The Three Filters [against Folly] Operate Through

In A Finite World This Means That The Per Capita Share Of The World's Goods Must Steadily Decrease.

Fundamentalists Are Panicked By The Apparent Disintegration Of The Family, The Disappearance Of Certainty And The Decay Of Morality. Fear Leads Them To Ask, If We Cannot Trust The Bible, What Can We Trust?

The Three Filters [against Folly] Operate Through These Particular Questions: Literacy: What Are The Words? Numeracy: What Are The Numbers? Ecolacy: And Then What?

Education Can Counteract The Natural Tendency To Do The Wrong Thing, But The Inexorable Succession Of Generations Requires That The Basis For This Knowledge Be Constantly Refreshed.

Numeracy: 1. The Art Of Putting Numbers To Things, That Is, Assigning Amounts To Variables In Order That Practical Decisions May Be Reach. 2. That Aspect Of Education (beyond Mere Literacy) Which Takes Account Of Quantitative Aspects Of Reality.