There really is one born every minute.
I'm reminded of this every time an election rolls around.
The world is becoming vastly more confusing and baffling to most of us and, since most of us are growing too fat and stupid to actually work to find answers for ourselves, politicians are at the ready with any number of excuses to fill the bill.
"Change we can believe in"...yeah, that's the answer!
There just has to be some simple answer to all of our problems. Doesn't there?
Out of pure emptiness, we eagerly embrace banana diets, spiritualism, "Bush lied", Dianetics or any load of crap that absolves us of any responsibility for our own predicament.
Mr. R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr. in the July 1986 issue of American Spectator said it very well when he wrote:
"Here in America, as elsewhere, there will always be tremulous little people of dim intellect and hyperactive imagination, burning for explanations to all life's vicissitudes. They grow impatient with learned analyses of the present. They are defeated by histories that illuminate the past. No species of scholarship or analysis could ever satisfy them; for they need that Wondrous Explanation that will quiet all their fear, thrill them with villains to revile, and never tax their feeble powers of intellection."
We Americans don't read enough! A person who reads facilitates his survival in today's world. Without reading and the knowledge gained from it we fail to recognize crackpots and fanatics who are more than willing to provide an excuse for anything we think we've been denied. Of course these excuses are offered in exchange for votes.
So...get ready. There are nearly six more months of political bullshit to come. Be prepared to hear lots of easy answers and know that there are NONE.
READ! And...get ready to ask questions.
"Hold on partner. Just what do you mean by CHANGE?"
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