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howard's avatar

The whole piece is beautiful but I loved the line about substances that are not food, but play food on TV. Just in that one line you evoke images of magazine ads and TV commercials and somehow, pushers in dark alleys and all the most predatory and toxic aspects of Hollywood.

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The Radical Individualist's avatar

Perhaps the key word is 'Wonder'. Wonder, as in amazement lacking in full comprehension. When you get down to it, that is at the heart of science.

But there are those whose minds can only handle belief. The belief need have no basis, no wonder, no comprehension; it must only offer security. Some people feel uncomfortable not knowing, or only half knowing, and so they make up a belief, and it satisfies them.

A guy told me once that he believed in science. I pointed out that science is not a belief system. It is a doubt system. Question. Contemplate. Wonder. That is science.

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