Unwilling to Learn

Truth be told, I am in love with the world. Now that doesn't mean that my life is rosey and perfect, what it does mean is that I have reached a level of curiosity about almost everything from the micro-to the macro-scopic, that is at times both mind -expanding and depressing because I can never know it all, nor will I likely come close to actually grasping the possibilities just out of our current reach. Fortunately,I have the opportunity, desire and courage to read about and experience those things I find most interesting. And, some of those intellectual encounters are life-changing, so I am honestly bothered by people who choose to limit themselves. As far as I ca tell, the only people unwilling to read everything are people who are afraid to learn anything, and I have met plenty of them. They look just like the rest of us. They wear clothes, comb their hair and brush their teeth. Well, they even participate in the community, and that is a scary thing because they know close to nothing, but claim to have the answers. In fact, they are one of the real monsters that inhabit our world. Sometimes you can tell them apart from everyone else because they wear ignorance like billboard, they even proclaim its beauty, and then promise to refute intelligence, knowledge, and wisdom on the principle that if they want to believe something, then it must be right. The real dangerous ones claim to just magically know everything, and have the proof somewhere, and they promise to show it to you when they get around to it. hey might even remember someone's name who wrote a book on the topic. Doesn't mean they actually read the book, but they do acknowledge that books exist. To his disgust, most books are written by smart-ass liberals hell bent on destroying a good way of life that was perfect until... well, they will find someone to blame; just pick a group, I am sure it will work for now.

You can even try this at home.Just pick a subject like flourescent light bulb. Now, tell yourself that we don't really need them because the old incandescent bulbs worked just fine. Besides, when we used incandescent bulbs the economy was stronger and the average American could afford to own a car and a house in a decent neighborhood, but now things have changed. State that you read something in the New York Times that was outlining the fall of the American middle class, the middle class who worked good jobs. It was a middle class made up of skilled and semi-skilled labor who often worked in factories manufacturing things like the incandescent light bulb, but now that light bulb is gone and so are those jobs. Thousands of people lost their jobs because of a bunch of hippies and bleeding-heart liberals who put more faith in science than the greatness of America, just ask and you will tell everyone it is so. And if you say it, and if the New York Times says it, then it must be true. It doesn't matter whether the NYT actually published that article or not because it sounds good when you say it. Let it be written (or not), let it be done.
All that's left is the blaspheming and fornicating by those folks who wish to first destroy this great nation ideologically, and later physically.And by physically you mean through immigration.
See how easy it is to take yourself down a path of total nonsense? Fun, isn't it. Maybe that is why so many people have built entire lives on such a philosophy, and worked quite diligently at spreading that ideology far and wide. For those who would contest their insanity with facts and evidence, they simply shout, "Off with their heads!" or something equally disturbing. They usually also have a rule written down somewhere to ensure that no one can contest their decree, and these rules generally come from 1) religious doctrine or 2) the Constitution. In both cases, this is meant to strike fear into the hearts of mere mortals, and in many cases it does, which means we are basically screwed.
So much for getting anything done.