Wishful thinking suffices. People prefer dealing with machinery to dealing with bureaucracies. Your denial of the importance of objectivity amounts to announcing your intention to lie to us. No-one should believe anything you say. You are eager to defend rationality against the creationists.
Cynicism is a cheap substitute for sophistication.
You don't actually have to learn anything. We can't afford to waste money on crossing the ocean, Mr. Columbus, when Spanish society has so many unsolved problems. Why, most of those Jews and Moors we have converted aren't really sincere Catholics, and a lack of money to hire more inquisitors has put their hearings so far behind that many have died of natural causes before we ever got around to them. He who claims that affairs could not be worse is very likely to make them worse. Asking someone to recite his favorite modern poem is about as fair as asking him recite his favorite crossword puzzle.