I have been very busy the past month and have not had the time to post an entry in all that time. However in the course of my daily activities I have seen and heard things that make it seem that our media are trying evermore desperately to keep the American people fearful and confused. One real gem is a commercial for the Wine Experience that plays on my local classical music FM station. The spokesman opens with the question, "Does matching food and wine stress you out?" Valium, anyone?
A Newsmax email came in this morning and asked the burning question, "Is Jesus coming back?" I unsubscribed immediately. This is not news but the End Times crap that the lunatic fringe keep alive over the trouble in the Middle East. Nut cases like John Hagee of San Antonio are salivating over the possibility that the United States will go to war with Iran and kick off the Battle of Armageddon. Then Jesus comes back and the Jews convert to Christianity and all the fruitcakes get swirled up into Heaven in the "rapture". This is after Jesus ("Judge not lest ye be judged,") judges all the zombies that are supposed to rise from their graves. Somebody's been watching too many horror movies. But that is all part of the dumbing down of America, a campaign that has been going on for fifty years, ever since the book "Why Johnnie Can't Read" was published. Today Johnnie still can't read and his kids and grand kids are like wise intellectually challenged, but they don't have to worry because Johnnie and his equally clueless colleagues hold high positions in politics, science, and religion. No Johnnie and the kids don't worry because they think Jesus is coming back. As a measure of how bad it's become, there is a product on the market that helps people improve their brain function.
A radio commercial touting this "amazing breakthrough" claims to get your old gray matter humming along like a ten-speed blender. "You can read ten books in the time it takes most people to read one."
Why would I want to do that? I enjoy a well written book and take the time to enjoy reading. I don't think I would enjoy a Beethoven symphony played ten times faster, but speed is the thing these days. Like the commercial (forgot what it was for) which reminded people that after work "you have to pick up the kids, start dinner, run errands, and have little time to yourself." Things get especially hectic around the "holidays" when the whole population is envisioned as running around like chickens with their heads cut off; shopping, planning family get togethers, having the folks in from out of town, and adjusting to peoples' busy schedules.
People are cast as starving rats in a maze with a heavy scent of cheese in the air. It's the way the Real World wants us to be; scattered, off balance, with minds so clouded that one becomes easily confused when presented any concept more involved than coming in out of the rain.
Want to be happy? Then don't find time for yourself - MAKE time for yourself. Want to improve your brain function? Try thinking! Otherwise you can continue allowing others to do your thinking for you and sit quietly by waiting for Jesus to come back. It's only been two-thousand years.
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