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On Mon, 1 May 2006, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
I believe that the reason why we haven't yet found the cure for cancer
or mental illness is because these are extraordinarily difficult
problems to solve. I for one am very impressed by how far we have come.
I think that's a lot of it. Even if we were to get our social act
together -- no more religious mysticism, etc. -- and started really
educating people well from early ages forward, we might still find
ourselves short of the really brilliant people you need to solve these
kinds of difficult problems.
It's hard to say though. The extent to which religion and other social
problems have been crushing our intellectual/cultural development is hard
to gauge. It's also hard to know what bad things rapid social change
could bring. Religion is doing good things along with the bad.
Mike
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