How Pre-Scientific People Explain

Earlier today, I was reading about how pre-scientific people responded to events which they could not easily explain by resorting to making up a myth about which spirit or god did this. Myths become "fact," and there's no need for what we would consider scientific investigation because "everybody knows" Loki did it, as it were. Not just disinterested in investigating actual causation, but opposed to it with zealous fervor. With, of course, the predictable consequences, superstitious misunderstanding resulting in retardation of progress on every level.

Need I belabor the parallel with, if not the identification of, the Regressive mentality? That's why I prefer the term, over lefty, liberal, commie, progressive, and others. Regression to the prereason way of thinking.