DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA: ASK NO QUESTIONS ACCEPT STUPIDITY SILENTLY

The questioning mind has carried us so very far from the invention of the  wheel to the iPhone.   

But change is always resisted and there has always been those who resist any threat to authority and to the status quo. 

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) the “father of observational astronomy”.built and improved the first practical telescope,  and then used it to observe the Sun and its sunspots, the phases of the planet Venus, the satellites of Jupiter, and Saturn’s rings. His observations of the Sun and  planets led him to champion the idea that the Sun, not the Earth, was at the center of the solar system. In 1615 Galileo’s  writings were examined by the Roman Inquisition and found to be “foolish, absurd and heretical” since it contradicted holy scripture and orthodoxy of the establishment.  In 1632 to  defend his ideas,  Galileo  published a treatise entitled:  “Dialog Concerning The Two Chief World Systems” which presented his astronomical observations and conclusions based on the scientific method.  This document supported the idea that the Earth is only one of the smaller planets which revolve around the much larger Sun.  For this he was tried by the Inquisition and found to be an heretic and condemned  to imprisonment, (later commuted to isolation, and house arrest) where he spent the rest of his life incommunicado and isolation. 

Does this historic reprise sound familiar? Do you get a  sense of “deja vu”?   Because in our most recent times the USA seems to have regressed back into the days of the Roman Inquisition when any individual  with a questioning mind may be pilloried and castigated for simply questioning orthodoxy. The madding crowd only wants to listen in to its own echo chamber. The phenomenon is so commonplace today we seem to have forgotten how sinister and evil it is.  We have so many “no. no, you can’t say or even think that” interventions  today  it seems (sadly) almost acceptable. 

Today, to question the idea that China may have precipitated the Covid pandemic (with USA complicity) as a result of an horrific accident in the Wuhan Virology Institute, where the escape of a genetically modified virus led to the deaths of millions the world over.  It is a query that can not be asked,  and if asked precipitates a Roman-style inquisition.

Or if one has the temerity to question how fragile our election system is, and how slim a majority President Biden’s Electoral College win vote was;  or  to suggest that it is possible that our 2020 election may have been  fraught with shady practices and illegalities,  one is tagged as a moron, racist, or “flat Earther, or worse.

Those who question orthodoxy in our times are immediately targeted as “absurd, foolish, heretical” or worse.  Where and why have we abandoned  the value of inquiry and the concept that to question authority and the establishment is our God given right as Americans?  And what about the scientists among you? Where are you in these dangerous times? 

Are you “scientists” intellectually allied with Galileo or with the Roman Inquisition?