Monday, May 3, 2010

I'm Right and You're ... NOT

So who has it right? When a person gets into an accident and one party is at fault, whose fault is it? Who was right and who followed the law? Who was wrong and didn't follow the law? What if you were both right and you both followed the law? And what if you both were too limited in knowledge of the law to realize that neither of you were right?

I come today with the notion of rightness and wrongness  based on the fact that there have been, historically, only two black-and-white sides to this world. Right and wrong. Whatever happened to the gray area? Whatever happened to colors that aren't visible in the spectrum?

Case in point: We are very limited in our knowledge as human beings. It's like that saying: The more I know, the more I realize how little I know. If we could sit and read all the books in all the libraries in the world and combine our knowledge to expand to every sentence and verse that has ever been written, we would still be missing information. Why? Oh, because some deusche bags lit fire on books everywhere in different countries around the world.

So some scientists believe that they can create an invisible cloak. Even better, some have realized the power of cloning..But so far, there have been none who can actually create. We think we are so smart and so powerful because we have the ability to make touchscreen iCrap. We think we are so cool because our cars have extra sensory perception and the wipers come on at the sensitivity to rain. We think we are so knowledgeable because three letters summarized the existence of the universe, E = mc squared. Who do we think we are?

We think we are right, that's who we think we are. We're right all the time, even when nuclear bombs kill millions of people. We're right even when ethnic genocides happen, because we all know who is genetically more superior. We're right when we had guns and they had arrows. We're right through the crusades, through the holocaust, through the apartheid. We are so right, all the time. We're right to think that this earth is ours, that the trees, oil, and ozone are unlimited--so use as you please. We are so right for thinking that Democrats are better than Republicans. That whites are better than asians. That batman is better than superman.

Because, you know, we're keeping a scoreboard here! And when we die, this is all going to add up! I win and you lose!

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