I’m thinking one of the worst attributes of a small percentage
of humans is their habit of seeing the world in only black and white, good or
bad, up or down, or possibly intelligent or stupid.
Maybe humans have always been prone to that simplistic view
of life, starting with the cave men and women. Where they only allowed what
they considered the good or strong people to join their tribe and all the
people they considered bad or weak would be killed or at least banned from
their declared territory.
What kind of testing procedures or guidelines they would
have used to determine other’s standing in their scheme of things might have
been as simple as color of skin, how high of a forehead they had, how low their
knuckles dragged, or any other attribute that didn't conform with whatever was
considered normal at the time.
With this flawed system of trying to make sense of life, they
would make sweeping assumptions about people based on incredibly narrow
perimeters. Also with such a narrow view of what’s right or wrong, they would
lose the wonderful diversity natural life has in such ample supply for those
with the eyes and minds to see and appreciate.
Apparently some truths are ingrained in our collective
souls, for certain present day humans to this day still see life through the
narrow aperture of a blinder, which are what horse trainers put on their mount’s
eyes to not allow them to become distracted from whatever mission they’re being
trained for, to keep them absolutely focused on their assigned tasks. Of course
for humans, the blinders are the narrow-minded focus certain people proudly
practice and prefer.
Close mindedness has a direct correlation to intelligence or
lack thereof. The proof of that statement lies in examining the various
cultures throughout the world. The lower the education level, the more likely
they are to solve any and all problems with hate driven violence versus communication
and reason. Instead of simply understanding there are vast complex differences
between people even in the same region, they just stick to their generational
dogma agendas and use the same tactics their forefathers and mothers used, even
if completely outdated and cruel.
So in some of these backward countries, when you catch your
daughter alone with a man that’s not a relative, you simply throw her in a hole
in the ground with rocks stacked around it’s perimeter and invite the whole
tribe to throw stones down at her until she dies a horrible, wretched death,
for shaming your supposed sacred family trust.
In our present day, this black and white extreme divisiveness
has came full circle, it’s came back in glorious bloom to once again plague us
with its ignorant, close minded vitriol.
As most would agree, we've reached a point in our political
system where one is either on one side or the other, at least according to the more
extremist amongst us.
In the true color palette, there are potentially thousands
of shades of gray between stark white and stark black. The same is true with
humans. There are the extreme outer edges of humanity with the prerequisite
blinders firmly in place, only seeing, reading or watching each other, then
roboting what they see as truths. They've learned to stick to preaching to the choir
instead of humanity, because humanity sees their crap for what it is.
The sad and ignorant side of this is that the extremist
faction really believes everyone thinks the same as them.
Thankfully, the truth is the vast majority of intelligent
thinking Americans see all that for what it is. Extremist bull pucky!
The problem is the people on the outer edges of reason are
most times big mouthed, loud numskulls. Their way is not to quietly reason,
communicate or have civilized conversations about important political or
economic issues but to blast their hate, blame and doom and gloom view of the
world they unfortunately live as their own sad realities.
As most thinking Americans clearly know, this present day polarizing,
divisive reality has brought our system to a complete standstill.
When our leaders are too childish, narrow-minded and dogmatically
agenda driven, nothing meaningful can be achieved.
Know this though. The thinking American people are becoming
sick and tired of our politicians forgetting whom they were elected to serve.
One of these days, hopefully sooner rather than too late, they will wake up and
throw all the bums out of office and start with a new, fresh batch…
Mmmmmmm……I can smell the fresh baked odor wafting from life’s
kitchen now…….
