It is cool living in these times. There is excitement in the air. I thought we had seen it all- generally good economic times, fending off international threats with fair success. The air was cleaner than it was in our youth. We were free to do just about anything legal. Not a perfect system, since there was injustice in places and humans were involved, but not bad. Historically pretty good. So good that we can be having the sort of conversations we are at the moment.

We are expected to accept all sorts of social stuff that is curious and controversial. I needn’t list the whole litany, but the abandonment of rational transferrable currency is a large one that could shortly become personal in effect. Wrestling with the madness of Modern Monetary Theory this early is hard. Sorry.

It seems as if the point of the new is to empower each psychological aberration as a human right. See? even advancing the notion that we are embracing madness would require another Footnote. You know, the one in which we clearly support the personal freedom to dress however desired. With a brief discussion about why we should pay taxes for surgical transitions as an answer gender problem? That is a social issue, not a surgical procedure. We must be well off enough that things like this are possible.

This morning, we were subjected to the idea that disabled-abled behavior is acceptable. It was an article that described acts that are horrifying. A sighted women self-blinded herself to identify truly with the sight impaired. A man had himself paralyzed under qualified medical care to authentically experience disability.

I am hoping neither of these social variations have much support, but there is a fervor in the air about many parts of the parade that are startling. I can imagine what it must have been like in France before the great gyrations of New Thought eventually brought them the guillotine.

We have noted the importance of simple words in all this. Changing their meanings changes thought. There is no topic it does not affect, and the list appears vibrant. “Climate” & “Health” are two popular ones. Science is brought in to close any discussion of either, since all of it has been decided by experts.

That means we have abandoned the Scientific Method of theory-question-truth. The new Science starts with Truth, and the rest now follows. I had a pal use the new term “settled science” on me a couple years ago, the implication being that I had not done my homework or acknowledged wisdom. My thought was that he missed the scientific method. I imagine we were both wrong.

See? The starting point in any discussion is reduced to the absurdum of a bumper sticker. COVID: Don’t wear a mask? You are in favor of death! Climate: Question the change? You want to kill your grandchildren! I could labor on, but you know what I mean. The Footnotes are getting voluminous in trying to keep up, since they are attempts at bridging new meanings to old words. It is hard to keep up. The phrase “cost and benefits” related to new ideas is on the discard heap. We are supposed to accept truth as it is revealed and live with the consequences.

That is kinda tiresome, since the old scientific method would say any theory should be subject to continued experiment to determine validity. But that is old think. Accept the new. Without question. The funny thing about all the new stuff is that it isn’t new. In human terms, it is really old, and has worked out, as you might say, in some really interesting times.

Like today.

Vic

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