getting deep

Nothing get's me fired up like reading comments on articles by people who are fully and completely…. well, dumb. Or rather, so ignorant they sound like complete heartless idiots.

I'd like to suggest a few things to the person who posted the following comment in regards to an article about GMO foods. (And add: Does it make you nervous that most of Western Europe has banned them? It should.)

S/he took 'it' to a whole new level. I have not edited it in any way, just left it in its ridiculous original state. The grammar alone makes me cringe:

"Has any of the hysterical crises of the Leftists ever come true For example there is; Nuclear Winter, Global Cooling, Global Warming, Heterosexual AIDS outbreaks, population bomb, food shortages, clean water shortages, Acid Rain, Brazilian deforestation, America 2 feet deep in disposable diapers. And those are what I can think of in the first 30 seconds. You know you are facing another made-up crisis when the only solution the Left can think of for fixing the crisis is more government, more income redistribution, less freedom and protests with large paper mache puppets."

It rankles! And my reply which I would have loved to share with the person, but didn't because does it change anything? Probably not.

First: Just because you have access to fresh water and food doesn't mean millions (yes, millions) of people in the world are living without. Step across our Southern border, or try getting on a plane sometime and you'll find that there are more people living without clean water and plentiful food than there are people WITH. Even better, head over to the other side of your pretty town where it's not so pretty.

Second: AIDS is still a huge problem, and mainly in the heterosexual communities of the world, particularly on the continent of Africa. Infection is rising at an alarming rate. Just because we managed to create awareness in the US and helped to avoid a longer-term epidemic doesn't erase the fact that it exists elsewhere.

Third and final: Deforestation is still a major problem all over the world and especially where there have been "population bombs".

If you've been lucky enough to live untouched by poverty, hunger, disease, or any awareness that these things exist outside of your tiny bubble… It breaks my heart a little because you have no compassion for the many souls whose lives are affected by these things every day.

Pause rant. Breathe.

It's true though: We don't live in 2 feet of disposable diapers. Not right here, but head down to your local waste disposal site and you'll find them. And it's more than two feet deep.

photo: City Clerk, Seattle 1954