"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Electric Universe?
"Cosmology seemed to always be full of holes, literally. Even to my amateur mind. The sun is a big, nuclear fireball? Black holes that can suck in and make things disappear only to shoot them out again? Comets made of ice and dust have a glowing tail? And, still to this day, I've never heard a reasonable explanation for where petrocarbons come from... or the oceans, for that matter."
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