Useful Morons revisited

There seems to be little one can do to counteract the affects of the, communist endeared, useful morons. It apparently is in our genetic makeup and surfaces as morons or red necks. They exist and can be easily influenced by the unscrupulous politicians and power gluttons. This is not a good situation but for the most part they are self-involved mindless dwebs that tend not to do anything on their own. If the despots are corralled then the usefulness remains untapped and the world blunders onward.

However the little busy moron that keeps stirring-the-pot are very harmful to the world order because they actively engage themselves in counter productive and harmful activities in the name of some anti-establishment ideology. It is the busy moron that upsets the balance of power and initiates harmful movements that too many politicians hitch their carts to. It is the busy moron that causes the issues to be over exaggerated and hyper-inflated.

Some social progress can be attributed to the busy moron because inequities do exist. However, unscrupulous individuals do take advantage of it with little or no concern for the consequences of their actions or about rectifying the problems created..

It is not that the initiatives are necessarily harmful but that the unintended consequences are where the greatest damage is done and the morons either can't or won't think it through. The politician's exploit it for their purposes and the dumbed down media types are too simple mined to recognize the true issues and report them accurately or are they are actually complicit in the perpetration of the debacle.

Bill Nye

The science guy is simply a high priest of the his religion of evolutionary science.  It takes as much faith to believe in his science as it does to believe in the bible. The problem is that the doctrine of his science changes daily. The actual evidence of evolution if it is defined as species change, and not simply adaption of the species, is as unprovable as the actual evidence of God.  The fact that order exists within chaos and in conflict with entropy is unimaginable except in the light of creation.  Even the religion of science believes that everything started with the big bang. The scientists just don't bother to deal with the little detail of what was before the big bang; Or how order came about from absolute chaos; how the genetic code seems to have come into existence which but its very nature is more complex than the code itself; or how the code, resident in each of us, is capable of producing the vast diversity of plants, animals, an humans on the earth. It is the stuff between the genes that kept me from becoming something other than what I am.  That is where the mystery is not the genes.

The religion of science keeps the pseudo-intellectuals busy, off of the streets, and out of crime but the search for truth is really beyond them. My belief in God enables me to focus on being a better human being rather than trying to produce a better human being.

The fact that some individuals have used religion and science to do inhumane things doesn't belittle religion or science it does belittle humans. It doesn't prove or disprove religion or science it points out the error of thinking one is some how better than the other.

I would not want to live in a world without science nor try to survive in a world without religion.

Nozick

I wonder what it is in the human genome that leads to the creation of contraries but endows them with a high intellect in as much as they pretend to write meaningful things in a semi-convincing manner but in reality it is only thoughts about how to lie, mislead, and draw the wrong conclusions.

I am reading Robert Nozick's book Anarchy, State, and Utopia. I find it remarkable that he and others like him have any following at all, but they do. What is depressing is that they appeal to people who are highly intellectual and capable of so much but are either lazy or simply incapable of rational thought and yet they seem to be prospering today in spite of the evidence that their philosophies and beliefs are counter productive at best and harmful at worst.

Too many people are anxious to disavow the capitalist thinking because the love of money leads to greed and corruption.  Too many people are willing to believe the socialist or communist way of thought but won't accept the fact that the lust for power leads to greed and corruption.

Not enough people are willing to accept the religious point of view, philosophy, and behave accordingly because it expects them to sacrifice their time and money on behalf of someone else and it does not lead to greed or corruption when practiced accordingly.

Lies, Damn Lies, & Statistics or Democrats

Listening to a democrats talk is like looking at a statistical report. Democrats mention or question only those issues that support their position; like a statistical report which only uses the data that reports a particular aspect or issue of a problem.  Taken at face value the ideological position taken or the presumptive report issued makes sense or seems valid but as soon as the issues are explored and the alternatives revealed then the lies, dam lies and democrats and their statistics and tactics are revealed.

Health care is made more expensive and unaffordable by government intervention. The poor can not afford health care. Democrats disregard the increased cost issue and only talk about the number of uninsured.  Their solution is to tax the rich to pay for the poor instead of enabling the cost to be reduced so that the poor can afford it.

The lie is that medical costs are the result of industry greed, the dam lie is everyone should get heath care at low cost and the democrat-statistic is that it can happen if the rich would pay their (disproportionate) fair share.

The greed is enabled because government inhibits the market forces. Medical charges would be less if the consumer were responsible for their costs and the providers were allowed to compete.  The poor would still be without medical insurance but there would be fewer who couldn't afford it and more options for the remainder than expecting someone else to pay.

The real issue is that life is not fair and can't be corrected by a law or a tax. The solutions are not to punitively tax the fortunate but to magnanimously sacrifice our own well being on the poor' behalf. The challenge is not to regulate services and mandate outcomes but to enable opportunities and individually support desired results.

It is better to be good because we want to than it is to be good because we have to. It is not as easily to be bad when we are the judge than it is when someone else has to make the judgement.  If the rules for engagement are simple then the guidelines for retribution needn't be complex.

We live in a time when it is easy to be good if we want to, the choice to be bad can be made apparent, and the willingness to help others is no more important than ever.

Geologically Speaking

This is what I think I know.  The estimated age of the earth is 4.3 billion years old. The composition of the current earth crust is mostly sedimentary and metamorphic which leads me to believe that the current mantel has accumulated over time through the processes of erosion.  The locally observable geology is amazing to me because it is composed of layers of very distinct rock and soil types exposed by erosion.  Then supposedly through plate tectonic actions caused those sedimentary and metamorphic slabs to be pushed upward where erosion, once again, reduces them to mole hills and the process recycles itself maybe as many as 12 times.  That is how often the tallest mountain in the world would be eroded if it lost one inch per thousand years in height.

Generations

My grandson overheard a panel discussion about the economy and asked whether the president should be re-elected or not. I tried to explain to my grandson the economic calamity which is coming because of the president and his predecessors willingness too borrow money from future generations to afford our wants today and a willingness to take from those that supposedly have and give it to those who have not.  Because of my generations profligate spending, I told him that his parents generation is bankrupt, his generation is bankrupt, and even his grandchildren's generations are bankrupt.

When he asked how to solve the problem I offered the solution that if my generation were to be inconvenienced by going without, and his parent's generation were to be characterized by going hungry because of shortages and his generation was subject to suffering because of complete breakdown of the economy then maybe his children would only have to be hungry and his grandchildren would only have to be inconvenienced so that his great grandchildren could live a life of abundance one again.

I can only hope that his children's children would have learned the lesson but I don't have much hope so it is likely that the same thing will reoccur unless there is something completely unexpected and unlikely would change the outcome.

Obviously that is not a very positive outlook and he went to his room confused and somewhat depressed.  Unfortunately no one actually knows what is going to happen or how to fix it so it is up to the conjecture and the compunction of scoundrels elected by an uninformed and lackadaisical electorate.

Liberal Drivel

This morning I awoke to NPR and their incessant liberal drivel and mindless analysis of social and economic circumstances from a contemporary point of view ignoring the context  and point of view of previous culture.  I am tired of hearing clueless individuals pontificating about the social and economic circumstances of today as if some how their ideological mindset is representative of and directly relevant to the past. I am tired of their dismissal of relevant social and economic values and standards in favor their idealistic attitudes and naive points of view and pretending that they have something of value to offer or that somehow their statements are tantamount to identifying the cause and stating the solution.