Random Access Memories

I give up, I really fucking give up.

It used to be that no matter how diverse people’s opinions were in matters you could always attempt to draw some measure of logical argument and try to come to something resembling compromise. Even within the last 20 years this seemed possible.

Not anymore.

Now it appears to be all about what team you’re on. And if you dare speak out against one team or the other you’re labeled a traitor and you might as well be speaking pig latin at that point because the side that has labeled you does not want to hear anything you have to say anymore regardless of how logical it is.

A lovely example of this can be found here: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/52812832-68/story.csp

The short version of that story is that a prominent climate change skeptic crunched the numbers and found he was wrong. Did the other skeptics take note? Certainly, but only to scream and yell that he was a traitor to their cause. This is cultist thinking, not science.

For someone like me that is exceedingly logical it’s a pile of horseshit. You cannot run a nation with nepotism.