Betterworldism, saving the world one crackpot at a time

90 percent of scientists believing in evolution doesn’t sound right. 99 point nine something sounds more like it. But there is some wiggle room there, I imagine if you describe scientists very loosely you might be able to get a number like 90. But 90 percent of Americans not believing in evolution, that has to be sheer balderdash, I doubt if that has been true since the days of the Scopes Trial. So to the google and the answer on the first page is a pew research poll which puts the number who believe in evolution at 33 percent. This is a far cry from ninety. And here is my complaint Beagles, why did I have to go to the wiki, why didn’t you do it? Why is it always me that has to do this work? You are as retired as I am.

How did I get to running for prez? I guess to implement my better world through boiling down all the bullshit in the crucible of clear reason and then abiding by the logical truth that emerges. What, you think that’s too long for a bumper sticker?

Well one of the things the commies wanted to do was to create the new man who would be altruistic and loyal to the party that advocated to each according to his need, from each according to his abilities. One imagines had they done this we would all be hanging portraits of Uncle Joe in our living rooms, except not really because Uncle Joe was hardly an exemplar of the new man. Unlike Uncle Ken who as far back as the day when the famous Beaglesonian Institute consisted only of him and this crackpot guy, always followed the ideals of that slogan that was too long for a bumper sticker.

Actually, if everybody followed the tenets of betterworldism, it wouldn’t matter who was running the show since it would all be based on reason and logical debates would settle everything. And Uncle Ken would not require his portrait in the living room, though a copy of The Wit and Wisdom of Uncle Ken on the coffee table would be a nice touch.

I like stories as much as the next guy, but I think making up a story to illustrate a principle is probably not the best way to get a point across. I suppose it’s ok for kids in the single digits, but then you are probably more interested in getting them off your back then teaching them anything.

I think if you don’t know anything, the best thing to do is not to follow your gut, the best thing to do is learn something, and then melt it down in the crucible etc.

I don’t know where money comes and goes. Remember when a depression hits, and people look around and see that we have the same wheat fields and the same factories and the same people, and they ask what happened to all that money we used to have, the hard truth is that that money never really existed, and in fact money itself, if you get right down to it is voodoo.

I don’t see how by voting for a minimum wage you are giving your money to a corporation rather than the government. Maybe you are saying that you will have to pay a nickel more for a burger, but it seems to me that that nickel goes into the pocket of the employee who is neither the government nor the corporation.

And I don’t get all you guys who think somehow it is better to have the corporations running things than the government. If the prez voted himself a salary of 50 million he would get voted out of office. Try voting out the CEO of a corporation. There are plenty of government scandals and thefts, but they pale compared to corporate scandals and thefts.

Vote the fry cook an extra dollar and two an hour, even if the world goes to hell, which I think we both agree is going to happen anyway, at least that little girl gets an extra cookie every day until that happens.