Why can’t it be extirpated, not even in an age as relentlessly analytical as our own? Because the romantic imagination of mankind is itself a hidden animal, a wondrous and inextinguishable beast.
Because the human brain loves heuristics and pattern recognition, and we don't teach critical thinking in schools. I wonder if regions with better critical thinking curricula (philosophy etc.) are more skeptical? Are they less superstitious, religious etc.? Is Europe doing anything special? And how might culture fit into it?
