Winds of Change - Part 4 - Conclusion

In Part 1 I asked the question: “If you lie to enough people and they start believing the lie as fact, can this lie be woven into our instinctual behavior?” Lie is such a harsh word. Yes a lie or a false belief can sabotage the evolution of a species as well as the intellectual advancement. I’ll site two examples.

What if the 100 monkeys instead of washing the sweet potatoes shoved them up their ass? If this caught on and became a fad it could jeopardize the entire clan if everybody followed the one fool who shoved the potato up his ass. Some would have died because they stopped up their bowels, others might have pulled it out and eaten it with feces and died of a disease. If the whole 100 did it they might have all died and taken many others with them.

The second example of how falsehoods derail intellect is the Heaven’s Gate cult. These idiots followed a guy to his death by drinking the “Kool-Aid”. Upon death they were promised a ride to heaven aboard the Hale-Bopp Comet or something of that nature. They blindly followed this lunatic to his death. The founder of Heaven’s Gate had no proof, no scientific evidence to prove his claim but yet these knuckleheads died anyway; social Darwinism at its finest. What if this crazy cult would have hypnotized more people, like 5 billion?

So following a lie or some false and unproven theories could lead to disaster. This is why we must be diligent with our beliefs and accept only fact based theories. We should also constantly change based on new evidence but don’t be too quick to jump on a new idea. Don’t be the second monkey to shove a potato up your ass; rather wait until the facts arrive.

When you have too many people believing in something false or working toward wasted efforts like profits, it can stunt an entire species. Instead of resources being spent on intellect or projects advancing the species they are wasted on bullshit. This is the cycle we are stuck in now. Too much blind faith and too much time wasted working to advance the profit margins of soulless companies have stunted our growth.

So what do you do when a fundamentalist President like Bush ignores 66% of our entire nation to further his own agenda? First of all, you find out who else in the Senate and the HOR is supporting him and then vote them out in the next election. Stay informed. There are some credible news agencies out there, but you have to look for them; I have links to a few on this blog. You have to work at being an informed, intelligent human-being. But the payoff is worth the work. More intelligent voters elect better candidates. And if you don’t like either one then write somebody in.

Raise your kids to be free thinking adults. They should challenge authority, know the law (especially the Bill of Rights) and learn proper etiquette. Just because they challenge authority doesn’t mean they have to be uncontrolled. Buy energy efficient products including automobiles. Don’t join a church just because everyone else is doing it. If you do join a church then read everything and learn as much as you can about the religion. Don’t let someone tell you about it, read it for yourself. That was exactly how the Heaven’s Gate people were tricked into drinking the Kool-Aide – blind faith. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and sounds like a duck; then it’s a duck.