Escape the echo chamber

[David Horn]

(12-09-2021, 10:49 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: When the world crashes around Classic X'er he will feel burned as few people can be. I may be naïve in my optimism about the goodness of Humanity in general (well, so was Anne Frank), but I well know one cost of being a pessimist: as a pessimist one usually ends up having one's pessimism confirmed, and not to good results.

Don't count on C-Xer's life actually crashing.  After all, the world of myth and 'belief' existed long before the world of rationaity and science.  It's less efficient, but seems to work for the true believers.