There was this episode of the Twilight zone where an ominous man in a suit brings this trashy lady a box. He tells her that if she pushes the button she will get a large sum of money, but someone will die, someone she doesn’t know.
She mulls it over a bit and finally pushes the button.
She dismantles the box to find there are no parts inside of it.
Then the guy comes back, gives her money and begins to leave.
She asks what he is going to do with the box.
He tells her that it will go to someone she doesn’t know.
Poetic justice.
Kind of reminds me of where we are right now.
People are dying and other people, who don’t know them are willing to let more of them die because they don’t know them either.
But, there is a good chance that some of those people will also die. Most likely because other people they don't know are willing to push their metaphorical buttons at the risk of someone they don't know dying.
Many have already.
I think I’m just trying to work out my confusion.
How have we gotten to a place where a large number of people don’t believe scientists.
What’s wrong with scientists? How come so many people don’t like them? Is it because they’re nerds?
Is America just a large high school?
I never really noticed the nerds in high school though.
There was this guy who snorted some clay powder in art class. He was kind of strange, but obviously not smart enough to be a nerd.
I guess he could have been a dork.
I was weirded out by him after that.
I wonder what he is doing now?
I think his name was Horshack.
He might have skated.
I wonder if he is listening to scientists.
I hope he never ate a slug.
I read an article about a guy in Australia whose friends dared him to eat a slug.
He did and it paralyzed him and he eventually died.
I bet if a scientist were there and he told him of all the toxins slugs pick up while sliding around all over the gutters and slides and McDonalds counters, he would have listened.
But yeah, Trump supporters are so weird.
