What’s Wrong with the World?
Posted on 20 August 2010
This essay is in many parts
- What’s Wrong with the World Part I — Introduction
- What’s Wrong With The World Part II— Qualifications & Definitions
- What’s Wrong With The World Part III —Illogical
- What’s Wrong With The World Part IV —Hypocritical
- What’s Wrong With The World Part V —More Hypocrisy— Four Puzzles
- What’s Wrong With The World Part VI —Vicious
- What’s Wrong With The World Part VII— Ignorant
- What’s Wrong With The World Part VIII—More Ignorance — The Parochialism of the Enlightened
- What’s Wrong With The World Part IX—More Ignorance — A Digression on Intolerance
- What’s Wrong With The World Part X—More Ignorance—A Digression on Ingratitude
- What’s Wrong With The World Part XI—More Ignorance—The Necessity of Ignorance
- What’s Wrong With The World Part XII—Barbaric
- What’s Wrong With The World Part XIII—More Barbarism—Paranoia
- What’s Wrong With The World Part XIV—More Barbarism—Loss of Authority
- What’s Wrong With The World Part XV—Craven
- What’s Wrong With The World Part XVI —Ugly
- What’s Wrong With The World Part XVII—Foolish
- What’s Wrong With The World Part XVIII—More Folly—The Role of Science
- What’s Wrong With The World Part XIX—Confused
- What’s Wrong With The World Part XX—More Confusion—Seven Deadly Sins
- What’s Wrong With The World Part XXI—More Confusion—The Role of Incoherence
- What’s Wrong With The World Part XXII—Conclusion—The Mother of Reason
Whoa! Posting a 22-part manifesto all at once? o_O You’re not planning on flying or driving anything into anything else are you?
Yeah, I would’ve suggested making one post a day or something. Lets see if I finish it…
[...] A reader with name of Flaming Phonebook asks a few burning questions, and called forward an imaginary Modern to give witness to the reasoning behind the Modern mind, discussed at (g’normous) length in my manifesto here. [...]
Sweet merciful zombie Jesus tapdancing Christ on a pogo stick…
Zombie? And here I thought Jesus was an anti-vampire. (Attracted rather than repelled by crosses, being pierced does not kill him, but rather restores him to life, and instead of drinking blood, he give his own for others to drink.)
Although I do like the idea of the Twelve Apostles shambling across the Roman Empire, arms held out stiffly, muttering, “Souls! Souls! Save souls!”
Okay, maybe not. But there must be something scary about Christians, otherwise my leftleaning friends would not turn into feral ferrets every time they see one.