Writing about writing gets old quick. Worse, back in the day, writing was used as 'punishment' which may partially be responsible for our current quandry. The ignorance overload brought on by a media bent on providing entertainment more so than 'information'. The cure for ignorance is knowledge but it needs to be ingested and processed to become useful.
Now we arrive at a disturbing distinction encountered by most writer/authors...none of our friends 'read'...(and the average person is convinced of this because they literally haven't picked up a book since they left school.) Mind you, walk into the break room and you'll find the same devout 'non-reader' in thrall to their smartphone as they surf the net.
Now, Forest Gump's most famous, line 'stupid is as stupid does' (and no, 'life is like a box of chocolates' isn't more memorable or nearly as widely repeated) which brings us full circle to the 'I don't read' claim...and that ever shrinking line between stupidity and ignorance.
As we enter the 2016 presidential election cycle we find ourselves faced with a growing field of unqualified wannabes. Worse, all but one of these candidates is 'undesirable' as they subscribe to the conservo-whacko meme of government can't govern (while passing laws via lynch mob that butter their benefactor's bread)
The single notable exception to this pack of meat puppets is Bernie Sanders...but this candidacy poses another insurmountable hurdle, the 'chief executive' isn't 'all powerful' (and if he doesn't toe the line drawn by the one tenth of one percent he'll be assassinated like every other president that has attempted to do the right thing.
I like Bernie and I don't want to see him dead. I'm happy he's running but I understand he is powerless to alter the existing vipers nest that inflicts relentless injustice upon the citizens of this once powerful land.
Here's a quote from Bernie Sanders.com
Do you find it disturbing that everyone continues to point to 'Morning in America' as the time frame where the USA lost it's way?
If this is true and less that 25 % of the voting public self-identifies as Republican does it disturb you that 100% of the corporate owned media is Republican (and, against all odds, we have a 'mathematically impossible' conservative dominated legislature?)
Again, it should come as no surprise that the ones who pay get what they want...and if you're funding the campaign, who cares what the voters want?
See a little 'consistency problem' here? For all of the flag waving the self-professed 'patriots' among us we don't live under a government where the people are represented, we live under a government where a human construct is worshiped, money.
More poignant: money is, in reality, worthless. (And those who control it, know it.) It is the LAWS surrounding money that impoverish vast portions of the globe.
But I digress,
I intend to vote for Bernie (if he gets that far and I doubt he will.) I suspect/'predict' he'll drop out near the end of the race.
And like all the other elections over the past 40 years, we'll be left with a choice between 'bad' and 'worse'...and this time 'worse' will win and no one will be able to figure out why.
Which brings us to the 'title' of this entry The Cure , which is to opine that it is not possible to make correct decisions without accurate information.
Not that 'stupid' will understand this, 'stupid' thinks everything he needs to know comes from the eye that never blinks...'no reading involved' (naturally this implies no thinking either but our pal doesn't see this.)
Thank you for letting me inside your head (even if I did make you 'read'!)
Now we arrive at a disturbing distinction encountered by most writer/authors...none of our friends 'read'...(and the average person is convinced of this because they literally haven't picked up a book since they left school.) Mind you, walk into the break room and you'll find the same devout 'non-reader' in thrall to their smartphone as they surf the net.
Now, Forest Gump's most famous, line 'stupid is as stupid does' (and no, 'life is like a box of chocolates' isn't more memorable or nearly as widely repeated) which brings us full circle to the 'I don't read' claim...and that ever shrinking line between stupidity and ignorance.
As we enter the 2016 presidential election cycle we find ourselves faced with a growing field of unqualified wannabes. Worse, all but one of these candidates is 'undesirable' as they subscribe to the conservo-whacko meme of government can't govern (while passing laws via lynch mob that butter their benefactor's bread)
The single notable exception to this pack of meat puppets is Bernie Sanders...but this candidacy poses another insurmountable hurdle, the 'chief executive' isn't 'all powerful' (and if he doesn't toe the line drawn by the one tenth of one percent he'll be assassinated like every other president that has attempted to do the right thing.
I like Bernie and I don't want to see him dead. I'm happy he's running but I understand he is powerless to alter the existing vipers nest that inflicts relentless injustice upon the citizens of this once powerful land.
Here's a quote from Bernie Sanders.com
“The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap between the very rich and everyone else, or do we fight for a progressive economic agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment and provides health care for all? Are we prepared to take on the enormous economic and political power of the billionaire class, or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?” Bernie Sanders.
Do you find it disturbing that everyone continues to point to 'Morning in America' as the time frame where the USA lost it's way?
If this is true and less that 25 % of the voting public self-identifies as Republican does it disturb you that 100% of the corporate owned media is Republican (and, against all odds, we have a 'mathematically impossible' conservative dominated legislature?)
Again, it should come as no surprise that the ones who pay get what they want...and if you're funding the campaign, who cares what the voters want?
See a little 'consistency problem' here? For all of the flag waving the self-professed 'patriots' among us we don't live under a government where the people are represented, we live under a government where a human construct is worshiped, money.
More poignant: money is, in reality, worthless. (And those who control it, know it.) It is the LAWS surrounding money that impoverish vast portions of the globe.
But I digress,
I intend to vote for Bernie (if he gets that far and I doubt he will.) I suspect/'predict' he'll drop out near the end of the race.
And like all the other elections over the past 40 years, we'll be left with a choice between 'bad' and 'worse'...and this time 'worse' will win and no one will be able to figure out why.
Which brings us to the 'title' of this entry The Cure , which is to opine that it is not possible to make correct decisions without accurate information.
Not that 'stupid' will understand this, 'stupid' thinks everything he needs to know comes from the eye that never blinks...'no reading involved' (naturally this implies no thinking either but our pal doesn't see this.)
Thank you for letting me inside your head (even if I did make you 'read'!)
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