In a world ruled by simple, cookie-cutter entertainment, where Hanna Montana can sell you rain ponchos; it takes a genius to realize that you're not among company.
It comes from journals, newspapers and books; it's delivered on paper, air waves, and online. It's practically seeping through the walls of every American home, and every year, it's getting harder and harder to stop it. The terrorists can hardly hold a candle to such a destructive, insidious threat that is eating away at American Joe Six-Pack values from the inside. Public schools struggle to rid it from their academic standards to shield children from the looming dangers that this dark shadow could cast upon them. This devastating occurrences has a name, and it's called Intellectualism.
The enemies of America aren't the ones with homemade explosives. Our true enemy holds high school diploma's and degrees in liberal arts. We live in a nation that is proudly frightened by intellectualism. People clutch to the familiar, the dull, the uninnovated. Words like 'elitist,' and 'professional,' are common insults that Fox News tells us are bad. These are great times, and it's happening with such enthusiasm as if driven by instinct. For example, a portion of the McCain/Palin selling point is that they are so-called 'normal.' These are the people you get stuck in traffic with. These are the folksters that drink beer on their porch and picture the world through a limited window, not leaders. We're talking about a hockey mom and an ancient prisoner of war. Just what we need, a Lucy Ricardo and an angst-fueled grandfather who hates the (insert non-American culture here). Another selling point; McCain constantly looks like he's smuggling jawbreakers from children in his cheek-pouches. I can support that, because it's relative to my lifestyle. The real issue at hand is that too many people don't feel that imagery of a cowboy with a few catchy slogans is good enough to run a nation. A person's ability to hunt wolves from a helicopter, eat pretzels, and giggle the dumbfound giggle should be acknowledged when it comes to a presidential election. Give the people a people person, not some dedicated, hard-working leader. We can't have our children subjected to elitism!
I've seen it all before, countless times. It starts when honest, God-fearing Christians start pursuing radical (and I might add, non-biblical) fields of study such as literature, history, astronomy, physics, psychology, chemistry and other fabricated packets of "knowledge." Then, before you know it, they've lost all of their morals. If you know too much, you could suddenly turn into a Liberal, skipping and prancing and carrying on about evolution and the scientific method. The only scientific method I need is a cold beer, my SUV, and God's love. Science, claiming to be based on unbiased factual data, was never mentioned in the Bible. Nor were dinosaurs. These false ideals are rotting our children's morals, along with electric guitars and video games.
All joking aside, I think the Smithville Mennonites say it best:
By supporting your own cognitive array, you threaten the very values that make you human. There's no need to... Hold on, America...
<i>What's this? We are? He is? Oh!</i>
It seems the tides of war have shifted. A major battle in the War on Intellectualism has resolved a victor. Due to the peoples' choice, it's okay to be educated and tolerable. Wait, the people chose this? There must be some mistake here. Actually, everything looks green. We can come out now!
In postscript-flavored honesty, I'm excited. I'm thrilled and glad that as a nation, we can muster together our minds and tolerances and efforts to raise our own standards. Granted, it's highly unnerving that Obama didn't receive oh... every single vote, but I suppose we can let the minority slip by. I'm glad so many Americans participated in voting. I cannot wait to experience the reform, the history, the change.
The enemies of America aren't the ones with homemade explosives. Our true enemy holds high school diploma's and degrees in liberal arts. We live in a nation that is proudly frightened by intellectualism. People clutch to the familiar, the dull, the uninnovated. Words like 'elitist,' and 'professional,' are common insults that Fox News tells us are bad. These are great times, and it's happening with such enthusiasm as if driven by instinct. For example, a portion of the McCain/Palin selling point is that they are so-called 'normal.' These are the people you get stuck in traffic with. These are the folksters that drink beer on their porch and picture the world through a limited window, not leaders. We're talking about a hockey mom and an ancient prisoner of war. Just what we need, a Lucy Ricardo and an angst-fueled grandfather who hates the (insert non-American culture here). Another selling point; McCain constantly looks like he's smuggling jawbreakers from children in his cheek-pouches. I can support that, because it's relative to my lifestyle. The real issue at hand is that too many people don't feel that imagery of a cowboy with a few catchy slogans is good enough to run a nation. A person's ability to hunt wolves from a helicopter, eat pretzels, and giggle the dumbfound giggle should be acknowledged when it comes to a presidential election. Give the people a people person, not some dedicated, hard-working leader. We can't have our children subjected to elitism!
I've seen it all before, countless times. It starts when honest, God-fearing Christians start pursuing radical (and I might add, non-biblical) fields of study such as literature, history, astronomy, physics, psychology, chemistry and other fabricated packets of "knowledge." Then, before you know it, they've lost all of their morals. If you know too much, you could suddenly turn into a Liberal, skipping and prancing and carrying on about evolution and the scientific method. The only scientific method I need is a cold beer, my SUV, and God's love. Science, claiming to be based on unbiased factual data, was never mentioned in the Bible. Nor were dinosaurs. These false ideals are rotting our children's morals, along with electric guitars and video games.
All joking aside, I think the Smithville Mennonites say it best:
By supporting your own cognitive array, you threaten the very values that make you human. There's no need to... Hold on, America...
<i>What's this? We are? He is? Oh!</i>
It seems the tides of war have shifted. A major battle in the War on Intellectualism has resolved a victor. Due to the peoples' choice, it's okay to be educated and tolerable. Wait, the people chose this? There must be some mistake here. Actually, everything looks green. We can come out now!
In postscript-flavored honesty, I'm excited. I'm thrilled and glad that as a nation, we can muster together our minds and tolerances and efforts to raise our own standards. Granted, it's highly unnerving that Obama didn't receive oh... every single vote, but I suppose we can let the minority slip by. I'm glad so many Americans participated in voting. I cannot wait to experience the reform, the history, the change.
