- Last night I was driving home from a dinner, and was listening
to talk radio. I rarely do, because like most people, I find
myself talking back to the radio, and it can hardly give a darn
about what I say to it in response to the silly things that the
callers have to share with the world.
- One thing did strike me though; I was listening to a white
supremacist spew on about how this whole war was really started by
the Jews and Zionists in order to get the United States to come
more strongly to their side, and fight for the strength of their
land. My first response was "gimme a break, are you really
serious?"
- My second response was, "Did this guy even make it out of
Jr. High School?"
- My third thought was, "How many morons are there out there
like this guy?" C'mon now, if you are one of those morons,
raise your hand...Really high.
- So, if you are sitting there in your office, and people are
looking at you for having your hand raised so high, explain to
them that you've been asked to follow a really simple directive
that is equally stupid to the talk show host's perspective on the
issue at hand. Explain to the people in your office that you are a
moron, and you have your hand in the air because you are proud to
be a moron.
- I truly believe we have many morons on this planet. Why? Because
God intended it that way. It's part of balance, you know, the
dark/light thing, the happy/sad thing, the hot/cold thing? It's
the only way that the rest of us could possibly have a benchmark
to measure our own lack of moronic sensibility. I don't know about
the rest of you, but I'm pretty proud that I don't wear a sheet,
or a duncecap so big it covers my entire face to the point that I
have to cut eyeholes in it to see out of. And remain blind even
though I have eyeholes.
- OK, if you had your hand raised, you can put it down now.
- If you didn't have your hand raised, you already know how silly
some of these guys are. Maybe you can explain to one of them, one
on one, how really juvenile racism is, and how it actually isn't.
See, children aren't stupid enough to be racist either. It happens
as some of us attempt to approach adulthood. In this rather large
regard, many don't quite make it. I'm sure that it would be really
fun to take these that haven't quite made it past the 'I'm better
than you are because of my color' stage, and put them all in
Depends until they learn their lesson. I'm talking about
everybody. There are red, yellow, brown, white, black, and
probably even some green racists out there. In fact, I saw one
once. This guy was really envious of my motorcycle in Los Angeles,
and he was green with envy. And made a really dumb comment about
the eagle feathers painted on the side of it relating to Native
culture. And I just kinda laughed, realizing that this guy, while
on the outside looked like a 'normal' person, was really just a
moron in human clothing. And I can tolerate that, because I'm a
pretty tolerant person, except on this particular subject.
- For those of you that raised your hand at the first of this
writing, I'd like to express this to you; Even though you are a
narrow minded, self righteous, pig headed, intellectually
challenged bigot, I'll still live on the same planet with you. I
don't care if this offends you, I don't care if your preacher
tells you it's OK to be a bigotive ditz, I don't care if you are
now so angry with me that you are mounting your armies of
like-minded morons.
- Because evil happens when better people do and say nothing. Am I
suggesting I'm better than you? You better believe I am. You may
be of the same specie, but me, and those who are like-minded are
of a far more superior intellect. We are experienced in the world,
have tasted more of it's flavors, have worn more of it's colors,
and danced to the widest breadth of it's rhythms. We know beyond
any point of reason that regardless of whether or not we like the
various gems that each culture brings to the table, those gems are
beautiful, inspiring, and necessary for life and liberty to be
enjoyed. Were the world any different, then it would be lackluster
and slow. Hey, kinda like you, the guy that had his hand raised in
the back.
- What I find deeply ironic and worthy of little or no discussion,
is that the KKK and the Taliban preach very little in difference.
And yet either of you, at the drop of a hat, would wipe the other
off the face of the earth. It's an intellectual irony so great I
doubt most of you that raised your hands can begin to wrap your
brain around it.
- Maybe that's the best idea yet. Call home our military, and
allow those of you that raised your hands to be the soldiers of
fortune that so many of you want to be, and go fight the
terrorists. With luck, both of you will cease to exist. Then
again, we'd have to find something else to maintain the balance of
good vs evil. So for now, even though your politics vex me, I'll
tolerate you. Only if you'll tolerate me. But when you wage war
against me and my tolerance, me and mine......? We'll squish you
like a bug. Or maybe I'll just turn the radio off......
