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Bad science and emotional needs linked: Kind of like "watery Mars"
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Note well that while Lowell's Mars illusions found a wide audience, as evidenced by the mounds of science fiction works from the 1900's, Huxley's 1908(?) accurate analysis of Mars was ignored: just try finding it on the net today.

As with most delusional nets, people will go to any extreme to avoid dealing with the reality. You even have very functional people using their skills to their utmost to maintain their delusions.

Why? I just wish I could generalize, but clearly with the collapse of religions, science came to play a religious role for some people. One claim commonly made by the founders of new American spiritualist movements is that their religions are not religions, but science.

"The Winged Gospel" focuses on aviation utopianism, but there is no comparable work covering space utopianism.

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