Rush Limbaugh today accused someone of living on planet STUPIDER. An obvious play on Jupiter.
Sad part is most Americans are HIDEOUSLY stupid on what matters. Issues of our history, freedom, how we make a living, how the world trades, how we invent, how much we save, what we manufacture, what we eat, where energy comes from, about about health, Americans KNOW NOTHING. Many have become RELIGIOUS on the latest, unvetted 21St Century New Age Faiths and, of course, snidely, these faux-intellectuals have rejected the old faiths that came before while adopting the new "cool" religions. Rejecting just pork, shellfish and meat on Friday in Lent are no longer cool. We subscribe to the NEW religions and cults that are "holistic."
You demonstrate to the world your new PIUS faith by driving a PRIUS held together by BUMPER STICKERS.
These are hobbyists schooled in other fields that feel they are now experts because they saw an Al Gore documentary or at some point, met a scientist that is an alarmist. They now part of the easily led flock that makes their life suddenly meaningful. These motivated individuals are brutal, energized with emotion, dangerous and armed with every un-peer reviewed Google post.
On social media, I see people trawling for environmental offenses for them to write about. It is "OK" if this trawling is called "research." This is horribly wrong. Not Science as the conclusion has already been reached.
NEXT, the SUB-CULTS:
Obsession with ALL NATURAL? What does that even mean? Malaria parasites, Black Death bacteria from Rats and Fleas, the AIDS Virus, Rattle Snake Venom, Botulism and Poison Ivy are ALL NATURAL & ABSOLUTELY PURE!
Take the obsession with ORGANIC. What diseases are prevented by these products? Fresh ALWAYS tastes better, but "organic" is immaterial. Very slight specific pesticide residues cause what exactly?
CHEMICALS. Listen to the number one radio show in the morning and you hear Dedra Imus cackling hysterically about all the CHEMICALS! She sounds like Marlon Brando chanting about THE HORROR in APOCALYPSE NOW! Actually she is partially right. Humans and plants are made of water and chemicals. 100%.
Look at the number of chemicals on the shampoo bottle below. I once saw the list of chemicals for a plain Orange. It was three times as long.
VEGANISM. Blood cholesterol is lower. No question. How much longer are they living? Not documented except on quack websites. But by eliminating eggs, dairy and cholesterol is not usually the motivation of "being Vegan." It is the connection to an animal...hence the religious connection.
Interesting new variation on the cult is shown below. On the same shampoo bottle above, there are now declarations of being 100% Vegan and Gluten Frfee. I guess we ought to label Motor Oil, Windex and bags of cement the same way.
FEAR OF BIO ENGINEERING / FRANKENFOODS This one may be more european. People over there scrawl grafitti about it. Your heavily acidic stomach and digestive enzymes very effectively break down "FDA approved" foods into component building blocks that you need regardless of the source. "Pink Slime" is a scare tactic with a particularly effective name. Unfortunately, not using it will cause an increase in animal waste in certain products. Gregor Mendle started food Bio engineering in the 1800s by hybridizing plants. Nobody has died from eating better peas.
FEAR OF IRRADIATED FOODS. Irradiation as means of preserving food has been going on since the 1950's. It is very effective at killing bacteriand mold spores. Folks irrationally think that they will glow after eating irradiated foods.
Obsession with WHOLE GRAIN diets. Don't get me wrong, Whole Grain and Fiber are good, but to obsess is wrong. How much longer are they living unless you are documented GLUTEN ALLERGIC? Not documented except on quack websites. Are you getting a correct colon screening according to guidelines?
Allergens are verifiable hazards but I suddenly see warnings EVERYWHERE about peanuts, wheat, and MSG. I see legal encyclopedic warnings that I don't read on ladders as well. Companies are getting worried that a very small percentage of clients MIGHT be overly sensitive to one of a hundred ingredients and it is Erin Brockavich all over again. Let the lawyers protect us from everything from Chemicals, to Football, to crossing the street, and the next thing you know, Coca-Cola and Movie popcorn. The Horror... the Horror. MSG: Madison Square Garden is not that bad a hazard I think ;) FYI - MonoSodium Gutamate is a natural ingredient of mushrooms.
Well, this must all be related to that mother of all Nuevo Religions: ENVIRONMENTALISM. Pray to Earth Mother Gaia. More to come in the next post. Yes, this biologist was an enthusiastic, numbskull participant in the first EARTH DAY! You learn.
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