I had a sicky on Monday due to sickness, but soldiered through a busy Tuesday. More about that later.

While killing time prior to the pub quiz, I went to Borders where I found an interesting set of philosophical books. One of them, "Life, Sex and Ideas" by A. C. Grayling, had the following quote, explaining why people think mores of previous times were morally superior to today (and the hysteria in relation to new moral dilemmas):

"But a more important reason is that moral panics occur because the increased availability of information about what happens in society is not matched by a public capacity to reflect upon and make sense of it."

I think this is so pertinent. Things like the attempted change on laws regarding legal consensual sex caused an uproar here. Maybe this is why.

The author goes onto say, for whatever advances we have made in media technology, it has not been matched to any degree with an ability to understand the significance of the moral dilemmas that occur these days. We are still rather prehistoric in that regard.

Sleep time for me.