Teddy Roosevelt was not really ever a PC worm for turning.

Mrs Freakmeister: “Excuse me. Is this room going to the airport?”

Colonel Neville: “No, it’s going to Zimbabwe. You want the 5:PM steam shovel on Platform 9, Platform 9, Platform 9”.

Now sports, a demented, delusional and paranoid old lady asked me this fantastically Goon Show style question, meaning ‘what time exactly, was her flight to the Outer Rings of Venus leaving?’ The disturbing thing is that many allegedly regular people, even outside of institutions and undemented, are nonetheless just as deluded, misinformed and plain mad as Mrs Freakmeister. That’s of ‘the Venus Freakmeisters’.

Mrs Freakmeister: “Oh, is this my room?”

Colonel Neville: “Er, yes. See all the photographs of you on the side table?”

Mrs Freakmeister: “Oh, no stranger would ever have my photographs in their room!”

Colonel Neville: “Mrs Freakmeister, if I don’t get away from you, your insanity will suck the life from me, much like a bleached coral sponge”. And many people do.

And for a lot of folks, the existence or abscence of empirical evidence are the least likely things to ever alter their viewpoint in the slightest. For many, either way to the contrary can merely prove they’re right!

“When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity”. Dale Carnegie.

I once had a Chinese girlfriend who was a ‘morbid narcissist’ and completely mad. She was the only genuine nymphomaniac I’ve personally experienced, though it ain’t anywhere near as good as it sounds, sports. I mean the nympho part, not the er, morbid narcissist thing. She constantly burnt food because she’d just walk out the door mid stir fry. So the fire alarm would go off every second day and she’d complain about the noise…

Chinese Monster: ”What dat for? Orrwayz peep, peep, peep!”

Chinese freak: “But I never cook at 3:AM!” And why not indeed.

And in almost the same Universe as the ‘room service to the airport’ woman, there’s another so bereft and raving that all her endless screaming’s are advanced paranoia’s about convoluted and absurdly impossible scenarios. Much like the Left, Environmentalist’s with their manic obsessive, Climate Change, secular Bible bashing jag, the MSM, Oz Greens Leader Bob Brown, AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty, Noam Chomsky, Sean Penn and Al Gore etc.

Bob Brown; a man whose mind is spread so thin when attempting to grasp any subject, that it can be folded many more times than the theoretical seven.

“I know what you’re up to! You’re with that woman up the street and you all stink! Don’t you think I don’t know?! I have proof! I have photos! Of you with the King, the King of Norway…you’ll never take me alive! You’ll never rule the world with your dirty tricks; ya death rays don’t scare me! Get away from me! Don’t you dare leave me! I’ll stab you, I will!” Etc, etc.

Er, that’s the second nut babbling, not Bob Brown discussing Green’s Policy.

And yet, compared to much of the MSM and the opinions, all formed by mere chance of more than a few of the people you may meet, she could almost be as a breath of fresh air. Her utter scrambled mind stands out in its clear insanity because well, everyone else is not like that. And there’s the rub, aye, there’s the rub, matey’s. It’s a lot harder to find any contrast when apart from small scattered pools of intellectual light; the majority of the virtually useless MSM is so reflective of each other and on so many critical subjects, blithely reinforces a captive audience’s delusions and ignorance.

“Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had”. Michael Crichton.

When so many folks today agree with much of what is in fact nothing but fashionable guff, hyperbole and predictive bunkum, accepting what are passively received to Left wing indoctrination canards and junk that we’ve merely grown up with, you find that few will ever speak out and say, ‘that’s not true, I know exactly what your real motives for pushing this are and here is the empirical evidence that will utterly ‘Fisk’ it, point by crushing point’.

And there you have it. The dominant MSM and education mind set is mostly of the soft Liberal to Left Liberal to Radical. It’s entirely about emotions, passions, urgency, control and vanity. Moral vanity.

Living in the inner-city as I do, the chances of meeting anyone with a mentality not sodden with the cant of the Left or the smug and stupid neo activist is not always, but perhaps often, pretty slim. Of course not everyone in the inner-city is merely affluent and nuts; some folks are loaded and entirely irrational.

For instance, I went to an open day for my son’s primary school where he’ll start next year. On a class room wall there were pictures of troops with a list of descriptive questions, followed by the alleged answers of the children.

I say alleged, because if you explain how a child of about seven comes to think in standard Leftoid Super Hyperbole Rhetoric, ready for any interchangeable protest march placard er, let me know. The military are, according to our junior Sean Penn’s and Noam Chomsky’s, mostly very bad ‘angry’ people. Yep, the highly trained professional adults, of diverse backgrounds whose awesome courage and patriotism has given us everything we have, have been presented as creeps and borderline criminals by um, someone.

A lot of parents, teachers, the general media; all three basically. George Bush was surprise, an idiot, a liar and er, right, every seven year olds most common phrase, a kind of Fascist. Yes, the fully qualified and experienced jet pilot who graduated from Harvard and Yale idiot.

Er, do any seven year olds really think in terms of Fascism, meaning military states with all industry nationalised, with some bizarre agrarian fantasy overlay? Doubt it? Nope, they have to be shovel fed this junk with no one objecting.

Aah, teaching kids not how to think, but what to think, until such ideologically driven mediocrity is so pervasive and accepted, that no one, especially a seven year old, can in the end conceive of anything outside of it. And this is done by otherwise ‘good’ people. Go figure. It’s the Invasion of the Body Politic Snatchers. See my post link at the end.

It seems the current thing to teach children that if you don’t like someone or what they say or stand for, then there’s no need to have the objective ability to discriminate and have perspective at all. Developing the thinking skills required for discriminating analysis is the basis of rational thought. The elimination of this is the basis of PC Left and Radicalism. This often ends up a choice between the extreme or the amorphous. Some choice. Odd, innit?

To have children that cannot tell the difference between Hitler, Stalin and Mao on the one bloody hand of mass murder, and Bush, Howard and Blair on the other or the incredibly successful Capitalist Democracy, free markets, freedom and human rights that they represent, is not only deeply corrupting and manipulative, but corrosive to the minds of the children themselves. This is Cognitive Bias taken to a kind of cognitive dissonance. None of this bodes well…

It certainly doesn’t bode well for the assistance I look for with my own flaws, faults and limitations. I like to meet the countless people who are far better than I am. It’s disturbing to me to imagine being left to my own level of er, frustrations and failings. So I thank God everyday for the Internet and quality publishing!

“It crushes a man’s ego. I feel…lonely”. Chuck Heston as Taylor in Planet of the Apes.

“To predict the behaviour of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence”. Friedrich Nietzsche.

If only I’d grasped any of this or anything at fifteen, or thirty five. Well, um, Nietzsche was a proto Nazi, people hating and self loathing nutcase at the best of times, but nobody’s perfect.

So of course, all the George Bush photos had little Adolf moustaches and matching quiff sets. No one seemed to find this er, ‘culturally insensitive’ to say Jews, who gee, do know the difference. Now don’t get me wrong, the teachers are good people otherwise, and competent, as are probably most workplaces. It’s just that er, something is wrong. Maybe it’s the space-time continuum!

And in the staff room was a sensitive Teachers Union take on Ramadan. You know, the traditional Muslim cleansing ritual prior to the Muslim tradition of violent Jihad… If you can spin that positively, you can spin anything.

“OK. This is how I see the new advertising campaign, Stalin baby. Can I call you Joe? Smile and lose the moustache! The kids will love ya! Trust me! I did wonders for Che the child killer!”

“On everything from Indian policy to education, ideological purity now trumps even the most obvious failures in practice. The single greatest weakness of Western culture is the ability to draw a moral equivalence between anything and everything. It’s really an inability to see anything in due proportion”.
Mark Steyn.

How can anyone make any realistic criticism or appraisal of anything if you work mostly in polarised tones? You can’t. The mind swings in extremes like a pair of toy magnet poodles.

So what do I end up with? Being able to speak to less than one in ten people without being bogged down in the automatic treacle of the misinformed. There are people at more than a few places I know of, that spend their lunch break staring into space, gossiping, watching the very loud TV no matter what’s on, never reading a single book or worthy publication and all the while consuming often B grade food. So much for Management, you should see the staff!

Yet they almost invariably have strong views on geopoliticics, economics, security and the media etc, of which they know almost nought. “I don’t know anything about art, but I know what I like!”

Or “Howard’s no good. I like Rudd’s smile. We need a change,Bush has caused terrorism!, America is…etc, etc”. Er, no.

It’s not an inherent skill to be able to escape from ‘Logical Fallacy’. It’s to merely like what someone else likes and this becomes a lazy opinion merely by chance, because that’s what happens to those who make no effort to research and understand almost anything in depth but their specialty, if they have one.

Such nopinions are only second hand impressions from people who are maybe or maybe not mildly better, and thus one ends up floating entirely on the emotions and worthless viewpoints that spring from this. But hey, Bon Voyage!

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions”. Albert Einstein.