Welcome to today. The economy is shaky at best, it is more difficult than advertised to find a job, health care reform has passed and what was once considered objective “news” media is almost non existent, at least not on television or radio. 3G coverage and broadband Internet access aren’t available for many states in the middle. So the only app for that market comes on ancient airwaves. Many people who live without the ocean views of the gizmosphere get their “news” from the AM dial which is dominated by shock jock hacks. Or perhaps they get CNN or FOX News and mistake the programming as actual news rather than entertainment.

The Problem: Bad Habits and Bullshit

We as a nation have developed some bad habits. Many people do not know the issues beyond the bumper sticker slogans they’ve heard on a talk show. They cannot discuss by any measure of depth the implications and aspects of the issues. Many more people don’t care to go to the source, read multiple sources, compare notes, corroborate evidence or address opposition. In short, this country has forgetting how to think, converse, discuss and debate. The lack of interest, capacity, and effort have  allowed  us to blindly swallow BS in business and government.

How many people profited from lying about the housing crisis? Many. War? Many more. When the bubbles burst, hopefully you didn’t buy in, although when you don’t, you’ll find yourself  as liked and well received as the Dixie Chicks.

The biggest pile in the political realm is Politically correct speech. It is one of the greatest threats to society.  The notion that we need to be sensitive to the point of denying reality is absurd. The late and great George Carlin mentions this as evidence to the further “pussification” of America. It’s worse than that. If we are to say what makes others feel good and not what is true, we will condemn human knowledge and science altogether and there are many politicians trying to argue just that.

People are too busy to study the issues (even those where they hold strong opinion) because there is too much going on with Facebook, reality TV, and the Internet.  Our worship to the constant, mind numbing entertainment we find has made us too busy to work and too retarded to think (yes I used retarded in the derogatory). Our worship of bullshit has made us into a 2nd rate country in terms of productivity, output and global competition. We are very productive if you count the piles and piles of bullshit but if you measure our economic worth on the products and services that actually add value, empower and enrich lives, then we’re left with a much  much smaller pile.

The Solution: End the Stupidity- Throw Away the Bad Ideas and Bad Arguments

There are many bad ideas backed by poor arguments  that have floated around for years and they need to be squashed so that we can move forward progressively.

I’m 24 and I don’t own a television. I get my news from the web and the radio (BBC and NPR), but I am a pragmatic, fiscal conservative and social entrepreneur; as red, white, and blue as you can get. On this blog, I will concentrate on the bad ideas, poor arguments and misinformation and hopefully push the better ideas. I’ll focus on pointing out the flaws behind the bad ideas and promoting better solutions and the better ideas. We can refine them all together.