Quote of the Day

Vox Day:

I also found the incipient cult of the midwitted junior co-signer Neil deGrasse Tyson to be interesting, mostly for the insipid and inadvertently revealing banalities he utters:

"One thing is for certain: the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas."

I'll ignore the ironic bait of the obvious and customary oxymoron involved and observe that it should be no surprise that Tyson harbors considerable appeal for the less intelligent. This is a literal paean to cluelessness. Don't understand X in the slightest? That's just an indication of how open-minded and progressive you are!

"Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance."

Judging by Tyson and his observed historical illiteracy, it works about as well as the MMR vaccine on a highly allergic child who ends up in a post-jab coma as his parents are financially compensated by VAERS.

"Not only are we in the Universe the Universe is in us. I don't know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me."

Ah, the profound depths of Deepak Chopra lite. Again, this is a literal paean to cluelessness; Tyson is openly confessing to his own ignorance of spirituality. How fortunate that it indicates his openness to new ideas. All of this is simple religion-substitute, which is explains how Tyson has become the new softer and cuddlier Dawkins-replacement that Peter Boghossian wanted to be.

Day's term "science fetishist" is on the money. A foot fetishist is not a podiatrist. And vice-versa, usually. In Cosmos' case, the analogical podiatrist is a foot fetishist.