Naked and Clueless
What follows are my opinions. Since they are free (except for the all-inclusive price of admission), let’s call this an exercise in free speech.
None of this stuff is sanctioned by the AMA, ADA, AKC, ROTC, DOD, BSA, GSA, NRA, NSA, WB A, WWE nor any other organization relying on a bowl of alphabet soup to describe its purpose.
Source material for this lamentation is directly attributable to decades of indoctrination by”experts” who describe how things in this existence really work and how far off the mark my life has been. In spite of that derived sense of personal inadequacy resulting in an intense need for psychological self-flagellation, I finally figured out they use an expert mixture of no more than 1 part actual observation and no less than 4 parts personal bias (more if the subject is convoluted) all of which is tinged by their self-interests and the need to mark intellectual turf. It’s that self-serving stuff that has finally inflamed my gullibility node.
Here are just a few flakes from the snow-job “experts” have given me:
- Cosomoligists. “We can’t explain why our math is so far off, so we will call it Dark Stuff that no one can see, feel, or prove; fabricate more universes that no one can see, feel, or prove; install a power pack to pull our truckload of WAGs and call it Dark Energy which no one can see, feel, or prove; and add more dimensions to our universe that no one can see, feel, or prove. With luck, we can cash those government and private grants (a.k.a., pay checks) before anyone can see, feel, or prove what we are up to, thereby showing that we are totally larcenous… ignorant!” Honest, I meant “totally ignorant.”
- Medical Researcher. “We can’t explain it so we will say it was a gene what done it, and develop new drugs to correct things… at least until the litigation attorneys get into the act. With any luck, we can bank those government and private grants (a.k.a., pay checks) before anyone proves us totally ignorant.
- General Practitioner. “I don’t know what you got, but, just for giggles, let’s call it a virus. Take this stuff I am writing on this prescription pad. If it don’t work in a couple of days, come back in and we’ll try something else. Of course, there will be another office visit fee, and, if complications result from this random mix of drugs before we run out of guesses, we’ll send you to a specialist. He will use bigger words than “virus” and add a surcharge for the larger vocabulary use.
The Religionist. “Vote in the next election the way I have told you. If you contribute enough, I will see about your reservation in Heaven and send you a prayer mat (or something such) personally autographed by God. And, for Pete’s sake, would you quit squirming while I feel up your thigh?”
- Journalists/Media. Those organizations controlled by government parrot whatever party-line they have been fed. Those controlled by special interests tell you whatever they think you want to hear. Those operating under the “freedom of the press” provision of free governments do very little objective reporting… yellow press, paparazzi-ism, on-line “reporting” with salacious lead-ins to trick you into clicking on ads, surreptitious insertion of secret programs into your computer’s operating systems for scamming purposes… Yeah, I’m pretty sure the world we perceive is the product of power-moguls and the money grubbers.
This culture of expert opinion has taken on the mantle of Accepted Authority and aspires to the status once held by Religionists in the days of Galileo — that of supreme Authority; hey, when THOSE boys told you to go to hell, they were poker-faced serious.
EVERY expert-for-a-fee-or-fame who ever lived started life just like everyone else: naked, clueless, and in bad need of schmucks (i.e., gulliable marks) to feed its chosen schtick… uh, career choice… for their personal survival.
We, the general public (a.k.a., the Great Unwashed) wear virtual t-shirts that read:
“SCHMUCKS ARE US”
This schmuck is kicking up a fuss ‘cawz the damn t-shirt is the wrong size… and it chaffs. Obviously, it was not hawked under the banner of Duluth Trading… who will be totally surprised by this unrequested mention.
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