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1.31.2011

Ignorance is bliss

Some days I think it would be nice to be stupid.  Just put the blinders on and pretend there isn't anything wrong with the world and it's all rainbow and butterflies.  I wouldn't question anything and whatever I see on TV would be true.
I could spend my days eating whatever I felt like eating and getting as big as a house because I don't know anything about nutrition and exercise is for those athlete people. I wouldn't worry about irradiated foods, pesticides and farm grown, steroid disabled chickens.
I wouldn't care how anything going on anywhere but my front door might affect my government. I wouldn't even know what fallacy meant and global warming would be this crazy radical idea that meant I'd have more days to go to the beach.  The only inflation I'd know would be for balloons.  I wouldn't know how politics worked.  I wouldn't know that salesmen didn't have to tell you the truth.  I wouldn't realize what governing by fear is. I wouldn't care about progress or improvement or learning from others mistakes. I could parent my kids however was easiest and just use the excuse "well, i was raised that way and I survived." I would live my life only worrying about myself and believe that nothing else mattered because the guy up at the front of the church told me God is MY God and loves me no matter what. I wouldn't think about it, and if anything happened that I didn't really like, I'd blame it on someone else. I'd just spend my days doing whatever I felt like until it was done.