The other day my friend Lally said some people are just wired differently - which is probably true and extremely benevolent of him ...
Unlike Michael, I haven't yet developed that level of virtue or tolerance regarding the media, popular culture, educational institutions, or politics ...
Unfortunately, I just think a lot of these naysayers about global warming, health care, and social reforms are just plain f'ing stupid - like the tea-party lady that grabbed the headlines yesterday by saying the dems are trying to trick the public by using ten dollar words like 'reconciliation' ...
give me a break - we're responsible for every word in that English dictionary - regardless of the number of syllables or her inability to pronounce it ...
The idiocy infuriates me - from the top down: whether its Vatican policies, political maneuvering, greed, corruption, disintegrating principles among bureaucracies or our educators that proliferate banality ...
Most of the time i can let it slide, but lately there seems to be a shock and awe surge of an unprecedented amount of stupidity every time I tune into the news, or pick up a magazine or newspaper - even the art reviews and essays seem to have withered to a readership of eighth graders that Bush so beneficently advocated by lowering the bar of educational standards ...
So when I hear someone say they're just wired differently, I also remember a Lally poem that states: 'we will no longer accept the unacceptable, or ignore the un-ignorable ...'
It really is time for a "Call to Intelligence" rather than embarrassment from accusations of elitism from the likes of Sarah Palin supporters ... After all, part of the American dream and responsibility of a human being was to strive to better ourselves through education that we might advance our culture - not to reduce everything to its lowest common denominator to benefit the unwilling ...
thanks for letting me share ...
