
I expect there will be a certain, irreducible percentage of humanity for which this one life will never be enough, no matter how much solid evidence is marshaled against the idea of some sort of afterlife.
I even suspect that the percentage will prove to be a majority–unless our mastery of the natural sciences becomes, indeed, so powerful, as to defeat death, or at least change human genetics to weaken the survival instinct (which could lead to all sorts of nasty side effects).
I say “genetics”, because no mere argument will do it, because the emotions are more powerful than reason, and fear is the strongest emotion of all.
Stoics, I suspect, will always be a minority of our species.
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Why, yes, I am a cynic. Why do you ask? 😈
None of this, of course, means I take anti-vaxxism and other woo-woo pseudo-medicine seriously.
Oh, speaking of death, I forgot to post this to Imgur in time for Halloween–a “Wacky Package” sticker. 😛