Justin: Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!
The age of reason is rapidly approaching, tearing down institutions born in less illuminated times. As the light of reason brightens the proponents of the old way are shouting loudly against the winds of change.
Not willing to go quietly into the darkness of unexamined philosophies, they scream, that any change will result in death, in ethical, financial, ideological apocalypse that will destroy the fabric of society as if it heralds the falling of a modern Babylon.
Fear ye! Fear ye! For alas the end is nigh. And in a way, they are correct. This is the end of the world as they have known and profited from it. And while (unintelligible) of old world financial theory in new seeds of reason, sprouting up from the national health care scene, they, much like the following hour of programming and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of California at Davis, KDVS or its sponsors, we will endure every complaint of the old world looters with still older wisdom of their plight.
For every complaint that man has waged against change has always come from two places — his fear of death or his fear of losing his grip upon the lives of others. And when we take away the HMO’s whip, we will find that the change has left us truly free. Free from fear of debt’s fortune and the influence of the fortune maker’s commission upon our health.
And as many have found, when we are free of fear, we feel more inclined to think freely as I think you will find here on This Week in Science, coming up next.
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