Common Sense is a Color
Al Gore is a tool. Al Gore is a tool! Al Gore is a tool? It can be said so many ways, I do not know how to say it. But saying it three times must make it more powerful and true. From day one any one who chastised or at the very least, merely questioned his wonderfully produced PowerPoint expose was quickly and rudely told to shut up. After all, what do stupid common serfs know, right?
But this is not a blog about Al Gore; it is about how quickly people are willing to jump on a band wagon. Be it religion, science, government, safety, trans-fat, whatever you want, it’s in there. We are to go unquestioningly into the abyss. We aren’t to pack anything except for the wings of blind faith that are strapped to our backs. I mean, surely, the people spouting off the rhetoric do not have an agenda, an ulterior motive, for that would be wrong and lawd knows that humans do not harm one another for personal gain.
The way I see it is that we should question everything. We should force their hand and make them prove whether they stacked the deck or not. The last time I checked, very few people have our best interest at heart. They want some way to control you; to manipulate you into their line of thinking. Which of course is what we all do, but most of us do not do it having an agenda in mind. I would like to think that I do it just to make people think. Or maybe I do it just to piss you off and antagonize, both do seem plausible.
We’re written off as wacko’s yet Glenn Beck has his own show(s) and let me tell you, he’s not all there. Then again, neither are Stephen Colbert or John Stewart but you have to take them for what they are: entertainment. It doesn’t matter if they are labeled as comedy or not, they are getting paid to give their OPINION; nothing more, nothing less. The one big difference is how your information is received. Do you want sarcastic mockery or crocodile tears; biting satire or diabolical diatribes, the choice is yours.
The thing is that all of these people have things to say, just like you and I do. But what these people fail to realize or just do not care about is the power of their words. We unfortunately are all lost children who need told how it is. We need to be lectured to until the speaker is blue in the face spewing hate at us until we are beat into submission and haven’t the strength to question their so obviously superior intellect.
On the other side of it, we are all at fault for doing just that: letting them take control of our thought processes. Melting us down like cheap wax candles and them reforming us into clones of what they represent. We have let corporate media divide so far that at this point, I am not sure that it can ever be repaired. The entire planet now sits on the San Andres fault and we all just pay to sit in over priced seats (with processing fees), waiting for the shit house to come crumbling down.
These are the pros and cons of being human, where nothing changes and yet at the same time it changes at the speed of light. We have to adapt on a minute by minute basis or we are screwed. I use the word “we” quite loosely for I think the numbers of people that have rational, independent thoughts dwindles on an hourly basis. Why think, we have the computer to do it for us. And it isn’t irony that I am typing this out in WORD because I use a computer and the internet to expand my mind and learn as much as I can before it is all taken away from us. When I say “taken away” I am referring about our minds not the internet(s).
And I am well aware of the fact that this is over 140 characters. Then again, I do not pander to that crowd. If I have to adapt to your generation then you have to adapt to ours as well; yes will you meet me in the middle? Or will you ever be scared of that which is grey?
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Why do so few question when others never cease of ask? Perhaps it is something innate all the while idiopathic; some question more than others never knowing the reason why ::shrug::
Often to the chagrin of my parents, I not only grew-up asking questions but demanded concrete/factual answers to them and if they couldn’t answer them to my satisfaction, I sought people who could.
Be it politics, religion, the law, or the oft shunned subject of death, I pressed, I prodded, I stomped my feet and held my breath t’il I got an answer. Needless to say not much has changed.
I’ve never been one for extremes. The middle ~ a fully informed middle, is usually where I choose to stand my ground. Some have tried to push me to the left and to the right calling me blind, but to me “extremes” are blind because there’s a staunch refusal to see, to even acknowledge the other side.
When it comes to any “one” being glorified for a particular cause I have an issue because the cause becomes so tied up in said person that the cause itself becomes an after-thought; example Al Gore and “An inconvenient truth.” The documentary and the cause ~ Climate Change was not “his” idea, he was merely a spokesman, and yet he was gifted with a Nobel Prize! Was I the only one in the world who thought “What the fuck?” Fine, his status as Ex-Vice-President brought attention to the cause but he wasn’t a scientist who contributed in any way to the findings put forth in the documentary!
Al Gore, Michael Moore, and any other public figure who uses their status and/or position to lament their opinions all the while propagating their own fame ~ makes me want to kick kittens, but then again – stupid people in general make me want to kick kittens!
To “think” is to be, it is to breathe, it is the very essence of being alive. Do not take any information and/or opinion as proven fact. Read. Ponder. Listen. Ask questions. Decide – even if it is to remain in the middle on an issue. Do not become a replicant, just another mindless automaton!
“Think – and therefore you are.”
Well once again, you sum it up better than I did. Or, you added to what I already said; a nice compliment piece.
I know I may come off as thinking I know more than others but that is never my intent. I merely wish to do as you stated: to make people think, even if it is outside of their comfort zone.
Add to, yes. Compliment, perhaps. Make better, I doubt it – but, thank you.
You and I are cut from the same cloth; we question everything, no matter how uncomfortable it makes us or the person/organization we’re questioning. It is who and how we are. We think outside the box that others so oft try to shove us into.
I adore you B ~ all of you, especially that questioning mind and fighting spirit ; )
It’s the Irish in me, I can not help but fight.
I am proud to see that you are one hell of a writer, be it poetry or any other form/topic.
I always enjoy reading what you write, it always brings out a smile.
Take care~
Hey Lucy, thanks for stopping by. I so rarely go to MySpazz anymore but once in a while I do post a link to my rants or whatever you want to call them on this here website.
~BP
Deathwish pointed me in your direction this morning. Not a death wish of course
I loved reading this because I have recently done my own thinking and writing about the phenomenon of blind faith. I am forever questioning and have been called a “nutjob” for doing so. I once had someone (very recently) tell me that Jacko was still alive and had faked his death… I looked at them and said.. you go find him and then tell me that again. They replied: “But I thought you would agree with me cos you’re a nutjob conspiracy theorist”… I could return nothing but hysterical laughter to that one! I do not have Blind Faith in everything I read so I am labelled… sigh… sometimes I think life would be easier if I just put my sheeps clothing on and followed… but it has made for an interesting ride so far.
Good blog… I will sub on Myspace so I can see when you write more
x L x
Dear Nutjob,
Thank you for reading this and commenting. And tell your friend that MJ is def. dead because I bought his prosthetic nos on Ebay.
~BP