I’ve been mad as hell in recent weeks (if not months). To me, it’s felt as if common sense had been tossed into the garbage by the majority of people out there – not only in Canada, but in the US and everywhere else.
On the one hand, we’ve been hearing nonsense about how capitalism is “dead” (with the recession and its concomitant revival of Keynesian folly being cited as proof). On the other, we’re being fed even bigger nonsense about “man-made global warming”.
I won’t claim to have the ultimate truth, but what I do know is that the “scientists” working on this problem have been politically and ideologically motivated, and many, if not most, of them have acted unethically (“Climategate”). I don’t see any middle ground in this debate. We have radical lefties who insist that we must put ourselves back in the Stone Age, or the planet will be lost. Such exaggerated claims accomplish only one thing: actual proof that it ain’t so.
Remember what mom always said (at least mine did): Anyone who raises his voice and screams, while trying to drown out and gag anyone who thinks differently, is automatically and invariably in the wrong – no matter what.
But whether that BS is real or not is not the issue here. What is, though, is the tone and style with which stuff is being shoved down our throats today – in politics, society, business and “science”. In short, there is a lot more stupidity in the world today, with the really stupid people being absolutely arrogant about their claims to know the “ultimate truths” about everything. And this has kept my PO level at an all-time high recently.
I shouldn’t have allowed this to happen, but my anger has shown through on numerous occasions in recent weeks and months, culminating, for example, in name-calling on blogs or Twitter, etc.
Not making excuses here at all, but let me just say that, if nothing else, it shows that I do care about what happens to our country, our world. If more people cared, we’d actually see a higher turnout at election time for a change. Wouldn’t that be awesome?
So, while I’ll try to keep my anger at “global stupidity” in check, I won’t always succeed. But, at least, I care enough about the issues to get all worked up – which is more than most other people can say about themselves.
