The Thinker in The Gates of Hell at the Musée Rodin

The Big Picture –
By Glynn Wilson –

Mother Nature doesn’t care what your political opinion is, what side you take in the current partisan political divide in the United States.

Glynn Wilson

She is malevolent, and will not even bother to laugh at you on Facebook when you prove to be such a moron that you get yourself all armed up and go up single-handedly and attack the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Like Ricky W. Shiffer, 42, of Columbus, Ohio, who is now dead and dust. He can’t spread his seed anymore and multiply either. So as far as Mother Nature is concerned, he is irrelevant.

He may make the clickbait headlines for a day, so there is some mention of him in print and online to survive for a short time in geologic time, historically. Otherwise, he disappears.

Mother Nature doesn’t care whether you get vaccinated against Covid, or wear a mask either. If you want to be stupid and ignore the science and the warnings, you and yours will just die off, like any other stubborn weed or vermin.

Even if you don’t die from the first wave, you could very well get re-exposed, putting all kinds of pressure on your internal organs. Eventually it will shorten your life.

If Mother Nature were sitting around like Rodin’s “The Thinker” contemplating all of this, she might conclude that there are already too many human beings on planet Earth. And way too many of them are uneducated, ignorant morons who still believe Trump actually won the 2020 election.

So any way we can get rid of them the better off the rest of us will be.

Of course the problem is the collateral damage, innocent casualties just like any war. But this is not just any war. Make no mistake about it. We are in a very real war to see if humans can evolve fast enough to survive for much longer here. Or whether we can figure out how to travel into space to save some of our species, like Star Trek.

It’s costing us trillions of dollars we could be using to keep the Earth livable for humans, but some are betting that it can’t be done, so we might as well try.

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The evolutionary odds favor the ants, the cockroaches, the mosquitoes and the spiders.

The biggest numbers problem we have in this war is that stupid people have more babies than smart people. That’s one of the reasons a conservative Supreme Court is such a huge problem. The conservative Catholics still think abortion and any form of birth control is a sin against their imagined god and antiquated belief system, and they know that this endangers the every existence of their church, because they really do need uneducated “believers” to shame into putting money in the collection plate for their gay priests to survive.

Isn’t it a funny contradiction that they don’t think their priests should have sex, but there constituents must have unprotected sex?

I mean how fucked up and stupid is that?

Really the biggest problem we have now is our problematic communications system. The press had a lot of power in the 20th century, even when television news first came along. That power is gone now, thanks to Fox News, Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Facebook.

It could have worked out differently, but it didn’t. And the mainstream media and legacy press is still ignoring this information — for the sake of its capitalist bottom line.

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For example, David Brooks, a purple columnist for The New York Times — who should have been fired for blatant conflicts of interest awhile back — will get lots of traffic for the Times for the column he wrote this week claiming the FBI executing a search warrant on Mar-A-Lago will get Trump reelected in 2024.

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This is so absurd I didn’t even bother to share it on Facebook. But I did share this from his colleague Michelle Goldberg.

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The way I see it, at least as of today looking into the public opinion survey research and headline looking glass, is that Trump is gradually losing steam and there is no way he will win the election in 2024, certainly not if he is charged and convicted of a crime that prevents him from running. One Proud Boy shot down while attempting a one man losing war against the feds is not going to make a difference for more than a week on social media, if that.

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So calm down. Attorney General Merrick Garland should stop worrying about the reaction of Trump supporters and follow the law.

Evolution and natural election favor those who adapt over the long term, not those who violently react to short term change.

As Geoffrey Chaucer pointed out in The Canterbury Tales, one of the first contributions to world literature in the English language, “Patience is a high virtue.”

I know it’s a hard thing to learn. I’m not patient by nature myself. But I’m working on it.

“This sentiment is a reflection upon someone’s ability to wait for something. By calling patience a virtue, or state of moral excellence, it leads people to believe an ability to wait without agitation is an admirable quality.”

The FBI search warrant and seized document contents from Mar-A-Lago will be revealed. Give it time.

And keep all eyes on the ball, working on those House and Senate races coming up in the midterm elections in November.

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The French philosopher René Descartes stated as his “first principle,”: “je pense, donc je suis,” or in Latin “cogito, ergo sum,” which is translated into English as “I think, therefore I am”. Perhaps we should go forward with the philosophy “we think therefore we win,” and stop letting those who don’t know how to think steer the ship.

In Latin, this might be: “Cogitamus ergo vincimus.”

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