I don’t write this blog to educate anyone, write it- quite literally- to hear myself yap. I’m gratified by all the people who come here and are amused by my yapping, but it’s still just me yapping, and i did it long before I had a blog. <\/p>\n
Here’s the thing: I know I cannot change the heart and mind of anyone diametrically opposed to my political position, because I understand something- well, a lot of people understand, just few will let that understanding surface to their forebrain. <\/p>\n
There are several types of learning, and I want to speak about two. <\/p>\n
There is the type of learning that forces you to remember all the names of the commanders in the War of 1812. This learning you only need for the time it takes for you to pass a test; you might retain it after, and you might not. History geeks retain it more because they’re history geeks (I’m looking right at you, Tam) and they find it enjoyable. <\/p>\n
Even history geeks, though, can lose track of a name or date or whatever once in a while.<\/p>\n
Now let me talk about the other kind of learning. <\/p>\n
Remember that time you went to school with your fly open and nobody told you until you had garnered the nickname “Barn door”? Remember the time you showed up at the prom and discovered your date was already drunk before you got there? remember the time you tried to line up your new rim on the lug and sliced off the tip of a finger? <\/p>\n
Your experiences are probably different from those, but you can all remember those moments or similar ones, because of one simple thing: Pain is the most effective teacher on earth. the lessons you learn in pain become hardwired in your brain and prevent you from ever forgetting them. You can remember with perfect clarity everyone who ever broke your heart and how, you can remember with perfect clarity every stupid or embarrassing thing you have ever said or done, and you remember them because pain is the acid that burns those memories into the ripples of your mind. And those fissures, once created, cannot be easily changed, except by a greater pain. <\/p>\n
This is as true of animals as it is of humans, because you can fuck up an animal’s training in a new york minute if you don’t understand this, and undoing bad behavior is horrendously difficult. <\/p>\n
Developing good habits- whether they be gun safety, exercise, eating, whatever- all difficult, all important to our well being. <\/p>\n
breaking liberal morons out of their bad habits is certainly not something I’m up to, nor am I stupid enough to try. I have my hands full just taking care of me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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