A Man Can See By Starlight, If

Increasingly, People Perceive No Difference Between The Narcissistic Self-serving Reporters Asking Questions, And The Narcissistic Self-serving Politicians Who Evade Them.

The Past History Of Human Belief Is A Cautionary Tale. We Have Killed Thousands Of Our Fellow Human Beings Because We Believed They Had Signed A Contract With The Devil, And Had Become Witches. We Still Kill More Than A Thousand People Each Year For Witchcraft. In My View, There Is Only One Hope For Humankind To Emerge From What Carl Sagan Called "the Demon-haunted World" Of Our Past. That Hope Is Science.

In Science, The Old Men Are Usually Wrong. But In Politics, The Old Men Are Wise, Counsel Caution, And In The End Are Often Right.

We Are All Assumed, These Days, To Reside At One Extreme Of The Opinion Spectrum, Or Another. We Are Pro-abortion Or Anti-abortion. We Are Free Traders Or Protectionists. We Are Pro-private Sector Or Pro-government. We Are Feminists Or Chauvinists. But In The Real World, Few Of Us Hold These Extreme Views. There Is Instead A Spectrum Of Opinion.

Nobody Is Driven By Abstractions Like 'seeking Truth.