Friends, I was very impressed with Walter Davis' article. Even though what it said seemed very negative, it was a work of science, not of polemics. The "negativity" arises from the reality of what was being described, in relation to the judgements made by we the readers. I learned a lot from the article and I hope others found it useful as well. One reader did respond with "Superlative, keep them coming." But after posting the article, I began to have second thoughts. I don't want to give the impression that I'm trying to "put down" fundamentalists and show how "neurotic" they are, in comparison to "us more rational liberals." If anyone can find one, I'd like to post a balancing article, revealing the "grand neuroses" of the liberal. The fact is that we're all a bit insane, otherwise we couldn't cope with this insane destructive society we must survive within. When I see a liberal, as I often have, dismiss a solid piece of evidence, because it "sounds like a conspiracy theory", that seems to me to be just the same as a fundamentalist dismissing hard evidence, because "the world was created in seven days". And they both remind me of the Pope who refused to look through Galileo's telescope at Jupiter's moons, because "God made the earth the center of the universe." In my book, I've offered my own feeble analysis of the liberal mind, but I'd like to see an analysis with the same depth as Davis' article. If the fundamentalist neurosis has to do with some kind of death wish, perhaps the liberal neurosis has something to do with a denial of death. While the fundamentalist projects the dark side onto Satan, perhaps the liberal is denying the existence of a dark side. best regards rkm
