"You'd be surprised how many people crave the assurances of cold science, as opposed to the superstitious ravings of the Geminese," says Zarek, and sits, because if there's one thing anarchists know, it's that the quickest way to an atheist's heart is through his deep superiority to everybody else. "I know there's no Santa Claus! Everybody else in the whole first grade is stupid babies!" Which has a cuteness grace period of exactly one semester from starting college, and can sometimes lead to a Philosophy major, if not down the Ayn Rand road, which is like atheism squared in precisely this way.
Monday, February 27, 2006
So That's What Leads to Philosophy Majors
The TWoP recap for last week's Battlestar Galactica had a hilarious passage in it that I just had to quote. Tom Zarek, of course, is talking to Gaius Baltar:
