Rum And Sodomy

"Give them Rum and Sodomy and you will never have mutiny." John Paul Jones qouted from a American Naval Manual.

I have, as of late, learned a harsh lesson about the world. It is full of literal morons who will beligerently defend their right to be stupid. People will pursue with violence the right to not know and not care about anything more than a cigarette and a drunken stupor.

These people don't care who you are or what you know. All they care about is whether or not they can overpower you. It took me a long time to figure out what the intellectual axis of their attitude was and I think I may have made some progress.

The fear of change runs deeply in the minds of the stupid. Change signifies unknown variables entering their lives that they may not be able to deal with. It means that they may have to become dynamic and change. Their minds might have to learn and grow. They fear the real work... Thinking. The real effort in this world is the act of using creative intelligence to solve problems. These people must learn... If we were left to fend for ourselves in nature with our only defense being brute strength, we never would have left the trees.

They are terrified of a world full of things that they do not and will not understand. I believe that a greater part of them could if they tried. They just give up. And then they punish you and me for making them remember their failure. You see, we are the top ten percent. Those making change happen and not just dealing with it. Those that recognize that without cooperation and dynamic and dangerous thought progress is slow and halting.

These people, the other ninety percent, are willing to be made into drones. Worker bees not capable of independent thought. Not worth the trust instilled in the average well-trained sheep dog. They are perfectly happy with others doing their thinking for them. The government feeds them huge doses of tobacco and alcohol to placate them. The Media feeds them obvious lies so that they can go about their meaningless lives with a false sense of security. The entertainment industry creates false icons that they can imagine themselves being... An escape from the banality of their horrible wasted existence. They believe that they have it all... They do. All but a soul.

By artistic metaphor these people are fed lies about what life is supposed to be like. They hide behind the twin fallacies of tradition and history to give their actions a false sense of importance. They use illogical pet causes to assauge their guilt at not helping the pain and suffering all around them. I remember that in a book I read a long time ago there were proletariat masses kept in check that very same way. It was by George Orwell. If you refuse to think America, your thinking WILL be done for you. Don't you at least want a choice?