Are We Failing Our Cats?
I remember a few years ago, reading in the Ottawa Citizen, an article about a study concerning the domestic cat brain. The study claimed the domestic cat's brain was shrinking due to years of soft living. That, because the domestic cat had no need to do anything much by way of thinking in order to survive, its brain, over time, had actually shrunk. Shrunked? Shrunken? Shrinked? ( I don't know how to use the spell check in moveable type - you'll have to take your pick, Dear Reader.)
That's funny, I remember thinking, the Ottawa Citizen's brain, after being purchased by Conrad Black and then sold to the Aspers, would seem to have shrunk over time, too.
In fact, sitting here today, I would have to say that the brains of ALL rightwing pundits would seem to have shrunk over time. I know, I know, Dear Reader, you're thinking: "But Sooey, is that even possible? For the brain of the rightwing pundit to shrink? When it starts out so small?"
Yes, Dear Reader - apparently it is. Because apparently, the only real problem with Bush the Junior's revised plan for Iraq (which seems less revised to me as a revised plan than it is the same plan as the original plan, if there actually WAS an original plan, and there's no real proof that there was) is that he is sending more troops over to Iraq to fight for peace for the Iraqi people - instead of even MORE troops.
Indeed. But these are the same minds who think they would do well in a libertarian society. You know, the libertarian society where the population trades clean water and nutritious food and safe shelter for rightwing punditry.
I mean, I'm no slouch in the "providing an easier life for others" department. I'm a mother, afterall. And I am of limited means, so I can make really nutritious meals by trading very little currency, leaving me lots left over for other things. Like vote purchasing or craft supplies. I dunno. I'm not sure what you'd use leftover currency for in a libertarian society. But something tells me, unless they were to resort to shooting slow moving stray babies, rightwing pundits would be too hungry to put up much resistance when the rabble came to steal their books for fuel. And then cut out their tongues so they wouldn't have to listen to them opine about it. And then smash their keyboards so they wouldn't have to read them opining about THAT.
And THEN what would they have to trade for toy soldiers and broadway recordings?
Because, like the domestic cat's, their brains have been shrinking over time and are now at the point where they really can't rely on them for actual survival. And whose fault is it that their brains have shrunk? Well, who do they complain about all the time?
Why, Feminists, of course.
It is the fault of Feminists that the rightwing pundit's brain has shrunk. That's because Feminists have made life better for all of us without some of us having to lift a finger. It's true. What has the rightwing pundit done to make modern society the kind of place where any leftwing Joe Six Pack or Sally Housecoat could probably survive quite well in a libertarian society but the rightwing pundit could not?
That's right. Nothing. And while his brain was shrinking, leftwinger brains were growing. That's because we had to fight harder to get all the same advantages of the rightwinger - AND - because we are leftwingers, fight even HARDER to expand them to everybody. INCLUDING the rightwingers who became stupid over time and weren't just born that way on account of having rich parents.
Meanwhile, we Feminists on the left have to stay even sharper because we know that all our rights and freedoms can be stripped away by the next rightwing (i.e. stupid) government. BUT - the rightwing pundit knows that, no matter what government is in power, he will always have his rights and freedoms.
That's because Feminists and leftwingers will always stay sharp fighting for them.
So, as disheartening as it may seem to keep coming up against stupid rightwingers and their even stupider (more stupid?) governments, just remember: brain power.
Keep on growing. We're gonna need all the brain power we can grow if we're gonna stop the Right from shitting in our nest so much it falls right out of the tree.
