SATIRE IS A CONCEPT LOST ON SPORTS FANS AND MOST AMERICANS ALIKE
(This is the Huffington Post photo that goes along with the Huffington Post article)
-- Please read the Huffington Post article before you read my article for proper context, please. --
As half of Americans become more, and more, stupid as the days of modern American life drag on... concepts like SATIRE are becoming lost on people who DO NOT KNOW HOW TO READ... within the boundaries of the concept called CONTEXT!
Only a fool does not consider the source of ANY article BEFORE he, or she, comments on it -- including these words you are reading right here!
The fact that Americans... any Americans... do not know what The Onion is, and what it does, shows the ignorance out there.
I am no Jay Cutler fan... but, I NEVER take what the media says about this man seriously on first read. He is the whipping boy of sports... and 95% of the negative stuff written about him is obviously straight bullshit.
Back to The Onion... there was a time when great satire ruled the media -- Mad Magazine, Cracked Magazine, National Lampoon, Ballyhoo, Too Much Coffee Man and many others out the screws to American culture.
I, a black man, LOVED National Lampoon Magazine! The satire I read as a youth wired my mind to create, and accept, the bizarre nature of the world around me... including the behavior of human beings. Without satire in my life, I COULD NOT HAVE SURVIVED THE RACISM of my youth. The satire I absorbed from writers like P.J. O’Rourke, for example, forced me to smirk at white people calling me bad names, rather than attacking them.
I want to call these people IDIOTS... but, as harmful to society as they are with their stupid bullshit, they are IGNORANT!
What frightens me is this... most of these people bathe in their their ignorance! And, they love being stupid!
Ignorance and stupidity are two entirely different concepts! Is it better to be ignorant than stupid? I don’t know... but both states of mind can be cured with INFORMATION AND TEACHING! But when humans WANT to be willfully ignorant, or willfully stupid, then you get what you see in this Jay Cutler/Onion article... willfully stupid people showing their ignorance -- or is it willfully ignorant people showing their stupidity -- and showing just how lacking in the concept of applied knowledge they are.
Or, something like that. I don’t know... maybe I’m just stupid or ignorant.
No, its them!
RLJ
P.S.
I have one son who is right now, today, in graduate school at James Madison University. He is working his tail off, in school and in side job, to become the best teacher in America. I raised my son to not accept the ignorance and the stupidity of people in his life. I taught him to never be mean, but to try to better people. And he will when he becomes an educator.
I just hope he will not become frustrated, and disillusioned, by the people he will meet in life who WANT to be willfully ignorant and willfully stupid.
We'll see... but I know my son. His fantastic personality, and his Dean's List intelligence, will make your children as smart as you should want them to me.
These are my words... not my son's. He is two hours away from where I am sitting at this moment. I just want to make sure that fact is known. The Huffington Post article shows how easily people ascribe one thing to another thing!
P.P.S.
Now, about that 5 year university bill!
