All of us are born shrouded in a veil of ignorance yet also conceived with the capacity for moral reasoning and the search for wisdom. But as Thoreau indecorously pointed out, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Wandering through life in a near hedonistic somnambulism, oblivious to their surroundings and the people they encounter, they passively accept the world with a near fatalism and deference to authority. This goes beyond esoteric questions relating to understanding algorithms, how magnetic core memory in a computer works, or the arcane intricacies of Keynesianism. For centuries theologians have described this dilemma … Continue reading H. G. Wells and Original Sin