Stop Shoveling

Stop Shoveling

There is a saying that’s making the rounds, “If you’re the one in the hole, stop shoveling!” 

This seems to be where we are, pretty much, as a species – right now.  That is, we have allowed ourselves to become complacent and, well, just kind of stupid.  Let’s not get into the obvious and simple politics of it all, because that is actually easy to work out– easy to solve those problems.  Or, when you go to the polls (which everyone should do, every chance they get) just don’t vote for the idiots.  Who are easy to spot.  They look stupid.  They answer questions with non-answers and redirection. 

Newscaster:  “How’s the weather where you are Governor?”

Governor being interviewed:  “I just don’t know why we have to keep Handicap Parking Spaces.”

Ummm ,,,  okay …  Now, who would actually vote for that idiot?  Well, someone who chose to be stupid, for one.  Yes, dear readers, there are many humans out there, walking around breathing and stuff, who do chose to be stupid AND to remain stupid, all their lives.  Not ignorant, which actually is more accurately defined as “being without knowledge”.  A person can be ignorant of certain scientific facts, and yet not be stupid.  Once they chose to learn those facts, as it were, then they are no longer ignorant of said facts.  And, they can chose to act on the basis of now improved knowledge.

Let’s say one of those facts is, “The deeper a hole is, the harder it is to get out of that hole.”  Just a bit of a fact.  You find yourself in a hole and you want to get out of that hole.  If you chose to not learn the facts about deep holes, then you are stupid and will, most likely, die in that hole.  If you vote for someone who makes things worse, do not be stupid and vote for them twice. 

To become truly learned is a bit scary.  When I used to ski race, we used to say, “If you look at the trees, you will run into the trees.”  It is very natural to look at the thing you do not want to hit.  So, you have to learn to look at the spaces between the trees.  When a person is running for a political office, a position that will affect your life, you must learn to not run into the trees.  You must learn that digging a deeper hole, will not get you out of that hole.  You must learn to not get into a debate about Parking Spaces, when the question was about the weather.

Any Medical Doctor will tell you that if you don’t exercise and use your body, muscles deteriorate, some will even atrophy.  The human brain is a highly sophisticated organ that evolved from what is muscle tissue.  Lots of theories, some of which are beginning to look more like facts, have arisen from this notion, as it were.  Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease are primarily genetic, but memory loss and fuzzy thinking are acquired conditions.  Or, stop learning and you will begin to become simply stupid.  Why continue to dig yourself in deeper?    

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