There is a hopeful belief that mankind is forever pushing forward. But history has shown that to not be the case: civilizations rise, they achieve great things (or not) and then they fall. If history was a nice smooth upwards-trending curve, the descendants of Greeks like Archimedes and Eratosthenes would right now be crossing the gulf between the stars or perhaps exploring higher dimensions many centuries post-Singularity. But golden age Greece fell, Rome fell, Byzantium fell, Persia, the Inca, the Aztecs, the Mongols, the Chinese Empire, the Japanese empire… everybody eventually falls or gets steamrolled.

Behold:

Demi Lovato Sings To Ghosts To Help Them Overcome Trauma Caused By Sexism

Lovato has been exploring their interest in supernatural life in recent docuseries Unidentified With Demi Lovato.  

Where are Penn & teller when you need them?

The fact that this sort of thing gets *anything* but mockery is as big an indictment of our society as the easy acceptance of nonsense fairy tales like “the wage gap” and “hands up don’t shoot” and socialism and astrology. We are dumb.