Friday, October 22, 2021

It's Hip to Be Smart - 22 October 2021 - Plague Journal Day 589

Micah 6:8
Mark 12:29-31
Yes, your life matters.

Some of you are still sheltering in place, but fear not: I'm here to keep you sane and entertained.
One could hardly ask for much more than that, now could one?

Today is Smart Is Cool Day. How bizarre that we have to have a day dedicated to this. Why in the world would anyone think it's better to be stupid than to be smart? How have we come to the point where people regularly brag about being bad at math? where newspapers are written to a third grade reading level (and they're still too challenging to be successful)? where science is whatever someone in a lab coat tells us it is that day, rather than an actual intellectual pursuit where asking questions is the only way to progress?


I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but one wonders if our lizard people / robot / alien / iluminati / freemason / globalist / insert yours here overlords aren't orchestrating things so we won't be equipped to understand, object, and reject their rule.

By the way, on this date in 1844 Louis Riel was born. Riel was a Canadian Métis leader, member of the Anir, protector of the Cup and the Spear, and was hanged with the longest rope ever crafted into a noose. (That last part is sort of made up - apparently there are a vast number of pieces of "the actual rope" with which Riel was executed; enough that if they were "reassembled" they would stretch from Winnipeg to Vancouver.)

Keep Calm and Don't Stay Away.
I'll be back tomorrow.
The mental health issues related to our lockdown and the pandemic are especially hard for people with depression. NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, has a 24 hour helpline: 800-950-6264.








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