Mental Illness

Yesterday Kadizzle took a very long motorcycle ride through some amazing country. On the trip he lost the cover for the little pack on the cycle. Today Kadizzle set out to find the cover. To his amazement he found it twenty miles into the ride on the road. On the trip home Kadizzle was riding past the skeleton of an old lumber mill. Kadizzle let his curiosity get the best of him and drove into the humongous abandoned building. As Kadizzle approached the inside of the huge building which now is mostly hollowed our he saw a man sitting on a chair in front of a big fifth wheel RV.  Kadizzle drove up to the man and said hello.  Something seemed strange about this fellow sitting on a chair with a mason jar beside him and a pair of overalls with only one strap.  In no time a conversation insued. It did seem like a great place to park an RV. There was almost a football field of concrete covered with a roof that must have been five or six stories above. Bulletin, bulletin, it is raining here.  Anyway his eyes were strange. He was just a wee bit cross eyed.  After a little back and forth the story of the man began to unfold. Because of the forest fires he was forced out of the forest. Apparently he was fasting deep in the wilderness in his RV and became incoherent. Someone must have rescued and relocated him. The fellow seemed a bit overweight. At first his conversation seemed to make sense. He said he had two properties he was developing, and he was working on a helicopter design to spray almond trees. The conversation about his helicopter enterprise was interesting. He was going to develop a helicopter that had a jet stream of air that came from the tip of the blades. His lifestyle made it appear he was broke. He said his friend shuffled him from Springerville to Idaho, and New Mexico in a small aircraft. As Kadizzle and the gentleman got deeper into the conversation his science became more and more strange. He explained to Kadizzle how he could grow plants without any light.  He came up with a device that he said allowed plants to harvest energy from the earth so they did not need light. He claimed trees get energy from the ground, and also had a strange theory that energy could be harvested from the air. According to Mr. Bizarre science for every three feet up you went you got another 100 watts. The conversation got more and more insane. Somewhere during the insanity the wife of they guy who owned the place showed up. Apparently she had something to do with rescuing this guy from the forest. She jumped into the conversation and came up with some crazy stuff herself about wind power.  Kadizzle got more and more amazed about the abundance of crazy people. This is in the heart of Trump country.  Mr Overalls got into a crazy thing about farming.  He said cow farts were being taxed and had a bizarre theory on wheat. He claimed the wheat market was manipulated by banks. He had videos of ships dumping wheat in the ocean. 

Kadizzle has met a lot of lunatics, but this guy had his own special mix on science and insanity.  He clearly proved " Education just confuses people" .  He knew enough to get thoroughly confused. He even admitted he mixed pseudo science with regular science. The clincher was he was assured Kadizzle the Earth was only 8 thousand years old. The day turned out to have some very interesting conversations. Rest assured there are plenty of insane, partially insane, or just plain stupid people for the Republicans to recruit.  It is scary.  

After thinking a bit more Kadizzle realized more of the crazy stuff the mad scientist told him. The mad scientist developed a way to pre-digest food. Apparently it involved fermentation, which is a bit questionable. The scientist put his magic device that made trees grow without light under his bed. Since his body no longer had to work to digest food, it must have caused problems. Perhaps that explained why he had to be rescued from the forest. In retrospect Kadizzle wishes he could have videoed or recorded this jaunt into a different reality.