Someone on MSNBC raised the interesting point that with all our improved media technology today somehow our society seems to have LESS of a historical memory than previous generations.

What factors could be causing this other than the educational system's dismal failure to teach basic science or any critical thinking skills? It could be the "short attention span" syndrome where folks spend minutes hearing a proponent and zero time researching the facts. It could be due to the cacaphony of multi-media onslaught leading to saturation. Or it could be the ease of access to a net audiance by cranks where a nice HTML job fools the gullible into thinking that the contents are authoratative.

-philw (gone to the Cape 'till Tuesday)