The Allegory of the Cave suites nicely with religious beliefs.

“Keep watching the shadows. There is nothing but the shadows. If someone says anything different they are wrong and you are correct. Feels good to be correct. Be correct with us.”

Being incorrect about things on a consistent and constant basis can be disheartening if you’re insecure. They are wrong about so many things all the time that it’s a nice change of pace to be right. Even if that means accepting “Noble Lies”.

Do t forget the non zero amount of people who vehemently believe that the earth sun and moon are flat and the Sol system isn’t heliocentric…

A blood death cult that got its start with child sacrifices…

But god is good…lol

Genital mutilation is a caveman practice…

Like kraft cheese… disgusting but still edible.

“Looking for a wifi” was mine college.

Asimov not azimov…wtf.

Exactly… adapted for a wider audience.

Dad kept the scifi magazines with Azimovs original short stories. Azimov was a very prolific writer. Dad also had many Tales from Gore. The book shelves literally slumped from the weight. I didn’t fully appreciate the monumental amount of concentrated history I was engulfed in…in my own house. An entire wall of books, magazines, journals(medical, philosophical, anthropological, linguistic, almanacs, etc etc.)

Grew up… realized some of the things I missed out on. Didn’t sleep on The Well World Series by Chalker though…lol

Dune was my go to scifi…now it’s popular and I feel like a hipster.

My dad got me into hard scifi, d&d, Tolkien…if I feel like a hipster, can’t imagine what he feels like.

I hate that I agree with this.

Humans can be so much more than violent cavemen, but we aren’t there quite yet.

Diabolical sabotage…