PG's essay "What you can't say" springs to mind: >It seems to be a constant throughout history: In every period, people believed things that were just ridiculo

PG's essay "What you can't say" springs to mind: >It seems to be a constant throughout history: In every period, people believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you would have gotten in terrible trouble for saying otherwise. http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html