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all the same underneath?

At first, a baby is a

greedy, selfish creature.

All it knows about are its own needs.

If monsieur Pasteur, mister Lister,

doctor Fleming and miss Nightingale

had been miss Dimm, most of us

would have curled up our toes

and died of infection long before reaching

the ripe old age of twenty seven.

This is where education comes in.

But there are two types.

One is purely educational,

in which society passes on

its accumulated knowledge,

artistic, historic, and scientific.

And is very very veryvery

veryveryvery good.

The other is indoctrination,

which poses as education,

but is excrementally treacherous,

deceitful, and prone to mythomania.

Who in the world would stoop

so low as to indoctrinate?

All religious leaders and politicians.

It's what their job's all about.

They say, here's a code

of behaviour for you,

now you won't have to do

any of that difficult thinking.

Put these blinkers on and follow us.

Believe in god, and all

that we say he says,

or believe in the party,

and all that we say you say.

Oh say can you see, rule Brittania,

to keep the red flag flying here...

I have seen the light!

Ours is the true way!

Yes, millions of people can be wrong.

They betray their ignorance and prejudice

by their intolerance of other moralities,

and their insistance that

theirs is the only way.

I remember an ad, for volkswagen cars,

which said that twenty five

million people could not be wrong.

Remember world war two?

Need I say more?

So think, and don't blindly follow.

Choose the best bits of all philosophies

you can find and build your own.

You don't have to be a christian,

a muslim, a buddhist,

a communist, a logical positivist

or a vegan to use your brain.

In fact, to be committed to such a club

is to sentence millions of brain

cells to shameful inactivity.

Religion, nationalism, and political

fervour are enemies of rational thought.

At best, dearest viewer,

we should stroll a careful course,

retaining our individualism

and freedom and thought,

while conforming only to

social behaviour patterns

which benefit and enlighten,

rather than harm others.

Of course, the neighbours can be right.

Ultimately, it is the corporate

consciousness of humanity

against which our personal

moralities are compared.

Thankfully, this corporate

consciousness is not fixed.

It is growing and developing as

it absorbs and accepts new ideas,

ideas pioneered by individuals

who it may once have persecuted,

and who eventually become the

heroes of man's search for truth.

Well, that's the end of a very long

but well intentioned

and important bit of chat.

Now, obviously, some of you may

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