Gray cable
Monday June 13, 2005 - 11:40AM EDT
Looking through the various news stories this morning I find nothing of interest. I see no examples of idiocy that I want to waste time pointing out. There was one slipshod story on global warming probably written by a smoking monkey but it is not worth it to rail on that. Been there done that. What is considered good by the average person is extremely crappy in a lot of cases. Average person is has a fair amount of leeway for interpertation but you can make your own judgement. Sometimes I am floored by what people think is good. Its ludicrous. I am also very disappointed in the standards of intelligence that people like to follow. I don't consider going to an ivy league school or any top school to be an indication of your intelligence. I don't even consider your job no matter how complex it sounds to be an indication of intelligence. You can probably find some of the stupidest people in the world at a top school or designing buildings. What I think happens in the majority of cases is that a person is simply groomed for whatever they do. They simply do something all their life or are pushed in a certain direction. So what happens is when someone gets pushed or does something that is viewed as requiring "great intelligence" they are seen as intelligent. The opposite holds true in that when someone is pushed or does something that is viewed as requiring "no intelligence" they are seen as a dumb ass. I would wager that you'd find the same ratio of dumb-asses to smart people on GM assembly line as you would in a Lockheed engineering facillity.
You know what I fucking hate. Damn elitest science and scientests. They give science a bad fucking name. Damn clowns are too arrogant and see a small picture. Those kind of people are prime examples of real dumb-asses being seen as intelligent because of what they do. I hate those people probably more than I hate the real dumb-ass who acts like a dumb-ass. At least they aren't fronting. I'd love to take a challenge where I gather a group of people that are considered to be hopeless or dumb-asses in the general public view and give them the same training and access to knowledge as these elitest bastards and watch the so-called hopeless kick elite ass. I used ass a lot in those last few sentences. Damn I am hungry.
It will be a pretty boring day at work today. So I've been reading a little about Scientology from various sources. I would say some of the ideas they put forth may be worth exploring, such as their view on mental disorders and a few other things but holy fuck they take esoteric practices to the extreme. And talk about outrageous mythology. I though the Raelians had that sewn up. I was wrong. They completely ruin anything they have worth discussing with their weird-ass practices and rules. Their ways are even worse than the major religions because they haven't had a few hundred years for people to split into sub-groups and interpret things differently. What is most disturbing is the reverence of L. Ron Hubbard. Holy shit that is weird, he is like their Jesus or something. He was some lesser known author of the 60's or something who never did anything of note except come up with this Scientology stuff. Come to think of it, this is probably how the first Christians were viewed. It may be a similar case where the originators teachings have been bastardized over the years. Then again how in the hell do you bastardize that Scientology stuff. Who knows, maybe in a few hundred years Scientology will take over as the dominate asinine practice of human society.