Vaccines & wisdom as pattern recognition

We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. There is nothing progressive about being pig-headed and refusing to admit a mistake…Going back is the quickest way on. —C.S. Lewis

There are two types of people scared of authority:

1. Those who have suffered under wrongly exercised authority;

2. Those who themselves wrongly exercise authority.

The former is easy to understand. The latter is afraid of authority because they imagine everyone will rule like they do.