We were all children once with dreams that sat at tables with us. We talked and played with them, poured tea for them, and believed them, why wouldn’t we.
In The Dark Side of the Enlightenment, author John V. Fleming writes, “The great impediment to human progress …was not incapacity but mental timidity or cowardice, the fear of independent thinking and fear’s vicious sibling, a comfortable habit of settling for second-hand authority.”