Monday, December 31, 2012

New Year's Resolution: Stop believing absurdities!

We Americans wholeheartedly believe many absurdities, including the following:
  • Thomas Jefferson and the Founders really believed that all men are created equal.
  • Economic sanctions that starve children to death are “worth it”.
  • Abortions are performed to protect the health of the mother.
  • Guns make you free.
  • “Excited delirium” is people killing themselves.
  • Water boarding is not torture.
  • We destroy villages in order to save them.
  • Manifest Destiny killed the Indians.
  • Rich people have earned their wealth.
  • We are engaged in a war on terror.
  • The global government we are building will be just and democratic.
  • We Americans are innocent of any and all crimes. God loves us.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
-François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Here’s hoping for a 2013 filled not with absurdities but with truth, the only thing that can end the atrocities.

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