Friday, October 29, 2021

Obsessed with Stupity.

Gimble, I hope you don't read this. Gimble is the guy who is hiking the AZT.  Gimble thinks it best to hike the trail wearing sandals. His rational is early humans hiked barefoot. Kadizzle tried to point out the Indians in this area did not go barefoot. Now Gimbal has the problem that thorns and other nasty things are penetrating his feet. The solutiion is wear some decent shoes, but obsessed with some strange idea he will suffer with the footwear he has. Otherwise semi rational people seem to be capable of logical thought. Kadizzle pointed out to Gimble that Eskimos did not go barefoot. Gimble said there is a guy hiking the trail barefoot. The question is why? People like to challenge themselves and often adopting some goofy idea is the challenge. Some people get the idea radio waves are dangerous and think cell towers are dangerous, and so on. It may be true, but being obsessed with some unproven nonsense is a strange mental state. The whole health food industry relies on crazy ideas and people that adopt them. Republicans know some people love the idea of being stupid. So you tell these people something stupid and help them believe it.  A friend in Payson said he went into a library and the librarian believed Biden has been assassinated. She also believed a host of other insane ideas. Keep in mind this person is a librarian. You may remember Kadizzle wrote a story long ago about the librarian assistant in Hazen, who did not read anything.  Adopting some silly idea with no proof and running with it is strange, but very popular. Religion is the classic. A myth becomes reality. 

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