Richard and Dan are alienated from the society in which they live. They wish they could experience the exuberance of happy singing, the joy of worshipping the God they do not believe exists, and the togetherness engendered by a shared belief. But try as they might, they simply cannot believe. Have they been brainwashed?
There are few pleasures in life to match the sweet terror of flicking through Gray's Anatomy to determine whether the pain you've just noticed in your knee is a sign of the imminent demise of a vital organ. The internet just makes it all so much easier.
Jeremy Stangroom is a British writer, editor and computer programmer. He founded The Philosophers’ Magazine with Julian Baggini in 1997. He lives in Toronto, Canada.
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