“All the same, it moves”

“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world, yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.” Albert Camus, The Plague — 1948

To often the reason we find it hard to believe in “pestilences crashing down on our heads from a blue sky” is because those in power don’t want us to assign any responsibility to them for failing to protect us and minimize harm from the crash.

In 1633, the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church forced Galileo Galilei, one of the founders of modern science, to…