I didn't say fatally deluded though. But I do believe that a huge amount of what most people believe is wrong.
Death/Extinction is not the natural consequence of delusion either. Although I would state that the vast majority of people today hasten their deaths by 2 delusions. Firstly trusting conventional medicine instead of taking responsibility for their own health and education on the matter. Secondly by assuming that little can be done to slow, stop or reverse aging and treating death as inevitable. I'd note that it's been claimed that about 20% of the US can't find the US on a map of the earth and that the same % believes that the sun circles the earth. I'd also note that more scarily 90% of US Americans such as those when the Iraq attacked the WTC and other places such as supported Bush, now if that's not mass delusion... Oh, and it strikes me as just vaguely possible that someone reading this won't have seen Miss Carolina so if you are wondering about my sobriety right now check out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > John Berry wrote: > > I consider most everyone on this earth to be severely deluded, what's your >> point? > > > Seriously, that's impossible. Our species would not survive. > > That's a little like saying "everyone is above average." > > It is possible that many people are deluded (or at least wrong) about > subjects we are not evolved to deal with. This would be similar to the fact > that many people are obese because they they can get far more sugary food > than was available to our ancestors. > > - Jed > >
