Friday, August 31st, 2012
Stephan: One reads about the growing willful ignorance and, then, comes across this. We are entering an age of neo-medievalism. Literacy is falling, particularly in the Southern states, being replaced with conspiracy theories and belief in 'dark forces' as this report makes clear. This reversion is what explains some of the people who now serve as Representatives and Senators. It is very hard to imagine the U.S. make rational policy decisions with such people in command.
AUSTIN, TEXAS – Reliance on supernatural explanations for major life events, such as death and illness, often increases rather than declines with age, according to a new psychology study from The University of Texas at Austin.
The study, published in the June issue of Child Development, offers new insight into developmental learning.
‘As children assimilate cultural concepts into their intuitive belief systems – from God to atoms to evolution – they engage in coexistence thinking,
