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GliderGuider

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4. Whether they are "real" or not isn't the point
Wed May 2, 2012, 03:41 PM
May 2012

I like to use such ideas, whether they are objectively "real" or not, to examine the nature of the culture we live in. I do that by imagining (as the author above has) how our institutions and social behaviour might respond to such a development. It's also possible to get a fix on the situation we're in by wondering why we are so desperate to believe such obviously mythological possibilities.

It makes scant difference to Reality™ whether or not a few people on the Intertubes (on a site dedicated to politics, no less) accept or reject such claims. But it is very illuminating about some crucial larger social issues - like why do so many people feel we need this, when our Corporate Masters™ have told us everything is A-OK?

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