Some people have a shitty mind, and need to be taught remedial math and reading. Other folks have a brilliant, creative mind, and need to learn common ethics. And then, some invisible Grand Inquisitor might have to redefine 'shitty' and 'brilliant,' for the bounding rare few who understand that smart people do stupid things, especially for reasons of personal gain. Or that ordinary people aren't completely out to lunch. Case in point:
The gnarled, homely nerd who invents a doomsday weapon. He can't tell the difference between a rousing game of solitaire and a wing attack against foreign nationals. These creeps are equally elated to see themselves doing something 'special,' like forming a cat's cradle out of string, or when they are making a product like 'Ice 9.' In Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Cat's Cradle, the author illustrates this fact of life. There are a lot of people out there who have the mind of a Ph.d scientist, and the morals of a two year old. Differing and still related, there's the politician who sees fracking as a good thing because he/she is being bribed. It's a low level of moral development, playing hide and seek with the rest of the mind's itinerary. But, since it ain't costing me a quarter to talk, I'll have to just sit on the possibility that virtually every life on the planet could go down by way of a special needs genius with Asperger syndrome.
The gnarled, homely nerd who invents a doomsday weapon. He can't tell the difference between a rousing game of solitaire and a wing attack against foreign nationals. These creeps are equally elated to see themselves doing something 'special,' like forming a cat's cradle out of string, or when they are making a product like 'Ice 9.' In Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Cat's Cradle, the author illustrates this fact of life. There are a lot of people out there who have the mind of a Ph.d scientist, and the morals of a two year old. Differing and still related, there's the politician who sees fracking as a good thing because he/she is being bribed. It's a low level of moral development, playing hide and seek with the rest of the mind's itinerary. But, since it ain't costing me a quarter to talk, I'll have to just sit on the possibility that virtually every life on the planet could go down by way of a special needs genius with Asperger syndrome.
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