"Today, we finally acknowledge the obvious: that Jerusalem is Israel's capital.
Sins so terrible, so unimaginable that if, or when, we finally acknowledge the depth of our complicity, we will be changed forever.
It will be a sad day when we finally acknowledge that the Messi/Ronaldo dynasty has crumbled, to be replaced by a new generation of world-class footballers who, however good, will seem disappointingly human.
Between the power of an amoral industry willing to lie and the particular tricks of human psychology that make us willing to overlook our greatest threat, it's possible that as a species we'll slide straight into a new, hotter, more desperate world without quite recognizing it — without a Hiroshima moment at which, at the very least, we finally acknowledge reality.
Or does it mean that we finally acknowledge the futility of the enterprise and withdraw?
When will we finally acknowledge that yes, guns kill, and they have killed enough?
When we finally acknowledge that love cannot be bought, sold or manipulated in any way, we will free ourselves from the incorrect belief that love hurts.
Might we finally acknowledge that times are tough and that sadness, loss, and anger are basic, human responses to real life?
Do we finally acknowledge the corruption of the special-interest-owned polity controlled by the donor and ruling classes who operate under different rules from the rest of us?
We finally acknowledge the fact that our approach, i.e. studying scientific thinking through counts of articles published in different journals using very broad thematic categories, is slightly naïve and simplistic.
