Thursday, December 23, 2010
National hypochondria
Realized something today.
Three Mile Island was a landmark in government and media insanity. Our current pathology began there.
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Pretty good definition of sanity: When inconsequential things happen, you more or less ignore them. When consequential things happen, you change the situation to prevent them from recurring.
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Examples of sane response on the human level:
(1) A mosquito bite happens. You scratch it, maybe cuss a little, then try to ignore it so it won't get inflamed.
(2) A heart attack happens. You endure surgery or medicine to recover, then you change your lifestyle in big ways to prevent another attack. Quit smoking, quit drinking, find a less stressful occupation.
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Examples of insane response on the human level:
(3) A mosquito bite happens. You rush to the Mayo Clinic, order thousands of tests and X-rays to rule out leprosy, Lyme disease, malaria, blood poisoning, psoriasis, hair cancer, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. You never go outside again, and soon die from anxiety and lack of sunshine and exercise.
(4) A heart attack happens. You keep on smoking and drinking, work even harder, and die fast.
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Now think about TMI. Nationally speaking it was a mosquito bite. It damaged one structure, but didn't kill or injure anyone and didn't release any radiation.
The sane response, and the normal American response until that time: Run full speed ahead with nuclear power. We've seen now that our technology can survive the WORST possible set of events. Thus we know for sure that we're on the right track. Keep it up, and develop this clean non-polluting efficient technology to the max.
But for the first time, we didn't respond sanely. Under careful Soviet guidance, we chose (3), the hypochondriac response.
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And now every national response is insane.
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Two examples of hypochondria (over-reaction to tiny event):
(a) When one kid makes up an impossible and bizarre story about his daycare teacher, we keep all our kids inside forever after so they can be much easier targets for the real molesters (stepfathers and boyfriends).
(b) When one oil well busts a pipe, leaking slightly more oil than the natural seepage, we shut off all drilling forever after so irresponsible countries with shitty engineering can move into our territory and steal our oil.
[The Global Warming crime is the most insane example of all, but doesn't quite fit this pattern because it's a suicidal over-response to precisely nothing. There was no triggering event at all. The weather does what it's always done, so we kill Western Civilization.]
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Two examples of the opposite (non-reaction to huge event):
(c) Arabian warriors kill 3000 Americans. The sane (FDR) response would be to surgically remove Arabia from the face of the earth. The modern (Bushobama) response: we continue drinking Arabian oil, work even harder than before to please Arabia. Make war against two of Arabia's competitors, stop our own oil production to let Arabia have all the profit.
(d) Gambling at the Jew casino in NYC leads us to national bankruptcy. The sane (FDR) response would be to change the laws to prohibit such gambling, and confiscate the ill-gotten gains of the Jew Mafia. The modern (Bushobama) response: Continue gambling. Change laws to make gambling at the Jew casino a little easier, change laws to make saving and thrift much harder, reward the Jew Mafia with a pure gift of trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars. ¶ 5:10 PM
Three Mile Island was a landmark in government and media insanity. Our current pathology began there.
= = =
Pretty good definition of sanity: When inconsequential things happen, you more or less ignore them. When consequential things happen, you change the situation to prevent them from recurring.
= = =
Examples of sane response on the human level:
(1) A mosquito bite happens. You scratch it, maybe cuss a little, then try to ignore it so it won't get inflamed.
(2) A heart attack happens. You endure surgery or medicine to recover, then you change your lifestyle in big ways to prevent another attack. Quit smoking, quit drinking, find a less stressful occupation.
= = =
Examples of insane response on the human level:
(3) A mosquito bite happens. You rush to the Mayo Clinic, order thousands of tests and X-rays to rule out leprosy, Lyme disease, malaria, blood poisoning, psoriasis, hair cancer, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. You never go outside again, and soon die from anxiety and lack of sunshine and exercise.
(4) A heart attack happens. You keep on smoking and drinking, work even harder, and die fast.
= = = = =
Now think about TMI. Nationally speaking it was a mosquito bite. It damaged one structure, but didn't kill or injure anyone and didn't release any radiation.
The sane response, and the normal American response until that time: Run full speed ahead with nuclear power. We've seen now that our technology can survive the WORST possible set of events. Thus we know for sure that we're on the right track. Keep it up, and develop this clean non-polluting efficient technology to the max.
But for the first time, we didn't respond sanely. Under careful Soviet guidance, we chose (3), the hypochondriac response.
= = = = =
And now every national response is insane.
= = =
Two examples of hypochondria (over-reaction to tiny event):
(a) When one kid makes up an impossible and bizarre story about his daycare teacher, we keep all our kids inside forever after so they can be much easier targets for the real molesters (stepfathers and boyfriends).
(b) When one oil well busts a pipe, leaking slightly more oil than the natural seepage, we shut off all drilling forever after so irresponsible countries with shitty engineering can move into our territory and steal our oil.
[The Global Warming crime is the most insane example of all, but doesn't quite fit this pattern because it's a suicidal over-response to precisely nothing. There was no triggering event at all. The weather does what it's always done, so we kill Western Civilization.]
= = =
Two examples of the opposite (non-reaction to huge event):
(c) Arabian warriors kill 3000 Americans. The sane (FDR) response would be to surgically remove Arabia from the face of the earth. The modern (Bushobama) response: we continue drinking Arabian oil, work even harder than before to please Arabia. Make war against two of Arabia's competitors, stop our own oil production to let Arabia have all the profit.
(d) Gambling at the Jew casino in NYC leads us to national bankruptcy. The sane (FDR) response would be to change the laws to prohibit such gambling, and confiscate the ill-gotten gains of the Jew Mafia. The modern (Bushobama) response: Continue gambling. Change laws to make gambling at the Jew casino a little easier, change laws to make saving and thrift much harder, reward the Jew Mafia with a pure gift of trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars. ¶ 5:10 PM
