Friday, December 6, 2013  Our peculiar arrogance  As I've shared
on this blog before, my family and I are definitely a
Disneyworld family: we have taken trips to Disney four years in
a row. It is our annual vacation--we save up for it all year,
plan it months in advance, and just truly love it. (And in an
unexpected, but nice, side-benefit of homeschooling we are able
to go during the lightest week of the year, so that we don't
have hardly any lines...)  One of my youngest son's favorite
rides is Spaceship Earth, aka the giant golf ball of Epcot. This
is a ride which--if we're being honest--is super-lame. You get
in this "ride" and it takes you through a tour of history. As
you move along, Dame Judi Dench describes each of the major
steps of human advancement, from painting on cave walls through
inventing the personal computer. At the end of the "ride" you
use a touch-screen to plan your future, where you hoverboard
down ski slopes on vacation, or live in outer space, or under
the sea, etc.  Now I am a huge h