Everyone is afraid': Extent of brain drain shocks as DeSantis' effect on Florida revealed

[Ol Janx Spirit]

29. The sine wave of history is swinging towards another trough. Since the dawn of humans--sapiens at least--it has...

...gone like this: religion dominates the human psyche until a problem like fertility, obtaining food, weather events, etc., cannot be overcome by mere rituals. The humans use what we would call science today to mitigate said problem. With the problem at least mitigated to some extent the human psyche turns once again to religion until another problem like attacks from other humans and previously unknown disease come along.

This cycle has repeated itself in innumerable places across time and in a myriad of ways. Science is inevitably the victim of its own success time and time again.

With the incredible scientific acceleration of the 20th century--going from horse-drawn carriages in 1900 to landing a man on the moon a mere 69 years later--there was great reason to be optimistic that our scientific brain would finally put aside our religious one and favor logic over mythology.

Florida illustrates how far we are from that reality. While the religious sleep soundly knowing that science is there to rescue them from catastrophe, the next crisis--as always--is just over the horizon. At some point religion may just find a way to undermine science enough that overcoming it will not be possible.

The incredible irony of religious people using science to burn fossil fuels while ignoring the science of climate change and potentially hurtling the planet into a dire situation that cannot possibly be solved through science is just astounding--but here we are. And Floridians have as much or more to lose in the short-term than almost anyone. SMH.