Could food be a thing of the past?

I'm only partially fluent in "nerd."  

Therefore, I just found out that Soylent, a Kickstarter project which promises to "free your body from food," derived its name from the sci-fi movie Soylent Green.

In the movie, it's 2022 (which, now isn't that far off), and the world has turned to shit.  

You've got the usually list of villains:

Overpopulation

Pollution

Poverty

Dying oceans

Depleted resources

Climate change

[Insert Al Gore speech]

Most people in this dystopian future survive on "Soylent Green" food rations, which are advertised as "high-energy plankton."  As the movie unfolds, you discover that Soylent Green is actually made from -- Corpses.

Well, luckily, the Kickstarter namesake is NOT made of corpses.  That's be weird.

Attentional Bias & Prayer

Source: Photo Pin

At painting class today, I listened to *a lot of* Bob Dylan.

In his famous song, "With God on our Side," he reflects on juxtaposition of religion and wars.

The First World War, boys
It came and it went
The reason for fighting
I never did get
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side.

When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And then we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too

Have God on their side.  

I'm not writing tonight to debate religion.  

Instead, I'd like to describe "attention bias" (the father of "cognitive biases") through the example of a religious person.