Will Eisner’s ‘The Plot’
28th November 2010
Bryan Caplan takes a poke at the hornet’s nest.
Eisner dwells on the Protocols‘ zombie-like ability to survive despite repeated conclusive disproof. To me, of course, that’s not surprising at all. Countless religious and political texts remain sacred to true believers despite conclusive proof of their historical inaccuracies.
Can you say ‘Book of Mormon’? Of course you can. But you won’t, because that would be impugning someone’s religion. If we’re going to impugn religion, let’s pick the low-hanging fruit … like, oh, say, Islam.