You've entered the Paracast with your host, Gene Steinberg and David Beetti.

It's time we make a pitch for reasonable discourse.

Oh, it's a tough one, Gene.

In this environment that we live in, it's tough to have a reasonable discourse because most people don't seem particularly reasonable.

Or they are reasonable, but they get so emotionally wrapped up in things that reasoning sort of goes out the window and emotions take over.

And that's always a dangerous path.

Well, in politics, of course, it gets pretty unreasoned at times.

Certainly in this field, it does because we have so many competing factions.

We have the believers the

non-believers the various shades of believers each having their own personal belief system

and by the time you add it all up and you mix it up in the blender you get sometimes a pretty

difficult situation well you get the range of human experience We've talked a little bit on the show about Robert

Anton Wilson, the writer and philosopher, and I like to think the really clear-headed thinker,

though he probably would blanch at that statement. But Robert Anton Wilson talked about

reality tunnels, that people basically perceived reality through a specific set of circumstances that was about their

lives. And Robert Anton Wilson felt that all reality tunnels presented something of interest to

someone trying to understand the universe, that if you really want to understand how the universe

worked, that you would consider everyone's reality tunnel or their perception of reality to tell you something about the universe worked that you would consider everyone's reality tunnel or their

perception of reality to tell you something about the universe.

Of course, the problem with that is that nobody can really be purely objective.

So even if you're trying to interpret reality as parts through someone else's reality

tunnel, it's got to go through your reality tunnel.

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