Monday, August 12, 2013

I could imagine

intellectual influences being viewed as and treated like drugs in the future. Civilization isn't quite ready for all the various "truths" available to it now. Of course it will always find a way to survive, regardless, but one potential adaptation may be the willing avoidance of certain influences, even if those influences are simply digital words on a screen.

Would "teaching" this approach result in the same sort of unintended consequences as it does with drugs (ie. the forbidden fruit attraction)? Aye caramba. What a minefield.

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