Approximately Adam: Ignorance is a Tidal Wave

June 27, 2005
Ignorance is a Tidal Wave

I can feel the forces of ignorance marshalling more potently every day. It comes from pool attendants more concerned with ridding themselves of customers to actually worry about giving them the right information. It comes from customers more concerned with getting through the ID Room As Soon As Possible than with reading the clearly marked signs posted everywhere so as to actually come in prepared. It comes from fans so enamored with their chosen devotion that they willfully blind themselves to the cracks in the facade. It comes from conservatives that think that banning gay marriage is more important than issues that will actually affect them and the ones they love. It comes from liberals who are so focused on their hatred for Bush that they will right into the local newspaper that the flags along main street are in poor taste, while throwing in a multitude of barbs that show exactly how misinformed they really are. Against the scope of forces, the voice of thought and reason seems more and more like a feeble cry in the dark, even when delivered with all the grace and skill of Lincoln on the battlefield after Gettysburg. People let Fox News, the New York Times, or MTV do their talking for them, sources that become more riddiculous and dangerously effective with each passing day. We live in an era where Burt Reynolds teases a reporter for interviewing him in a ratty T-shirt and no background knowledge about the movie he's promoting, and people side with the reporter. We live in an era where people who vote are more concerned with the parties on ballot than the names above them. We live in an era where parents are never home, and yet it's the video games who are blamed for bad parenting. We live in an era where an era where a lunch aide blows her whistle at a misbehaving kid, and she's the one who gets punished for harming the brat's precious ears. We live in an era where crimes are classified by the ethnicities of the involved parties over the nature and severity of the crime in question. We live in an era where people with lots of debt and lots of toys are rewarded with bountiful financial aid and people who scrimp and save to maintain good credit are punished for being responsible. We live in an era where racism is to be defeated by setting lower expectations for the minority populations. I grow weary of this era, and wary of the next one.

^{posted by Adam at 23:19 |}

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