Superbug Spreading in U.S., World

In high school I became totally enamored with Physics -- so much so that I decided to major in it in college. I got side-tracked by a parallel search for spirituality and never finished the degree. But I kept an interest in science. Now, many years later, I see the increasingly arrogant nature of science.

Science's true believers are convinced that we have the knowledge (or will) to "control" nature -- whatever that is. The overuse of antibiotics are a good example of this attitude. Genetic engineering will prove to be another. More and more I drift back in my memory to lyrics to the first song on the Moody Blues album, "To Our, Children's, Children's Children," entitled "Higher and Higher."

Blasting, billowing, bursting forth
With the power of ten billion butterfly sneezes
Man, with his flaming pyre
Has conquered the wayward breezes

Climbing to tranquility
Far above the cloud
Conceiving the heavens
Clear of misty shroud


Higher and higher
Now we've learned to play with fire
Go higher
And higher
And higher


Vast vision must improve our sight
Perhaps at last we'll see an end
To our homes endless blight
And the beginning of the Free

Climb to tranquility
Finding its real worth
Conceiving the heavens
Flourishing on earth

Higher and higher
Now we've learned to play with fire
We go higher
And highe
And higher

Of course, the optimism of the late '60's and early '70's have proven naive. But the cynicism of the first verse is still befitting.

Quote - I got side-tracked by a parallel search for spirituality - Still hung up on the silly stuff apparently?

Quit school to smoke dope and chant Hari Ram or some such thing? Not something I consider spirituality really.

The optimism of the 60's was more drop out/useless than naive - funny to hear it described that way though.