For many years now, what I have liked most about the Net is that it is full of surprises. Press a few keys, even at random, even by mistake, and you never know what is going to pop up at you from around the corner. Just a few days ago, purely by accident, I came across the following sentence: “when everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much” (Walter Lippmann). So, to make myself and perhaps a few of my readers think, I thought I’d draw up a (very incomplete) list of a few of the things everyone thinks are true.

Well, almost everyone.

• Global warming is real and threatens to put an end to us all.
• The earth’s resources are about to run out.
• “Natural” (as opposed, I suppose, to “unnatural” and “supernatural”) is always better.
• Thin is good.
• Our understanding of, and control over, nature is growing all the time.
• What one author has called, “the better angels of our nature” have been steadily gaining the upper hand. As, for example, abolishing slavery, granting women equal rights, and so on.
• The singularity is near. Computers, aka artificial intelligence, can, or will soon be able to, think as well as, or better than, we do.
• Psychology is a science and has made great advances since, let us say, the time of Homer.
• All people are equal. The only differences between people of different races are slight physiological ones: such as the color of their skin, the shape of their nose, and the like.
• It is better for some innocent people to be falsely convicted than for some guilty ones to go unpunished.
• Liberal democracy is the best form of government (that is why even totalitarian governments, such as the Chinese one, claim to be democratic).
• Colonialism was/is absolutely bad and had/has no redeeming characteristics at all.
• Whatever a man can do, a woman can do too.
• Men have it better and oppress women.
• Depending on the time, place, and the gender to which you belong, unless you are over 17, or 16, or 13, sex is bad for you. The more so if you have it with someone who is older than you.
• Starting with the Biblical Joseph, Every time a woman cries “rape,” or “sexual harassment,” she was speaking gospel truth.
• For any half way competent woman to stay at home and raise her children is demeaning and a waste of her precious talents.
• The best way to raise children is to separate them from their parents at an early age—often, no more than a few weeks—and send them first to a nursery and then to school where the most important thing they will learn is to sit down and shut up for so and so many hours each day.
• Children under 12, or 14, or 16, should be prohibited from doing any kind of paid work and, by so doing, gain confidence and self-esteem.
• Children who, rather than doing homework, watch TV or play computer games are wasting their time.

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Note: I do not claim that even one of the above propositions is necessarily false. Only that, and if only because (to repeat), when everyone thinks alike no one thinks at all, rethinking them from time to time may have some real benefits. So thank God for the few among us who do have what it takes—and, believe me, it can take a lot—not to think alike.