A chum shared with me: One of my FB friends said, Everyone has an opinion, so how do you know whats right? Uhm... BALLS of Ouranos in Hawkings CHAIR! Yesterday was Friday the 13th an all, and with a Full Moon to boot. But! it wasnt until a short while ago on this flagrantly sunny morning of Saturday the 14th, when I read that witless, Jar Jar-goggled intellectual and ethical relativism that I got a CTHULHU-caliber fright! Everyone has an opinion, so how do you know whats right? Black Jesus an the Black Power COSMIC preserve us! The dinosaurs had an annihilating asteroid. But such arch-silliness as the fakakta-facile, false equivalence of all opinions (veritable Abyssal afflatus of asinine) might well be the doom of Man -- Humanitys figurative E.L.E. This is what comes of truck with the FAUX-Newsification of thought. Indeed, Everyone has an opinion, so how do you know whats right? might well be the asstastik apotheosis of: FAIR AND BALANCED (cue DUM DUM DUUHM! music of ominous reveal) Fair and Balanced? Note well that that blinkered bludgeon of babble begins with the word, Fair. FAIR: (adjective) just; free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice; legitimately sought, pursued, done; proper If some thing is already fair -- as in, [this or that] is fair ..., wherefore a groping for purported ... and balance? Blatherin blatherskite! For, you see, Fair is merely a shiny linguistic bauble, the fly-lure on the hook that is the oft chimeric, nigh ever perfunctory notion of Balance. BALANCE: an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady I like beer. (Okay, I unabashedly admit, I love beer.) I love scotch, scotchie scotch scoth. (Fine! I uncontritely confess, I LURVE scotch -- 15 or 25-year-old scotch. My birthday is next month, and Lagavulin would make a nifty gift to me. Hint hint, he hinted, every putting the b in subtle.) I once had a drink-off with a dear chum-o-mine, the rare sort of boson Friend in whose presence I (a quasi-control freak) may sanguinely let it all go, be vulnerably tin-roof-rusted DRUNK. This friend of mine is a Falstaff-esque, mighty Magyar of about 250 lbs (mayhap, at least!), versus my mere 150lbs soaking wet (at the time -- ahem!). We drank an even distribution of hooch. But while my beloved beluga of a bud was basically fine, *I*, on the other hand, was 300-sheets-to-the-wind drunk _ off _ my _ ass -- nigh literally! [chuckle] To wit: In my man-mountainous mates and my drink-off, while the distribution of liquor was balanced, it was not fair per se. In fact, not only was our convivial contest *not* fair, it left me very, very, veritably UN-balanced -- not upright and steady at all. Listen to me now and hear me later: FAIR and BALANCED is some Brobdingnagian bollocks, an insidious inveiglement to ignorance and (oft concomitant) iniquity, a cozen to continue and/or initiate injustice. Fairness and balance are not so simple. Keep that in mind as the purveyors of purportedly Fair and Balanced exhort demonstrably (I dare say, manifestly racially disproportionatley) voter-suppressive Voter-I.D. laws and/or statutes that curtail the numbers of polling places and/or the hours during those polling places are open in, say, Urban (read: predominantly Racial Minority Populated; read: Likely Democratic Voters) communities, in order, they claim, to balance voting opportunities betwixt Cities and Rural (read: predominantly White Populated; read: Likely Republican Voters) communities. The Fair-ness (the justness) required to keep our society, our polity and our body politic Balanced (civically upright and steady) can be... complicated, certainly not what FAUX News cloacally contends. Everyone has an opinion, so how do you know whats right? The answer to that query is not difficult, though actualizing that answer might be relatively arduous for many: Engage your own Reason. Think for yourself. Do your Goo-diligence, use that hand-dandy Google thingie in the computer machine on which you are reading my florid fulminations. Not all rationales are rational, not all logic logical. All opinions are not equally valid. To wit, as Astronomer Neil DeGrasse Tyson aptly averred: One does not discuss the spherical Earth with NASA, and invite Flat-Earthers for equal time. Everyone has an opinion. Duh! Too, everyone (well, nigh everyone) has an asshole and an elbow, likely two elbows even. But how often do you equate anothers elbow(s) or asshole with the personal utility of your own, eh? Welcome after. Have a lovely weekend, Gentlebeings. :-D Now watch this funny clip -->
Posted on: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:16:33 +0000