25th June 2005, 6:27 PM
The real danger here is the standard stuff, celebrities spouting nonsense and people believing it. However, normally it's people who are only famous because of their nonsense. This time there are people idolized for acting ability or whatever who are just now revealing their insane beliefs in a cult. There's some danger there. I mean, the danger is there anyway, but I think there's a bit more to it now....
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)