An individuals ability to discern the truth

From Frankie;

I hate this article in the Nytimes today: “Your Brain Lies to You.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/opinion/27aamodt.html?em&ex=1214712000&en=07a0cd373fc51d40&ei=5087%0A

To me, it’s basically saying that people can’t be trusted to accurately remember anything or everything, that their brains control them and their thought. And this ties so clearly into capitalism and they did us a slight favor by even mentioning at the end of the article that we can’t trust the doctrine that the market will guarantee only the best ideas survive. Meaning the market is worthless because peoples’ minds are worthless and can be tricked.

What they failed to consider here, of course, that the examples they gave are of ideas that no one cares enough to challenge. Not to mention that your brain fools you because you tell it to value something differently: you don’t want to recognize that your govt kills people (or remember how many they kill) because you value a perceived national security coming from your govt’s actions.

This is a bunch of crap; I probably sound like Ayn Rand but authoritarian rule/thought really starts from a debasement of the power and glory and ability of mankind. Its ridiculous.

Frank