5-3-08 

Hypnotized and heads packed full of mush

This morning when I woke up, I was examining the formula for public hypnosis. 

The most rugged, brutal, nastiest, most vile and dangerous places on earth CANNOT simply be called "The Arctic" or "The Ocean", "The Desert", "The Jungle", "The Swamp", "The Grand Canyon", "The Forest", "The Atmosphere", "The Earth". 

No, anytime these places are referred to, its prefaced with-

 "delicate", "fragile", "endangered", "threatened".

There's some mighty big lies foisted with that formula. The same formula applies to every living thing on Earth. Except man.

The truth is-

#1- The Earth is a whole lot bigger than you think it is.

#2- The Earth and everything on it is a whole lot more durable than you think it is. 

#3- "Endangered Species" are NOT "biodiversity". If you believe in evolution, (which you have to do if you want to be in the cool crowd), then "endangered species" are obeying the "laws of natural selection" and they are on their way out because they are loser species that can't adapt.

#4- Man's real affect on earth is nowhere nearly as huge as you think it is. Have you been in a jet plane? Did it surprise you how quickly man's work disappears into the landscape- and that's not from very far up.

What puts man in charge of the earth? (speaking organically, not theologically). 

Certainly, man is not very tough. Pair up about any wildlife with the most double-muscled freak WFW wrestler you can think of. In hand to paw, flipper, teeth, fangs, tail or whatever, the WFW wrestler is going to get sliced and diced, chewed on, slammed, whammed, bloodied, poisoned and left for dead, if not torn to shreds, and his head torn off his spindly neck.  There are some "food chains" we are not the "top" of.

The only things man has going for him is (speaking organically, not theologically) - 

1- brains, 

2- opposable thumb, 

-which gives man the ability to engineer his way out of trouble and build better things. 

The "Natural Selection" theory goes double for man. The lazy, evil, and defective are supposed to select themselves out for extinction.

Certainly, if homosexuals are "born that way", it wouldn't take many generations before the "innate" defect to select itself out of existence.  About one generation, to be exact.

I noted that my older kids, when attending public skule, developed quite an attitude of "intellectual superiority" . I was curious how an American who didn't know the difference between George Washington and Abe Lincoln or liberty and tyranny and didn't understand percentage, square root, or even making change was "intellectually superior". 

One of the teens said-

"We have been educated on a "Higher Plane" and have "Critical Thinking and Logic Skills". We're the smartest generation to have ever inhabited the earth."

The gauntlet has been slammed down.

Short Version follows-

"Uh-huh," I replied, "Since you have such hot Critical Thinking Skills, have you considered how much of that shit they have dished you was brainwashing? Do you have the ability sort it out?"

The teen replied "Oh, some of it was, but a lot of what you believe is wrong".

(I do the evil laugh. This kid is toast. Now I am curious which frying pan he is going to jump into.)

"Oh?", I inquired "I'm sorry to have led such a deceived life. And what, pray tell, am I wrong about?"

"Well...for one thing, you're stupid" he said. 

(I cannot believe my good fortune in subject choice). 

"Uh-huh. What makes me stupid?"

He sez "You don't believe in evolution".

Me: "Of course I believe in evolution. The earth and everything in it started out perfect and it has been devolving ever since".

He sez "There you go, using religion as the explanation".

Me: "I can't do that?"

He sez: "No, that's not using Critical Thinking and Logic."

Me: "It's not? How do I apply Critical Thinking and Logic?"

He sez: "Critical Thinking and Logic says it's couldn't have happened that way."

Me: "What couldn't?"

Him: "What the Bible says."

Me: "What the Bible says about what?"

Him: "Creation and stuff".

Me: "So you have studied the Bible so you know what it says?" 

Him: "No, it's stupid".

Me: "How do you know it's stupid?"

Him: "EVERYBODY knows it's stupid".

Me: "Who is 'everybody'?"

Him: "Just EVERYBODY.  OK?"

Me: "EVERYBODY is kinda general.  Can you narrow it down?"

Him: "The smart people".

Me: "That's still not very specific.  Define 'smart people'".

Lots more of this line until he gets to here- 

Him (not really wanting to say it): "My teachers said it was stupid and nobody with any brains reads it or believes it.  That's what they say on TV too".

Me (doing the mercy kill): "So that's your Critical Thinking and Logic skills? Thanks for the debate. I have found it highly educational, enlightening, and refreshing. I don't feel stupid anymore."

Me: "Are you suspecting that you might have a head full of mush?"

The kid wanders off, giving me the "eye".

He did finally figure it out.  Yes indeed, he had been sold a load of propaganda disguised as "education".  You just don't see things very clearly when you are in the fishbowl- except what's inside the fishbowl.