Theos-Talk Archives (September 2004 Message tt00485)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> kpauljohnson wrote:
> > A
> > disproportionate share of major inventions on one hand; on the other 
> > a disproportionate share of consumption of scarce resources (and 
> > willful blindness at official levels to the consequences.) Leading 
> > the world in science and technology, but also having the largest 
> > number of religious quacks and frauds (and the most violence) of any 
> > industrialized democracy. One could go on...
> 
> And you don't see that they are connected?
> 
> Bart

I referred to the light and dark sides of idealism. Two sides of the
same phenomenon are by definition connected.

Paul