What an awful article, elementary school quality stuff drawn from mediocre school texts. It is littered with historical inaccuracies, caricatures of philosophic

What an awful article, elementary school quality stuff drawn from mediocre school texts. It is littered with historical inaccuracies, caricatures of philosophical positions, and maudlin sentiments and hagiographic bromides that contradict the very atomism that it celebrates (such at the addled paeans to Epicurus or delusional hymns to some incoherent New Age-y "unity"). Democritus himself was not blind to at least a couple of the problems with his atomism. Why is there no mention of his own objections or the objections of others? Furthermore, materialism and rationalism are a highly problematic positions with serious objections against them. Quoting philosophical ignoramuses (and that's putting it nicely) is doing this author no favors. Atomism is NOT the most important idea in history. Try getting a real education, dear author. You make a mockery of yourself.