Neanderpundit

I know you will all be disapointed on wednesday morning when your US government has been turned from one pile of steaming dogshit whose foul stench we have grown to know, and loathe, to a new pile of steaming dogshit, many of whom we voted for.

I myself will go to the polling place on tuesday and hold my nose and vote for the guys I hate least. I have no illusion that this will fix anything.

And it won’t fix a damned thing.

Until we begin to cut the food supply to this gigantic parasite we will not be free of it, ever.

No, I’m not channeling Wallace Shawn.

Once upon a time, Wechsler and Stanford Binet developed tests- originally to see if students needed specific help, but now used for all kinds of other reasons.

Also, originally, they used three words to indicate specific positions on the scale. Idiot referred to anyone under 20 IQ, imbecile was for individuals who tested between 20 and 49, and moron was betwen 50 and 69.

IQ is not a measure of how smart someone is, it’s a measure of the clock speed of their brain. Some people are working with a quad core CPU, some are muddling along with an 8088.

The bottomline in all this is that you can have the highest IQ and the benefit of the very best education money can buy, but if you don’t use that big brain and that education to make decisions based on verifiable facts, you damage yourself and those around you.

This is where the evil of Belief rears it’s ugly head again. Belief will dissolve all logic. Belief that Obama will “Fix” the country. Belief that people “Deserve” free health care. Belief that socialism will work this time if they are in charge.

Belief is fucking this country. if you can’t know, don’t believe. Never vote on belief.

I think we ought to co-opt those now disused terms and apply them in the following manner:

People who “believe” in UFO’s, socialism, vampires, the peacefullness of Islam, or ghosts, would be morons. Capable of near normal human function but not generally dangerous.

People who “believe” in UFO’s, socialism, vampires, the peacefullness of Islam, or ghosts, and want to proselytize those “beliefs” until everyone else is converted, would be imbeciles. They need to be monitored, perhaps with ankle bracelets, and kept away from the impressionable, like children or democrats.

People who “believe” in UFO’s, socialism, vampires, or ghosts and who want to use the law to enforce their beliefs on us all, are idiots, and should be segregated from the rest of the population lest they intermarry and breed other idiots.

One of the topics of conversation at the blogmeet was the transition in all literature towards sparkly vampire metrosexual wierdness; it’s taking over SF, it’s made it’s way into the former bodice-ripper genre, film is studded with it, and even commercials have crossed the line.

Tam even notes, yesterday, that the tivie is loaded with ghost hunting, paranormal supernatural horseshit. Even Discovery channel is loaded with it, as if it were some kind of hard science, “reality” shows loaded with Blair Witch scenes.

I have noticed that people who maintain a disconnect with reality often seek out the unknown for a good old fashioned scare.

Sorry, the known is plenty frightening enough for me. I don’t need people to make up shit for me to fear.