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Welcome to the Intellectual Global Warming Blog.

Those of us trying to maintain our life raft of sanity in an ocean of stupidity have probably developed a sense of being “comfortably numb,” as Pink Floyd once said. If rationality is represented by low-lying land mass, and woo-woo is represented by the ocean, then the more I look around, the more I’m convinced that we’re suffering from Intellectual Global Warming.

It’s the 21st century, technology is advancing at an exponential rate, and yet people still believe in all sorts of rubbish ranging from religion to energy crystals to psychics to homeopathy, and everything else in between.

And it’s getting worse. Look around you.

With the explosion of communications technology starting at the beginning of the last century, the propagation of stupidity has travelled at the speed of light: everything from daily horoscopes to evangelical preachers peddling their psychotic rantings to the gullible masses. I am seriously concerned that we’re heading towards a new Dark Ages. Think I’m exaggerating? Look at the United States, with the fundamentalist Christians gradually taking over the country, and school education boards having debates about introducing creationism nonsense into the syllabus. It’s incredible that such debates even take place, but they do.

This blog is my commentary on what I see going on in the world. Some articles will just be my opinion on things, others will be more analytical, but whatever they discuss, the topic will always relate to what I call the Intellectual Global Warming effect.

It’s too easy to end up having blogs take over your life: you can spend so much time in them, but I’m not going to do that. I have too many things to do in The Real World, so although I will try and maintain this blog on a regular basis, I might end up spending less (or more) time on it. We’ll see how we go. What I am not going to attempt to do is try to make this blog a comprehensive encyclopaedia of all the woo-woo (gotta love that term) out there. There’s way too much of it. If I attempted to catalogue it all, I’d need millions of hard drives to store it all on, and my own private nuclear power station to keep it running! There are so many other blogs and web sites out there that it’s silly to re-invent the wheel… so instead, this little corner of the web will merely be an adjunct to them.

Some of what I write here, no, probably a LOT of what I write here, will offend certain people and/or groups, and for that, I make no apology. A lot of what I write might appear arrogant or abrasive. If it does come across that way, it’s not because I’m trying to score points in the I Know All Of The Answers competition: it’s simply because I’m sick and tired of all the idiotic nonsense that surrounds me, and damned if I’m going to pander to it because some religious nut or chiropractor is going to be offended if I speak my mind. They DESERVE to be offended, because I’m offended by their idiocy, and their expectation of getting ME to believe in it as well.

No, I don’t know how life arose on this planet. Nobody does… YET.

But I DO know that a guy with a beard zapping things from the sky didn’t do it. I am confident in the scientific method and know that eventually, as we progress in our pursuit of knowledge, the mysteries of the universe will cease to be unexplained and simply become science; and the knowledge will be passed onto future generations so that it can be built upon.

Such has always been, and always will be, the case. That is, unless the religious loonies get in the way first.

Do I sound cranky? Perhaps, but the world is truly being overrun by the lunatics, and what makes the world of today much more dangerous than the world of yesterday is that the lunatics now have technology available to them, and they can use it to promote their idiocy.

Imagine the damage they can do.

No, you don’t have to imagine it. You can see it right now: kids dying because their parents refuse them blood transfusions, planes flying into buildings (surely the most spectacular display of religious idiocy to date), the vulnerable handing over their money to those that claim that they can speak with their long-dead loved ones, or to those that tell them that if you don’t give over your money to the church, you won’t go to heaven, people dying because they’ve given up their cancer treatments because some nutcase of a naturopath has told them to stop and take a herbal tea instead… can you see where I’m going with this?

All of this happens faster now, because ideas spread faster now, and bad ideas can spread just as quickly as the good ones. It’s part of the price we pay for advancing our civilisation.

Oh, and by the way, it’s going to be kind of obvious that religion is featured here somewhat prominently. There’s a good reason for this: in the vast Sea Of Stupidity, more acts of oppression, obsession, suppression, repression, depression, cruelty, horror, war, torture, murder, terror, ignorance, and sheer idiocy, have been committed in the name of religion than in any other enterprise in the entire history of the human species. And yes, score 10 points if you’ve correctly deduced that I am not only an atheist, but a firm antitheist.

You might like what you read in this blog; you might hate what you read in this blog. I just hope it makes you think.

Enjoy.