The Native Iowan

Another wet, wet, wet day/ night… Ive not yet gone outside to check the rain gauge. I am guessing when I say we got the better part of 70mm/ 3inch in the last 24hours. Things are wet.

Im still happily wrapped up in a granny-blanket. I’ll wait a bit before I get moving, active, productive. No sunshine today. I’ll head to my workshop and carve on my sticks… Wood, not War…

I see things, as I wander and read, that make me scratch my head in wonder… I wonder why folks dont turn their brains on, use their mental capacity to be aware, to puzzle simple things out…

This post got my attention:

I very much understand the misguided intent behind the words. It does not have to be factual, make sense or even add up, if we’re attacking the nasty orange devil man.

I “saw” this without really thinking about it, giving it much thought, but my dyslexic mind fixated on the numbers… My mind knows that 3million divided by 10thousand is 3hundred… 3,000,000 / 10,000 =300. I dont have to think about it, I do mental arithmetic and by simply dropping the zeros the answer of “300” pops up without much thought power. I can see the answer without framing the equation. I am dyslexic.

So, a smart, worthy, experienced old friend posts this meme… the meme states that “1 golf trip for 1 old man” can feed over 10,000 elderly, in need citizens… and no one does the math. That simple. We just go along with something utterly and blatantly wrong. Because we dont turn our brains on? Because we have been dumbed-down? Maybe we forgot where the on-switch is? If we believe that $300.00 can feed a person for a year.

Saddens me greatly.

I have one old and dear friend from my childhood that suffers from Alzheimer’s. We talk about our shared past. He says I help him not lose all his memories. This guy is Phd level genius. A magnificent musician. He does amazing things developing bionic prosthetics. But he has little memory. It is hard, sad, trying to be so, so smart, and not remember your wife.

My point: This intentional dumbing down, accepting stupid bullshit, reposting and propagating the sheer ignorance of it all… Its sadder than my old buddy that has an organic reason for his mental losses.

Thats my rant for the day.

Time to be active.

More later