According to Detroit band Insane Clown Posse and their latest music video, Ignorance IS Bliss.
Not knowing your grade school science and the concept that the refraction of light on water droplets form rainbows makes those rainbows “A Miracle”. “blow your brain,” from “the Milky Way and fucking shooting stars” to “long-necked giraffes” to “fucking rainbows.” The biggest punch line in the video is when one of these Bozos exclaims “Fucking magnets, how do they work?” WOW! Imaging being proud of the fact you don’t know this, and so proud of it to but it in a video for all to see.
Sad to say but NOT knowing shit has become very popular with a certain segment of society. You see it in hillbilly types who will shun “Book learn’en” and their polar opposites Rappers. The deeply religious are finding their precious bible stories of creation and Adam and Eve being relegated to quaint bed time stories by the science of evolution and cosmology. So it becomes a situation of not knowing these cold enlightened studies and accepting the warm folktales.
Writing stuff off as a miracle is a form of intellectual laziness. If something shooting stars is too hard for you to understand and would require reading a book or forgoing the entertainment of a latest music video to find out they’re chunks of rock heated to blazing temperatures by the friction of the atmosphere as they’re pulled towards the Earth, why take the trouble? Write it off as a great mystery.
Well luckily Cracked.com has created a dumbed down science book for ICP Juggalos. Lots of pictures for the cognitive challenged.
This woman has become very sad indeed. Calling for an end to war is a legitimate and rational objective, But hitching your wagon to a group of conspiracy theorist loons is no way to go about it and only denigrates the peace movement. It drive away the rationalist. Ok, so why not get the Moon landing hoax people involved and the JFK plot people involved in this “Big Tent” objective as well? Why stop there? An uncomfortably large number of 9/11 Truthers hold anti Semite views, are few being down and out Holocaust deniers, let get them too.
This kind of crap happen in the 60s, communist, socialist and Marxist infiltrated the anti Viet Nam war protesters and far to many peaceniks were too politically correct to ask them to leave, it would not be groovy. I remember when the Beatles came out with a song that made the statement “If you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao, you ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow” the radical left were up in arms, how dare John Lennon point out the obvious, leftist politics doesn’t have anything to do with peace. in fact some of these radicals were promoting quite violent actions. Everything from ecology, no nukes, drug law reform and woman’s liberation got thrown into the Viet Nam war protest and only made them look disorganized and at times down right loony. Marxist vegans for the liberation of cows.
Sheehan seems to be overly gullible and too full of that 60s none judgemental mentality. Sorry but sometimes you do need to make a judgment, sometimes you do need to tell the guy in the tin foil hat he is a kook and a detriment to the cause. Being overly influenced by conspiracy theories does make you a lover of peace, it makes you a sucker.
Sad to say but NOT knowing shit has become very popular with a certain segment of society. You see it in hillbilly types who will shun “Book learn’en” and their polar opposites Rappers. The deeply religious are finding their precious bible stories of creation and Adam and Eve being relegated to quaint bed time stories by the science of evolution and cosmology. So it becomes a situation of not knowing these cold enlightened studies and accepting the warm folktales.