The new dark age of man is upon us. Is technology at its base? Though I'm kind of a techie geek, I don't know, but... Are we taking mental shortcuts to opinion? Are we taking quickie paths to comprehension. Are we taking easy steps to problem solving? Technology has reached far beyond the ordinary person's ability to understand it, its basis and its implications. This engenders a basic insecurity in the mental systems of humanity, politics, religion, and science. It goes much deeper, way beyond technology. When there is no firmament of comprehension, other tools are in play. Perhaps this is driving the religious right, cult-type movements, the slavish adherents of left, and in general all fundamentalist type movements. Each has the common quality of wanting, desiring, and needing something simply framed to follow. The suspension of understanding has been achieved. Folks can now barrel headlong into anything, such as literal biblical teachings, lite
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