Mandated Innovation

Imagine, if you will, being a well educated engineer finding out that whatever his, or her, training was is no longer functional.

Imagine being a trained professional--0ther than a "teacher"--that was told that his outcomes would be directed by a political authority rather than by the investigation of his professional inquiries.

There is no more a conceited class of individuals than our political class. They actually believe that by passing laws mandating change, that they can effect change.

I remember a prof from O.S.U. that wanted us to refer on to him references to mirrors. One of the quotes that I remember had to do with "he stared long enough into the mirror until he turned into a monkey."

Our current political situation reminds me of that observation. And that is, we aren't looking into the mirror, from fear that we will see a monkey. I looked into the mirror tonight, to test the theory. I saw me. I'm not pretty. I'm growing old. I have bags under my eyes and spider veins have broken in my cheeks. Me teeth are yellowing, prolly because I smoke. Or, mebbe, just because I'm getting older. (I noticed a guy older than I this past weekend with "white" teeth. Hella. I smoke, drink and golf. Effim.)

We are afraid of our own humanity. We don't want to grow old. We don't want to die. What an infantile culture we've become.

You are gonna die. Prolly painfully.

But, your death will not have anything to do with whether you are a Leftist or an American. You're gonna die because you grow old. What is the number one cause of cancer? It isn't smoking. It's longevity. The statistical regression between age and cancer isn't one that Al Gore ManBearPig would understand. But it is the one that you either understand, or don't. We can mandate where we want people to die--in terms of their years. What we can't mandate is that people die when it is their time.

Obama Care. When your choices aren't important anymore.

Change.