1) I am concerned that the excellent reputation Alan Watts deserves for his work will be diminished by those who cite him. So I will just fondly remember to mys

1) I am concerned that the excellent reputation Alan Watts deserves for his work will be diminished by those who cite him. So I will just fondly remember to myself his story of trying to mail water. 2) It is my understanding that 19th Century science would have asserted authority on the subjects of things like consciousness it should not have, and which 21st Century science does not assert. On the other hand at least the Roman Catholic church has withdrawn from over exerting its authority on at least some matters addressed by biologists. 3) non science has abdicated its authority on any non scientific questions by its assertions that no means exists that can assure that anything is true, because there is nothing to any statement but its social context. The obvious consequence of that movement should have been its instantaneous invalidation by its own social construction by Marxists, or as the observer Mandy Rice-Davies might have said, They would say that, wouldn't they?