10.29.08
Dawkins, meet Frodo the Hobbit
Harry Potter fails to cast spell over Professor Richard Dawkins
Harry Potter has become the latest target for Professor Richard Dawkins who is planning to find out whether tales of witchdraft and wizardy have a negative effect on children.
Dawkins seems to actually wish to carry out the last stages of the project of domination via scientism, by taking it to children, the front lines of worldview domination in a system of social propaganda. Actually, in the article, he seems unsure, but the logic of his position is inexorable, and a bit silly.
It should be said that the genre of wizards and magic no doubt has gone to an extreme recently, and it is a perfectly good question, what place does mythological thinking have in the education of the young.
But the instincts of children, in some ways, are still intact, as creatures of the species homo sapiens, and the extirpation of this innocent ‘wisdom’, a species characteristic, will surely backfire.
Debating science flocks on evolution brings home just how obtuse scientists are, with a view of reality that has deviated from ‘common sense’, however fallible. The reason, of course, is that the great findings of physics are the object of false imitation in other fields, and premature grounds for universal statements about reality.
Meanwhile, a work like Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings has a curious riddling significance that seems beyond the ken of those subjected to the Dawkins regime.
At least Harry Potter fans get a warning