Posts Tagged ‘stupid’
Political Intelligence (Inteligance?)
I’m a pretty apolitical guy. It isn’t something that inspires me. For the most part, issues political are more inclined to tire me. There is so much empty rhetoric and over-compensating for limitations and failings in solutions being spouted. Most annoying of all to me is the polarization of issues and of political parties. Nothing is as extremely exclusive as the combatants try to make it seem. Nothing is all red or all blue and it’s a damn shame that our system has evolved to make any intelligent progress toward cooperation between the two primary parties such a long shot possibility.
I have no problem understanding that there are people who do have interest in the process of politics. But I am suffering with how people who do not have interest in politics can suddenly become swept up by outlandish reactions of others to a congressional vote and soon begin voicing their own desire for retaliation. Nothing has even happened yet! Why would someone write a letter to the editor of the paper to reflect the United States was born on 4-July-1776 and died 22-March-2010. Really? Did our country just expire?
What happens to people, that they embrace the logic of throwing bricks through windows of Democratic offices because they did not approve of the bill that was passed? Some of them finding it a worthy enough endeavor that they actually carry it out, multiple people in multiple cities! Why would a person publish a twitter message that calls for the President to be shot? My goodness. They are certainly revealing a fear of something. Something that hasn’t even happened yet. Maybe people believe that there will now be death panels that will be killing grandparents. I thought that ridiculousness had already been dispatched for the political theater that it was. Maybe I was wrong. It is incredibly disappointing.
Wasn’t I just looking for a way to not be counted among the human race? I’m willing to bet that the trees don’t have any of this insane behavior among their kind.
Not Blank
The thing about indicating a page is blank by writing that it is blank, well… “The phrase is a self-refuting meta-reference in that it falsifies itself by its very existence on the page in question.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentionally_blank_page). It just makes me feel uneasy with how we have evolved when I stop and examine some of the ways we do things. Before you know it, we will see warnings telling us that hot coffee is hot or that we shouldn’t let children play with plastic bags from the dry cleaner.
Do you ever think that sometime in the future the human race will achieve a state of being that leaves out the aspect of doing stupid things? What happened to survival of the fittest? Why hasn’t doing “stupid” been eliminated by attrition? Maybe there is profit in it. If somebody’s making money as a result of it, then there is motivation to have it continue. I’m going to have my lawyer look into this.
Why can’t we all just get along? Sibling battles can be ruthless, but if there is a threat against the family, suddenly they are the closest comrades and strongest defenders. Families can feud until there is a call to defend the neighborhood against an outside challenge. When the planet is threatened, our wars between nations will lose importance and all people will need to unite and direct their angst at a common foe. Of course, if it comes down to needing to fight other humans to preserve self, we still have it in us to not get along.
Don’t you just love the feeling when you find yourself in an elevator with just one other person, and that person just happens to be your rival? There is an opportunity to look at things with the eye of God. What would it be like if all people put into practice the concept of unconditional love at all times in all situations? I don’t think it would be stupid.
Relative Something 