Blame it on Television

Like I said before, if I didn't watch television I wouldn't be concerned with any of this. We haven't had these kinds of problems in God's Country for decades and, even when we had it, we didn't have it nearly as bad as they had it in the cities Down Below. I guess what started me on this kick was seeing the film clips of all those mobs swarming into Europe, overwhelming the border guards by sheer force of numbers. Big crowds like that have always made me nervous, and I have tried to avoid them all my life. You never know what people like that are going to do, hell even they don't know what they are going to do. The gun nuts like to talk brave about it but, truth be known, none of them have enough ammunition to stop a mob like that.

I even confused myself talking about that land and people thing. I think what I was trying to say was that there are too many people and not enough good land. There's lots of vacant land left on Earth, but most of it is vacant for a reason, and people have been fighting over the good land for thousands of years. The land around here is classified as "marginal", which means you can live on it, but not as easily as you can live somewhere else. Most of us put up with it precisely because we don't want to be jammed together like sardines in a can. Of course your perspective is entirely different, which is why I enjoy talking to you. Hanging around with the same people all the time can make you funny in the head, or so I've been told.

I agree that we should change the subject but, before we do, there is one more question that I have always wondered about. You're much better at math than I am, so answer me this if you can: It takes nine months to make a baby, but you can kill a person in a matter of seconds. Why then does the human population keep increasing even though people have been slaughtering each other for thousands of years? It's been awhile, but we used to see a lot on TV about all the people starving in Africa. I don't remember the numbers, but it seemed to me at the time that there shouldn't be anybody left in Africa by now. We haven't heard much about Africa lately, but there is always someplace in the world where people are dropping like flies for one reason or another, and it's places like that where the population is increasing the fastest, or so we are told.

I've got to go now. I was changing the hydraulic oil in my tractor today, and I couldn't get one of the drain plugs to tighten back up. I've got to drive all the way to Alanson, an hour's drive away, where the dealership is, to get a new one. A day like that is a busy day for me anymore, so I'd better get an early start, like before the crack of noon. Hey, you said you wanted to talk about something else!