The Primitive Mind

We now live in the modern age of communication.  However, some of us do not understand the basics of communication.  If you want to use a mailbox to send a message you need a stamp and a letter.  In the last couple of years someone has chosen to run my mailbox over late at night.  I am not sure what message they want to send me. Do they want to tell me they are incapable of using the phone, walking up to me and having a conversation, or that they disagree with my philosophy.  Primitive cultures wrote pictures on stones, used smoke signals, and even developed sign language.  

Recently a Republican at a townhall meeting got up spontaneously and started to choke me as I asked the congressman a question.  The message seemed relatively clear.  Apparently he wanted to send me the message I was not to speak. 

How do you get a message to someone?  The new gun culture suggest that if nothing else works shoot at the person.  Raising your voice and speaking loudly might work.  Kadizzle has been guilty of that.  The big danger with any message is that it will be misinterpreted. This can have disastrous results.  The only safe way to greet another person in the modern age is a handshake.  Hugging people has become very popular, but Kadizzle can see how this can quickly go bad.  Once while acting as a substitute teacher Kadizzle walked to his classroom early in the day.  Some young girl who apparently like Kadizzle as a teacher was so excited to see him she ran down the hall jumped up into his arms and gave him a big hug.  Kadizzle was thrilled at the enthusiasm, but also embarrassed.

We have now become a society that quickly sees evil where there is none.  We have become prone to misjudge things and put a value on things.  Too quickly we assign a value to an incident.  Years ago Kadizzle learned a good lesson.  Kadizzle was sitting in the car in the winter waiting for Mrs Kadizzle to come out of Sears in Bismarck.  As Kadizzle sat a man pulled up beside him into a handicap parking space.  The man jumped out of the van and ran towards Sears like an Olympic sprinter.

Kadizzle was enraged that someone would be so abusive of the handicap parking system and was going to confront the man when he returned.  As Kadizzle's anger started to increase he could see the man coming back out of the doors at Sears.  The man was pushing someone in a wheelchair.  His actions were perfectly legitimate.  Only by seeing the whole incident from beginning to end could one get an accurate picture of what took place.   Had Kadizzle driven away he never would have known what really happened.  The lesson is not to assign cause or effect too soon.  What you think you are seeing may not be what you are seeing.

Kadizzle got into a kerfuffle with Congressman Cramer recently.  The whole incident revolved around a distressed women who asked the congressman for help at a town meeting.  The Congressman wants to destroy Obamacare and enable the rich to have massive tax breaks.  This upset Kadizzle and the issue of taxing people became the topic at the meeting.  Kadizzle told the Congressman he did not mind paying taxes to help someone like the woman with the child who needed so much care.  To demonstrate that we could take money from the rich and give it to those in need Kadizzle approached the congressman with his wallet open.  Kadizzle took all his money from his wallet and attempted to give the money to the congressman. Kadizzle told the congressman to take the money and give it to the woman.  The congressman refused to take the money. Kadizzle tried to put the money  in the pocket of the congressman.  In a failed attempt that did not work.  Kadizzle put the money down the shirt collar of the congressman.   Now this is where perception and reality diverge. Kadizzle never shoved the congressman, but that makes a good story.  So those inclined to agree with the congressman chose to see that as what happened.  However, the video shows it did not happen.  This is how magic works.  The magician wants you to perceive something that is not true.  He wants you to chose to believe something that is not true.  The lady did not get sawed in half. It looked as though she did, but nope it did not happen.  There was no magic, you deceived yourself.  In the end it is up to each of us to police our own mind.  Don't let that one part of your mind take over.  Keep the rational part of your mind awake.