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Truth Gets Voted Off the Island
What will replace it?
The exodus has been alarming to observe.
The reality of life on Planet Earth falls well short of idyllic, I will grant, with the twin threats looming of environmental and societal collapse. Still, most of us aren’t ready to give up on it. Our blue-blue spaceboat has its charms.
For one, we Earthlings have a thing called science to assist us in distinguishing reality from speculation. Millions of highly educated men and women spend their lives extending human knowledge.
Thanks to scientists and engineers, we can communicate in real time with nearly anybody, anywhere. Researchers fight diseases and warn us of dangers to our planet. Science gives us hope of someday traveling to other worlds.
Remarkably, some people have already self-transported to another Earth, one where science is a hobby rather than a discipline. No degree is needed to establish credibility on Earth-2. Research means consulting Google, and inconvenient or confusing facts are simply voted off the island. In this alternate reality, people who get headaches when they think too hard can own the boring experts with a catchy meme.
Some people have already self-transported.
