BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Is it just me or has group-think reached epidemic proportions? If you are not firmly planted in the left, right or independent center of political thought there is no place for you to go! How’s that for covering your bases? My point is not about being among the group. It is about being an individual away from it. What political party would Einstein belong to today? Why the Whig party of course! Yeah I know it’s a stretch as a hair joke but where is that individual with the observant mind to go to satisfy his wit today?
From Global Warming to the potential pandemic of bird flu, the unity of supposed experts displayed on news programs is as deafening as the guys who use to tell us that the world was flat. Remember them? Falling off the edge of the world was a big thing back then! We haven’t heard from too many of them in a while. They sailed off to prove their theory and never returned.
These types are the same as the gang that runs from a black cat and never under a ladder! They throw salt over their shoulder, avoid stepping on sidewalk cracks, fear a bird in the house and won’t label the 13th floor of a high-rise building properly. You probably remember them from high school. They were the large rimmed glasses wearing, high water panted, pencil box carrying, protractor consulting, geeks that were wallflowers at the monthly teen club dance! Today they are Bill Gates; rich and still just as goofy!
These are the same folks who tell you that you came from monkeys! That is an insult to your parents perhaps but probably more so to your great grandfather, Dr. Zaius. What they never told you was that Charles Darwin had ape hair growing out of his own knuckles! This type of individual lives in a world of academia. For most people that’s a world of abstract thought where the universe can be answered by atoms, quarks, and theorems joining forces so as to resemble Phyllis Diller. It’s a mathematics survival of the fittest and is delivered courtesy of Texas Instruments.
Individuals with a vested interest in a particular outcome of a given subject now control many of the levers of societal communication. No longer just two cups on a string the arbiters of what we hear and see are a lot like the cable TV guy. Here’s a chap to whom you are at the mercy of that shows you so every afternoon that you’re still waiting for him to show up for his 9am appointment.
This person appeals to our gullible side! They can make you believe that purple elephants with pink polka dots can really fly if their ears are big enough. That’s silly because they usually are not drinkers. Everyone knows that you only see such things after being picked up off the bar room floor. Usually you are stepped on down there until your tongue flops to the ground and is used as a mop for the ashtray like tiles. Mmmm Mmmm tasty! Afterward one of the large bouncer fellows tosses you right onto one of those pachyderms for the flight home.
Some see the ridiculous things they espouse as the be-all and end-all of both time and space. Does anybody really believe that U.F.O’s have Jimmy Hoffa running their Intergalactic longshoreman’s association rather than the conventional wisdom? Thinking outside the box helps but that doesn’t justify their reason for existence. Insecure little nits aren’t they? Professor Frink can answer any question but is incapable of comprehending the impact of emotions and philosophy. If a tree fall s in the woods and lands on someone out of sight does it still hurt? Not until you witness them in a body cast!
Now we come to find out that Jesus Christ has great grand children to the fifth power who probably live in France courtesy of Leonardo DaVinci. I thought Leo just was a flying artist that wanted to create unperceivable paintings to hang on Riviera museum walls while waiting to become rich and famous posthumously. Sure he painted The Last Supper, but that feminine looking apostle John in the diner scene is really a woman and the Star’s wife! Therefore, in his other effort the Mona Lisa is a painting of Mary Magdalene during her pregnancy. She could be smiling because just out view Jesus is tickling her fancy! If enough experts would say it a large segment of the population would agree upon it.
Why you could write any story about history you want. Dinosaurs didn’t disappear from the face of the earth they just shrank and are sleeping! Ben Franklin was really wearing metal underwear when his kite was struck by lightening. After all what else could explain his proclivity to produce children at such an advanced age? His lady companions use to comment of Ben’s prowess in bed simply shuttering the phrase “shocking!” The Roman Coliseum really only held football games for the oldest football team in history, (The Saint’s of course).
The latest travesty with bird flu, a family infecting each other without exposure to birds almost brings a gleeful tone to the newscaster’s voice. They’ve been waiting for this since 1919 after all. Since they’ve said a flu pandemic was possible every year since then they were likely to hit upon being correct eventually. Now that is being ahead of the curve! Maybe it’s just mathematical. Perhaps it’s just the masses in a concert of thought out of control on a one way street!
Perhaps Albert Einstein’s hair looked like that because he was dressing up as Bozo the Clown for weekend children’s parties! That's probably not so though because that would make him more like the rest of us and susceptible to peer pressure. It is generally accepted that he had no equal. We all know he was using more intellect in one thought than most of us clowns use in a lifetime. He wasn’t a bird brain at all. He was a different sort of a bird all together; an individual apart from the group-thinking flock.
From Global Warming to the potential pandemic of bird flu, the unity of supposed experts displayed on news programs is as deafening as the guys who use to tell us that the world was flat. Remember them? Falling off the edge of the world was a big thing back then! We haven’t heard from too many of them in a while. They sailed off to prove their theory and never returned.
These types are the same as the gang that runs from a black cat and never under a ladder! They throw salt over their shoulder, avoid stepping on sidewalk cracks, fear a bird in the house and won’t label the 13th floor of a high-rise building properly. You probably remember them from high school. They were the large rimmed glasses wearing, high water panted, pencil box carrying, protractor consulting, geeks that were wallflowers at the monthly teen club dance! Today they are Bill Gates; rich and still just as goofy!
These are the same folks who tell you that you came from monkeys! That is an insult to your parents perhaps but probably more so to your great grandfather, Dr. Zaius. What they never told you was that Charles Darwin had ape hair growing out of his own knuckles! This type of individual lives in a world of academia. For most people that’s a world of abstract thought where the universe can be answered by atoms, quarks, and theorems joining forces so as to resemble Phyllis Diller. It’s a mathematics survival of the fittest and is delivered courtesy of Texas Instruments.
Individuals with a vested interest in a particular outcome of a given subject now control many of the levers of societal communication. No longer just two cups on a string the arbiters of what we hear and see are a lot like the cable TV guy. Here’s a chap to whom you are at the mercy of that shows you so every afternoon that you’re still waiting for him to show up for his 9am appointment.
This person appeals to our gullible side! They can make you believe that purple elephants with pink polka dots can really fly if their ears are big enough. That’s silly because they usually are not drinkers. Everyone knows that you only see such things after being picked up off the bar room floor. Usually you are stepped on down there until your tongue flops to the ground and is used as a mop for the ashtray like tiles. Mmmm Mmmm tasty! Afterward one of the large bouncer fellows tosses you right onto one of those pachyderms for the flight home.
Some see the ridiculous things they espouse as the be-all and end-all of both time and space. Does anybody really believe that U.F.O’s have Jimmy Hoffa running their Intergalactic longshoreman’s association rather than the conventional wisdom? Thinking outside the box helps but that doesn’t justify their reason for existence. Insecure little nits aren’t they? Professor Frink can answer any question but is incapable of comprehending the impact of emotions and philosophy. If a tree fall s in the woods and lands on someone out of sight does it still hurt? Not until you witness them in a body cast!
Now we come to find out that Jesus Christ has great grand children to the fifth power who probably live in France courtesy of Leonardo DaVinci. I thought Leo just was a flying artist that wanted to create unperceivable paintings to hang on Riviera museum walls while waiting to become rich and famous posthumously. Sure he painted The Last Supper, but that feminine looking apostle John in the diner scene is really a woman and the Star’s wife! Therefore, in his other effort the Mona Lisa is a painting of Mary Magdalene during her pregnancy. She could be smiling because just out view Jesus is tickling her fancy! If enough experts would say it a large segment of the population would agree upon it.
Why you could write any story about history you want. Dinosaurs didn’t disappear from the face of the earth they just shrank and are sleeping! Ben Franklin was really wearing metal underwear when his kite was struck by lightening. After all what else could explain his proclivity to produce children at such an advanced age? His lady companions use to comment of Ben’s prowess in bed simply shuttering the phrase “shocking!” The Roman Coliseum really only held football games for the oldest football team in history, (The Saint’s of course).
The latest travesty with bird flu, a family infecting each other without exposure to birds almost brings a gleeful tone to the newscaster’s voice. They’ve been waiting for this since 1919 after all. Since they’ve said a flu pandemic was possible every year since then they were likely to hit upon being correct eventually. Now that is being ahead of the curve! Maybe it’s just mathematical. Perhaps it’s just the masses in a concert of thought out of control on a one way street!
Perhaps Albert Einstein’s hair looked like that because he was dressing up as Bozo the Clown for weekend children’s parties! That's probably not so though because that would make him more like the rest of us and susceptible to peer pressure. It is generally accepted that he had no equal. We all know he was using more intellect in one thought than most of us clowns use in a lifetime. He wasn’t a bird brain at all. He was a different sort of a bird all together; an individual apart from the group-thinking flock.
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