Comments on Weird Things

I just finished reading ‘Weird Things’ chaps 1, 2, and 5, lots of info!  Whew!  I guess I knew already that are actions are based on our beliefs.  But, when our beliefs are placed within all the various ways we can get it wrong, well, it is no wonder there are a multitude of ways people go about living their lives.               After chapter five, I am thinking, it is no wonder with all the many ways we can be duped and even fool ourselves… and while there are ways we can do the ‘reality check’ but they aren’t the most reliable unless administered with the full force of scientific discovery… that most of us just take the easy path a little too much of heuristic simplicity.            Do we really understand what is important to us anyway?  Is there a base level of knowledge needed or required?  What I mean to ask is at what point is what we need to know really what is critical for us to have in our hip pocket so we can live and let live?  I am sure that this question is based on my heuristic tendency to simplify.  But it seems that maybe in this complex world we have created we now have to really move beyond the ‘appeal of ignorance’ as Schick and Vaughn have stated.