"But here's the wonderful revelation. If you're a well-adjusted person, once you've discarded the unhealthy fictitious relationship with a phantasm, you can look around and notice all those other people who are likewise alone, and you'll realize that we're all alone together. And that means you aren't alone at all — you're among friends. That's the next step in human progress, is getting away from the notion of minions living under a trail boss, and onwards to working as a cooperative community, with no gods and no masters, only autonomous agents free to think and act."
I've been seeing bad decisions being made with faith-based "reasoning" involved. Their need for a father figure and patriarchal social system drives decisions that seem to counter efficient social systems. The fear of socialized medicine is the prime example. That goes directly against the grain in a patriarchal system. God, nation, men take care of the family, not social systems where we work together. Republicans and tea-baggers are all about individualism and independence yet beg and pray to the imaginary father figure in the sky. Why not break the chains of subservience to masters? The chief master being the imaginary god?
Well Tom I won’t have much to comment on that since I agree with you. But I thought you may know the answer to a question I received from one of the readers of my blog this morning. We just came back from Long Beach to see our daughter and I wrote a post on Long Beach, giving a bit of history and mentioning that Hughes’ Spruce Goose had flown from there. A reader from Wales wanted to know if there had been aircraft manufactured in Long Beach. I answered yes that Boeing which had merged with Douglas Aircraft had made the C-17 and B-717 and that Lindbergh’s Spirit of St Louis had been made in San Diego. So this morning this is what she wrote and I don’t know the answer: “I felt sure there was an aircraft manufacturing connection. My father used to fly DC3 Dakotas on the Berlin airlift in 1948 and you still see the occasional one still flying. I came across the book 'We' as a child. Written by Lindbergh himself it describes the epic flight and also his barnstorming days. The later film with Jimmy Stewart covers much the same ground. That film had a great influence on me. But I am still at a loss to know why California (or anywhere on the west coast - Seattle????) - should have become a centre for aircraft manufacture? Why not Chicago, Pittsburgh, St Louis, Atlanta, New York? Our aircraft plants in the UK were all located in our major old industrial cities. There must be a reason California was so attractive. “ I don’t know the answer. If you know you can send me an email at my blog email: bookeen@live.com or reply directly on my blog: http://avagabonde.blogspot.com/2010/06/visit-to-long-beach-california.html. Could it be because there was oil in California, or the Howard Hughes connection? Thanks for any info.
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